COMMUNICATION-PROCESS AND HOW WE COMMUNICATE

The process of communication involves a few elements. There are the following elements of communication:

o A communication source or sender,

o A message,

o A channel,

o A communication receiver

o Feedback

o Noise

Now let us see how communication takes place. This is illustrated as under:

The information source or sender

Decides to communicate and encodes a

Message,

Transmits it through a

Channel to the

Receiver,

Which (the message) is then

Decoded and acted upon.

 There are

Noises or Distortions during the process.

The receivers’ reactions reaching the sender is called

Feedback.

So the communication process starts with a sender of the message who is also called an encoder. The communicator or source codifies the message by giving it the desired form, shape or format. The message is communicated by means of a mechanism of transmission. A channel or device is used to communicate the message. It could be a radio or a television set, newspaper or magazine and the like. The encoding process means putting the message together or arranging the ideas in a recognizable and understandable form, for conveying it to the receivers. Unlike in telegraphy, the encoder here is a human agent. The encoder decides the content of the message. Similarly, decoder is the destination

where the message lands.

• Intra personal Communication
• Interpersonal Communication
• Small/Group Communication
• Mass Communication

Intra personal communication is a communication which happens yourself. Here both Source (sender) and receiver is only one. so, the feedback works without any interruption. Example: A person can communicate himself through pain, thinking, feelings and emotion etc.

In Dyadic/Interpersonal  communication, two persons are involved in this communication process. Here the Source becomes a receiver and receiver become Source because of dynamic communication process were the feedback’s are shared between Source and the receiver.

More than two members involved in communication process will become a group communication. If least number of persons is involved in the group communication is called as small group communication. In this communication process, everyone becomes a Source as well as receiver through sharing information and gives feedback to another.

In mass communication, basically have a large number of audience and they are all can’t grouped together in one place so we need certain tool or technology for communication process. But in mass communication, there is no direct access with receiver. So, for that they need media like newspaper, radio, television and internet. Here the audience feedback is very less or delayed.