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What is Communication?
What is Communication?
It is the sharing or
exchanging of
thoughts, ideas, and
feelings with others or
within a group.
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary
What is Communication?
Groenbeck (1990) also
defined communication as
the glue that holds together
societies; the withness part
of the Latin term cum-
munis (to work publy
together with)
Models of
Communication
Two Models of Communication
Shannon-Weaver Model
David Berlo Model (SMCR)
SHANNON-WEAVER
MODEL
Shannon-Weaver Model
This is the first major model for
communication, created in 1949.
INFORMATION SOURCE
-also the sender, the person who makes
the message, chooses the channel and
sends the message.
Elements of Shannon-Weaver Model
TRANSMITTER
encodes the message into signals
Elements of Shannon-Weaver Model
CHANNEL
Channel is the medium, way, or manner
used to send message
Elements of Shannon-Weaver Model
DECODER
decoder of message from the signal
Elements of Shannon-Weaver Model
DESTINATION
The one who gets the message or the
place where the message must reach. The
receiver provides feedback according to
the message.
DECODER
INFORMATION TRANSMITTER
SOURCE CHANNEL DESTINATION
SHANNON-WEAVER MODEL
DAVID BERLO MODEL
DAVID BERLO MODEL
Also referred to as the SMCR Model of
Communication
RECEIVER
is the target of communication
The Communication Process
NOISE OR INTERFERENCE
It is anything which modifies, or disrupts a
signal as it travels along a channel between a
source and a receiver.
SENDER CHANNEL RECEIVER
MESSAGE
NOISE
Organization of 5
thoughts