Reference no: EM132421112

Section 1

• What does communication mean to you?
•  In your own words, describe your personal definition of communication. Make sure that you explain why you feel this way. In doing so, however, keep in mind that your professor makes a big issue of communication and control/power. Is she correct about this?
•  Do you see communication as something more or something less than participants' efforts to control the communication contexts in which they find themselves?

Section 2

• Were there different forms of noise; how did they manifest themselves; how did they interfere with successful communication?
• What different kinds of listeners were in the room?
•  What characteristics did they display that clued you into their listening styles?
• How did they influence that day's communication?
•  Were you able to identify different types of listening from different people?
• How did these folks aid or hinder effective communication that day?

Section 3

• Culture is the world made meaningful
• It is socially constructed and maintained through communication
• It limits as well as liberates us; it differentiates as well as unites us
• It defines our realities and thereby shapes the ways we think, feel, and act

Section 4

• What are the seven media literacy skills?
•  Describe each and examine your own media consumption behavior in terms of each.
• Discuss whether you are media literate or not and why you feel that way.
• What would you do to either become media literate or stay in your present state