ACTIVITY 5.1. The following are examples of what most people would call communication. Read them and list the things you think are common to all of them.
SENDING 1. A dog snarls at a cat that gets in its way.
MESSAGE 2. You stay up late to watch the hosts of a talk show interview the Vice President.
SENDING 3. A traffic enforcer blows his whistle to stop traffic so children can cross the pedestrian lane.
FEEDBACK 4. Your officemate walks into your room, points at your desk and asks, “Have you finished…” and stops when you scowl at him. “Of course not!” you say, “Come back later.”
SENDING 5. A child stands in the middle of a crowded department store and cries for its mother.
MESSAGE 6. A teenager pauses in front of a poster that reads “Don’t drink and drive.”
EFFECT 7. It has a picture of two wine glasses crashing into each other and shattering.
SENDING 8. A sports caster tells jokes to the crowd while waiting for the action to begin at a basketball game.
MESSAGE 9. A woman buys a newspapers, gets on the LRT, sits down and read on the way to work.
SENDING 10. A street preacher shouts to the crowds in a marketplace.
MESSAGE 11. You receive an official letter remind you to pay the balance on your income tax.
MESSAGE 12. A tourist stands on a street corner reading a map.
SENDING 13. A young mother asks the municipal health worker what she can do to keep her children healthy.
SOURCE 14. A traffic light turns from red to green.
ACTIVITY 5.2
Communication is a two-way process involving the source and the receiver. Understanding the communicated message is achieved if proper dissemination of the message is being conveyed by the source.
Comparing my definition of communication with that of Black and Bryant’s explanation indicated some similarities like “SHARING” as one most significant thing; But in some sense, Black and Bryant’s went through the details on the processes of transmitting messages by which people influence one another.
ACTIVITY 5.3
Discussing communication as a process is a way of understanding how communication works so DEVCOM practitioner could understand wholly what his job is in using communication for developing and devising plans to solve societal issues.
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