Posted: March 12th, 2023

You be the Judge

From Gamble and Gamble (2006): Imagine the following situation. You have a campus job working nights from 6:00pm to midnight in the campus computer lab. It is late and you are alone. You feel particularly uncomfortable because there has been an increase in campus crime and students have been warned to travel in pairs. You are relieved when 12:00am comes and you can leave for home. As you close and begin to lock the door to the computer lab, you hear someone yell, “Wait! Don’t lock the door!” A person runs down the hall towards you and pleads with you to let them into the computer lab so that they can complete a class project that is due the next day. In the haste to get to the lab the person tells you that they forgot their id. You do not recognize the student. Do you trust what they are telling you?
Do you let them in and why?

How would the decision you make change (if at all) if the student was female or male? Had a baby face? Was elderly? Was African American, White, Asian or Arab? Poorly dressed? Well dressed? Was wearing a lab coat? Had tattoos? Had body piercings?

Share your reflections
while focusing on the concepts of stereotypes and the meaning of communication codes.

1. Explicitly address the selected prompt.

2. Be a maximum length of four (4) pages (12 point font, Times New Roman or Calibri, double-spaced). If you are pursuing the group option, the maximum number of pages is 6 (six). The works cited and title pages do not count towards that limit.

3. Written with clarity and grace (style, structure and mechanics).

4. Incorporate theory and/or scholarly research for at least one of the communication concepts that we have covered in the course (e.g. interpersonal, non-verbal communication).

5. Cite (in text and in the reference list) at least two scholarly sources
outside the materials used in the course with an acceptable/established citation format to support your postion.

6. Written in MLA format

Scholarly vs. Non-Scholarly Sources:

https://lgapi-us.libapps.com/widget_c.php?g=336662&p=2266858

Textbook ISBN: 978 – 1- 5249 – 7695 – 8 (If needed)

Introduction to Communication and
Information Processes
04:189:101

Agenda

• Defining ‘communication’
• Communication codes
• Basic communication model
• Academic Integrity

DEFINING COMMUNICATION

communication vs. Communications

What is Communication?

• 126 definitions of communication
(Dance & Larson)

– Information passed from one place to

another

What is Communication?

• 126 definitions of communication (Dance &

Larson)
– Information passed from one place to

another
– Procedures by which one mind affects

another

What is Communication?

• 126 definitions of communication (Dance & Larson)
– Information passed from one place to

another
– Procedures by which one mind affects

another
– Transmission of information, ideas, emotions

& skills via symbols

What is Communication?
• 126 definitions of communication (Dance &

Larson)
– Information passed from one place to

another
– Procedures by which one mind affects

another
– Transmission of information, ideas,

emotions & skills via symbols
– Transmission of a message from a source

to a receiver with conscious intent to
affect the latter’s behavior

Textbook Definition of Communication

•Human communication is the
process through which individuals
in relationships, groups,
organizations, and societies
[respond to and create messages
and] create and use information to
relate to the environment and one
another.

Source: https://dreamagainststream.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/evolution-of-communication/

Communication Branches and Areas

• Interpersonal
• Group
• Mass
• Public Address
• Organizational
• Non-Verbal
• Health
• Family
• Political
• Public Relations
• Instructional Development

Encoding

Decoding

Person
A

Person
B

Environment

Frame of Reference

(

Code

;
channel)

(Feedback)

External
noise

Internal
noise

Noise

(Code;
channel)

Frame of Reference

Stimulus; Motivation Stimulus; Motivation

Communication Model

Frame of Reference:
No identical frames of reference

Communication fallacy

Moving up & down, messages become:
–Leveled
–Condensed
–Assimilated
–Embellished

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