CMNS 1234 â INTRO TO COMMUNICATION THEORY
CMNS 1234 – INTRO TO COMMUNICATION THEORY
WEEK 1 & 2 The essential question used by critical thinkers “Is it true” What is Critical Thinking? • Critical thinking help you to identify the obvious and the hidden messages more accurately and to understand the process by which it is constructed. • We may not like evidence that contradicts our own opinions and ideas/beliefs. What is GOOD Critical thinking? • Our thinking may not be quite accurate if we are not fully aware of the influences that affect it. Including things such as our own - assumptions - perceptions - bias - dislikes - beliefs - things we believe normal and accept - all the things about ourselves and the world that we are never questioned. • It is challenging to question our own belief systems. We think of these as part of our identity and it can be unsettling if we feel our identity is questioned. Critical thinking can place you in a minority The 5 mechanisms of truth 1. Intuition 2. Tenacity (common sense) 3. Authority 4. Rationality (reasoning) 5. Empiricism (relying on senses – experience)
The 4 Major Ages of Communication 1. The Age of Signs and Signals - Located in prehistory - These ideas reinforce in part the notion that without communication, social organization and the ensuring cultural lives it enabled, could not take place. 2. The Age of Speech and language - The change to speech and communication language made possible breathtaking modifications of human existence as societies in the various parts of the world. - Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the world (1982) Walter Ong argued that the storehouse of information in oral cultures is found in repetitive, formulized of human action. 3. The Age of Writing - the age of writing was a traditional one. It included a transition from conventionalist pictographs to the advent of photonic writing. T his lengthy transition to writing as we know it saw a correspondent development of portable and easily stored media such as scrolls and books. - The human mind was free to roam from the burden of having to remember entire cultures and having to produce them in different cultures/countries. - With the invention of Johannes Gutenberg printing press and moveable type, the spread of literacy in the west quickly followed. 4. The Age of Mass Communication - The development of the newspaper, the first significant medium of mass communication, was made possible because if occurred in a particular social setting.
- In the age of mass communication the pace of human
interaction has accelerated, compressing and altering perceptions of space and time with a proliferation (rapid increase in number) of broadcast and narrowcast (TV) media. - There is a convergence of 3 essential components namely, telecommunication systems including mobile telephony, computer hardware and software and digitized media content.
Defining Communication “ A form of ‘Social Interaction’ through messages” “A process by which one person affects the behavior or state of mind of another” “The practice of producing meaning in which case communication may be seen as the production and exchange of meanings. Concerns us with how messages, or texts, interact with people in order to produce meaning” “A convergent process in which participants create and share information with one another to reach a mutual understanding” “A fundamental social process, a basic human need and foundation of all social organizations” “The studies of creating, producing, disseminating and evaluating messages”
Communication as an object of study
Intercultural – Australia talking to China Mass – Thousands of people in engagement Organisational – University talking to City Council Intergroup – talking to groups Intragroup – talking in tutorials Interpersonal – person to person Intrapersonal - talking to yourself
WEEK 1 & 2 The essential question used by critical thinkers “Is it true” What is Critical Thinking? • Critical thinking help you to identify the obvious and the hidden messages more accurately and to understand the process by which it is constructed. • We may not like evidence that contradicts our own opinions and ideas/beliefs. What is GOOD Critical thinking? • Our thinking may not be quite accurate if we are not fully aware of the influences that affect it. Including things such as our own - assumptions - perceptions - bias - dislikes - beliefs - things we believe normal and accept - all the things about ourselves and the world that we are never questioned. • It is challenging to question our own belief systems. We think of these as part of our identity and it can be unsettling if we feel our identity is questioned. Critical thinking can place you in a minority The 5 mechanisms of truth 1. Intuition 2. Tenacity (common sense) 3. Authority 4. Rationality (reasoning) 5. Empiricism (relying on senses – experience)
The 4 Major Ages of Communication 1. The Age of Signs and Signals - Located in prehistory - These ideas reinforce in part the notion that without communication, social organization and the ensuring cultural lives it enabled, could not take place. 2. The Age of Speech and language - The change to speech and communication language made possible breathtaking modifications of human existence as societies in the various parts of the world. - Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the world (1982) Walter Ong argued that the storehouse of information in oral cultures is found in repetitive, formulized of human action. 3. The Age of Writing - the age of writing was a traditional one. It included a transition from conventionalist pictographs to the advent of photonic writing. T his lengthy transition to writing as we know it saw a correspondent development of portable and easily stored media such as scrolls and books. - The human mind was free to roam from the burden of having to remember entire cultures and having to produce them in different cultures/countries. - With the invention of Johannes Gutenberg printing press and moveable type, the spread of literacy in the west quickly followed. 4. The Age of Mass Communication - The development of the newspaper, the first significant medium of mass communication, was made possible because if occurred in a particular social setting.
- In the age of mass communication the pace of human
interaction has accelerated, compressing and altering perceptions of space and time with a proliferation (rapid increase in number) of broadcast and narrowcast (TV) media. - There is a convergence of 3 essential components namely, telecommunication systems including mobile telephony, computer hardware and software and digitized media content.
Defining Communication “ A form of ‘Social Interaction’ through messages” “A process by which one person affects the behavior or state of mind of another” “The practice of producing meaning in which case communication may be seen as the production and exchange of meanings. Concerns us with how messages, or texts, interact with people in order to produce meaning” “A convergent process in which participants create and share information with one another to reach a mutual understanding” “A fundamental social process, a basic human need and foundation of all social organizations” “The studies of creating, producing, disseminating and evaluating messages”
Communication as an object of study
Intercultural – Australia talking to China Mass – Thousands of people in engagement Organisational – University talking to City Council Intergroup – talking to groups Intragroup – talking in tutorials Interpersonal – person to person Intrapersonal - talking to yourself
