Question 2-Communication levels and relationships

I am a big fan of drinking Starbucks Coffee. I really need my coffee in the morning. So I would go to the Starbucks located close to campus my freshman year and have ever since (I am now a graduating senior). One of the girls there took my order every morning and at first it was an I-It communication process. I gave a coffee order, she took it, charged me, and then gave me the product. As time went on the relationship changed, especially when I found out she was also a student at SJSU. We began to get to know each other and talked about how the football, basketball, other sports teams were doing. This put us in the I-You communication level heading for the I-Thou communication level. In my sophomore year she became my roommate in the dorms without us even realizing it until she moved in. See we never actually exchanged names prior to being roommates we just had casual conversations. Once we became roommates we became good friends. It really is amazing in looking back on things how the communication levels changed.
Thanks for reading my post.
-Katrina

Linear versus Interactive Communication

According to the textbook in 1948 Laswell came up with the first model of communication which he called linear. This is because he considered communication a one way process, meaning that there was the person talking as the transmitter (communicator) and the person listening was a receiver but did not offer communication back. It is linear because it is on a single plane or straight like a line. If the person who was the listener then spoke back they became the transmitter and the other individual listening became the receiver.A good example of this from my life is when I would visit my grandparents during summer vacation. They could be very strict at times. If my grandmother said "go clean your room" you did it without verbalizing back. She was the transmitter and I was the receiver. She knew by me going up to my room that I was going to do what she asked.

Interactive models of communication according to the textbook accepts the concept of the the listener providing feedback to make sure the message has been properly understood. This concept is modeled in a circular drawing in the textbook on page 18. It shows message, decoder receiver encoder, feedback, encoder source decoder. According to the author Julia Wood (textbook: Interpersonal Communication) this concept is still based on the theory that communication is a sequential processes meaning there is one individual sender and a receiver. An example of this type of communication in my life would again be from my younger years. My mother would say eat your meat (because I enjoyed eating vegetables more than meat when I was little). I would then say I will eat my meat last because I like my carrots and peas better. This way she knew I understood she wanted me to eat my protein because the reply correlated to the original message she was giving me.
Thanks,
katrina

Introductory Post

Hi Everyone,
I am a graduating senior at SJSU (San Jose State University). My major is psychology and I will graduate after passing all my courses this semester. This is my second communication course. The first course was an "in the class room" speech course. I am a bit nervous about this as I have never set up a blog. This is also my second on-line course so that is a bit intimidating along with the blogging concept.
It never hurts to learn something new and since we are the millennial generation and technology along with social networking is suppose to be our nitch I guess I need to embrace the blogging concept.
I enjoy watching college football and going to our home games. Yes, I do tailgate. If the team is playing an away game within the state of California I will travel to watch the game.
In my personal life my mom,older sister and I moved to California in 2006 when my grandparents called my mom and asked her to move back to the Bay Area to help them since they had retired. My grandfather passed away last year in August and my grandmother passed away over the summer in July. Once my mother is able to settle my grandparents affairs we plan on moving out of the state of California. We figure that will be early next year. I plan on continuing my education and earning both my Masters and PhD in my field of study.
I hope this helps you get to know me better.
Katrina