· Extreme Nonverbals! Extreme Nonverbals! Using the communication process as an organizing framework for our class, we have discussed “self” as communicator and listening.  This week we will be emphasizing the message —both verbal and nonverbal.  Nonverbal messages include all elements that are not linguistic/language based.  The field of communication refers to different types of nonverbal messages as “codes,” for example:  facial expression, haptics, proxemics, chronemics, kinesics, etc.  These codes are controlled by social norms, or social rules and expectations about appropriateness.   Today, you are going to experience the interplay of nonverbals and social norms.   Requirements:  · Choose a specific nonverbal code from the types listed in our text (don’t use the proxemic example below, choose another code.) · Determine what rules/norms exist regarding this code (remember these are often unwritten). · Choose several locations—on campus, at home, at work etc. · Break the social norm/rule in these locations/contexts. · Observe/reflect on the reactions to this behavior—your own and that of others. · Post a thorough response to this assignment detailing your experiences and reflections. · Have fun….and be safe!              *********************************************** An example:  I decide to experiment with the nonverbal code of proxemics or messages that we send based on our use of space and distance.  There is a relationship between how well we know a person and how close we sit, stand, if we touch, etc.  So, I will break this expectation in several locations/situations.  I will enter an elevator and stand super close to someone; I will choose a desk right beside a classmate even when there are other desk choices, etc.  · Applying the Communication Process This assignment serves as a bridge between the early chapters of our course (what communication is, why we should study it, how it influences who we are and how we interact in arious contexts etc.) and the latter chapters which focus on formal presentations. This past Spring, President Obama delivered the State of the Union address;  this assignment will analyze this presentation in detail using the criteria below.  1.  Watch the 2014 State of the Union address-- a link to the both the video and the text/transcript appear as a link to this assignment (as always--right click and open in another window/tab)  If this does not work, then just google "2014 State of the Union Address".  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/us/politics/state-of-the-union-address-text.html?_r=0 2.  Reread Chapter 1 of our text; this section highlights the transactional Communication Model. 3.  Analyze Obama's speech using/identifying each part of the Communication Model.  For example, one of the elements of the communication process/model is context/occasion.  So, when analyzing this you might write/comment that this is an annual event delivered in a formal location--face-to-face with both houses of.

1. · Extreme Nonverbals!
Extreme Nonverbals!
Using the communication process as an organizing framework
for our class, we have discussed “self” as communicator and
listening. This week we will be emphasizing the message —
both verbal and nonverbal. Nonverbal messages include all
elements that are not linguistic/language based. The field of
communication refers to different types of nonverbal messages
as “codes,” for example: facial expression, haptics, proxemics,
chronemics, kinesics, etc. These codes are controlled by social
norms, or social rules and expectations about appropriateness.
Today, you are going to experience the interplay of nonverbals
and social norms.
Requirements:
· Choose a specific nonverbal code from the types listed in our
text (don’t use the proxemic example below, choose another
code.)
· Determine what rules/norms exist regarding this code
(remember these are often unwritten).
· Choose several locations—on campus, at home, at work etc.
· Break the social norm/rule in these locations/contexts.
· Observe/reflect on the reactions to this behavior—your own
and that of others.
· Post a thorough response to this assignment detailing your
experiences and reflections.
· Have fun….and be safe!
***********************************************
An example: I decide to experiment with the nonverbal code
of proxemics or messages that we send based on our use
of space and distance. There is a relationship between how well
we know a person and how close we sit, stand, if we touch, etc.

2. So, I will break this expectation in several locations/situations.
I will enter an elevator and stand super close to someone; I will
choose a desk right beside a classmate even when there are
other desk choices, etc.
·
Applying the Communication Process
This assignment serves as a bridge between the early chapters
of our course (what communication is,
why we should study it, how it influences who we are and how
we interact in arious contexts etc.) and the latter
chapters which focus on formal presentations.
This past Spring, President Obama delivered the State of the
Union address; this assignment will analyze this
presentation in detail using the criteria below.
1. Watch the 2014 State of the Union address-- a link to the
both the video and the text/transcript appear as a link to this
assignment (as always--right click and open in another
window/tab) If this does not work, then just google "2014 State
of the Union Address".
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/us/politics/state-of-the-
union-address-text.html?_r=0
2. Reread Chapter 1 of our text; this section highlights the
transactional Communication Model.
3. Analyze Obama's speech using/identifying each part of the
Communication Model. For example, one of the
elements of the communication process/model is
context/occasion. So, when analyzing this you might
write/comment that this
is an annual event delivered in a formal location--face-to-face

3. with both houses of Congress, and through media to the country
and
even the world. The speech always takes place at the beginning
of the year and the content (give an example here) includes a
summary
of what has happened over the past year and goals for the
future. Included in this aspect of "context or occasion" is the
time of day the
speech is delivered, where it is delivered, the day it is
delivered--for example, the State of the Union speech is
traditionally delivered
prime time TV viewing in the evening hours...comment on why
this is and how this aspect of the occation/context influences
the
speaker/listener(s)....Our goal is a thorough and detailed
examination of the interplay of the elements in the
communication process and a
public message (be sure to comment on who the intended
receiver...).
4. Post your analysis to this assignment area; you may attach a
document or type right into the assignment box.
5. If unable to post directly into Blackboard, submit a
document directly to me via email:
Maya Lin is a Chinese American, and was born in Athens, Ohio
in 1959. She is married to Daniel Wolf; and he is a photography
dealer in New York. They have two daughters. Lin was growing
up with not many friends, because she likes to stay home most
of her time. Lin studied at Yale University located in New
Haven, Connecticut. She received bachelor of Art degree in
1981 and after five years she got a Master of Architecture
degree in 1986. She was trained as an artist and architect and
her sculptures, parks, monuments, and architectural projects are

4. supported by her ideal of making. Maya Lin’s vision and focus
was on how the space needed to be in the future and what it
meant to the people. Maya Lin is one of the most prominent
architectural designers in the 21st century. She is best known as
the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,
D.C. Lin owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City.
In 2005, Lin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters as well as the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca
Falls In New York.
One of Lin’s artworks is the cone listening. The first of Lin’s
sculptures for What’s Missing? was the listening cone. It was
made in eastern California, specifically in the Academy of
Sciences in San Francisco. The sculpture includes a bronze
color, wooden cone lined with reclaimed redwood with a screen
for a projected video at its base. It has a bronze and wood
megaphone more than 19 feet long, 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall.
It plays videos of roughly 50 endangered and extinct species
attempts to elicit a positive response to conservation from its
audience.
Figure. 1 ( The Listening Cone, Joe Zammit-Lucia, 2011)
The sculpture is part of Lin’s last memorial and it was installed
September 17th, 2009. Lin worked with Cornell lab’s scientists
for two years in order to develop this project. During the
project, she received support and care from several countries
around the world including, conservation international, the
Cornell lab of Ornithology, National Geographic Society, and
Arklye who contributed the audio and the video recordings. Lin
proposed to bring “The Dark Room” to San Francisco, but she
decided that it would be superfluous because of its content
repeat that of “the listening cone”. The meaning of the “The
Dark Room” is basically the empty room which is another
project made by Maya Lin. Listening Cone is one of seven
different displays that make up What’s Missing?.
The listening cone was multidisciplinary to try to put people in
touch with sounds, images, facts, and experiences that give
people feeling to natural or it draws them closer to natural. It

5. sounds such as songbirds and rivers running freely to the sea.
They used sounds and moving images of the ivory-billed
woodpecker, humpback whales, sea turtles, pronghorns, prairie
chicken, and common loons. This is what Lin wants to reach
people in this vision. Lin used many of the sounds and video
from renowned videographers.
Another artwork by Maya Lin is that The Empty Room
exhibition was first on display in China at the Beijing Center
for the Arts on September 19th, 2009 and then in New York on
September 25th, 2009. The empty room is a dark room
composed of tiny pinholes all over the floor that reflect short
videos of extinct and endangered species toward the ceiling;
visitors carry handheld screens in their hands that are
illuminated with the videos as they walk across the room.
The Empty Room is a traveling connection, which lets visitors,
to get and hold, projected images in their hands, each image
tells something about endangered species and environmental
degradation. This allows them the opportunity to directly
interact with endangered and extinct species directly in the
palms of their hands. There were a series of four 3-5 minute
videos that were created to be played on MTV’s video screen in
Time Square at the top of the hour every hour for 15 days; these
videos were responsible for depicting events of mass extinction
throughout history but in particularly related to humans
specifically.
Figure. 2 (The Empty Room, Ammanda reed, 2010)
This photo shows part of the "black box room" where
projectors cast images that visitors catch on hand-held sheets of
translucent plastic. The projections depict vanishing species.
The videos on display in both the "Listening Cone" and "Empty
Room" installations are the main content pieces for the
memorial. The videos have stunning images from all over the
world with text overlays describing the magnitude of the
problems facing each video subject. “The current iteration of
the online world map and videos are the first part of Lin's larger
"Map of Memory" project within the “What is Missing?

6. Memorial”.
Maya Lin’s vision focus was on how the space needed to be in
the future and what it meant to the people. Maya Lin’s main
focus in this project was to bring to light the issue of extinction,
of places, and things. Lin is planning many projects using many
different media in different locations and even virtual
installations. In my opinion, it is a great work that Lin tries to
make her projects by different media and different locations. I
really think that Lin’s artworks deserves more than successful.
She achieved a lot of her artworks with excellent works. The
reason why I chose these two artworks of her is because that
these artworks are really interesting to look at them and to see
how and what they made by.