Week 1 - Ch. 1 & 2 Flashcards
Channel
The medium through which the message passes
Co-culture
Different communication practices:
Age
Occupation
Sexual orientaiton
Physical disability
Religion
Activity
Cognitive Complexity
The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue.
Communication Competence
Achieving one’s goals in a manner that, in most cases, maintains or enhances the relationship in which it occurs. Both affective and appropriate.
Content Dimension
Involves the information being explicitly discussed.
Decode
Makes sense of the message
Dyad
Two interacting people
Encodes
Puts thoughts into symbols and gestures
Environment
Fields of experience that affect how they understand others behavior. Physical location AND personal experiences and cultural background.
Impersonal Communication
Opposite of interpersonal communication. Not two person exchanges.
Instrumental Goals
Getting others to behave in ways we want
Interpersonal Communications
A transactional process involving participants who occupy different but overlapping environments and creating meaning and relationships through the exchange of messages, affected by the external, physiological and psychological noise.
Linear Communication Model
Depicts communication as something a sender does to a receiver
A sender encodes a message, sending it through a channel, to a receiver who decodes, while contending with noise.
Message
The information being transmitted
Noise
Distractions that disrupt transmission.
Receiver
The person attending to the messages
Relational dimension
Expresses how you feel about another person
Self-monitoring
Process of paying close attention to one’s behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
Sender
The person creating the message
Transactional communication model
Updates and expands the linear model to better capture communication as a uniquely human process. Uses the word communicator instead of a sender and receiver. reflects that people typically send and receive simultaneously not unidirectional.
Asynchronous
There’s a delay between the time a message is sent and when it’s received.
Cyberbullying
A malicious art in which one or more parties aggressively harass a victim online, often in public forums.
Cyberstalking
Unhealthy, obsessive behaviors such as cyber obsessional pursuit or obsessive relational pursuit, taken into extreme.
Disinhibition
When online, communicators express themselves more honestly and bluntly with less caution and self-monitoring.
Hyperpersonal Communication
An accelerated discussion of personal topics and relational development beyond what normally happens in face-to-face interaction.
Leanness
Messages that are stark from a lack of nonverbal information.
Mediated communication
Involve connecting through some electronic medium rather than face-to-face interaction.
Online surveillance
A way of discreet monitoring the social activities of unknowing targets through social computing spaces.
Richness
The abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.
Social media
Forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities.
Synchronicity
The condition when communicators are all connected in real time.
