CONTRIBUTION TO QUANTIFICATION OF COMMUNICATION
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
Zagreb, Croatia
INDECS 19(1), 42-46, 2021 DOI 10.7906/indecs.19.1.4 Full text available in pdf and xml formats. |
Received: 16th October 2019. |
ABSTRACT
Communication among humans is one of crucial human activities. Yet, its importance is not accompanied with the accurate and precise formal measure. Two starting points of this article are: (i) treating the communication among humans as a means to convene diverse individual and collective stimuli and needs; (ii) partitioning human environment into available, well-characterised communication modes, most of which makes possible mediated communication. Based on these starting points, a generic model of human communication between individuals and their environment is formulated and discussed. It is argued that there is a definite relation between the utilised communication modes and intensity of convened matter.
KEY WORDS
communication, mediator, information, information rate
CLASSIFICATION
JEL: D83