Communication Theory Quotes

Speechwriting is where the philosophical, ideological and political tensions of the administration get worked out.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a kind of social space, to place itself in interactions with other people. It doesn't have much to do with communication in a narrow sense; that is, it doesn't involve transmission of information. There is much information transmitted but it is not the content of what is said that is transmitted.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

The medium is the message — and the message is fracture.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

In general, signalling theory says that if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something, and you choose the noisy way, that means chances are it's because you couldn't do the good way in the first place.

The medium obscured the message.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement

The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

I did my BMS from Bhavan's College in Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication.

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Communications requires study, preparation, and a special attention to truth, goodness and beauty.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.