Week Two Task One: What is Communication?

Communication, personally, is the way a subject getting connection with other subjects. For example, the teacher talks to the students and we use MSN to chat with each other.

But I think the communication could be set as two major types: one-way communication and both-way communication.


Based on the theory of Shannon and Weaver, we can say the one way communication is only the messge producers processing the noise source to the message receiver. For example, when we have presentation, the main purpose of the presentation itself is to produce the information to the audience. However, if we want to get some feedback from the audience based on the presentation, we can say this is both-way communication.

What eles can be one way communication? Some media, such as books, telegraph, radio, photograph and Screen industries could be put as one-way communication, as we can only "see" what they want to "tell" us, but we can not "talk"to them at the same time. Oppositly, the media, like telephone and internet, give us a channel to chat, which is hearing from them and telling them somthing.