ABSTRACT
Types of case study 31
Selecting and reporting 33
Perceiving and selecting: a model 34
Gatekeeping 38
Gatekeeping: a model 43 Barnlund (1968) has pointed out that:
The encoding-decoding process that occurs while a man waits alone outside an operating room or introspects about some personal tragedy is a sufficiently distinctive type of communication to require separate analysis. For this reason it is desirable to restrict ‘intrapersonal communication’ to the manipulation of cues within an individual that occurs in the absence of other people (although they may be symbolically present in the imagination). As such, its locus is confined to a single person transacting with his environment. (p. 8)
You are practising intrapersonal communication about human communication already. The necessity is to become increasingly conscious of this practice. One focus for such consciousness is the project diary/report covered in chapter 6; others are the devices offered in the next chapter in which we tackle increasingly complex case-study material requiring more extended work.
