Communication Theories: Concepts and Events

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ESSAY ON COMMUNICATION THEORIES
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Essay on Communication Theories
Communication Events, Concepts and Theories.
Communication is the passing of information from a source (sender) to destination
(receiver) who receives the message and decodes it to get the meaning of the message (Khalighi
and Uysal 2014, pp.2231). Communication is a necessity in our lives as life would be
meaningless without communication.in our daily lives, communication is all around us. It may
be in the form of what we hear, see or even what we depict. Communication takes various forms,
they include: interpersonal communication, intrapersonal communication etcetera. Other living
things such as plants and animal s also communicate. For communication to occur, there has to
be a transmission medium (Reinke, Gerlach, Tarafdar, and Stock 2016, pp 23). This is a
necessity where communication is mainly through sound. Other key elements of communication
include message, sender, receiver, source, destination and also feedback. Other methods or ways
of communication also exist. They include use of gestures, body movements, visible changes and
even symbols.
Communication theory is a theory that deals with the technology of the transmission of
information (as through the written word or a computer) between people, people and
machines, or machines and other machines (Dainton and Zelley 2017, pp.34). It could also be
defined as a field of information theory and mathematics that studies the technical process of
information and the process of human communication.
Recently, I was involved in a communication event where my friends (Alex and Tom)
and I we were discussing on drug and substance abuse. I was of the idea that drug abuse has

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more negative effects than positive though my friends thought otherwise. I told them that my
reason for saying that was because people who are always involved in drug and substance abuse
had a hard time quitting. Drugs abuse makes you weak and at worse scenarios can lead to death.
My friends felt uncomfortable as they never liked people talking about drugs since they involved
themselves in drug and substance abuse. Alex was willing to quit the habit but had a hard time
doing so he told me that he feared what his friends would say about him and was not sure how
the he would start and felt unsafe talking to people about his life. I told him he had to take a step
of faith and make his own decision since it is a decision that is going to change his life forever. I
felt that all he needed was an extra push. He confessed that the drug and substance abuse made
him easily irritable and could result to violence in some cases.
At a certain point, it almost cost him his job due to beating up a colleague at his place of
work (Manojlovich, Harrod, Holtz, Hofer, Kuhn and Krein 2015, pp.61).I suggested that he
should first talked to his parents who were more than happy to find him a counselor. They even
offered to pay all the expenses he incurred during the sessions. His mother was so happy that
upon hearing the news she broke down into tears and hugged him for a long period of time. On
the other hand, Tom had no say in the discussion. He was all quiet but attentive listening to all
we had to say. He never made any interruptions or asked questions. At the end, Alex thanked me
and said that he would put all we discussed into practice. When the discussion was over, we all
went our different ways.
From the above event, various communication theories and concepts were employed.
First of all, the key elements for communication to occur were can be seen. i.e. the sender,