Project 3 Communication Journals

Toward A Taxonomy Of Universals In The Biology Of Communication
This article talks about how human communication and interaction elements can be contributed to other processes outside the socio-psychological. This article goes into the multiple areas that effect communication and how we as humans have multiple ways of communicating a variety of different messages. This article talks about culture, environment, evolution, genetic structure and  psychological functions. These all factor into how communication has components of being biologically programmed into our brains. It is through evolution of genetics that we are able to communicate both verbally and through physical motion. These functions can both can be said to play apart in our communication processes. This article talks about the different ways humans interact within a social system and with the data collected it hopes to show how it is we are able to communicate. This article will help me write my project in the fact that it offers a wide variety of different components to communication and it makes a strong argument to how genetics play a part in how we as humans are able to have the ability to communicate and how our surrounding effect how we were able to develop communication skills.


Hickson, Mark, and Eduardo Neiva. "Toward A Taxonomy Of Universals In The Biology Of Communication." Journal Of Intercultural Communication Research 31.3 (2002): 149. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 8 Apr. 2013.



Measuring Social Exchange Constructs In Organizations

This article is about communication in companies and how employees and organizations communicate within there related areas. The relationship between these two groups can be influenced by a number of different factors and the article has been written to address these processes. Within a company it is not uncommon for there to be change in the workplace and employers are looking for ways to communicate effectively to their workers to promote change within the company to make it function efficiently. Good communication is important within a working relationship and organizations need to be effective to get the best out of there workers so that their customers also get the best out of the company. This will help my paper because I find that relationship of company-employee are fundamental and they both work to gain something from the other. In this article there are many different areas to how they explain the communication strategies that go on within a work environment and this can be used to talk about communication in a more general term for my paper.

McMillan, Kelly, and Simon Albrecht. "Measuring Social Exchange Constructs In Organizations." Communication Methods & Measures 4.3 (2010): 201-220. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 9 Apr. 2013.