How people before can think of a deeper meaning and even come up with theories in this something we call 'Communication', which is also basically talking or speaking to people. It was simply thought-provoking, it was like over thinking about that particular subject.
At one point I even thought "Were the people bored during the time they thought of that?" Haha. Kidding aside. It's remarkable, at least for me, when people see a deeper meaning to things that we usually take for granted.
Be honest, a majority of us takes "Communication", not the subject but the concept itself, for granted, right? Because before we started taking up Com11 Class, communication to us was literally talking to other people, speaking on the phone, etc. In class there were even some technical terms such as "Transmitter", "Channel", "Destination", and even "The Mathematical Theory". I believe that we were already applying them subconsciously because when we speak with another person we don't think of ourselves as "Sources", we don't call the thing that we are going to say as the "Message" and we don't refer to the person we are speaking to as the "Destination". What happens is we think of ourselves as the person who has "Gossip" or has a "Joke" or "Story", we refer to the "Destination" as our "Friend, Classmate, Girlfriend, etc ... ".
Gossip/Joke/Story - Message
Friend/Classmate/GF - Destination
Friend/Classmate/GF - Destination
See? We use them, but we don't call them by their given name. Anyway, this ends my third entry here in my blog. It's short, but I poured all my thoughts, regarding the lessons this week, here in this entry.
Upon reading your blog post, I was also able to realize that I also took studies about communication for granted as I thought that they were unnecessary(thinking of things practically). Thank you for helping me learn that.
TumugonBurahinActually, I also thought of the same thing regarding the communication theories. Since simply enough, who would've wanted to research on something that we practically do. It seems that they really do try to find deeper meaning to interpret to the masses on how communication really does do its work.
It was a nice thing to think about =)
Try thinking deeper about how communication affects our life and not just the mere process of communication. You should also have discussed something more about theories. I honestly thought that the blog will be about theories since it's the one on the introduction part. :)
TumugonBurahinRico!
TumugonBurahinI was actually thinking about the same thing! It's really fascinating how the ancient people got all these theories about communication. True enough, they were able to think and look beyond something that's always present that's why we have the tendency to neglect it.
I hope that, just like what the ancient people did, we could all think out of the box and observe the significant things around us. =)
Valid point on the 'overthinking' argument, Rico. I think the way we should look at this theories is not so much the labels (although to understand the theory you also have to get past the theoretical jargon), but more on the implications these have on facilitating EFFECTIVE communication.
TumugonBurahinCommunication--as a general concept--may be quite simple, but when you're trying to establish what "effective communication" constitutes, then it gets more complex.
Stay critical, Rico. That's a very good habit to develop :)