Communication Theory Quotes

“Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew about had action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost, precisely because the whole world became context for news. Everything became everyone's business. For the first time, we were sent information which answered no question we had asked, and which, in any case, did not permit the right of reply.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843)

{Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics byNorbert Wienerfor the field of control and communication theory.}”
― André-Marie Ampère

“Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

“Creativity is our one ubiquitous commonality so perhaps that is where all constructive communication should begin.”
― Ken Poirot

“If you can say it in a paragraph, don’t write a book.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“An effective correspondence leaves no room for confusion between you
and your clients.”
― Sim Ngezahayo, Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance

“They aren't texts, Gregorius. What people say aren't texts. They simply talk.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“An effective correspondence leaves no room for confusion between you and your clients.”
― Sim Ngezahayo, Essentials of Career Management for Language Professionals: A Blueprint for Mastering your Career and Leading a Healthy Work-Life Balance

“Inspiration consists of two-sided communication. From one person, expression flows into sensitive ears, recognition to the eyes, tastes to the tongue, or as a scent to a nose. Information flows from the one who is touching to another being touched and into the mind of the recipient. This is communication.”
― Laura Bartnick, BEING CREATIVE

“Symbolic interactionists are convinced that the self is a function of language. Without talk there would be no self-concept." We are not born with senses of self. Rather, selves arise in interaction with others. I can only experience myself in relation to others; absent interaction with others, I cannot be a self- I cannot emerge as someone. To the extent that we interact with new acquaintances or have nover conversations with significant others, the self is always in flux. This means there's no "real me" - an etched-in-stone Em Griffin inside my body waiting to be discovered or set free.”
― Em Griffin, A First Look at Communication Theory

“According to Mead, the self is an ongoing process combining the" I "and the" me ". The" I "is the spontaneous, driving force that fosters all that is novel, unpredictable, and unorganized in the self. For those of you intrigued with brain hemisphere research, the" I "is akin to right-brain creativity. We know little about the" I "because it's forever elusive. Trying to examine the" I "part of the self is like viewing a snowflake through a lighted microscope. The very act causes it to vanish. Put another way, you can never know your" I ", because once it is known it becomes your" me ".
The "me" is viewed as an object- the image of self seen in the looking glass of other people's reactions. [...] the role-taking capacity of the human race, we can stand outside our bodies and view ourselves as objects. [...] Mead described the process this way: If the 'I' speaks, the 'me' hears. And 'the I' of this moment is present in the 'me' of the next moment.”
― Em Griffin, A First Look at Communication Theory

“Social information process theory initially was developed to understand how online communication shapes the development of interpersonal and group relationships. Can people really form a meaningful connection when their only point of contact is through a computer? [..] People can indeed form relationships online that are just as satisfying- in fact, sometimes even more satisfying- than their offline interactions. [...] Relationships grow only to the extent that parties first gain information about each other and use that information to form interpersonal impressions of who they are. [Social Information Process Theory - Joseph Walther]”
― Em Griffin, A First Look at Communication Theory