The Importances of Understanding Communication

The Importances of Understanding Communication

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    Understanding communication is important to our daily lives because misunderstanding is one of the most effective communication constraints and is likely to create conflict. A common misunderstanding condition arises when the information received by a person has a meaning or essence different from that intended by the giver or transmitter of information. This misunderstanding is so many forms, ranging from trivial matters in everyday life to misunderstandings by political elites that determine the lives of many people.One form of "severe" misunderstanding is a cultural misunderstanding.

            Communication can be called as interpersonal communication if the communication takes place within or among more than two people Communication involves face to face meetings whilst exchanging idea, thoughts and other forms of words between the participants. Here the communication might be mediated by using different types of mediums of communication such as television channels, telephonic lines, and other modern mediums. The process of interpersonal communication can be viewed from the general perspective of Shannon and Weaver, in their opinion, there are four basic components forming an interpersonal communication including the sender and message, the medium and the receiver.

         I think, talking to artificial intelligence (such as Siri, Cortana, or Google assistant) part of interpersonal communication because we got feedback after we communicate with the artificial intelligence, According to Burgon & Huffner in 2002 there is a virtual or factual group in interpersonal communication. Examples of virtual groups: communication over the internet. The growth of this virtual group due to the development of communication media technology.

            Intrapersonal communication essentially means communication with ourselves. In my opinion after I read some resource, It’s possible to do intrapersonal communication through social media, So making a to-do list counts. So does journaling, writing in a calendar, or even psyching ourselve up to do something.  Taking pictures would fall into this category of communication if you look back at them later and get meaning from them.  An example of this is posting selfies to Instagram, then looking back on them years later and noticing how you've changed or looking at pictures you took and noticing how what seems important to you has changed or remembered how you felt when you took the pictures.  It's all communication with ourselve.

References:

  1.      Ruben, Brent D, Stewart, Lea P, 2005, Communication and Human Behaviour, USA: Alyn and Bacon

2.      https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-intrapersonal-communication

3.      http://www.psikologizone.com/definisi-komunikasi-interpersonal/06511922

4.      https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrTcc8bUhBZbLMASiAnnIlQ;