Com 8110 Unit 1 Communication Paper

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Sopheak Hoeun
MA Student
Department of Communication
University of Missouri
COMM 8110
Readings & Study Questions
Sept. 16, 2015

Philosophizing Communication – John Durham Peters:
What is this thing called communication that we study?
Where did the concept come from? How does it work?

REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
1. Just what is “the problem of communication?”
“The problem of communication” is the pressure, the expectation, the misconception that everyone puts on communication throughout the history as if communication is the magic source in solving any problems, including its own problems, like Peters (1999) puts it “the mistake is to think that communications will solve the problems of communication, that better wiring will eliminate the ghosts.” …show more content…

55). Then, when we think about spreading the messages to the mass audience, dissemination will best suit the purpose.
3. What’s this thing about “angels present[ing] a model for communication?” In what way? Would human existence / the human condition be better off if we could communicate like the angels?
Simply put, the angles model communication is an ideal form of communication, where messages from the sender, yet bodiless, are perfectly perceived and fully understood by the receiver just like the sender’s intention “without distortion or interference (pg. 75)”. I do not think human would be better off if we could communicate like the angels because we are human beings; we are complex; we are unique, and that makes us interesting and we should embrace …show more content…

80)”. Peters (1999) explained “Locke understood communication not as a kind of speech, rhetoric, or discourse, but as their ideal end result”, and it is mediated through language. Through Locke’s vision, he left us with the understanding that communication can be treated as common and private, meaning that even if we can have common ideas about certain things through social language we use, we, as an individual, still have different epistemological definition based upon our very experience as an example given by Peters (1999) “No one else can give you the experience of ‘sweetness’ or ‘red’ or explain what it is. You must simply taste or see for

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