3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
One concept I found interesting in chapter two was the small section on how models help is understand communication. The whole chapter is on different perspectives or models of communication and this is just the preface but I thought it did a lot to explain why people use models to understand challenging concepts.
"Models stimulate creativity; by building models, we may find out interesting things that we might previously have overlooked" (23). Almost every concept we can come up with can be modeled. By creating models, we are forced to think about, and analyze every step of the way which inevitable leads to future studies, either about something we may have missed or ways to improve a current process or model.
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The communication models that were discussed provide a structured way for us to follow communication. If we analyze the model of communication, we can learn the different ways that communication can be effective. In addition, we are able to analyze how communication can change with different environments and influences. It is interesting to think how we may change our communication behaviors depending upon outside influences.
ReplyDeleteHello Nicciri! I am glad you found the small section on how models can help us understand communication. After reading that section, and the rest of the chapter, was there one model that you personally found useful? Or was there one model that you could relate to a bit more than the others? :)
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