Which term denotes the recipient of the message?

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In communication, the recipient is the person who receives and makes sense of the message. The sender or source is who creates and sends it, not who gets it. The channel is the path the message travels through, like speech, a phone line, or the internet, while the information is the content being conveyed. So when you ask who receives the message, you’re looking for the term that names that end point—the receiver. For example, a teacher (source) encodes instructions and sends them through a platform (channel) to students who decode and understand them (receiver).