Communication models must include eavesdroppers as evolutionary actors
Evidence
In communication there is a sender and a receiver connected by an informative signal. A third subject is the eavesdropper or the involuntary receiver that utilizes the information which circulates between the two. Eavesdropping represents an important evolutionary phenomenon. Communication is costly in term of energy budget allocated by vocal individuals, and a well-designed communicative framework should be the result of selective pressure. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 540
Categorization
- DEFINE: The dyadic sender-receiver model gains a third party, the eavesdropper, which later chapters treat as community-level integration.
- XREF: connects to: Language and gossip created evolutionary pressure for supernatural surveillance beliefs; Ambiguity in communication enables exploitation despite protecting social order — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 580; Establishing identity and a communication line creates new exploitable threat value — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 326 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Language and gossip created evolutionary pressure for supernatural surveillance beliefs
#expands(0.85) - Ambiguity in communication enables exploitation despite protecting social order
#expands(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 580 - The evolution of cooperation hinges on whether cheaters are detectable
#complicates(0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 621 - Establishing identity and a communication line creates new exploitable threat value
#expands(0.72) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 326