Talk:Communication

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communication is crazy.

This is page is so poor an introduction to the subject area that to edit it would entail rewriting it completely. I recommend anyone approaching the topic to read "On Human Communication" by Colin Cherry.

Yeah, no kidding. I've been working on a new version offline, but it's coming slowly. I'll probably just post what I have and we can take it from there. -- Stephen Gilbert 21:04, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hmmm... I've done some incremental stuff - want to send me something offline and collaborate? Richard Pitt Nov. 16

I'd love to collaborate, but let's let others in on it too! Collaboration is Wikipedia's middle name. Er... don't ask me what its last name is...

I've tried to work your current contributions into my sketchy notes. If anything got lost in the transition, be sure to pull it from the history and add it. -- Stephen Gilbert 19:55, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I've moved the outline here; it's more of a to-do list than article material. -- Stephen Gilbert

Stephen it is much better but still too many links and chapters. If this page is to be a proper page I think a general introduction saying something like that communication happens whenever data transfers from one sentient being to another would help a lot. --BozMo|talk 13:31, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Contents

1 Overview 2 Communication models 3 Communication technology 4 The study of communication 5 Communication Topics 5.1 Importance of Communication 5.1.1 in Family 5.1.2 in Business 5.1.3 in Politics 5.2 Communication in XX Century 5.3 Communication in War

Overview

• Types of communication
  • One to One
    • Conversation (implies two-way communication)
    • Message passing (limited to one-way) - see pheromones below for example
  • One to Many
    • Lecture to live audience or recorded for later playing using various media or sent via computer or TV to remote audience.
    • "Marking" a territory by scent or with something like police tape (communicates stay out, I'm bigger/badder than you)
    • Journalism including use of newspaper, magazine, or other mass medium
    • Public Relations including spin doctoring
  • Many to Many
    • Conference - gathering of peers (in a paricular subject to debate)
    • party or other social gathering
  • Now to Future
    • diary
    • blog
    • time capsule
• Purpose of communication
  • To inform
  • To avoid misunderstanding
  • To remind
  • To review beautiful memory
  • To gain control
  • To teach
  • planning

• Examples of communication
  • jungle drums
  • smoke signals
  • hand signals and semaphores (use of devices to increase the distance "hand" signals can be seen from by increasing the size of the movable object)
  • vocalization
  • territorial marking (animals such as dogs - stay away from my territory)
  • Pheromones communicate (amongst other things) "I'm ready to mate" - well known example is moths where the pheromones are put into traps to attract them
  • Gold-plated disk (sent on Voyager 1 into interstellar space)
  • writing
  • telecommunications - use of technology to aid and enhance distance communications
    • Digital telecommunications
      • encoding and decoding
      • compression and encryption (as they relate to enhancing or specifying communications) for example the use of encryption to turn a one to many into a one to one communication.
      • Digital Transmission Media including telegraphy and computer network
    • analog telecommunications
      • telephone
      • radio
      • TV
• Overview of debate: what is and isn't communication?

Communication models

• encoding, sending and receiving messages
• symbols, language
• verbal communication: speaking, writing
• nonverbal communication, body language (see Nonverbal Dictionary (http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/entries.htm#Entries))

Communication technology

• general overview of changes and advances
• effects of communication technology on culture and society
• systems of communication
• Timeline of communication technology
• The United States Federal Communications Commission

The study of communication

• historical sketch
• important people, theories

Communication Topics

Importance of Communication

in Family

in Business

in Politics

Communication in XX Century

Communication in War

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I removed a paragraph on the expressive hand as the "original communication tool". It seemed somewhat POV and no sources were given. Qwert

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The eo: article is about information technology. I think the interwiki link should be removed. Andres 07:02, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)