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301--Interpersonal

So you ought to have a good grasp by now on the Sender/Message/Receiver paradigm. But in case you don't...prepare to take note. Welcome to lecture mode...

[[OOC: Feel free to talk amongst yourselves. Go wild.]]

Today we'll be talking about sender, message, and receiver
*fixes glasses and begins one big boring lecture*

Communication
focuses on the messages exchanged between people and how those messages
affect other aspects of their lives. In interpersonal communication, we
further limit this to focus our research on how the messages people
exchange affect the relationships between them" (Petronio, Alberts,
Hecht, Buley 3). Most relationships are not strictly interpersonal or
impersonal; they usually fall somewhere in between. Levels of intimacy,
commitment, trust, honesty, disclosure, acceptance and emotional
empathy vary and change within all relationships. A recent course in
Fall 1997 taught by Schrader in Advanced Interpersonal Communication at
Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis had students
examine the developmental process of interpersonal relationships by
focusing on those messages which lead to growth, maintenance, and
termination of social encounters and how computer mediated
communication (CMC) influences these messages.

Computers have
revolutionized communication. As Michel observes, "computers and
modems...have opened up new opportunities for communication between
people normally separated by distance and social norms" (1). New areas
of communication research are frequently emerging as a result of the
adoption of innovative technologies. One field of communication
research that is becoming increasingly important due to technological
advances is that of CMC.

Chesebro and Bonsall suggest that "any
form of human-computer interaction can be seen as a form of
communication, varying in degree to which the computer or the user is
in control" (qt. in Gibson et. al. 7). Bordia adds that CMC includes
"any means of communication which is mediated by a computer" (2).
Therefore, programming computers, using educational software, and
playing computer games can be part of the communication process (Gibson
et al., 7). CMC can include such innovations as electronic mail
(email), computer-conferencing and the Internet (Walther 52).

There
are numerous theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques
available for examining interpersonal computer mediated dynamics. The
Advanced Interpersonal Communication course framed its exploration by
examining intercultural-interpersonal CMC. In other words, students
were asked to conduct original research in the area of how a cultural
difference such as gender, influences interpersonal computer mediated
communication. It was assumed that students would learn more about the
subject matter if they reconstructed their original research paper into
a World Wide Web (WWW) site. The pedagogical assumption of praxis was
the driving force behind facilitating student learning of the
mechanical (e.g., learning html language) and social (e.g., rule
structures) cybercultures they were studying.

ooc: text blatently stolen from http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed98/sschrader.html if you want to read the rest of it.

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401--Advanced

Images. Power. Five of them. Show me what you've got...and tell me why.

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Shep drags himself in. Detention seriously kicked his ass on Saturday and sleeping all of Sunday hasn't seemed to have corrected that. He pulls his laptop out, but leaves it closed, crosses his arms over it and puts his head down and listens to the lecture. Every few minutes he can be seen jerking himself upright, like he had almost, but not quite, fallen asleep.

It's not the material, really. He's just had a long weekend.

Walking through the room as she lectures, she walks past and kicks the table leg to get him back to upright.

Shep jerks upright and looks around the room, startled. He sees CJ looking at him and puts two and two together.

And then he puts his head back down.

For the rest of the period, each time she passes him she reaches out and jostles his shoulder to make sure he's still awake.

Every time C.J. shakes him, Shep lifts one hand and waves at her, to let her know he hasn't checked out yet.

Lecture's done...now discuss. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/513645.html?thread=24300653#t24300653)

Togusa was a little late, but the topic caught his attention. He connected to the web and looked up more materials. "About communication between user and machine...what if the computer does have a mind of its own?"

"If the machine has an intelligence, it becomes a receiver. Consider how you'd have to tailor your message, Togusa. Would it truly understand you? Would you have to be simple and direct? How does the sender control the message sent to the receiver?" She smiles and leans against his table, impressed he's actually listening.

"I suppose it depends on how clear the message is to the reciever, and if the sender can talk in a way to the machine in a way it can understand." Tachikomas were a good point on that. "But if you don't tell them what you mean specifically, I guess it would be like a person, and mixed messages could lead to bad results." He rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"Perfect, Togusa. That's exactly right. Give me an example of what you...the sender...would consider "bad results."

"Uh...that if I told a machine with intelligence to say, help me get to a place, but if I'm not clear on instructions, it could lead me to somewhere I don't want to be?

"Perfect. Can that happen with...non-machines as well?" she smiles softly, leading him along.

"Well, sure. People say things to each other all the time without thinking about what they are about to say. Then there's mixed messages."

"Without thinking? Or misreading the receiver? Or both? Neither? Keep going, you're doing great."

"It can be all of them. I could give a mixed message, the reciever couldn't understand me, and when I tried to explain it to the receiver again, I would have problems communicating." Togusa had never spoke so much before in his life. "So I guess that clear concise communication is important no matter what."

"Fantastic, Togusa. You've hit the heart of the problem. Should I make you define 'clear, concise communication' now?" she grins at him, nodding a prompt.

Togusa thought for a moment. "To be concise in communication, you must know what you're speaking about, then make sure that other other person, or receiever will understand it. No mixed messages."

Lecture's done...now discuss. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/513645.html?thread=24300653#t24300653)

Maia came in and sat next to Shep looking almost as tired. She hadn't gone to the dance the night before detention so she had a few more hours of sleep then he did. She laid her head on the desk listening to C.J. lecture.

Walking through the room as she lectures, she walks past and kicks the table leg to get her back to upright.

Maia shot up in the seat, looking around startled. Seeing that it was C.J. who kicked her chair she turned red from embarrassment.

She gives Maia a reassuring smile. She knows it's boring..but it's important. ~~except not really~~.

Maia smiled back still blushing a little. "Sorry." She whispered and then started to write detailed notes on just about everythign C.J. was saying.

Lecture's done...now discuss. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/513645.html?thread=24300653#t24300653)

Boone couldn't help laughing softly at Maia's reaction. All it was missing was Maia squeaking that the answer was forty-two.

Maia caught Boones eye and winked as she was working on her notes.

He smiled back, and returned to ~~drawing on the desk~~ his ~~doodles~~ notes.

Lecture's done...now discuss. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/513645.html?thread=24300653#t24300653)

Boone takes notes, propping his chin on his fist. Occasionally, his eyelids lower, then he comes out of it to jot something down. It's just one of those Monday mornings.

Droning on and on, she kicks Boone's table leg enough to rouse him.

"Ok, so...dull. Now you guys all stand up, move around, get the blood flowing...and let's chat.

Give me some ideas of what we need to have to communicate.

Maia was grateful for the movement and said happily "We need honesty to communicate. If a person is not honest then there is no real communication going on."

...

Elizabeth spread the five pictures out on the desk in front of her.

"These are all memorials found either in Washington DC, or in Arlington. Four of them are in direct reference to a specific war.

The power in these pictures is because of what these things are, and what they stand for."

She held up the first one.

"The World War II memorial. Public Law 103-32 was signed on May 25th, 1993, authorizing he American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) to establish a World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., or its environs. It will be the first national memorial dedicated to all who served during World War II and acknowledging the commitment and achievement of the entire nation.

OVer 16 and a half million Americans served in the Armed Forces during this conflict, and over four hundred thousand of those were killed, with another six hundred and seventy thousand wounded."

"Iwo Jima. Over third of the total Marines who participated in the invasion were either Killed, Wounded or suffered from Battle Fatigue. The memorial is not just for 23,000 casualties of this one attack, but it's a memorial for all the marines who have served this country,"

"1950-1953. The Korean War. Or police action as it was technically called.

"Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met." Approximately three hundred and fifty thousand men and women served, and over fifty-four thousand men died; a figure that would almost certainly have been even more had it not been for M*A*S*H units."

"And my last war in this little history lesson, Vietnam." Elizabeth's jaw was set firmly. '57 to' 75. Almost three million men and women were sent to fight this war. 58,249 names are inscribed on this wall, of the dead and missing.

"Finally... the Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington Cemetery."

"It's also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Tomb was originally for an unknown soldier from World War I, but unknowns from World War II, Korea and Vietnam have been since added; although the Vietnam unknown has since been identified by mitochondrial DNA testing.

The tomb is guarded continously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and has been since July 1st, 1937, by The Tomb Guards of the 3rd United States Infantry.

The tomb is there to represent all those who never got go home, even in death."

Elizabeth replaced the images back in a neat pile. "Why are these so powerful? Because they honor these men and women who gave their lives for this country. They show that we have not forgotten them, nor shall we. That America is America because of what they have done.

And it shows that we, as humans and as Americans, still keep making the same god-forsaken mistakes over and over again. We still go to war. We still kill people. We still rationalize it. The only thing the government spends more on than the military is social security. Our defense expenditure is estimated to be greater than the next twelve largest national military budgets combined."

She leant back in her chair, and muttered. "You can't help but wonder where the next five war memorials are going to be built."

You have rendered your teacher speechless. Hand over her heart, her eyes glisten as she listens to and looks at E.'s presentation. By the end...she can barely catch her breath.

My pictures are from Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's amazing to realize what beauty exists in nature. And the most interesting thing is that all this gorgeous nature is only about twenty minutes by car from the Vegas strip, which is possibly one of the most artifical places on the planet.

"Last week I pulled up an image of Earth viewed from orbit, because anything that can make you feel insignificant is a pretty powerful image as far as I'm concerned.

The images I chose for today aren't ones that necessarily made me feel insignificant, though a couple of them did, but they are all ones that made me stop and think about how impressive this world really is. Any picture that makes you think something more than "hey, that's nice" has got at least some power.

The Grand Canyon photo doesn't do the place justice, but the picture still leaves me with a sense of awe.

These next three are things I never want to be too close to. Just seeing the pictures is enough for me to know that, and for me to gain even more of a healthy respect for nature and what it can do. They all show something that'd be scary up close, and you can get a sense of that from the pictures, I think.

And finally, this iceberg was, for one thing, just a beautiful shot. And at the same time that much ice is scary, because that thing is just huge. It's another photo where I'm sure it doesn't do the real thing justice, but you can at least get an idea of what it's like from the photo.

Lily turns in her assignment and explains her image choices.

Shep drags himself out of his chair and puts his hands on his hips and stretches his back by leaning back until he forms a 90 degree angle, looking up at the ceiling. A good ten incredibly loud pops can be heard as he stretches.

He drops back into his chair with a loud sigh.

"We need a sender, a message and a receiver." They'd only spent a week on that idea.

"I'm so happy that much has sunk in, Shep~~baby~~." she says dryly. "Any other nuggets of wisdom?"

"Never ~~get drunk at~~ go to a dance the day before you have detention until three in the morning." That's probably not what she meant, but it was what he'd learned that weekend.

"Yeah, you also shouldn't look at an eclipse. But what about communication?"

Shep sits up a little straighter, he isn't quite sure what CJ's after so he just says, "I'm in favor of it?"

She covers her eyes with her hand and sighs heavily. "Shep, get some rest tonight. You should be better than this."

Shep puts his head back down and waves again. "Yes, ma'am."

[Bahg. Mun had computer issues yesterday do to having too much crap on the comp. But at least the Mun now knows why there were repeated freezes and Blue Screens...

Feel free to bitch Jack out for ditching.]

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