The Significance and Example of Communication Models
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Communication ModelsAbstract
The use of model-building is vital to the understanding of communicative interaction for purposes of theory-construction and concept application. The various tools of sociometric measurement and the techniques of group dynamics communication analysis provide information that is summarized in models and modified by continued investigation. Models provide both a means of producing theories to test and of correlating information received
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