Mean Girls

We all use the communication model each and every day and see it being used whether its through our own conversations, or even some on the TV. One example of the communication model that I really enjoyed was from a scene in the movie Mean Girls. This scene involves “mean girls” Regina, Gretchen and Karen invite a new student, Cady to come eat lunch with them. All of the girls act as senders and receivers and are partially able to decode each other’s messages. When Cady tries to respond to Regina’s message, Regina abruptly interrupts her in the middle of the message that Cady wanted to send back to Regina. This shows that Cady did not fully get to encode her message meaning that Regina could not decode what Cady had to say. This made the communication model ineffective. It was ineffective because Regina interrupted Cady so she was unable to receive the full message and just assumed that Cady wanted to eat lunch with them. Another factor that might have made this communication model ineffective is that there was a lot of background noise going on in the cafeteria. When there is a disturbance like that through the medium then it will make the communication model less effective. Cady probably did not want to eat lunch with them but because of the interruption and background noise, it affected her communication to tell them so.