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Thoroughly Read the below given Scenario and find out how different types of 

communication are happening in it. Your task is to identify the statement referring to a

certain type of communication. You are also required to give a brief explanation that

how your mentioned statement is referring to that certain type of communication in the

column of “Justification”. 

Make sure to give your answer in the table given below. 

Scenario:

Alia was watching news on television. The news anchor was telling about a bomb blast in Peshawar. She became worried as her father resides in Peshawar for the sake of his job.  She immediately thought that she should make a call to his father to ask whether he is safely ok. She makes a call to her father and talk to him. He told her that he is absolutely fine and she does not need to get worried about him.

In the meantime her mother arrives home who is a school teacher and was coming back from her job. Alia tells her about the bomb blast news and also about her conversation with her father. The mother tells her that today her school principal headed a meeting of all teachers to brief them about safety measurements school administration is going to take due to increasing terrorism in the country.

Type of Communication	Identify from given situation	Justification
Intrapersonal Communication
Interpersonal communication
Mediated Communication
Person to group communication
Mass Communication

<<SOLUTION>>

Type of Communication	Identify from given situation	Justification
Intrapersonal Communication	She immediately thought that she should make a call to his father to ask whether he is safely ok	The word intrapersonal means with in the person. It happens inside of you. Some people equate this process with thinking. although thinking is a part of the intrapersonal communication include more than what we think. Intrapersonal communication affects the way we receive messages from others and effects the way we send messages to the others. alia is worried about her father and taught to call her.
Interpersonal communication	Alia tells her mother about the bomb blast news and also about her conversation with her father	Interpersonal communication occurs when two or more people talk face to face. Conversation, dialogue and small group discussion are interpersonal exchanges. Each person also operates interpersonally during the communication. Alia and her mother talking face to face each other.
Mediated Communication	She makes a call to her father and talk to her. He told her that he is absolutely fine and she does not need to get worried about him	This level of communication occurs when two (or a few) people use some intermediate means for carrying their messages. They do not communicate face to face and thus do not have direct feedback. Mediated communication often uses a mechanical or electrical device to transmit or receive messages. Examples include the telephone, closed-circuit television, radio, radar, and the communication satellite. Mediated communication also occurs through letters, reports, forms, and interoffice memoranda. Alia used telephone as a intermediated means of communication.
Person to group communication	The mother tells her that today her school principal headed a meeting of all teachers to brief them about safety measurements school administration is going to take due to increasing terrorism in the country.	The person-to-group level involves one speaker and audience. The speaker usually faces the audience, and the audience usually contains people with similar interests. A small, private person-to-group situation often has some of the characteristics of interpersonal communication. However, for large public groups, the person-to-group level lacks the benefits provided by interpersonal exchanges. The traditional speaker and audience setting may include microphones, projectors, and tape player. In this situation principal announced in the group.
Mass Communication	Alia was watching news on television. The news anchor was telling about a bomb blast in Peshawar	Mass communication includes messages sent to large, public, dissimilar, anonymous, distant audiences using some intermediate instrument of transfer. The instruments include electronic (for example, radio, television, tape, and film) and print (for example, newspaper, magazine, book, pamphlet, brochure, direct mail campaign). The restricted opportunity for feedback is the most serious barrier to effective mass communication The "mass media," as they are often called, have grown to include the print media of books, newspapers and magazines, the electronic media of television, radio, and audio/video recording, and the new media of computers and computer networks. While these media differ in many ways, they all share the characteristics by which scholars define mass communication. In the current situation alia watching news on television.