Social Media And The Intentional, Unintentional Communication Dilemma
10 Sep
To mean to or not to mean to, that is the question
During my first class as a graduate student at University of Maryland, Introduction to Graduate Study in Communication, we discussed articles defining the field in general written by George Gerbner, Gerald Miller and Thomas Nilsen. Miller’s work in particular stirred the class into intense conversation about intentional and unintentional communication and whether the latter should be considered communication at all.
I’ll save you the suspense and say that for the purposes of communication research, the answer is mainly no.
