Communication and Social Action by Prof. Des Wilson

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Introduction

Communication is a many-sided thing.
It means different things to different people. But essentially it is like life’s most inevitable fixture: death. Yet communication is not about the dead but the living. For man, communication surrounds his life like water surrounds fish.

It is a process or a means of access to the mind or thought of another. As a process many models have been created to explain it. Yet unlike many other human processes it does not have a clearly defined beginning nor end.

Westley and MacLean’s model clearly shows that at the interpersonal or mass communication level, the process does not begin with the first contact between the interactants or participants. It is an ongoing process which Paul Watzlawick and others described as the impossibility of not communicating and which the average communication student recognizes in the unusual expression ‘man cannot not communicate’.

Communication is an exchange of meaning. Each participant comes into the communication situation with his or her own experience which he or she hopes to exchange with the other participant(s). This view supports the familiar communication doctrine that meanings are in the symbol users, that is, the receivers in transition. Thus I may have an idea which l intend to pass on to my readers. What they perceive may not be exactly or even the same thing i intended. Through the continuous exchange of ideas we may arrive at some common meaning or understanding. This position is clearly illustrated in the paradox of meaning exchange in the first chapter of this book. Both participants may exchange completely different meanings in which case they may not understand each other’s meanings which is ironically the case in many shouting matches and arguments.

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Contents

SECTION A – UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Language Use in the Nigerian Mass Media and the Paradox of Meaning Exchange.
Chapter 2: Distortions in Communication: An overview
Chapter 3: The Unspoken Language.

SECTION B – DEVELOPMENTAL COMMUNICATION ISSUES
Chapter 4: Oramedia and Human Communication
Chapter 5: The Role of Market Women’s Association in Development Communication.
Chapter 6: Traditional Media for Promotion
Chapter 7: Restructuring Nigeria’s Communication Policies towards a Cultural Re-orientation
Chapter 8: Analysis and Design of Information System for Developing Economy
Chapter 9: The Role of the Media and NGOs in the Promotion of Human Rights in Africa
Chapter 10: Communication and Social Change in Africa

SECTION C – SOCIAL ACTION
Chapter 11: Communication and Con?ict Management
Chapter 12: The Rule of Public Relations in Implementing Government Policies
Chapter 13: The Development and Evaluation of Public Relations and Community Relations in Organisations
Chapter 14: Media Commercialization and Public Relations Management in Nig

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