An Ever Changing World(MARK THIS ONE)

In an Ever Changing World, When it Comes to Keeping Up with Technology, We Just Cant Win

From clay tablets to scribe, from the printing press to computer printing, how we go about attaining our knowledge today is much different then our past.

There are two different societies which man has evolved through when it comes to technology. You have your space binding societies and your time binding societies. I believe the video entitled "Monk needs help opening a book" is a classic example of what it is like transferring from a time binding society to a space binding society, or even just progressively transferring through a society that is getting ready to launch "the next big invention". Even though the next big invention may be coming out you may still be comfortable with the old technology.

Basically a time binding society is a society that uses more older customs such as epic poems, scribes or manuscripts ( what the video is portraying). A time binding society also reaches a limited number of people and isn't intended to mass audiences, and mostly promotes stability and tradition ( Sevigny, 1A03 lecture, Sept 23rd 2009).

Where as a space binding society is the society we are currently living in right now. This type of society is intended to get a lot of information out as quick as possible over a vast distance, and promotes rapid change. A classic example of this would be the emergence of Blackberries ( Sevigny, 1A03 lecture, Sept 23rd 2009).

This video is basically portraying how quickly technology is changing these days. It is going so fast that older people who mostly grew up in time binding societies (newspaper stands and radios) can't understand our technology out these days (Blackberries, i-Phones, laptops).

Now, lets compare the monk in the video to an elderly person trying to use a computer program, lets say Microsoft Word. Then we will compare the book to a fancy new Apple computer.

First off in the video the monk calls for assistance from a younger individual (perhaps more up to date with the times) because he cant figure out how to open the book and once he figured out how to open the book he was afraid he would lose the text once he closed it, or didn't even know where the text went after that page was done.

Now, comparing that to now a days, that would be similar to an elderly person trying to turn on a Mac computer finding and opening Microsoft Word and opening a blank document. Most likely having to call their grandchildren to help them out.

Secondly, in the video when the monk is taught how to turn the page, and is shown how to, he asks now what if i want to go back and get the other texts?

You could compare this to an elderly person trying to open many different windows on a computer at once and then wanting to go back to Microsoft word, but not knowing where it is among the countless number of windows.

Overall what I found interesting in the video is how they compared the book to the scroll. I think this portrays how quickly one invention can become obsolete and how we are quickly moving through a space binding society. At one point in time you may have the newest type of blackberry, then one week later there is a new type of blackberry out, putting yours to shame. The scroll is like the older version of the blackberry and the book is the newer improved version of the blackberry that just came out a week later.

No matter what time period you live in, at one point in time in your life you may think you have the newest form of technology, then all you have to do is wait a week later and you will be sorely disappointed with your now obsolete investment.

Image Reference:

Scott, Jerry and Jim Borgman. Busted!. Cincinnati. Andrews and Mcmeel: 2002. Retrieved from:http://www.minidisc.org/zits_md_cartoon.gif

Scott, Jerry and Jim Borgman. Rude, Crude, and Tattooed.Cincinnati. Andrews and Mcmeel: 2007. Retrieved from: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/maasx003/Vikings/images/Zits.gif

Is Selective Listening Really that Bad?(MARK THIS ONE)

There's Nothing Faulty about Selective Listening

Just because we are not listening, doesn't necessarily mean we are not paying attention.

In lecture seven we talked about listening and the faulty listening behaviors, like selective listening. But just because we are doing selective listening necessarily doesn't make it a "faulty listening behaviour."

I am interlinking this statement with the link called "Resisting Persuasion and Selective Response". This link talks about all the way in which someone can protect themselves from being persuaded by a speaker and using selective response or selective listening is a technique, and yet it also considered a "Faulty" listening behavior.

Selective Listening is when you listen to parts of a conversation that you want to hear, or that interest you (Sevigny. Cmst 1ao3. Oct.14.2009.)

Now under Dr. Sevigny notes it mentions these as faulty listening behaviors, but in the article it mentions these as ways to resist persuasion. Now isn't resisting persuasion usually a good thing?

In everyday conversations between couples arguments are bound to happen and each individual will feel very strong about their opinion or what they are fighting for. They are trying to avoid giving in to what the other person is saying, and how the other person may be trying to convince their spouse to see their side of the argument more, and that maybe, just maybe their opinion was wrong. By using selective listening people can ignore what they feel is giberish and that there spouse is just trying to sweet talk them or lay guilt on them, because in fact they may have no actual evidence, they are just trying to persuade them to thinking that their own opinion and belief is wrong. This is an example where selective listening could save the day and make your argument seem more legitimate because your didn't fall into the trap of them trying to persuade you.

Not only do everyday couples use selective listening when they get into arguments with one another, I personally believe that politicians do a very good job of using selective listening against their opponents. They use it in a way where they absorb the information they want to here but the information that means nothing to them or that they believe has no relevance, they flush away. However, one has to be aware of the amount and degree of selective listening they are doing because personally I believe it could turn into ambushing. Ambushing is where one listens carefully to pick out information to use it and attack and what you are saying ( Adler, Rodman, and Sevigny 135).

You, as a listener have to be able to listen to ones arguments and use the method of selective listening to a point where it is helping you block out the information they are trying to use to persuade you and gather their legitimate information. But, you also must keep in mind the amount of information you are taking in and what you are going to say in response to their statement.

Remember, no one likes an ambushing!

Work Cited:

Adler. B, Ronald, George Rodman, and Alexandre Sevigny. Understanding Human Communications. Ontario. Oxford University Press: 2008.

Sevigny, Alexandre. Cmst 1A03. Lecture notes. Oct. 14 2009.

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Scott, Jerry and Jim Borgman. Rude, Crude, and Tattooed. Cincinnati. Andrews and McMeel: 2007. Retrieved from: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Listening.gif. on Oct.15 2009.

How We Have Changed to a Space Binding Society(MARK THIS ONE)

New School Dominating the Old School Society

Newspapers to online journal articles. Libraries to Google. Calanders to iPhones and Blackberries. Let's face it, our world has changed, and so has the society that we live in.

The article entitled "Did You Know" that was recently posted really caught my attention, and I found it very interesting, and frankly, I was amazed at how far we have come and how much multimedia is playing a huge role in society.

This short YouTube video is comparing Time Binding Media Societies to Space Binding Media Societies, which is what we learned in lecture two.

A Time Binding Society is older and usual oral traditions. Where as a Space Binding Society is newer and promotes change (Sevigny, 1a03 lecture, Sept. 23rd 2009).

Space Binding Media Society (the time we live in now) promotes rapid change and materialism, and the whole purpose is to extend knowledge of meaning over distance. It is also more modern then a Time Binding Media Society. As well as its whole principle is to reach as many people as possible over long distance (Sevigny,1a03 lecture, Sept 23rd 2009).

The opposite is a Time Binding Media Society. It is an older practice and its influence is mostly cultural or religious. It is more manuscript and poem style, rather than blackberries and laptops, as well as it has a more limited audience (Sevigny, 1a03 lecture, Sept 23rd 2009).

In the YouTube video I liked how they compared the Space Binding Media Inventions with the Time Binding Media ones.

1,000,000 books are published every year. But Google book search scanner can digitalize 1,000 pages every hour. Now, you may not think this is much, but if you calculate how many pages that is in a year that is 8,765,000 pages a year. I would say that the Space Binding Media is winning in that situation. Also, what happened to the idea of when you go to the bathroom you bring a newspaper to read? I guess newspapers are to "old school," people would rather watch their favourite local news station while going to the bathroom ( YouTube "Did You Know").

The newspaper industry and even the print industry in general has suffered from the Space Binding Media revolution. In the last 25 years newspaper and print circulation has gone down seven million, where as online readers has gone up 30 million on the last five (YouTube "Did You Know").

Today in society I believe that having all this technology right at your finger tips is so beneficial. If someone is running late to a board meeting for work and don't have time to check the weather on the T.V they can access that information on their blackberry while they are running to catch the bus. While waiting at the bus stop they can check to even see how the local traffic is doing and see if the bus route is going to be affected, and if it is they can call a cab. While in the cab they can look on their blackberry to see what the quickest route is to their office building, and then quickly switch applications to their email and email their boss and tell them that they are running late but are on their way.

Living in a Space Binding Society brings us so many advantages that it is almost a luxury to be living in the time that we are.

But is there such thing as going to far? Will technology ever become to unnecessary?

Work Cited:

Sevigny, Alexandre. Class Lecture. 23 September 2009.

Did You Know. YouTube. Web. 27 September 2009.

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Scott, Jerry, And Jim Borgman. Busted! Cincinnati: Andrews and McMeel,2002. Retrieved from:"Google Images." Retrieved from: http://flipthemedia.com/wp- content/uploads/2008/10/zitsconversation.gif. Web. September 27th 2009

Functional Support, Grades, and University (MARK THIS ONE)

Functional Vs Structural Support

Kids cant leave their problems at home these days. After they step out those doors, one would think that a new world awaits them and their mind is totally oblivious to what the situation is at home. This is untrue.

For my first official blog posting I have decided to do the news article labelled "Low marks Keeping Canadian Boys Out of University: Study."

When I first started to read this I re-read it like three times because I had no clue what this had to do with media or how I could even incorporate it into a point we learned in class or even the text book. I decided to do a little bit of research on perhaps why they were not getting into the universities and then see if I could relate it to a issue we talked about in class.

The first little bit of knowledge that I went out and looked for was a little bit more information about low grades and how it correlates with boys. I found that while in school boys do learn differently than girls. I also found that 84 percent of teachers stated that boys are more likely to had in homework late, where as only four percent of teachers said that girls are more likely to (Coates and Draves 1).

The next step I looked at was, What could be causing these students to be handing their homework in later than their counterparts? Canadian studies have shown that children whose parents are married to each other are typically better adjusted, and have fewer problems growing up to those of single parents. I found out that 71 percent of all high school dropouts come out of a fatherless home, and if you come from a fatherless home you are nine times more likely to do poorly in school (Effects of Fatherlessness 1).In Canada there are more than 2.1 million families that are lone parent families and only 20 percent of them are when the dad is present (Statistics Canada 2006)

Everything that I have talked about above I have decided to interlink it with the concept of "Functions of Communication" but more specifically the physical needs aspect. There are two types of physical needs, the structural support and the functional support. The structural support is just the basic friend, and family network, where as the functional support is the quality of network and how quick they will be there for you (Adler,Rodman and Sevigny 10).

I personally believe in this situation related to the news article that male high school students that are coming out of a one parent home where their dad is not present could be affecting their grades and ability to get in to university. Male high school students will not have as strong as functional support to their married counterparts because the quality of that family relationship would not be as strong. He could either not have a male role model in his life at all, or one that does not care about him at all, thus having more problems growing up.

The grades are related to perhaps the single parent homes, which are related to the lack of male role model, which then are consequently related to the poor functional support network.

Work Cited:

Adler.B, Ronald, George Rodman, and Alexandre Sevigny. Understanding Human Communication. Ontario: Oxford University Press,2008.

Canada. Statistics Canada 2006. 2006 Census: Family portrait: Continuity and Change in Canadian Families and Households 2006. Canada. 2006. Web. 21 Sept. 2009

Coates,Julie, and William A. Draves. "Smart Boys Bad Grades Summary." The Evidence Homework Grading is Gender Biased.

"Effects of Fatherlessness" childernsjustice.org. Center for Children's Justice Inc. n.d. Web. 21 Sept 2009

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Scott, Jerry, and Jim Borgman. Teenage Tales. Cincinnati: Andrews and McMeel,2004. Retrieved from "Google Images." http://www.sneswhiz.com/gallery/d/573-3/zits_airhug.gif. 21. September 2009.

Scott, Jerry, and Jim Borgman. Busted! Cincinnati: Andrews and McMeel,2002. Retrieved from "Google Images." http://visibletime.ararchive.com/_Zits7_.jpg

Week 2 Cmst 1A03 First Blog Entry

Greetings World!!