- Communication between people
(or any form of
communication between
2 entities):
- Sender has
some information to
communicate
- In the example: the value 5
- Sender
encodes the
information
Example:
- The value 5 is encoded with English as "five"
- Sender
transmits the
encoding
Example:
- Sender says "five" using his/her vocal cord
-
The transmission signals
(= audio waves)
propagate to
the receiver
- Receiver
receives the
transmitted encoding
Example:
- Receiver hears "five" using his/her ears
- Receiver
decodes
the received data
Example:
- Receiver understands what "five" means
Steps of communication:
- Sender has
some information to
communicate
- Information:
- Information = the meaning of some data/observation/phenomenon
- Representing
information:
- Information is representation using soem form of encoding
- Communication:
- Communication = the act to exchange information
- Fact:
- Information itself
cannot be
exhanged
- We can only exchange the encoding of the information !!!!
- Information itself
cannot be
exhanged