How does the transactional model differ from the earlier Shannon and Weaver:
and Schramm models of communication?
What are their strengths and weaknesses vs. the transactional model? What made the linear approach to modeling communication so attractive initially and why is the transactional model more appealing now?
Then, please relate what you learned to a typical staff meeting at your place of work (or recent job or volunteer group meeting).
- Participants
- Coding/Decoding (who is creating messages/who is receiving them?)
- Feedback (who gives/receives it?)
- Noise (note different kinds)
- Channel(s) How are messages being sent
- Context - Where people are sending and receiving messages.