The Shannon and Weaver mathematical model of communication was based on a linear system of

The Shannon and Weaver mathematical model rested on a linear system of electronic communication.

Framed in 1949 for telegraph and telephone signalling, it modelled how electronic signals move from source to destination.

Print communication is an older mechanical medium and was not the base of this engineering model.

New communication and its interactive digital forms came long after this linear scheme.

Traditional communication describes face-to-face folk forms, not the electronic channel this model measured.

The model was the first to highlight noise as a disruptor of the signal.