Chapter 1

NOISE

Communication study is an academic field whose primary focus is ” who says what, through what channels (media) of communication, to whom, and what will be the results. I chose the picture above because it accurately depicts a receiver which is the man in the headphones who is receiving a message on whats going on through a surveillance system. A message is the particular meaning or content the sender wishes the receiver to understand. This picture also stood out to me because the irony in noise which was the interference of the press trying to barge into the room and the surveillance man is shouting that they are violating his privacy.

In every work environment I have been apart of; we have always had some sort of surveillance system to monitor whether we were doing a job correctly, working in safe conditions or to prevent theft. Although the intentions are not harmful it’s a overwhelming feeling to know that there is somebody on a monitor watching your every move and it is documented.