Transactional Model of Communication

1.a Model
This model acknowledges neither creators nor consumers of messages, preferring to label the people associated with the model as communicators who both create and consume messages. The model presumes additional symmetries as well, with each participant creating messages that are received by the other communicator. This is, in many ways, an excellent model of the face-to-face interactive process which extends readily to any interactive medium that provides users with symmetrical interfaces for creation and consumption of messages, including notes, letters, electronic mail, and the radio. It is, however, a distinctly interpersonal model that implies equality between communicators that often doesn't exist, even in interpersonal contexts.







The caller in most telephone conversations has the initial upper hand in setting the direction and tone of a telephone caller than the receiver of the call. In face-to-face head-complement interactions, the boss (head) has considerably more freedom (in terms of message choice, media choice, ability to frame meaning, ability to set the rules of interaction) and power to allocate message bandwidth than does the employee (complement). The model certainly does not apply in mass media contexts.


1.b Describing the model/illustration
I was deeply inspired with this model and I was thinking about the role of communication when it comes to business transaction or communication business. Creating and visualizing this concept with the others model, I come-up with a new derivation of a new type/ kind of model. This is the most crucial aspect of the communication that can be considered as one of the major pillars to professionalism. The competency or skill listed most often in job advertisements was communication combined with a variety of adjectives ranging from excellent, the most common to superior, advanced, well-developed, proven, outstanding and natural. Being a team player was most favour followed closely by interpersonal skills.
1.c assumptions
 Cyclic
This model is cyclic because it does not end, from the source it will go to its destination then would again go back to its source in the form of feedback.
 Continuous
Since this model is designed for communication among professionals there is no need of noise, with this I can say that communication is continuous. The exchanges of thoughts or ideas are simultaneous and as long as there is a topic or issue the conversation won’t come up to its end.
 Creates relationship
Since communication has interaction, it clearly creates relationship among communicators. This relationship may either be positive or negative depending on the issue and how they handle their conversation.
 Process
Communication is a process because according to the model encoding and decoding can not stand alone or there would be other things to consider or happen first before you are about to have it.
 Dynamic
Communication is dynamic because this model is from the different other models as well. With this, since I was able to add my own touch about it, communication is open to change.