Communication System and Media Capabilities

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Communication System and Media Capabilities

Description

The theory states that the transmission of a message begins with a source(the message sender) who creates a message for transmission. The source uses a transmitter (software and/or hardware) to encode or translate the message into a signal (e.g., text, voice and video) that is send over a communication channel (medium). The channel carries the signal to a receiver (software and/or hardware) to encode or translate the message into signal(e.g., text, voice, and video) that is sent over a communication channel(medium). The channel carries the signal to a receiver (software and/or hardware) which is used by the destination(recipient) to devode or covert the signal back into the message. In this depiction of a communication system, encoding and decoding processes are important as they represent the processing required by the source and destination to make use of the medium to transmit and receive messages. These processes can impact the relative ease that individuals will have in using the medium and making sense of the messages that come through it.

Designer

Shannon and Weaver(1949);Alan R. Dennis, Robert M. Fuller and Joseph S. Valacich (2008)

Date

1949

2008

Bibliographic Citation

Dennis, A.R., Fuller, R.M., & Valacich, J.S. (2008). Media, Tasks, and Communication Processes: A Theory of Media Synchronicity. MIS Q., 32, 575-600.

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