For the first major assignment for Professor Julia Green’s Communication 211 for Spring 2016, I partnered with classmates Lori Rainey and Sarah Beattie to “analyze how the different forms of communication yield different results when it comes to communicating” (Green, Week 4 - Major Assignment 1: Blog).
By going through the exercises, I have reconfirmed that the form of online communication best suited to me is email versus social media such as Facebook, or texting. Unlike some people, I find texts are more difficult to respond to for many reasons, including the limitation of the touch-screen keypads, as well as the synchronicity of the communication, depending on the user’s attention to their phone. As an example, I routinely forget my cell …show more content…
Lori and I share our fondness of the beach, but I could not identify more similarities during our brief exchange. Initially, Lori reached out to me via email to which I sent a response with a series of introductory responses. Later, she replied, and since the assignment asks that we use two forms of online communication, I followed up by requesting an alternate form of contact. Unfortunately, Lori did not reply, and this is where our conversation ended. The interaction I shared with Lori ties to the Reduced Social Cues (RSC) model of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) whereas the theory suggests, the absence of social cues has made the interaction difficult to manage (Thurlow, 2004, …show more content…
Via email, Sarah immediately provided her phone number so we could exchange texts, and eventually we became connected as ‘friends’ on Facebook. Even though there is a greater difference in age between Sarah and myself, our conversations felt fluid and natural. Embarrassingly, the day I forgot my phone at home was also the day Sarah was sending me SMSs, so I might have seemed unresponsive, but after I found my phone and charged it, we exchanged messages. Ultimately, I communicated with Sarah via the Email application in CANVAS, phone texting, and Facebook, where although we did not message directly, she allows me to see what she shares publicly and vice-versa.
I feel as if I would have been able to connect with Sarah face to face because she seems interesting and is willing to participate in the assignments, adding to her credibility. I feel as if I could learn from Sarah because we do not have many things in common, but her contributions to the assignments inspire me to ask more questions. Sarah’s interaction with me ties to Jeffrey Child, Judy Pearson, and Paul Nelson’s description of Walther’s interpersonal communication theory because she was willing to disclose more to me privately more than she would have shared in a face-to-face exchange (Child, 2015,
By going through the exercises, I have reconfirmed that the form of online communication best suited to me is email versus social media such as Facebook, or texting. Unlike some people, I find texts are more difficult to respond to for many reasons, including the limitation of the touch-screen keypads, as well as the synchronicity of the communication, depending on the user’s attention to their phone. As an example, I routinely forget my cell …show more content…
Lori and I share our fondness of the beach, but I could not identify more similarities during our brief exchange. Initially, Lori reached out to me via email to which I sent a response with a series of introductory responses. Later, she replied, and since the assignment asks that we use two forms of online communication, I followed up by requesting an alternate form of contact. Unfortunately, Lori did not reply, and this is where our conversation ended. The interaction I shared with Lori ties to the Reduced Social Cues (RSC) model of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) whereas the theory suggests, the absence of social cues has made the interaction difficult to manage (Thurlow, 2004, …show more content…
Via email, Sarah immediately provided her phone number so we could exchange texts, and eventually we became connected as ‘friends’ on Facebook. Even though there is a greater difference in age between Sarah and myself, our conversations felt fluid and natural. Embarrassingly, the day I forgot my phone at home was also the day Sarah was sending me SMSs, so I might have seemed unresponsive, but after I found my phone and charged it, we exchanged messages. Ultimately, I communicated with Sarah via the Email application in CANVAS, phone texting, and Facebook, where although we did not message directly, she allows me to see what she shares publicly and vice-versa.
I feel as if I would have been able to connect with Sarah face to face because she seems interesting and is willing to participate in the assignments, adding to her credibility. I feel as if I could learn from Sarah because we do not have many things in common, but her contributions to the assignments inspire me to ask more questions. Sarah’s interaction with me ties to Jeffrey Child, Judy Pearson, and Paul Nelson’s description of Walther’s interpersonal communication theory because she was willing to disclose more to me privately more than she would have shared in a face-to-face exchange (Child, 2015,