This document discusses various types of communication including intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, intercultural, and classroom communication. It also discusses mass media and its role in society, important communication terms like synchronous and asynchronous media, and barriers to effective communication such as physical, language, attitudinal, and organizational barriers. Ways to overcome communication barriers include regulating information flow, providing feedback, using simple language, listening carefully, controlling emotions, and watching for non-verbal cues.

1. NET/SET Guidance Lectures
Paper-1 Unit-4
Communication
By
Megha Trivedi

2. Types of Communication
1) Intrapersonal Communication:
Communication within an individual almost all the time, including
talking to oneself, listening to oneself, and relating to oneself.
2) Interpersonal Communication:
It is a universal form of face-to-face routine communication
between two people, both while sending and receiving messages.

3. 3) Group Communication
When an interaction occurs amongst the
different members of a group and when
more than two individuals are involved
it is termed as group communication.
Groups such as families, work teams,
friendship circles, committees, and
teams are some examples.

4. Intercultural Communication
Intercultural communication is a
discipline that studies
communication across different
cultures and social groups, or
how culture affects
communication. It seeks to
understand how people from
different countries and cultures
act, communicate, and perceive
the world around them.

5. Classroom Communication
Classroom communication is interaction
between the teacher and the students in
the classroom, is basic processes in
teaching and learning.
Classroom communication exists in
three categories: verbal, nonverbal and
written.

6. Mass Media & Society
The mass media have an important role in a modern democratic
society as the main channel of communication. The population
relies on the news media as the main source of information.
Popular mass media are newspapers, Television, Radio, the
Internet, etc.. It is also an important medium/channel of mass
communication.

7. Important Terms
1) Synchronous Media: Media that takes place in real time, such as live television or radio
and requires the audience to be present when the media is broadcasted or performed is
called synchronous media.
2) Asynchronous Media: Media that does not require the audience to assemble at a specific
time in order to use it is called asynchronous media. Examples of asynchronous media are
printed materials or recorded audio or video.
3) Time Shift: The recording of an audio or video event, usually by the audience, to be
watched later at a time other than when it was originally broadcast is called time shift.
Setting a VCR to record a favourite program is an example of time – shifting.
4) Surveillance: Primarily, the function of mass communication is to provide information
about the processes, issues, events and other developments in the society.
5) Convergence: It is the combination of computing, telecommunications and media in a
digital environment. Convergence and the change that it is bringing are fundamentally
changing many aspects of mass media and Communication.

8. Barriers to Effective Communication
● Physical Barriers (Noise of traffic, Gossips or natural)
● Language Barriers (Disability or Language differences)
● Linguistic & Cultural Barriers (Cultural differences)
● Emotional Barriers (Anger, Pride, Fear, Jealousy, Anxiety)
● Atitude Barriers (Behaviours or Perceptions)
● Physiological Barriers (Ill health, Poor eyesight, Hearing
diculties)
● Mechanical Barriers
● Organisational Barriers

9. Overcoming Barriers of Communication
1. Regulate the flow of information.
2. Feedback
3. Human recourses should use simple language
4. Level of Knowledge
5. Listen Carefully
6. Control Emotions
7. Watch for Non – verbal Cues or Body Language

10. Reference
KVS Madaan, 2021, Paper 1 book, Pearson Publication.

11. Thank you
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