Communication is defined as the management of messages to create meaning according to Larry Frey, while James Carey defines it as using messages to create, maintain, repair, and transform social reality. The document questions what social reality means and asks "but so what?" in two sentences.

1. TESTING SOME
STUFF…

2. Communication defined
 Communication is the “management of
messages for the purpose of creating
meaning…”—Larry Frey

3. And another definition…
 Communication works to “create, maintain,
repair, and transform social reality”—James
Carey

4. Social Reality?
What’s that all about?

5. But so what?