Visakan Jayaswetha Vanagopal

Alright, now that we have “completed” our blog assignments, what’s next? One of the interesting aspects about this blog project that we have done is that, apart from helping us understand that it is possible to build a distributed collaborative community, we were also able to realize that blogging is a tool that we can use to express our views about issues that are not mandatory to talk about. All of us researched about Web 2.0, European Renaissance and Human Communication and we blogged about these topics mostly because we had to. But there were certain topics that were blogged which we didn’t do out of compulsion.

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The word “renaissance” means rebirth. This was a period that marked the beginning of a revolution that redefined the way information was being processed. The renaissance has its influence even till today. When Guttenberg invented the printing press, it marked an important turning point in the Information Age.

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As I approach to the point where I can derive a theory of my own, I would like to share ideas about theories. Different theories are different ways of “talking about” communication, each form using its own powers and limits. But at the same time, the more theories you know, the more problem solving options you have. These were the ideas of Robert T.Craig, a communication theorist. There are a few more aspects which I would like to cover before concluding which are,
1. Models of Communication
2. Clarity in Communication
3. Communication and Leadership

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The Next Level:
Now that we have a general concept of Human Communication, let us move to the next level of getting to into the intrinsic aspects of Human Communication.
One of the interesting aspects of human communication is that every human being is different from one another and there is this very interesting aspect in human called emotions which is the link that makes this subject vast. Gestures, facial expressions (which form an essential part of body language), intonation, loudness are some of some of the emotional factors which influence the message transferred.

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Communication is defined as the process by which transmission of information is done between two points using a common set of symbols. It is also very interesting to note that communication is derived from the Latin word “communicare” and has its roots in Middle English. Though the definition given is general, it does give us an idea. But defining Human Communication is a more difficult task and establishing a theory that is accepted by everyone is almost impossible. But this is just an attempt to synthesis a theory that is logical and that which derives support from hours of lecture, collaboration with scholars and opinions of theorists and experts who have done extensive research in this field. I will derive a theory at the end of this paper, but the effectiveness of the theory depends on my ability to communicate it to the reader.

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Why China of all the nations in the world? This was the thought that I had when I first started reading the book, China Inc. But as I proceeded reading, I began to realize how the country has turned into an emerging superpower, an industrial and corporate black hole which is steadily absorbing the global market.

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The book Generating Buy-In explores the importance of the concept of buy-in in today’s business world and also analyses the need for generating buy-in as a very important and strategic leadership competency. The book tells us ways to make your customer believe that you can deliver to him more than what he expects even if the reality might not be that.

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