Begin discussion of Shannon s info theory 6. This addresses the technical problem of communication, not the semantic or effectiveness problems. Common sense of comm can only take place between people with common interest. Communication in everyday use is a process of adjusting understandings and attitudes, of making them congruent or of ascertaining how and where they agree and disagree. P. 36 Human-computer communication presented as a problem.
Communication takes place in communities of interest.
Various communication systems serve us. Several graphs of growth of different comm forms. Interactions of communication and society a research problem. Tightly knit communities have good homeostasis mechanisms.