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Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Wilbur Schramm's model of communication had interpreters acting as both encoders and decoders.
Statement II: Wilbur Schramm was one of the first scholars to consider communication as an interactive process.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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UGC NET 2023 Home Science Question Paper (13-Dec-2023) (Shift 1)
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Both Statement I and Statement II are true

The correct answer is Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
Statement I is true: In Wilbur Schramm's 1954 interactive model of communication, both the sender and the receiver are described as interpreters who simultaneously encode and decode messages. This was a major departure from one-way linear models.
Statement II is true: Schramm was among the first communication scholars to conceptualise communication as a two-way, interactive process rather than a simple one-directional transmission. His model introduced the concepts of field of experience, feedback, and shared meaning.

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