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Defining Communication
Communication is from the latin word “communicare” which means “to
share” or “to devide out”. It may be also thought to originate from
another Latin word “communis” which roughly means “working
together”.
The reception models show that it is not just about saying the message
but also considering how the message may be received because of the
factors that may influence reception. That is the why someone breaks a
bad news to someone else, he or she does not say it as straightforward
and blatant. He or she will have to consider how the other person will
react to the news or what possible interpretations that the other
person might have about the news.
What evident among all the models discussed is that there are many
ways of defining what communication is or how it works. But you have
probably observed two distinct elements that are intrinsically
interconnected with the concept of communication, media and
information. They are so intertwined that information can be shared
through media.
Have you ever wondered what the word mediate means? The base
word of this term is media. Like communication, media have been
defined in several ways by different sources. Strictly speaking media is
the plural form of medium, although the former is already accepted as
a singular form.
Table 1.2 Different Definitions of Media
Table 1.3 Categories of Media