Perfectly transparent communication is impossible! I find Shannon and Weaver’s model “ transmitting information” completely inaccurate. Maybe back in the day when communication was just face to face interaction. But today, our world is so integrated and communication is continuous. It is impossible to simplify communication. Transmitting information will never be a simply diagram, it would an endless amount of arrows coming from every dimension that it would look like a 6 year old scribbled on the page.
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I think that Shannon and Weaver should work with William Zinsser to share this study with the world. With their interpretation of how information is transferred and Zinsser's quest to un-clutter the language maybe we would have something useful.
ReplyDeletehaha maybe that would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteYes I understand what you mean when you say that the model is inaccurate. During the models inception it was on track but with the vast technological growth of the internet era it has become diluted.
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