Introduction to Human

Communication

Prof. Toks Oyedemi

What is Human
Communication?

Why study Human

Communication?
 Why study communication ?
• Communication & personal life

•Communication & Personal relationship

• Professional life
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• Social and cultural life
– The media shape our cultural life

• Economic life Communication helps and shapes

some economic decisions will make
Areas of Human Communication

Intrapersonal Communication
communication to self

Interpersonal Communication
Communication between two (or more) people

Group Communication

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Generate and share ideas

Public Communication
To persuade and inform

Intercultural
Communication
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 Areas of Human Communication

• Organizational
Communication
Communication at
workplace

• Mass Communication / Media

entertain, inform, persuade

• Personal & Digital Media

 Careers in Communication
• Mass Communication
– Advertising, media industry –
– Print- Newspaper, Magazine
– online,
– broadcasting,
– film; e.How.com

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• Business and corporate companies &
organizations
– public information officer,
– public relations,
– marketing management
• Government / Politics
– Every sphere of government needs
a communication specialist
• Nonprofit and NGOs

• Communication Education

• Training and Consulting

• Research – academic & business

 In the next class…

• Stages of the history of communication study

Textbook for the first section of the course