Let's Talk J1

Let's talk about communication. There are three major types: mass, group, and individual. 

Mass communication is from one person to many people. Giving a speech during your presidential campaign is a form of mass communication; you're talking to many people without instant feedback. One requirement, however, is that you're talking to a MASS audience, i.e. more than ten (possibly twenty) people. Billboards, radio, television, the Internet, and newspapers are also forms of mass communication. They have the possibility to reach mass audiences. A billboard on the highway reaches many people and has the possibility to reach more. 

Group communication is similar to mass communication. Group communication has feedback coming from the group. There's still face-to-face conversation. With a group, you can gauge the mood through body language as another form of communication. Maybe it's the gestures you make that send your message to your group as opposed to the words you say. Perhaps it's even your vocal inflections that stress certain points and downplay others. And example of group communication could be a business meeting in a small corporation. The president talks to the employees gathered before her/him and communicates with not only his/her voice, but with their gestures and tone. 

Just between you and me: individual communication provides instant feedback. It has the ability to become mass communication. (It's like a superpower of individual communication.) Phone calls, texts, letters, and face-to-face conversation are all individual forms of communicating with your fellow humans.

An example of all three forms of communication could be a blog. There's the communication between the writer and the reader, the writer and multiple readers, and the writer and the Internet. That's all for now! Next up: media critiques!