week 1, post 1

The first model of communication that the book describes is the linear model. Models describe how something works. In linear models, communication works one way, or how one person acts on another person. This model consists of five questions that describe acts of communication. these five questions are, Who, says what, in what channel, to whom, and with what effect. The linear model only shows communication flowing in what direction which became why this model was hard to follow, because communication in most cases is free flowing. An example of the linear model might be when your communicating with a boss where his words go. You listen, and he speaks and tells you what to do. In this example the boss is the person communicating with the worker and the the communication is flowing one way, from the boss to the person the works for him.

The second model of communication is the interactive model. The big difference in this model opposed to the linear model is that listeners give feed back. Unlike the one way flowing model, this model shows how communication flows one way then back because it depicts the response.