...results of these studies, few of us are surprised. These results are part of a larger story about young people — how we view their roles and the expectations we have of them — and are indicative of a larger narrative that casts many young people as less than full citizens. In effect, we, as a society, are telling young people that they lack the capacity to play meaningful roles in our communities. This story — this pattern of low expectations — is endemic rather than epidemic. It exists steadily and lastingly, rather than temporarily. This story is part of our folkways: we can find examples from Renaissance France, a newly independent United States, and last week’s newspaper. We can trace the story back to the psychological theories of Freud, Erickson and others that emphasize the sturm und drang (storm and stress) of adolescence, and to a shifting economy that has left older adolescents with few clear roles in their communities. Negative perceptions of young people are nothing new. But the most recent iteration of this historical pattern is particularly troubling. A 2000 Gallup poll confirms our suspicions: yes, it really is worse than before. “Americans today are much more skeptical about young people than they were a half-century ago,”...
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...Approach to Communication’ SUMMARY James W. Carey describe, in his book ‘Communication as Culture, two conceptions of communication. Namely a transmission view of communication and a ritual view of Communication. The transmission view of communication The transmission view of communication is de commonest in our culture. It is defined by terms such as “imparting”, “sending”, “transmitting” or “giving information to others”. In the nineteenth century were ‘the movement of goods or people’ and ‘the movement of information’ both described by the common noun “communication”. The center of this idea of communication is the transmission of signals or messages over distance for the purpose of control. The roots of the transmission view of communication, in our culture at least, lie in essentially religious attitudes. The moral meaning of transportation was the establishment and extension of God’s Kingdom on earth. The moral meaning of communication was the same. By the middle of the nineteenth century the telegraph broke the identity of communication and transmission. The new technology entered not as a mundane fact, but as divinely inspired for the purpose of spreading the Christian message farther and faster. The new technology of communication came to be seen as the ideal device for the conquest of space and population. Soon, as the forces of science and secularization gained ground, the obvious religious metaphors fell away and the technology of communication itself moved...
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...Effective Communication COM 200 Professor March 21, 2011 Principles and Misconceptions in Communication This paper will explore effective communication, some of the principles and misconceptions, some of the barriers that we face in our communication skills, as well as how our words have the ability to affect our attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions. Effective communication, whether it is to a nation, people in different cultures, or in the privacy of our homes, can be used to tear people apart or hurt someone; it can be full of bitterness and hate; yet it can also be used to express love, admiration, offer hope, and inspire others. Communication and our relationships with others are completely connected. It is impossible to have a relationship with someone without speaking to them. It involves every aspect of our everyday contact with others. Communication involves both verbal and non-verbal expressions of our thoughts, feelings and ideas to others. Our verbal communication is done through words, sending messages on what we think or feel in certain situations. Our non-verbal communication also known as paralanguage is embedded through your gestures, in the clothes we wear, the posture you present, your attitudes or facial expressions. It may be your silence, or your gentle touch. Paralanguage is more universal than verbal communication. This is the part of our communication that helps prevent ineffective communication, unlike a telephone...
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...In today’s technological information age, we have created many beneficial technologies in order to enhance our daily lives. From fully electric luxury cars to the massive knowledge base and international gateway, the internet. However, one of the most important modern advances we have made amongst these, is our modern mobile communication devices. For the purpose of this research paper we will primarily be focusing on the mobile phone, or cell phone which has reshaped the way we communicate on a personal and global scale. Being able to stay connected has never been as easy as it is today, which makes it even easier to see all of the benefits on communication advances have brought to our global community. However true this might be, while modern communication technology can help keep us as a people connected better than ever before, this same technology is having a negative effect on our social communication due to overuse which brings direct connections to depression which causes withdrawal from historical social norms, social anxiety particularly in young members of our society, as well its affect on many people's feeling of loneliness. Depression is a disorder that is part of our human nature. Depression is, according to Oyama (2015) “One of the most common psychiatric disorders to occur in most lifetimes, caused by biological, psychological, social, and/or environmental factors.” Depression itself is a deep seeded issue, that is not something that simply passes with...
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...How Does Communication Technology Affect People’s Lives? Introduction There is hardly any place around us today where technology is not used. A typical life for a student for instance, starts at 8 am, waking up on an alarm which these days is an application on a mobile smartphone. With a single button pressed, they can get a warm cup of coffee on the go and head to school. At school, an overhead projectors and laptops are widely present in class, with most of class material are communicated via e-mail, student blogs, or web-based applications. Basically, everything is somehow done via a technological interface, be it the coffee maker or the internet. Even further, daily chore duties such as washing dishes, clothes and mowing the grass have become very simple with the use of technology to an extent that you really do not feel that you are doing anything. All you are doing is place a basket of clothes in your dishwasher, press two buttons, and then come back in two hours, where the clothes are clean and dried. A duty that used to take one or two days to complete and a copious of efforts can be completed successfully with two buttons pressed and two hours effortlessly and with minimal discomfort. One aspect of technology advancement requires more attention that others that is communication. Communicating with humans, be it as home, school or work, is one of the most important necessities of human’s social need. People need to talk to each other to feel good, feel existent...
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...Melodie A. Ellis HCS/320 - HEALTH CARE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES Instructor: POLLY HANSON March 12, 2012 Communication Theory Communication is one way we all communicate with each other. In my house hold we have a 2 year old, disabled military vet who is 22, 54 year old with cancer, another military vet who is 25 and I. I live in West Virginia and yet I have a different culture than the people who live in my house. I am originally from upstate New York. I have never worked in the health care field but I do know what it is like to have to have good communication with people who are not only a different gender but come from different cultures as well. When it comes to gender there is always a different way of communicating. Men and women communicated very differently. When you add in culture differences into the gender aspect you can have some communication bumps that might come up along the way. I think our age and life experiences also play a part in the way we communicate with others. For example, in my house the 22 disabled vet has a more aggressive way of communicating. I am not sure if it is his age, gender or life experiences. Maybe a combination of all of them put together. My 2 year old son has a speech delay of 25% and is hard to understand a lot of the time. The 54 year old with cancer has a more introverted way of communicating with people. He often comes off as very calm, soft spoken and gentle. I myself have a more brutal honest approach when I communicate...
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..."The more elaborate means of communication, the less we communicate" - this expression is relevant today. Thanks to the advent of the internet and cellphones, we can now communicate in faster and better ways. In my opinion, this is largely a positive development. However, there are some negative aspects as well. On the one hand modern communication technology has made our lives easier and faster. The inability to instantly communicate with our friends, relatives and business partners living in the same or different parts of the world has changed our lives for good. Cellphones allow parents to know the whereabouts of their children no matter where they are in the world. Online chats allow consumers to connect with businesses and get solutions to their problems. And with video chats businesses can communicate with their partners and clients in other countries without having to travel to those places. This arrangement saves money as well as time. Technologies like VoIP have made online communication cheaper. And if one mode of communication fails, we can always resort to the other. Better communication technology also helps people and governments to better prepare themselves for emergencies. On the other hand, improved communication technologies have also made our lives more complicated. Worse, they have led to greater isolation. Nowadays technology allows people to access every service they need without having to step outside. As a result, in many countries, especially in the...
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...Ana V. COM-126 Historical need People live in a world of media and technology, making it our way of communication. Unfortunately, we are becoming more attached to these needs that our communication is lacking of reality. Therefore, "it is clear that mass-media influence our values, attitude, culture etc." (Enache, R., Pescaru, A., Stan, E., & Safta, C. (2010), p. 31). This media has a long history behind its back and has walked a long way to be transformed into this large communication connection we all live with today. Like all stories with a beginning, media started in the early years of 3000 B.C with the introduction of the alphabet, devised by the Semites (“Major Events in the History of Mass Communications”, n.d.). During this early era of media, not only the early form of paper was invented by the Egyptians, but the printing method was created. Johannes Gutenberg, with his printing invention, opened “the possibility of distributing identical messages to many people located in different places" (Bogart, 1991, p. 63) - this big step would really begin mass media, giving it a start to the printing production of books. A follow up century which would take a big leap in the media history is the Telegraph Era. From 1800s to 1900s the first telegraph line would be first introduced by Samuel Morse, along with the invention of the telephone and radio. These inventions took media development into a big significant time in which more and more people would gain...
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...Gran Torino Film Analysis Norma J Morehead Intercultural/International Communication 10 June 2012 Cultural conflict and popular culture are two experiences in life that assist in defining intercultural communication and how its influence affects our daily intercommunication. Cultural conflict is inevitable as we live out our daily lives in the identities we have selected for ourselves, the identities relating to our ethnicity and in those identities others have selected for us. These identities are bound to conflict with another individual’s identities which is why there is a need for understanding what intercultural communication is and how it can be enhanced becomes vital to peaceful living around the world. Popular culture is a reference point for information used to determine who we want to be, who we are, and what we want in life. Popular culture has its good attributes and its bad attributes, both shape our society. Popular culture as it relates to television, video games, music videos and print media has a negative reputation because it is driven by money. There are characteristics of popular culture that are positive and enrich the lives of individuals such as the fine arts; the symphony, theatre, and museums. In a free society we are fortunate to have a choice. We are a free society and we want to remain a free society which makes the need for successful intercultural communication that much more important to achieve. Released in 2008, the film Gran Torino...
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...and innovation as being the most important stimulus for humans to ameliorate and improve their communication. I’m speaking of thousands of years of development, from the earliest traces of written communication all the way to our convenient pocket-sized computers. All the progress and the changes in our lives are enabled and accelerated by advances in communication. Innovation occurred to solve problems in our society and everyday life rather than simply amusing ourselves. In other words, communication is about immediate and practical needs. Like Mr. Moughabghab said, we live in exponential times. Where the speed of progress of change and technology is unimaginable and accelerating. On one hand, technology simplifies our lives by reducing number of tedious tasks to be performed. They have created applications that can be downloaded on your smartphone which give access to communicate with all major sectors. Such as, online shopping, online banking,online transportation (Uber), rent reservation for apartments (Airbnb) and many more. For instance, a person does not need to go to a bank to pay their bills or transfer money. They can just do so with a click of a button from the comfort of their home. People are more satisfied with these new applications due to it being less time consuming and easier to understand. On the other hand, there are some disadvantages regarding the communication between humans through machines. This has led to less interactions between people as machines...
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...How Digital Media has changed how people Introduction We live in a dynamic and progressive world where new ideas are actualized to better the state of human lives. Much can be said of the transformation that technological era brought to the world. However, of all the transformation nothing beats the effect that digital media has brought to the world. Never in the history of this planet has a single entity shape virtually every sector of our lives. The digital media is actually moving the world from money exchange, entertainment and communication. Communication is an aspect that has totally transformed with technology. Our view of the world and interaction hallmarks the effect of digital media and its subsequent effect on lives. On this accord,...
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...Argumentative Paper In a recent survey of young adults ages 18-24, 90% of them said that the new innovations in technology has made their lives easier. Technology is the backbone of society and without it our lives would be so much harder. Certain transportation advancements would’ve never been made and many people would be out of jobs. Imagine how tired everyone would be if we needed to walk everywhere and hand write everything. Technology helps society because it makes our lives easier, creates jobs and helps with transportation. Technology is making our lives so much easier. For example entertainment is a whole new ballgame. An author states that “the entertainment media has progressed because of advancements in technology. Movies, songs, and games are just a few clicks away”(Oak). This quote shows that technology is booming and we have come so far. Another way that it makes our lives easier is that communication is simpler. Oak (2014) suggests that cell phones are widened and more convenient for long distance and mobile use. Letters are no longer modern and text messages and emails are the simplest means of communication (Oak). This quote tells us that technology has made communication more modern, thus, making our lives easier. Technology has also created jobs for people. Author Niki Denison said explained that in 1991 the fall of the Soviet Union left many people without jobs and how tens of thousands of people are making a living by selling cell phone minutes...
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...Technology has greatly improved as time is passing; Scientists are continually working in order to develop useful products, in which facilitate our lives. Even though some people say that technology has lessen our lives’ quality, I think that it has made the world a better place to live. Technology provides to us a better knowledge, faster ways of locomotion and communication. The computer is one important feature from technology, which is very used by people in order to increase their knowledge. Books are no longer the main way to improve the understanding of a specific matter. Universities are acquiring more and more computers to facilitate the student's life, and to provide faster information. Students are using a lot more the Internet, which gives to them the right information without the need of going to a library. For example, a person needs to do a research about a matter, and then instead of going to the library, this person could gather good and diverses information using the Internet. Consequently, he\she would finish his\her research faster than doing it in the library by hand. Thus, technology, which created the computer, has definitely helped the universities and the students to get a better knowledge. Nowadays, ways of locomotion such as car, motorcycle, train, and airplane, has facilitated our lives. Centuries ago, the main way to travel a long distance was the ship, or the horse. Today, the airplane is the most useful way to make fast travels, which gives...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Is the increasing digitisation of our lives making people more isolated? Is the increasing digitisation of our lives making people more isolated? Word Count: 2086 Word Count: 2086 CIS11 Information Methods Assignment 1 CIS11 Information Methods Assignment 1 Abstract This report outlines the degree to which the increasing digitisation on society is enabling a rise in connectivity amongst peoples, community and society as has never before been seen in any other era. The below argument focuses on the use of social media and online communities as a growing form of interconnectedness and the shift in the traditional form of communication. Looking further into the benefits of digitisation on our lives age demographics of the young and older generation as well as the change in the traditional work place model, shows differences in the approach and application of connecting but the overall incorporation of information communication technology in communicating with people and society. Introduction The digitisation of society occurred almost overnight with information communication technologies integrating itself into almost every facet of daily life. We wake up to the alarm that was set on our iPhone to the tune we downloaded from iTunes. Cars with GPS, iPod connectivity and Bluetooth take us to work where we sit down at a computer for the next eight hours. Society has accepted...
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...Communication is formed by people in everywhere at any time. If we live in a community, communication is something that we cannot avoid in our whole life. However, even though we practice communication all the time, miscommunication still happens all the time especially when people have different culture. According to Yu Xu, and Ruth Davidhizar, the authors of Journal of Nursing Education, "Culture is communication and communication is culture". Our communication is always affected by the problem of culture intelligence including backgrounds, habits of communication and languages, and all these factors cause miscommunication. First, different backgrounds are definitely a main issue that affects communication. Background means your family and your experience of education, living conditions. Since all countries have their own living style, religion and beliefs, people who are from different countries might have extremely different backgrounds. We might learn and understand things in different ways; therefore, battle might be easily formed when we do not know each other very well. According to Kaplan, S., and Cunningham, C., the author of Eight Quick Tips for Improving Global Cross-Cultural Communications, Different backgrounds might affect our life style. If we live in a same house with people from different country, different living styles may cause miscommunication. Referring to FitzGerald, Helen Gay, authors of Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, “If people...
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