Hello Folks!
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 2, Definitions, Models and Perspectives (review this chapter)
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Consider the social constructionist perspective. How do we "build worlds" through communication? Think of some ideas we talk about in our culture that may not exist in other cultures. How do these concepts contribute to our happiness or success (or the lack of these) in our culture?
2). Consider the pragmatic perspective. Does it make sense to think of communication as patterned interaction? How is communication like a game? How is it different from a game?
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 2, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm105p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Grades have been updated in D2L
Hello Fabulous Students,
I just updated grades in D2L. Please take a look at the most recent discussion week grade, among the other grades, and email me if you have any questions.
Have a great day!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
I just updated grades in D2L. Please take a look at the most recent discussion week grade, among the other grades, and email me if you have any questions.
Have a great day!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Instructor Wrap Up - Trenholm Chapter 11
NOTE: From last week's reading.
Communication and the Media
Communication and the Media
In a media culture, it is sometimes hard to distinguish fictional from factual reality.
Goal: To understand how living in a media culture affects the ways we communicate; to explore the extent to which media messages have power over our lives and to consider ethical responsibilities of media communicators; to examine the uses and formats of traditional media and to explore how new media are affecting our lives.
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
1). Identify the four characteristics of traditional media messages.
2). List and explain the four classic functions of mass media.
3). Give examples of ways in which the traditional media set agendas, create hegemonic messages, cultivate world views, and change expectations. Give examples of ways audiences resist media influence.
4). Describe how consumers use newspapers, magazines, radio, and television and understand how the formats used by these media affect information processing.
5). Identify the characteristics of new media.
6). Be able to discuss the ways old and new media are converging and how convergence is making audiences more active.
7). Understand how computer mediated communication is used and how it enhances social interaction.
8). Discuss how advances in cell phone technology are changing face-to-face communication.
9). Be aware of ethical issues associated with computer mediated communication.
There are many great sections to this chapter. As some of you may or may not know, I teach Comm 131P - New Media/You Media at SJSU. It is a wonderful class focusing on how New Media has evolved over the last century, but mainly focuses on New Media of today.
Chapter 11 in our text opens with a few definitions (page 283). Trenholm notes:
Old Media: refers to traditional one-to-many forms of mediated communication such as TV, radio, newspapers, and books.
New Media: is used to describe digital information and telecommunication systems, including networked computing and mobile telecommunication.
Trenholm also notes that, '...old media and new media are rapidly converging, and that it won't take long for what we now consider new media to become old and for old media to take on new forms." In this same chapter, Trenholm offers a brief introduction to the organization of the chapter, which includes starting with traditional media of mass communication, the chapter then moves onto the ways computer mediated communication and mobile technologies are altering lives, and finally the chapter focuses on how old media and new media are already converging.
As always, there is a chapter outline uploaded to D2L if you'd like that. However, I would strongly encourage you to skip the uploaded chapter outline, and focus on reading the text itself. Now, I may be a communication geek, admittedly so, but this chapter is f.a.b.u.l.o.u.s.! Here is a brief outline to whet your appetite:
1). Traditional mass media have unique characteristics that make them powerful communicative sources.
2). Each of the traditional mass media has its own uses, formats, and logics.
3). Networked computing and mobile telecommunication, referred to as new media, are joining traditional mass media as influential forms of communication.
4). Whether media are traditional or new, their production and consumption raise ethical questions.
In case you are interested, I uploaded Marshall McLuhan's piece titled The Medium Is the Message to D2L under "Content", then under "Optional Readings". Since one of our discussion questions pertains to this very piece, I thought it would be interesting for you to skim, and/or read the entire piece.
You are more than welcome to stop reading here, but below, I have included a post about Marshall McLuhan. This part of the post relates directly to the 'optional reading' from McLuhan. It's also a copy of a post I use for Comm 131P. So if you've taken that class with me, it will look familiar:
Although I am not a big fan of Wikipedia because of it's current lack of internal and external control, THIS page talks a bit about McLuhan, and may help to clarify the reading.
First off, let me mention that McLuhan was criticized a bit for his ideas. You can easily search the internet for some opinions about McLuhan, but let's skip over the for now, and focus on who McLuhan was, and his ideas as presented in the present piece.
The article starts on page 203 with an explanation of how and why McLuhan thinks the medium really IS the message. The rest of the article goes on to support this idea by bringing up a number of examples. He also throws in some other ideas here and there, but he is pretty succinct in asserting his idea throughout the writing. Here are some excerpts that stood out to me:
*pg. 203 - "This is merely to say that the persona and social consequence of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology". After this statement, the author goes on to explain job elimination and a creation of roles, etc.... After this, McLuhan states, "Many people would be disposed to say that it was not the machine, but what one did with the machine, that was its meaning or message".
*pg. 203 - "For the "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs".
(I'm backtracking a bit here)
McLuhan is brilliant in explaining the electric light. You might be thinking, "I already read that, and he lost me pretty quickly". that is understandable. Go back and read the parts on page 203 about the electric light - just those parts, and see what you can extrapolate from his explanation. This short description of the meaning of the electric light, or lack thereof, is the essence of the reading. McLuhan states, "The instance of the electric light may prove illuminating in this connection. The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name. This fact, characteristic of all media, means that the 'content' of any medium is always another medium". Brilliant! (am I geeking out again - sorry!). :) But then if you keep reading he comes back to the electric light and explains, "Let us return to the electric light. Whether the light is being used for brain surgery or night baseball is a matter of indifference. It could be argued that these activities are in some way the "content" of the electric light, since they could not exist without the electric light. This fact merely underlines the point that "the medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action". If you keep reading a couple of sentences beyond this excerpt, it says, "...it is only too typical that the "content" of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium".
As an aside - I am looking through my notes on the McLuhan article, and if you can get past some of the wording, the meaning is incredible!
Here are some other brief quotes. I will try to limit my commentary so that you can simply absorb what McLuhan is saying, and the implications it has for us today in our current 'media state'. I suggest that you read these in context, that is, have your book/the reading close by so that you can follow along and really absorb what is being said and implied. It may take a second to simply sit there and think about the concept for a few seconds before the light bulb (pun intended) flashes on and you 'get' what he is saying.
*pg. 205 "In other words, cubism, by giving the inside and outside, the top, bottom, back, and front and the rest, in two dimensions, drops the illusion of perspectives in favor of instant sensory awareness of the whole. Cubism, by seizing on instant total awareness, suddenly announced that the medium is the message."
*pg. 205 "Before the electric speed and total field, it was not obvious that the medium is the message. The message, it seemed, was the "content", as people used to as what a painting was about. Yet they never thought to ask what a melody was about, nor what a house or a dress was about. In such matters, people retained some sense of the whole pattern, of form and function as a unity".
*pg. 205 "...He understood the grammar of gunpowder". Think about this for a second. I mean, really think about this statement. What does this statement say to you? Does it not explain in 6 words what McLuhan is trying to convey?
*pg. 206-207 "But with electric media Western man himself experiences exactly the same inundation as the remote native. We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation. We are as numb to our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture".
*pg. 207 "Our conventional response to all media, namely that is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the "content" of a medium is like the juicy piece of mean carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind".
*pg. 208 "Today when we want to get our bearings in our own culture, and have need to stand aside from the bias and pressure exerted by any technical form of human expression, we have only to visit a society where that particular form has not been felt, or a historical period in which it was unknown".
I can go on with quotes from this piece that would be great conversation starters, especially the last couple of pages, but I will stop here. As I mentioned earlier in the post, many folks did not agree with McLuhan's assertions, and if you do not agree, explain your position in your post. You certainly do not have to agree with the folks who have written the articles we will be reading throughout the semester. I simply ask that if you do not agree, or even if you do agree for that matter, that you state your position clearly.
I hope you enjoyed this article as much as I did, and I hope this post helped to clarify some of the ideas from McLuhan.
First off, let me mention that McLuhan was criticized a bit for his ideas. You can easily search the internet for some opinions about McLuhan, but let's skip over the for now, and focus on who McLuhan was, and his ideas as presented in the present piece.
The article starts on page 203 with an explanation of how and why McLuhan thinks the medium really IS the message. The rest of the article goes on to support this idea by bringing up a number of examples. He also throws in some other ideas here and there, but he is pretty succinct in asserting his idea throughout the writing. Here are some excerpts that stood out to me:
*pg. 203 - "This is merely to say that the persona and social consequence of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology". After this statement, the author goes on to explain job elimination and a creation of roles, etc.... After this, McLuhan states, "Many people would be disposed to say that it was not the machine, but what one did with the machine, that was its meaning or message".
*pg. 203 - "For the "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs".
(I'm backtracking a bit here)
McLuhan is brilliant in explaining the electric light. You might be thinking, "I already read that, and he lost me pretty quickly". that is understandable. Go back and read the parts on page 203 about the electric light - just those parts, and see what you can extrapolate from his explanation. This short description of the meaning of the electric light, or lack thereof, is the essence of the reading. McLuhan states, "The instance of the electric light may prove illuminating in this connection. The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name. This fact, characteristic of all media, means that the 'content' of any medium is always another medium". Brilliant! (am I geeking out again - sorry!). :) But then if you keep reading he comes back to the electric light and explains, "Let us return to the electric light. Whether the light is being used for brain surgery or night baseball is a matter of indifference. It could be argued that these activities are in some way the "content" of the electric light, since they could not exist without the electric light. This fact merely underlines the point that "the medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action". If you keep reading a couple of sentences beyond this excerpt, it says, "...it is only too typical that the "content" of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium".
As an aside - I am looking through my notes on the McLuhan article, and if you can get past some of the wording, the meaning is incredible!
Here are some other brief quotes. I will try to limit my commentary so that you can simply absorb what McLuhan is saying, and the implications it has for us today in our current 'media state'. I suggest that you read these in context, that is, have your book/the reading close by so that you can follow along and really absorb what is being said and implied. It may take a second to simply sit there and think about the concept for a few seconds before the light bulb (pun intended) flashes on and you 'get' what he is saying.
*pg. 205 "In other words, cubism, by giving the inside and outside, the top, bottom, back, and front and the rest, in two dimensions, drops the illusion of perspectives in favor of instant sensory awareness of the whole. Cubism, by seizing on instant total awareness, suddenly announced that the medium is the message."
*pg. 205 "Before the electric speed and total field, it was not obvious that the medium is the message. The message, it seemed, was the "content", as people used to as what a painting was about. Yet they never thought to ask what a melody was about, nor what a house or a dress was about. In such matters, people retained some sense of the whole pattern, of form and function as a unity".
*pg. 205 "...He understood the grammar of gunpowder". Think about this for a second. I mean, really think about this statement. What does this statement say to you? Does it not explain in 6 words what McLuhan is trying to convey?
*pg. 206-207 "But with electric media Western man himself experiences exactly the same inundation as the remote native. We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation. We are as numb to our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture".
*pg. 207 "Our conventional response to all media, namely that is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the "content" of a medium is like the juicy piece of mean carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind".
*pg. 208 "Today when we want to get our bearings in our own culture, and have need to stand aside from the bias and pressure exerted by any technical form of human expression, we have only to visit a society where that particular form has not been felt, or a historical period in which it was unknown".
I can go on with quotes from this piece that would be great conversation starters, especially the last couple of pages, but I will stop here. As I mentioned earlier in the post, many folks did not agree with McLuhan's assertions, and if you do not agree, explain your position in your post. You certainly do not have to agree with the folks who have written the articles we will be reading throughout the semester. I simply ask that if you do not agree, or even if you do agree for that matter, that you state your position clearly.
I hope you enjoyed this article as much as I did, and I hope this post helped to clarify some of the ideas from McLuhan.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Week of July 23 - 29
Hello Folks!
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 13, Methods of Discovery
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Quiz on D2L on Chapters 11 & 13. Please log onto D2L before Saturday to take the quiz.
*Entire Journal Due by Sunday, July 29th! Please email me all 5 entries in ONE single document. This is the culminating project in this course, so please edit your journal this week, and make sure it's your best possible writing!
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Which of the research methods listed in Table 13.3 seem the most interesting? Assume you want to study some aspect of deception. Frame a research questions. Which method would you choose to answer the question? Why?
2). What are some of the moral dilemmas that face ethnographers? How would you resolve them?
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 13, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm131p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 13, Methods of Discovery
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Quiz on D2L on Chapters 11 & 13. Please log onto D2L before Saturday to take the quiz.
*Entire Journal Due by Sunday, July 29th! Please email me all 5 entries in ONE single document. This is the culminating project in this course, so please edit your journal this week, and make sure it's your best possible writing!
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Which of the research methods listed in Table 13.3 seem the most interesting? Assume you want to study some aspect of deception. Frame a research questions. Which method would you choose to answer the question? Why?
2). What are some of the moral dilemmas that face ethnographers? How would you resolve them?
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 13, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm131p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Instructor Wrap Up - Trenholm Chapter 8
Organizational Communication
For this instructor wrap-up, I would like to do something a bit different. I know that there is some great information in your course text, heck, I've read the text countless times at this point in my career. However, for this instructor wrap-up, I will provide you with some outside information that you can read through at your leisure.
What is Organizational Communication? I'm glad you asked. You can read about it by clicking HERE.
What are other instructors/professionals saying about Organizational Communication? Again, I'm glad you are inquisitive enough to pose this question. You can read a fun website HERE.
If you want to read about the Communication Process for Virtual Organizations, click HERE.
And finally, if the thought of majoring in Organizational Communication has crossed your mind at all, Middle Tennessee State University has a cool website dedicated to Organizational Comm. If you scroll down, there is a list of career pertaining to those that have majored in Org. Comm. Click HERE to read through it.
It is my hope, that by providing these websites, you can see a very brief and limited overview of the field of Organizational Communication. While it is a subset of the field of Communication Studies, it is an incredibly useful one.
Email me if anything in this chapter, or these websites needs further explanation.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Grades have been updated in D2L
Hello Fabulous Students,
I just updated grades in D2L. Please take a look at the most recent discussion week grade, among the other grades, and email me if you have any questions.
Have a great night!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
I just updated grades in D2L. Please take a look at the most recent discussion week grade, among the other grades, and email me if you have any questions.
Have a great night!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Week of July 16-22
Hello Folks!
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 8, Organizational Communication
*Read Chapter 11, Communication and the Mass Media
*QUIZ: Chapters 6 & 8 (D2L)
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Start working on Journal #5. See D2L for the assignment sheet for Journal #5.
(NOTE: The journal entries should be completed as I assign them, however, the entire journal will not be due until Saturday, July 29th.)
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Have you made friendships that exist exclusively in cyberspace? If so, how are they different from f2f relationships? If you have no formed cyber relationships, why not?
2). Do you agree with Marshall McLuhand that the medium is the message, i.e. that the format or logic of a medium is as important as its content, and, in fact, determines what content will be broadcast through that channel? Evaluate his idea that television is a cool medium.
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 8, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm131p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 8, Organizational Communication
*Read Chapter 11, Communication and the Mass Media
*QUIZ: Chapters 6 & 8 (D2L)
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Start working on Journal #5. See D2L for the assignment sheet for Journal #5.
(NOTE: The journal entries should be completed as I assign them, however, the entire journal will not be due until Saturday, July 29th.)
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Have you made friendships that exist exclusively in cyberspace? If so, how are they different from f2f relationships? If you have no formed cyber relationships, why not?
2). Do you agree with Marshall McLuhand that the medium is the message, i.e. that the format or logic of a medium is as important as its content, and, in fact, determines what content will be broadcast through that channel? Evaluate his idea that television is a cool medium.
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 8, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm131p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Study Abroad Summer 2013 - Beijing
The Blogging Prof. is leading a study abroad trip to Beijing during the summer of 2013!!!!!! So if you want to study abroad with yours truly, please read the post below, then contact me so you can be placed on my 'interested students' list.
Visit Beijing and earn four upper division units in communication studies!
During the summer of 2013 I will be leading an intercultural communication study abroad program to China, with a special emphasis on tourism, modernity, and urban life.
Students will stay at Communication University of China, which provides comfortable dormitory housing, low-cost meals, and easy access to the sights of Beijing. Classes focus on conversation and real-life exploration, and you will have lots of free time. That means opportunities to climb the Great Wall, wander the Forbidden City, experience the Peking Opera, and more.
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| Great Wall |
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| Forbidden City |
Pricing (excluding airfare and visa fees) is about $2,500, which covers housing, course fees, food, and several local tours. Cost for airfare and visa fees is estimated at an additional $1,500. The course meets COMM 161F requirements, but course substitutions can be made if you've already taken that class. If you a communication major, you should apply for this terrific opportunity. However, this opportunity is open to all SJSU students.
Want to learn more:
Please contact me for more information. I am currently putting together a list of students who are interested in traveling with me to Beijing for the Study Abroad Program during Summer 2013.I look forward to hearing from you.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Instructor Wrap Up - Trenholm Chapter 6
"Our survival as social beings depends in large part on our interpersonal communication skills"
Interpersonal Communication theory is one of my favorite aspects of communication studies. When I was at school in the Midwest (for merely a semester), we conducted an experiment that went against interpersonal norms. For instance, we got in an elevator and faced the wrong direction to see how people would react. We also had 2 students go into a swanky department store, one dressed in sweats and the other dressed nicely, to see how the store attendants would treat each 'customer'. The results were as you would expect. The elevator riders became very uncomfortable when someone was facing the wrong direction, and the department store associates ignored the student dressed in sweats and offered help to the person dressed nicely.
Interpersonal communication has many facets. Your book covers dyadic communication, managing interpersonal communication, relational development (stages in intimate dyad's) which also includes Duck's Relational Dissolution Model (quite an interesting section), increasing relational skills (disclosure - always a great topic to study), managing interpersonal conflict, and becoming a more responsible communicator.
This chapter is, by far, one of my favorites in the book. Each of us engages in dyadic communication on a continual basis, and understanding some of these concepts might help to improve those relationships.
Personal Note: You all can probably see my passion when it comes to communication, but there is something special about interpersonal communication that draws me in. These are the weeks I wish that we were able to meet in person. Discussing personal experiences with interpersonal communication, conflict, etc... can really draw a class together.
When I was a graduate student at SJSU a number of years ago, I took Shawn Spano's graduate seminar on interpersonal communication. We studied many theories, covered many topics and shared many personal experiences. One of the major course assignments was about mediation (yet another facet of interpersonal communication). We had to mediate a disagreement between two people, and write a research paper about it. That assignment was one of the most interesting assignments I had completed in graduate school. It really showed the inner workings of a close, intimate relationship between two people, and it helped them to workout some issues they were encountering.
As you can see, interpersonal communication has many different facets. I hope that you all enjoy reading and discussing this week. I can't wait to read your posts and comments.
Interpersonal Communication theory is one of my favorite aspects of communication studies. When I was at school in the Midwest (for merely a semester), we conducted an experiment that went against interpersonal norms. For instance, we got in an elevator and faced the wrong direction to see how people would react. We also had 2 students go into a swanky department store, one dressed in sweats and the other dressed nicely, to see how the store attendants would treat each 'customer'. The results were as you would expect. The elevator riders became very uncomfortable when someone was facing the wrong direction, and the department store associates ignored the student dressed in sweats and offered help to the person dressed nicely.
Interpersonal communication has many facets. Your book covers dyadic communication, managing interpersonal communication, relational development (stages in intimate dyad's) which also includes Duck's Relational Dissolution Model (quite an interesting section), increasing relational skills (disclosure - always a great topic to study), managing interpersonal conflict, and becoming a more responsible communicator.
This chapter is, by far, one of my favorites in the book. Each of us engages in dyadic communication on a continual basis, and understanding some of these concepts might help to improve those relationships.
Personal Note: You all can probably see my passion when it comes to communication, but there is something special about interpersonal communication that draws me in. These are the weeks I wish that we were able to meet in person. Discussing personal experiences with interpersonal communication, conflict, etc... can really draw a class together.
When I was a graduate student at SJSU a number of years ago, I took Shawn Spano's graduate seminar on interpersonal communication. We studied many theories, covered many topics and shared many personal experiences. One of the major course assignments was about mediation (yet another facet of interpersonal communication). We had to mediate a disagreement between two people, and write a research paper about it. That assignment was one of the most interesting assignments I had completed in graduate school. It really showed the inner workings of a close, intimate relationship between two people, and it helped them to workout some issues they were encountering.
As you can see, interpersonal communication has many different facets. I hope that you all enjoy reading and discussing this week. I can't wait to read your posts and comments.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Week of July 9 - 15
Hello Folks!
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 7, Group Communication
*Read Chapter 6, Interpersonal Communication
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Start working on Journal #4. See D2L for the assignment sheet for Journal #4.
(NOTE: The journal entries should be completed as I assign them, however, the entire journal will not be due until Sunday, July 29th.)
*Quiz on D2L on Chapters 7 & 12. Please log onto D2L before Saturday to take the quiz.
*Turn in the Concept Application Paper - due by Sunday night at 11:59pm. Please follow the instructions for submission on the assignment sheet.
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Which pattern (rigid complementarity, competitive symmetry, or submissive symmetry) do you think would be the most difficult to change? Why? Which would be the most damaging to a relationship? Which would be the most potentially damaging to the self-esteem of the individuals involved?
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 7, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm131p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Here is what is listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages from D2L for this week. The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively. In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.
Due this week:
*Read Chapter 7, Group Communication
*Read Chapter 6, Interpersonal Communication
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Start working on Journal #4. See D2L for the assignment sheet for Journal #4.
(NOTE: The journal entries should be completed as I assign them, however, the entire journal will not be due until Sunday, July 29th.)
*Quiz on D2L on Chapters 7 & 12. Please log onto D2L before Saturday to take the quiz.
*Turn in the Concept Application Paper - due by Sunday night at 11:59pm. Please follow the instructions for submission on the assignment sheet.
Class Discussion:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE.
1). Which pattern (rigid complementarity, competitive symmetry, or submissive symmetry) do you think would be the most difficult to change? Why? Which would be the most damaging to a relationship? Which would be the most potentially damaging to the self-esteem of the individuals involved?
2). Think about the filters you use to eliminate people from consideration as potential romantic partners. What characteristics or behaviors lead you to judge others as unattractive? Does Duck’s theory make sense to you? Have you ever eliminated someone by using a sociological or pre-interaction cue only to reconsider them based on interaction and cognitive cues?
3). Pick one concept from Chapter 7, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 3 responses to your colleagues blogs. (As a reminder, comments will only be counted for the current discussion week. I do not go back to past discussion weeks to look for comments. Once a discussion week is over, it's over. So please make sure you are commenting on a relevant blog post. In other words, pay close attention to the post, and date.
Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm131p.blogspot.com/ and look under "Student Blogs" to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words.
Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case there I have questions about where they are located.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Grades have been updated in D2L
Hello Fabulous Students,
I just updated grades in D2L. Please take a look at the most recent discussion week grade, among the other grades, and email me if you have any questions.
Have a great 4th of July everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
I just updated grades in D2L. Please take a look at the most recent discussion week grade, among the other grades, and email me if you have any questions.
Have a great 4th of July everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Week of July 2-8
Hello Folks!
The only thing due this week is the Midterm Exam on D2L. Please log onto D2L to take the exam. It is open book, open notes and it covers Chapters 1-5, 9 & 10. Remember that the midterm is timed, and it needs to be submitted by 11:59pm on Sunday night. Please do not share answers or test questions with fellow classmates.
If you look on the schedule and syllabus, it notes that the Concept Application Paper is due by Sunday, July 8th. However, I will extend the deadline to Sunday, July 15th. Please continue to work on the Concept Application Paper. It is downloadable on D2L. If you have issues downloading the assignment sheet, please email me immediately. I hope the extension helps you out a bit. :)
Have a good week everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
The only thing due this week is the Midterm Exam on D2L. Please log onto D2L to take the exam. It is open book, open notes and it covers Chapters 1-5, 9 & 10. Remember that the midterm is timed, and it needs to be submitted by 11:59pm on Sunday night. Please do not share answers or test questions with fellow classmates.
If you look on the schedule and syllabus, it notes that the Concept Application Paper is due by Sunday, July 8th. However, I will extend the deadline to Sunday, July 15th. Please continue to work on the Concept Application Paper. It is downloadable on D2L. If you have issues downloading the assignment sheet, please email me immediately. I hope the extension helps you out a bit. :)
Have a good week everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.
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