Communication Barriers and Process of Feedback in Social Interactions

Abstract

Barriers in a communication process hinder the intended feedback which, if not sent back to the message sender, disperse in the surrounding. This study intends to relate those communication barriers with the message-receiver, who instead of sharing his or her views back to the messagesender, contends to disseminate it among peer groups and social media platforms. The study conducted in-depth interviews of 9 students who were scrutinized as message receivers in their communication roles of parents-children, teacher-student, and religious scholars-religious follower. Five communication barriers; cultural, psychological, educational, economic, and religion were analyzed as hindering factors in a smooth communication process. The study found out that people, if suppressed for their feedback opinion, contend to multiple channels to do catharsis, consoling their ideology and attain resonating responses. Intra-communication, peer groups, and social media are those platforms that initiate a free flow of information from different messagereceivers who could not give their feedback to the real message-sender due to pressure of cultural patterns, psychological divergence, educational incompatibilities, economic limitations, and religious conventions. Hence, the feedback message which was supposed to be shared with the parents, teachers, and religious scholars, reaches other segments of society which are not directly related to the particular communication.

The Main Trends in Media and Information Literacy in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Not surprisingly, scholars are interested in analyzing communication barriers (i.e. cultural, psychological, educational, economic, and religious ones) and process of feedback in social interactions (Hassan et al, 2021) and the problem of teenage extremism as a form of social deviation in the configuration of modern media texts in the transformation processes (Gorbatkova, 2021). To continue the discourse on the younger generation, it is also necessary to mention a very ingenious study of the effects of raids on restaurants shown in crime or investigation shows of Pakistan on the behaviors of youth (Awais, Ali, 2022).…”