The Mindset of Contact | The Communication Blog

Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Mindset of Contact

By Dean Miller


Connection is about using icons and in case of humans, using language, to convey meanings and tips between individuals and it requires the act of evoking responses from other individuals. Human communication is designated by intention and expectation of the reactions and conversation in humans can be verbal when mediated by vocabulary or non-verbal when no dialect is involved. Conversation can also be direct when a particular pattern of behavior evokes a particular type of response or delicate and indirect when behaviors are not foreseeable or ambiguous and not even absolutely comprehensible. The purpose of conversation is almost always motivated or intentional as we naturally expect a reaction from people.

We converse with. In fact all transmission is based on concern of response from others thus communication tend to have a path or purpose. However the communication space can create difficulties in the process and the purpose of communication may remain unfulfilled when proclaimed ideas are too hazy or indirect. The vagueness increases when programs of communication between two or more folks are remote or distal rather than proximal.

Long distance communication methods such as emails and internet, phone calls etc. bring in new problems to the study of communication as we are not able to see the person we communicate with, we find it difficult to 'interpret' the stimuli that we experience. As I have noted in an previous part of this discussion, the capability to 'interpret' the communicative stimuli is a very important part of the communicative process and the meaning or derivation of the meaning of what we hear or observe depends on our natural need for analysis of all indirect body words cues, facial words and phrases and hints or subtle or subconscious processes.

All online communication and information on the internet are thus prone to misinterpretation as we are not able to think of the information using the non verbal cues or expressions that are an crucial part of the communication procedure.

The communication gap is thus the gap of design as despite a lot of details there is certain dearth of crucial information and our brain recognizes the communication procedure as incomplete. You may speak with a person online for several hours in a time but unless you are able to see or notice his or her facial and bodily expressions, you can never be assured that the communication process is completely real. Of course, modern products such as the webcam have greatly enhanced the communication procedure.




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