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Communication Exercise

Exercise 2: Application

2. Name the communication theory phenomenon taking place in the following cases. You can choose from the following answers: semantic noise, physical noise, noise source, sent message, channel/medium.

a. a loud ambulance roar's down the raod while Jim tries to talk to Jack about his assignment

b. a television set used to teach distance education


c. a distress call sent by a sinking ship


d. a cracking microphone or PC disk inserted into a Mac Computer OR an American NTSC video tape stuck into an European PAL video recorder

e. A 56 yr old Male from the United States e-mails a 20 yr old Japanese girlfriend, "I would love to be your sugar daddy". What form of noise is seen in this case?

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