Which of the following statements is not connected with communication ?

Concept — In communication studies, communication is the process by which a sender encodes meaning into a message and carries it to a receiver through some channel or medium. Every established proposition of the field therefore belongs to media theory, to information theory, or to the study of communication's social effects. An "odd one out" item of this kind is settled by asking which of the four sentences is not a recognised proposition of that field at all — which one is drawn instead from some other domain of thought.

Application — take the four statements one at a time:

• "Medium is the message." Marshall McLuhan's formulation in Understanding Media (1964): the channel that carries content shapes perception and society more than the content it delivers. This is a proposition of media theory.

• "The world is an electronic cocoon." The same electronic-age argument, in which instantaneous electronic media wrap the globe in one shared informational envelope — the sibling idea to McLuhan's "global village". This is a proposition about the social effects of media.

• "Information is power." The information-society thesis, descended from Bacon's "knowledge is power": whoever controls the flow of and access to information holds social and political advantage. This is a proposition of communication and information studies.

• "Telepathy is technological." Telepathy names a claimed transfer of thought directly from one mind to another, bypassing speech, writing and signalling. It is investigated under parapsychology and remains an unverified paranormal claim rather than an engineered device or channel, so calling it technological is not a proposition that any communication model or media theory advances. This sentence belongs to the parapsychology debate, not to communication studies.

Cross-check — map each statement to the body of thought it comes from:

Three of the four statements are recognised propositions about media, messages and their effects; only one is not. The statement not connected with communication is "Telepathy is technological." This matches the official key for UGC NET Paper 1, December 2009, Q21, which marks that statement as the answer.