The Universal Model of Communication, developed by Claude Shannon, provides such a systematic view. All communications, regardless of the type, can be analyzed by applying the universal communications model developed by Claude Shannon. He worked for Bell Telephone Company during the 1940's as a research mathematician. He published his work in an article titled A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 in the Bell System Technical Journal and this work helped to launch the subject of information theory. Claude Shannon was trained as a mathematician, and his model was presented in a very formal manner.
Input is the sender who has a message to send.
In Shannon's model, the sender must encode the message into a form suitable for transmission using some type of transmission media , such as wire or radio waves. This transmissible form is commonly referred to as a signal . At the receiving end, the message signal must be decoded back into a form that can be interpreted and understood by the receiver. Shannon's Universal Model of Communication Shannon's model provided for information entropy , the loss of information during the communication process. Entropy is a condition to which all dynamic systems are prone.