there have been more than 126 published definitions of communication (Dance & Larson, 1976).
It is mind boggling that there are more than 126 forms of communication. We use so many forms of communications daily without realizing. I'd be curious to find out how many exactly there are.
Interpersonal communication builds, maintains, and ends our relationships, and we spend more time engaged in interpersonal communication than the other forms of communication
It makes sense that this is the most used form of communication. I have multiples different groups that I talk to daily for different things. A rugby group, gym group, friend group, work group, and family. I'd say that accouratly, it is the most common form of communication that I use.
Public communication is a sender-focused form of communication in which one person is typically responsible for conveying information to an audience.
I truly despise public speaking, it is anxiety spiking. That being said, I do it all the time. As a coach I have to do it with my team mulitple times a day. As a waitress, I have to do it with my tables whenever I work. So, I truly don't mind public speaking as long as in my head I can convince myself that I'm not public speaking. Talking to my teams and to my tables feels natural to me now.
Public communication becomes mass communication when it is transmitted to many people through print or electronic media. Print media such as newspapers and magazines continue to be an important channel for mass communication, although they have suffered much in the past decade due in part to the rise of electronic media
Mass communication is truly unaviodable. It's become so normalized and used in every day life that you barely realize it. It comes in the forms of weather alerts, social media, amber alerts, radia, books, tvs, and websites. Even if you liv off grid you still need to be able to see weather notifications and forecasts.
Some scholars speculate that humans’ first words were onomatopoetic. You may remember from your English classes that onomatopoeia refers to words that sound like that to which they refer—words like boing, drip, gurgle, swoosh, and whack.
What is crazy to me is that this is where we started as a species. We started with noises and then just went from there. Imagine going from "boing" to "Oh, I whacked my brother on the head." We have come so far and now are advanced that it makes me interested in where languages and communication will be in 1,000 years.