The mutual process through which persons interpret messages in order to coordinate
individual and social meanings. Human manipulation of symbols to stimulate meaning
in other humans. The process by which a person, group, organization (the sender)
transmits some type of information (the message) to another person, group,
organization (the receiver). The simultaneous sharing and creating of meaning through
human symbolic action. (1)
(1) Glossary of communication, University of Jyväskylä