The Thinkers of The Communication Theory

When we look at the theorist within communication it is key to remember that theorist’s are simply thinkers within the area. The term communication has been around from the beginning of time (even before the cave man like I used in the previous post). Ideas of what it is and how its used as been deeply researched by many. The reason we call them thinkers is many have the same idea and those ideas we have, already been thought of before, a so on, this is common in many subjects and life,

Example:

There is a south park episode I believe is in session 10, where butters aka professor chaos, was trying to reek havoc on the town and every Idea he had his right hand man doctor doom says the Simpson’s did the Simpson’s did it, he had hundreds written down In his pad and as the doctor flicked through it there was a constant chant of the Simpsons did it the Simpsons did it you get the idea any way, at the end of the show the town gather and look over the defeated butters they explain that it was only natural to have the same idea

s he was only young there was time for him to gather his ideas together but the Simpson’s had been running for 10 years with over 200 episodes and even they have created episodes which are based on others ideas, what I am trying to get at is similarities happen and you can not say that you had the idea as really you never had that idea at all you was simply some one that had an idea and looked more into it

There are similarities in all models of communication and here are some of thoughts that where thinkers of the communication theory the same as us as musician there is only so many keys on the keyboard only so many strings on a guitar, there is only so many combinations we can make on them which will most defiantly mean that we will almost mo] make music which sounds the same as some one else even though we thought it was.

The Thinkers.

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912 – 1992) was a Czech of German ancestry social and political scientist. His work focused on the study of war and peace, nationalism, co-operation and communication. He is also well known for his interest in introducing quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model-thinking into the field of political and social sciences, and is one of the most well known social scientists of the 20th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Deutsch 20:48 12th January 2010

Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 — December 18, 1978) was a leading American Political Scientist and Communication theorist.. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology and was a student at Yale University in Political Science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lasswell 20:50 12th January 2010

Erving Goffman. Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his formulation of symbolic interaction as dramaturgical perspective in his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday life, which begins with an epigraph by George Santayana about masks. Largely working within the tradition of symbolic interactionism, he greatly elaborated on its central concepts and application. Erving Goffman sees the performance of self as the most important frame to understand communication. Goffman wrote, “What does seem to be required of the individual is that he learn enough pieces of expression to be able to ‘fill in’ and manage, more or less, any part that he is likely to be given” (Goffman 73) Goffman is highlighting the significance of expression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman 20:55 12th January 2010