Williams' piece can be viewed as sort of a predecessor to Careers, as we begin to see ideas of a ritual view emerge, despite his definition being primarily based on the transmission view with a sender and receiver, while Carrey focuses on this ritualistic view examining the construction of symbolic reality. While Caress work stands superior to Williams', I find that as these scholars seek to broaden the scope of communication, or divert its focus. Neither can be finalized as views to settle upon and base our education upon.Both articles aspire to create a consciousness of communication, of which we are usually unmindful of, by demonstrating Its virtue In our lives, which Carrey (p. 24) does particularly well with the metaphor of a fish being unaware of water, its ambiance, as we do, communication.
As Williams (p. 12) suggests, awareness and betterment of our knowledge of communications allows us to look at our society and characteristic relationships in new ways. Carrey suggests making communication 'strange' (p. 4) thereby relieving it of its banal camouflage. Predominantly, communication has been associated with travel, exchange of Ideas and information or technology.
Their definitions in both pieces are pivotal in describing the writer's argument; so examining these allow us a meticulous understanding of communication. Williams (AS) pertains to a transmission view, which assumes information and ideas are already existent making communication the Institutions and forms In which these are transmitted and received. Carrey (p. 4), acknowledges this view merely to describe Its shortcoming such as Its contributions to the chaos of modern culture', favoring the ritual view, wherein communication behaves as an adhesive bringing people together in communion. It is evident Williams' (p. 1 2) piece acts as an awakening of the ritual view, through his increasingly derailing emphasis on society as a form of communication where experience is described, shared, modified and preserved.
Communication models are essential in order to put the communicative ideas and concepts into perspective. Williams (p. 1 1) describes the importance of these models to communicate ideas. Carrey (p.
30) describes them also to be sort of a representation of how much and how well we understand communication, the study of symbolic forms. These symbolic forms, can be applied in numerous ways; including displacing or producing things, he even publicizes thought, as 'beginning from the publicly available stock of symbols' (Carrey 1988, p. 8) Williams and Carrey, collectively provide several compelling arguments and an estimable account of communication, its meaning, implications, its magnitude in our lives, promoting our viewing it as a strange phenomena. Employing models to explore communication, namely transmission, ritual and as a symbolic form, they steer our knowledge on this front by providing models to unravel symbols we are presented with. Despite their optimum coverage of a human central view, they are yet to uncover what communication would mean in a broader application.
