Feedback Is

If any of you have ever used Cleverbot you know that usually the conversation starts out normal…and then becomes jargon. Cleverbot is as the name suggests a bot and because of this cannot give a proper answer or reply to the message you give to it. The feedback becomes confusing and difficult for the source to interpret. Feedback is defined as the response of an audience to a message or activity. Concerning communication feedback is the audience’s nonverbal, verbal, and paraverbal responses to the speaker.

Have you ever gotten into an argument with a friend and later they apologize for what they said? Then you end up screaming at them it’s not what they said but how they said it. That is the definition of paraverbal feedback, not what you say but how you say it. An example of paraverbal feedback is telling your friend “Nice dress” or “Nice dress”. Sarcasm is quite possibly one of the most popular forms of paraverbal feedback. Other forms of paraverbal feedback are: tone, volume, rate at which something is spoken, and rhythm of voice. How you say something is incredibly important but so is what you are saying.

The verbal response is the most direct form of feedback as it includes not only oral communication, but written and mediated communication as well.

Mediated communication:

Mediated communication requires the use of two or more computers. Types of mediated communication include: television, radio, text messaging, telephone conversations, emails, chat rooms, video blogs, and social networking sites. Telephone conversations are effective because of the flow of words from a sender to a receiver, amplified only by variances in tone, inflection, speed and pitch. Even though the field of mediated communication is a separate branch of communication study, it contains examples of both verbal and nonverbal communications.

Written communication:

While it may seem counter-intuitive, written communication is considered a form of verbal communication under most...