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  2. Active listening - Wikipedia

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    Active listening encloses the communication attribute characterized by paying attention to a speaker for better comprehension, both in word and emotion. It is the opposite of passive listening, where a listener may be distracted or note critical points to develop a response.

  3. Study of global communication - Wikipedia

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    There are some major factors that point to the growing importance of global communication in the world of the twenty-first century: [3] world population explosion; from geopolitics to gaiapolitics; increased cross-cultural communication; changing concept of community; greater centralization of control; information explosion; changes in technologies

  4. Human communication - Wikipedia

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    Human communication can be defined as any Shared Symbolic Interaction. [6]Shared, because each communication process also requires a system of signification (the Code) as its necessary condition, and if the encoding is not known to all those who are involved in the communication process, there is no understanding and therefore fails the same notification.

  5. Communication - Wikipedia

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    The development of new communication technologies, such as telephone, radio, newspapers, television, and the internet, has had a big impact on communication and communication studies. [232] Today, communication studies is a wide discipline. Some works in it try to provide a general characterization of communication in the widest sense.

  6. Listening - Wikipedia

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    Active listening allows people to be present in a conversation. "Listening is a key factor in cultivating relationships because the more we understand the other person, the more connection we create, as taught in nonviolent-communication Dharma teachings. As someone recently stated, 'We should listen harder than we speak.'" [14]

  7. Communication studies - Wikipedia

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    As communication technologies developed, so did the serious study of communication. During this time, a renewed interest in the studies of rhetoric, such as persuasion and public address, was created, which ultimately laid the foundation for several of the forms of communication studies that we know of today. [13]

  8. Intercultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.It describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

  9. The medium is the message - Wikipedia

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    "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter [1] in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. [2] [3] McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. [4]