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The Importance Of Mobile Phones Inhibiting Face-To Face...
After conducting the in–depth interviews, I was surprised to find that people are very aware of the stated problem, that mobile phones are inhibiting
face–to–face interpersonal communication, but they are doing very little about it. One theory on why people are doing very little about it could be
attributed to Dr. Bruce Bryski's statement that "Americans are rude in general and when you throw this variable of cellphones in, it makes Americans
even more rude." If it is already an accepted statement that Americans are rude, than what's adding mobile phone use in social settings do to the vast
array of actions that are considered rude things that Americans do? Not much, and it seems to be the attitude that Americans are taking, that it's ok to
do this. But, it's not. All the participants agreed that class time and work were unacceptable times to be on your mobile phone. These are largely
accepted as group social settings that happen in real time and cannot be replicated. The vast majority of the information distributed by mobile phones
is user generated and can be found at any given time. In other words, you can only experience face–to–face interpersonal communication events once,
while mobile phone use, outside of verbal communication, is there to interact with whenever a user chooses to do so. Among the six people that I
conducted an in–depth interview with, it was interesting to find that only one person really didn't seem to mind if people were on their phones in social
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Case Study of Electronic Communications Limited, China Essay
Your analysis of the ECL in China case paper should identify, analyze, and recommend solutions for 3 of the following "problems": communication and
listening skills communication planning at the team level teams and teambuilding
Relevant cultural issues involved with each "problem" must be included in your analysis, but should not be the entire content of your analysis. Paper:
Submitted paper is to be composed of the following sections: Cover Page
Table of Contents
Executive Summary (≤1 page in length)
Body of Report:
Problem Identification (no more than one–half page in length) Situation Analysis (3–4 pages total length; use subheading for each problem followed by
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Needless to say that to do business in the current globalized economy, business partners need to communicate effectively in a given language. But
communication requires much more than a solid knowledge of a language. Becoming communicatively competent in a foreign or second language
implies more than being able to speak fluently and accurately. Being communicatively competent in a language requires having not only good linguistic
knowledge but also knowledge of the culture that is beneath that language, the culture that this particular language reflects. When doing business in a
global context, the ability to communicate cross– culturally is a must for the success of any enterprise. Electronic Communications Ltd. (ECL) had
decided to start business in China and to form a relationship of common prosperity with Chinese people. The company knew that there was major
progress to be made, but there were also risks and challenges. One of these was the management of cultural differences. An issue the management was
whether it should adapt ECL's management practice to the Chinese culture or to establish ECL's global management policies in China. Successful
cultural alignment is an important element for multinational organizations. Electronic Communications Ltd (ECL), like many other companies
entering foreign markets, is faced with how to adequately incorporate their corporate culture with the Chinese national culture ECL, as a leading
corporation throughout the
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The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Face To Face...
INTRODUCTION
Importance of communication by face–to–face is declining in today's digital era as one can live about a whole day without interacting with people.
Now days, people depend highly on the facilities of text messages, emails, and social media. As long as it is impossible to reject the role of these
facilities and the method that they have changed communication, so it is necessary to balance these online communications with face–to–face
communication.
In common, communication is a process of connecting people or places. In the case of business, it is a main management function of, it means without
communication an organization cannot function between levels, departments and employees, customers. So face to face communication is the
two–way processes of reaching understand mutually, wherever participants not only transfer information, news, ideas and feelings but also make and
share meaning.
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It allows you to communicate without creating conflict or destroying trust worthy even negative or difficult messages.
At the same time, effective communication is a learned skill; it is more effective rather than conventional when it's simple. So it is necessary to
develop skills to become an effective communicator for the successful of business and all other victory in life. ADVANTAGES FACE
–TO–FACE
COMMUNICATION
Non–Verbal Cues
You can measure by reading body language of person you communicating how interested he is in what you are talking about. If you are in a meeting
and your partner are fiddling with their pens, or checking their watches, you know that you have to
пѓ Adjust the tone of your voice or
пѓ To take their attention, use more impressive language.
Similarly, you can understand that they are engaged with you and your message when partners are actively nodding their heads and smiling,
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Summary Of The Flight From Conversation
In today's generation, digital technology plays a huge role in the majority of people's lives to the point that it has become a kind of addiction. People
are so glued to their cell phones that young people do not know how to start a conversation in person or successfully communicate face–to–face.
Technology has negatively changed the way people communicate with others which is a source of concerns for Sherry Turkle. In her essay, "The
Flight from Conversation," Turkle argues how digital devices and the virtual world have negatively affected the communication between people. She
believes that conversations that are face to face are much more meaningful because they cannot be edited or change what you are going to say. Once
one thing is said in a face to face conversation, one cannot change their response like in a text message. Digital technology lets people escape from
feeling alone to the point where when they are alone, it is a strange and lonely feeling for them. Turkle believes that people do not want to be alone
because they are afraid of such feelings of loneliness that the experience of solitude entails. This contrasts with Jane Goodall, who describes her
experience of solitude in the forest in her essay, "In the Forests of Gombe." For Goodall, being alone had helped her cope and find comfort after
the death of her second husband. Goodall goes to the same forest she has been to many times as a scientist to study the chimpanzees, but this time
she goes to be alone and find comfort by connecting to the natural world. Being around nature helped her to enjoy having alone time to herself and
being solitary where she experienced quiet moments realizing that she did not feel lonely at all. Technology can be a form of escape from solitude
and self reflection, thereby keeping people from having a sense of oneself or identity. The identity that one can learn from by finding out who one
truly is and having a real, meaningful face to face conversation with one another. Because technology can consume people's time on social media, being
solitary seems strange for them and individuals have the constant urge to communicate with their cell phones. Many people aren't able to know what it
feels like to actually be
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Increasing Communication Through Technology and Declining...
There are computer labs all over the state campus. These labs help students perform many academic related tasks, such as printing off their
assignments. When people print things off there is usually a line of fellow students waiting to do the same thing. You finally make it up to the monitor
and select your computer number and the documents you want to print off, plain and simple right? It is a very under–observed activity, but there is
something I have noticed; these people waiting in line rarely ever interact. Printing off documents is a very simple task and does not require much
concentration. The computer labs are on campus to help ensure that students succeed throughout their college careers. There are an uncountable
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All the fairly negative body language and attitudes, but there was the occasional kind hearted person who would toss a sincere smile at someone
and a greeting. Things like that can make someone's whole day better, and more bearable; just by spending a few moments of your time.
Personally, if I can make someone's day better by being polite; I see no reason to pass it up. There are people that may just need a smile to show
them hope for a better day, which could actually be life changing. I can recall times when I was a little kid that people would converse over
anything with just about anyone. I remember walking through grocery stores with my mom and making frequent stops to talk to people she knew
or random strangers that were wandering down the same aisle. There was no fear of the person you were talking to being some sort of psycho.
People did not worry about being followed home or harassed, there was no reason at the time. Peoples' interaction did not seem to be so based on
social classes and how good or bad someone looked, or what brand of clothes they were wearing. Over the years there have gradually been incidents
where someone gets harassed or even hurt by interacting with a stranger, and because of this many people avoid human contact unless it is mandatory.
The sad part
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Situational Problems Arise When Doing Business Essay
Situational problems arise when doing business. This study is caused by cultural differences like relationship building and a contractual obligation. The
Chinese focus on personal relationships that are face to face versus a factual relationship approach like the American's use. Each party has to adjust to
each other's cultural style. There is a lack of communication is presented as a breach of faith between the parties' business arrangement.
Introduction
Beijing Bio–Tech (BBT) is an animal fed manufacturer in China who hired Edward Tang of Asia
–Pacific Consulting Group to locate a United States
supplier for feed grade lecithin. Lecithin is produced from soybeans. China's main grains are for human consumption, which are wheat and rice. Mr.
Tang found a handful of companies that sold lecithin in the United States, but those companies only wanted to deal with the seller directly instead of a
middleman, Mr. Tang. Therefore, Mr. Tang contacted Bill Wright of US Fortune to help with his search. Mr. Wright reached out to Dr. Robert Fisher at
NutriNex, a lecithin producer. Dr. Fisher was enthusiastic to work withthe middleman and sell the product overseas. To secure funding, Mr. Wright
elected to use a letter–of–credit to avoid any financial burden, to collect a commission for the transactions and to remain the middleman. The contract
negations on the purchase agreement, a natural disaster, a lawsuit, and lower commissions are dilemmas discussed.
Dilemma
Contract
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Negative Effects Of Face To Face Communication
Last technological developments have had a major impact on the way individuals interact and react , therefore , they had an important role in the
modern life . Despite the appreciated variety of their benefits , yet , use of mobile phones can decline the value of awareness to real–world situations
(Strayer, Drews, & Johnston, 2003; Strayer & Johnston, 2001).
In this research , former studies were analyzed , and results were deducted from questionnaires which have been distributed to youth , in order to
determine the level of individuals' obsession with technology , neglecting the importance of face–to–face communication. In both, clues have proved
that the increased usage of technology has negative effects on interactions and conversation quality.
KEYWORDS:
Face–to–face interactions , technology, lack of communication
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
This research would never have been accomplished without the guidance and help of a number of people. First, and foremost, I would like to thank
my research advisor , Professor Durriya Haidar. Despite the difficulties and struggles we faced along the way, she encouraged me to fulfill my desired
achievement .
DEDICATIONS :
I dedicate my project to my soulmate , Noura Abdelmouti , primarily for her ultimate encouragement , and for being my rock throughout this journey .
A big thank goes out to my love , Majd aldeen mashta , for his support and encouragement. I would like also to thank my biggest source of inspiration ,
my
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Face And Face Of Face Communication
Face–To–Face Communication With the rapid growth of high technology, computer, telephone and other communication tools have become more and
more important in our daily life. "Through the advent of technologies such as e–mail, wireless Internet, and cell phones, organizations are becoming
more wired both within and outside of the workplace." (Marcus, Becker and Boswell). What people have gradually ignored face–to–face communication
? Face–to–face communication means people interact with each other without any barriers. In the past, people only can communicate with others in
this way; however, nowadays, more and more people, especially young persons, get contact with their families and friends by using telephone, e–mail,
text massages and letters. It is true that the advanced communicational technologies get the distance between human–beings closer, but in some way,
they also elongate the distance, as people are no longer need to keep connect face–to–face, which means strange and unbelievable. Hence the best way
of communication is face–to–face. Face–to–face communication could make people directly know the actual personality of people, avoiding being
deceived by others. "Conversation is powerful. If you know how to talk with people instead of talk to them, your business opportunities may just
become limitless."(Duestin). In fact, we live in "Almighty Dollars" society, under which there are many persons who only want to get money as free
riders. They maybe take the advantages
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Perowne's Rationality
Ian McEwan's novel, Saturday, takes place on a single day, Saturday February 15th, 2003, and follows the events of middle–aged man, Henry Perowne.
Perowne lives a comfortable and privileged lifestyle. He works a high paying job as a neurosurgeon, owns a nice house, and drives an expensive car.
He is happily married to his wife, Rosalind, and he has two talented children, Daisy and Theo. Although he seems to live a "perfect" life, he is flawed
by being primarily driven by his rational thoughts. McEwan writes, "Perowne, the profesional reductionist, can't help thinking it's down to invisible
folds...written in code" (272). This mindset limits his capacity to feel and leads him to a simple way of thinking, which makes him unable to fully
connect with his surroundings. In the novel, he experiences a series of events that makes him question his set way of thinking. Through his two
interactions with a young thug named Baxter, Perowne's rationality is challenged which ultimately makes him change his perspective on his privileged
life by the end of the novel.
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The novel ends this way because it shows that even though Perowne is back to his clear thinking, he has still changed due to his interactions with
Baxter, who he calls his "unpickable knot of affliction" (272). Perowne does not press charges on Baxter because he thinks he has a "diminishing
slice of life worth living" (278), and he asks himself, "Is this forgiveness...or is he the one seeking forgiveness?" (278). Baxter helped him realize that
he can be wrong and does not always have to have control. If Perowne had not encountered Baxter, he would have not known how lucky he is to be a
neurosurgeon with a privileged
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Compare Electronic Mediated And Face-To-Face Communication
Compare Electronic Mediated and Face–to–Face Communication Communication is evolving quickly, offering us more options than ever before.
Cellphone calls, texting via short messaging (SMS), Skype, teleconferencing, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, and face–to–face communication all play a
major role in how people communicate with others around the world. Despite how I may fee, face–to–face communication is the best way to
communicate with people because a lot of things won't get taken out of context and their won't be any misunderstanding.
People are now connected electronically to 24–hour news cycles, updates on all the movements and activities of friends and celebrities, and even, in
the case of physicians, with latest research findings on diagnoses and treatments of illnesses. Even counseling has expanded thanks to the Internet
where some counselors now offer group sessions via chat, or provide treatment via instant messaging and emails. Psychologists have expressed concern
whether computer mediated communication (CMC) will help or hinder those individuals who may be lonely and isolated from others. CMC has
definitely changed how we communicate with others and has had an equal amount of problems related to misinterpretation.
When it came to choosing one form of computer or electronic mediated communication, I decided to go with texting via short messaging system (SMS)
due to many reasons with the main reason is because in the generation I live in we are always on our phones
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How To Build A False Identity
Hiding in Plain Sight In a twenty–four–hour day, internet users will have communicated online at least once whether it is writing to a classmate on a
message board, posting pictures on Instagram, or responding to colleges via email. It is possible that a different username and identity are used for
each of these online communications, each username constituting, in effect, a separate "personality." These online personalities may be a part of one's
authentic self or a separate identity altogether. In The Times article, "Internet 'trolls' ignore social rules: Expert: Online disinhibition effect means many
people feel invincible online," the anonymous author states, "This is your brain in cyberspace: while in warp–speed from forum to... Show more content
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Many social media users, for example, have felt the blow of a very hurtful comment from strangers or friends hidden behind a false identity. For
example, Twitter has become a venue where anyone from famous politicians, Hollywood elite, to one's immediate family may spew out inflammatory
and bombastic comments that they would never utter in a face to face encounter. This kind of startling exchange is just a sample of how toxic the
Internet can be when the users are not accountable and can hide behind the screen of the internet. Due to the loss of face–to–face contact while online,
some people obviously feel free to say whatever they want, and with the lack of initial personal reaction from the recipient of these remarks, the online
troll feels no remorse. In the article, "Hiding Behind the Screen," Roger Scruton states, "In human relations, risk avoidance means the avoidance of
accountability, the refusal to stand judged in another's eyes, the refusal to come face to face with another person...to run the risk of rejection.
Accountability is not something should avoid; it is something we need to learn." (59). This statement makes one wonder if the cultural shift to online
communication and the inevitable lack of
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Communication And Communication
Conversation is such an important element when forming relationships with others and is needed when bringing communities together. In order to
establish communities, you need people who are able to create bonds with one another through similar interests, common goals, and anything that can
stir up simple conversations. It sounds easy to talk to people, but most of the time, conversation is a lot more complex than it sounds. In order to have
conversation, we need to put aside our internal conflicts that we all are guilty of having; such as stereotyping, putting our emotions first, and not
listening to other peoples opinions. Environment, people, topic, and many other characteristics are crucial in order to have a good conversation.
Communities have been bonded throughout the years by conversation, but how we communicate has changed and continues to change as time
progresses. Communication can be done in multiple ways. You can have aface–to–face dialogue with people, call someone, text, facetime, email; the
ways these days are endless. These types of connections were not around when the adults of this generation were younger, but the teenagers now are
part of an era where technology is major and available when wanting to speak to people. Some people will say those who overuse cell phones are
fleeing from conversation and can change who we are (Turkle). While you can perhaps have an opinion on today's society being overly technical, you
cannot conclude that
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Face-To-Face Communication Tactic Section
For the Face–to–Face Communication Tactic section the most effective tactic for college students would have to be the special events tactic. This is
because it has a little bit of everything. "Annual meetings, groundbreakings, open houses, grand openings, anniversary celebrations, awards/recognition
events, sporting events, fundraisers" (Swanson 563). This is because as college students none are exactly alike and with this special mix it allows
everyone to be happy. The most effect tactic for parents would be special events as well. This is because like college students the parents will want
to focus on what their kids are into. The social events tactic allows for the parents to get an inside peak of what their kids are seeing.
In the Media
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Advantages Of Face To Face Communication
Since the beginning of the time, the most important method of communication has been the face to face communication (1). In fact, for a long time,
face–to–face communication was the only method ever used. As the time passed many new methods came along with the use of letters, telephone calls,
and emails. Even though with the improvements in such type communication, nothing like other types of communication has been able to change or
replace the face–to–face method. Face to face is better than any other types of communication because it allows one person to see the facial
expressions of another, you can tell whether if the person is telling the truth or not and it allows one person to express his/her feelings towards the
person.
Firstly, face to face communication is better than other types of communication as it allows one person to see the facial expressions of another
person. For example, when a person is talking to someone or telling him/her about a good news they usually smile and their eyes light up due to the
excitement. Additionally, when a person is having a serious conversation with a person, their eyebrows are usually lower due to being serious and they
keep a straight face on while talking (1). You cannot understand a person how his facial expression is while you are talking to him/her through a
telephone. In fact, face–to–face communication involves more continuous turn–taking behaviors between partners, which has been shown to play a
pivotal role in social
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Mediated Communication Vs. Face-To-Face
1. Do you believe mediated communication allows us to express ourselves more freely since we are not face to face? Use an example from the video to
support your answer.
Mediated communication does allows us to express ourselves more freely. Unlike face to face conversations and meetings, we do not have the
immediate verbal or nonverbal feedback on impolite comments. On the phone you cannot see the other person's facial expressions, nor is there any
fear of physical consequences. In the video, Ellen makes the inappropriate comment "Don't count on it." This is something she may not normally say in
a face–to–face meeting.
2. Do you believe we should more carefully consider our channel, manners and emotions when using mediated communication? Why/Why Not?
Support your answer with reasons or examples of HOW.
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On mediated communication, we only receive the content of the message and not the relational dimension of the message. The urgency of a task or
the importance of a due date is missed in the decoding of the message when the nonverbal cues are not available. As another example from my work
experience, my manager questioned on the group IM conversation if a project was done or not. My co–worker responded that she was not done with it
as of yet but was currently working on it. My manager asked if it would be done that day or the next, and the response would be yes. Our immediate
supervisor responded to that part of the conversation instructing my co–worker to have it done by the end of the day. Without having the nonverbal
message, our manager's urgency in the completion of the project was not received; however, our supervisor clarified the urgency. If we were face to
face we would have received the complete message and better understand the
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The Importance of Perception in Face to Face Communication...
The Importance of Perception in Face to Face Communication between Individuals
Perception is one of the most important fragments of the communication process. It allows us all to see an individual experience of the world. The
process is simple, the brain actively selects, organises and interprets stimuli, in order to process this experience.
Even before we engage in communication, we perceive things about the receiver. Whether it's the bad things we've heard about them previously–
which would build up a feeling of dislike or the good things e.g. support same football team. Both of these perceptions are examples of stereotyping
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Our communication is not produced within any single system, but in the intersection of several interrelated systems, each of which is self–standing
necessarily described by dedicated theories, but each of which is both the product of the others and, in its own limited way, an instance of the other.
The medium is, as McLuhan famously observed, a message that is inherent to every message that is created in or consumed from a medium. The
medium is, to the extent that we can select among media, also a language such that the message of the medium is not only inherent to a message, but
often an element of its composition. In what may be the most extreme view enabled by the processing of messages within media, the medium may also
be a person and consumes messages, recreates them, and makes the modified messages available for further consumption. A medium is really none of
these things. It is fundamentally a system that enables the construction of messages using a set of languages such that they can be consumed. But a
medium is also both all of these things and the product of their interaction. People learn, create, and evolve media as a vehicle for enabling the creation
and consumption of messages.
The same might be said of each of the constituents of this model. People can be, and often are, the medium (insofar as they
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Humane Communication : The Anxiety Of Face To Face...
Technology advanced over the years, from a big, bulky computer to a five inch phone within our pockets. Over billions of men, women, and children
have been sucked into their phones because of how effortless it is to utilize technology. Especially in our society today, technology has become too
relied upon on multiple occasions. The usage of technology has made many men, women, and children's lives more trouble–free. However, because of
technology's amount of usage, people have become dependent on it. Technology drove billions of people lack humane communication skills, too
trusting to false information, and created lower self worth within people. Communication became easier for many with the use of their phones and
laptops. Within two seconds, a text can be sent to anywhere across the world. Though this kind of communication is greatly used today, millions have
lost the true meaning of communication, humane conversation. A touch screen makes millions of people lose touch with the people in their lives,
they're being reduced to looking at a glass screen to simply start a conversation. A study conducted by Tamyra Pierce examined 280 high school
students to estimate their usage of technology and how it affects students socially. This observational study consisted of numerous factors like how
comfortable he or she was in face–to–face situations. The results showed that a relationship between social anxiety of face to face conversation which
increases with the amount of online
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Tardanico discusses how lack of face-to-face communication...
Tardanico discusses how lack of face–to–face communication can lead to miscommunication. She starts off the article with an anecdote about a
mother texting her daughter who is away at college and based on the messages exchanged the daughter seems to be doing just fine. She used various
emoji's expressing happiness. No one knew that she had been isolated in her room portraying signs of depression, an entirely different world from the
one portrayed on Facebook, Twitter, and to her mother.
"Awash in technology, anyone can hide behind the text, the e–mail, the Facebook post or the tweet, projecting any image they want and creating an
illusion of their choosing. They can be whoever they want to be. And without the ability to receive nonverbal... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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The youth is the biggest user of communication technology and changing social interaction in ways not yet understood. Adolescents make friends and
form bonds online. Media richness is a concept that is the foundation for understanding human behavior using online communication (e.g., Allen &
Griffeth, 1997; Carlson & Zmud, 1999; Kahai & Cooper, 2003; Kock, 2004). The study focused on the development of online friendships among
teenagers. It was found that media richness and communication control makes teens want to engage in communication for presentation and friendship
development. Being up front with a person will eliminate any doubt and speed up friendship development. Webcams and other MSN features helped
facilitate a relationship between two strangers. They helped create first impressions and attract all kinds of friends. Sharing information online makes it
easier to get to know someone. The adolescents used believed that self– presentation in important when instant messaging someone new. The typical
high school student spent an average of 3.10 hours a day using Instant Messaging. Text messaging helped the newly formed relationships progress.
The American Academy of Pediatrics published an article in 2011 about the effects of social media on teens, families. Their goal is to inform parents
about the potential dangers of social media sites because not all of them are safe. Today pediatricians are helping parents
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Mobile Cloud Computing : Face Recognition
Mobile Cloud Computing
Face Recognition
Sahil Palvia (sap8231)
Fall, 2014
Advisor: Dr. Minsoek Kwon
Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science
Table of Contents
Introduction3
Background4
Proposed Solution5
Design and Implementation6
Results12
Conclusions19
Future Work20
References21 Introduction
Every person today uses an Internet–enabled mobile device. Majority of the applications running on mobile devices transfer their data to cloud servers
for processing. The advancements in cloud technology allow applications to reduce data processing on mobile devices.
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Cloudlets are placed between the client application and cloud servers. By leveraging this cloudlet–based architecture, singular dependency on cloud
servers to perform data processing is eliminated. Further, the computational requirement on the mobile devices can be limited to lightweight processing
by offloading the heavyweight processes to the cloudlets
In this project a cloudlet–based architecture is implemented for a facial recognition application. The memory usage and time consumption parameters
of a cloudlet–based architecture are measured against client–server architecture. Background
Face recognition applications are computation intensive applications. They try to extract every small detail from the image provided for accurate face
detection and recognition. They are able to accurately recognize the faces with the results being accurate up to 90% [1]. Accuracy of recognized
objects is a crucial factor. The accuracy of the recognizer depends on the recognition algorithms implemented. The object needs to be recognized
quickly without compromising the level of accuracy [2].
Mobile devices currently use the cloud servers for processing their data and keep on offloading their heavyweight processes to the cloud servers. In
this case the application waits for server to deliver the result and suffers
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Face Communication Is More Effective Than Other Types Of...
There are many different points to consider when considering whether face to face communication is more or less effective than other types of
communication, such as the importance of facial expressions and nonverbal body language. Communication would be considered effective when the
most information is conveyed between the people involved. Nonverbal body language is generally nonverbal behaviours that can include interpersonal
distance, body movement, facial behaviour, touch, vocal behaviours, and others. (Hall, Coats and LeBeau, 2005) With nonverbal body language one
needs to consider what signals do people pick up from nonverbal communication as well as what conversations lose with these signals. However, there
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Another thing that is offered by face to face communication is that it offers something when information is received and understood, without delay,
something electronic forms of communication cannot offer. Face to face communication also offers the opportunity to take turns when speaking and
in turn create a sequence whereas with electronic communications, such as emails or texts, the conversation can be broken up by irrelevant
interruptions and do not have the same effect. However Clark & Brennan, (1990) did look at how electronic communication can also be a more
effective form of communication. For example with emails and texts information will always be there and can be later reviewed by other people in
case there needs to be editing of information before sending. Face to face communication can possibly be irreplaceable as well. Hallowell, (1999)
looked at how face to face communication is essential for human movement, an authentic psychological encounter that occurs when two people share
the same physical space as well as emotional and intellectual attention. However on the other hand face to face communication can be disruptive and
costly, and other forms of communication might be preferable. Sproull and Kiesler, (1992) found that technological changes can help people cross
social, psychological and physical boundaries and can effect group behaviour and decision
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The Facebook Sonnet: Decreases Face-to-Face Communication
"The Facebook Sonnet" by Sherman Alexie brings up ideas and controversy over social media because it decreases face–to–face communication.
Though Facebook allows people to contact old and new friends, it renders away from the traditional social interaction. Online, people are easily
connected by one simple click. From liking one's status to posting multiple pictures, Facebook demands so much attention that it's easy for users to get
attach. They get caught up in all the online aspect of their lives that they fail to appreciate real life relationships and experiences. Within Alexie's
diction and tone, "The Facebook Sonnet" belittles the social media website by showing how society are either focused on their image or stuck in the
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Facebook can have the biggest impact on someone without even knowing it. Alexie uses great diction in the poem to demonstrate his disapproval
of Facebook by using words that have much more effect such as "present" and "fame." Facebook portrays life as it truly is but most of the time it
portrays life as people think it should be or wish it could be. This goes back to Alexie's use of "present." Today, due to the high usage of social
media, people in our society haven't been living in the present. Hiding behind computer screens, users have made Facebook their escape from
reality. It's easier to hide behind a screen than to face real problems in the real world. People are either imagining their unrealistic future or stuck in
the past trying to relive their glory days. Facebook allows people to see other users' lives and wish upon themselves that their lives would turn out
as glamorous. For many users in older generations, Facebook enables them to reminisce on old times with old friends. Therefore, a lot of the time
people forget to live in the present. It's human nature to always want what we can't have or to ask ourselves the what if question. On the other hand,
with the word "fame" in the poem, it regards back to the major attention people yearn for on Facebook. If it's not how many friends a user have on
Facebook, then it's how many comments one will get on a post. Users are so worried about their image that they
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The Pros And Cons Of Face To Face Communication
Whenever meeting up with friends or family, they always seem to be scrolling up and down on their phone. Majority of the time this means that they're
either on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, replying to text messages or emails. Many of us have become dependent on using our technological devices
to communicate and to meet new people since it's convenient for us, making face to face communication scarce in modern society. Using social media
to communicate comes with many high risks. Not being able to see who you are communicating with personally can be risky because you
wouldn't be able to know if the person is real or fake. Although technology and social media are used all around the world by individuals who are
looking for new people to interact with face to face communication would be the best way to interact with new people, since you can personally see
them and be more comfortable in trusting them. Using face to face communication can express emotions through the tone of your voice or facial
expressions, which you cannot receive when using social media. Instead of using facial expressions to show how you feel you would use emoticons
or tell the person the way you feel through a text message. Many times the use of emotion through social media can lead to cyber bullying because
the person wouldn't be able to see you to know if you are being serious or sarcastic towards them. Paul Booth, an assistant professor of media and
cinema studies in the College of Communication
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Negative Effects Of Face To Face Communication
1: There are positive strides in the way we communicate via phone, and at the same time technology has it's fair share of adverse effects; in this case
its face–to–face communication. Most people do not even bother with checking in personally anymore. In fact, Rebecca Bedrossian admits to this
when she says, " It's true, these days I'm more likely to check in with family and friends via text, than I am to pick up the phone and call, or drop in
to say 'Hello'" (2). Shooting a quick text is more convenient than having to get in your car and drive over a friend's or relative's house to see how
their doing. Being honest, no one really has time for friendly chats anymore. Nowadays, we rely on social media to see what our family and friends
have been up to. A few clicks and we have instant access to their personal lives; in fact, Matthew Murray is a perfect example of how most people
use social media "This year has been momentous in the lives of my facebook friends. Four got engaged. One had a baby. Two who are married and
have been trying to get pregnant for the better part of 10 years announced that they were finally expecting." (1) With no worry of being left out of
what's going on, people rarely physically go see how someone is doing. Carter goes on to prove the extent of how social media affects our
communication by saying, " ...I didn't find out about any of this when it happened. Why? Because I relied on Facebook for following their lives" (1)
People don't actually
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Personal Narrative: Face-To-Face Communication
Throughout my college career Communication Studies has always been what I anticipated my job field to be in due to my interest in public
speaking as well as the interpersonal skills that I gained when working and talking to people in previous jobs as well as in classes. When looking to
take on an internship I knew that I wanted to work in a field that required being face–to–face with clients and that is why I chose to accept the
internship at World Class Solutions in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania as a Marketing Communication Assistant. When interviewing for this position I
loved the atmosphere as well as the people that work for this company as they were so friendly and welcoming. This internship has everything I hope
for in a full time career and I hope to learn how to market different products to clients as well as gain more experience in face–to–face communication.
With this internship I am hopeful that I will be able to learn more of the roles throughout this company such as the different promotions they offer
and a bit of what each person does in the office as well as sit in on interviews with clients and see the step by step process in how they promote the
clients product. Accepting this internship and having it be everything I hope for in a new job has really set me up for success because I am able to
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Overall, this internship will be a great fit for my future endeavors. I am extremely interested in the field of working with clients and being able to
help them. By promoting their products and being out in the field to promote them it will allow me to gain even more experience. This internship
will allow me to get a taste of the real world while allowing me to gain experience and hopefully move forward with this company as an
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Emotion Detection Using Sobel Filtering And Retrieving...
Emotion Detection using Sobel Filtering and Retrieving with Sparse Code words Mahevish Fatima Mohammed Gani
Study Branch: Computer Science and Engineering
Designation: Student
Contact Number: 9637064965 Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
ABSTRACT :
Extracting and understanding of emotion is of high importance for the interaction among human and machine communication systems. The most
expressive way to display the human's emotion is through facial expression analysis. This paper presents and implements an automatic extraction of
facial expression and emotion from still image. There are steps to detect the facial emotion; (1) Preprocessing,skin color segmentation and edge
detection using Sobel filtering and (2) Verifying the emotion of characteristic with Bezier curve.Retriving emotion using sparse codewords which are
used to analyze this results in medicine, and enhancement in CBIR.
To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we assess the ratio of success with emotionally expressive facial image database. Experimental
results shows average 66.6% of success to analyze emotion.
Keywords: Facial Expression,Preprocessing ,Skin Color Segmentation,Sobel Filters,Bezier Curve, Attribute enhanced sparse codeword.
I. INTRODUCTION:
Emotion plays an important role in human communication and therefore also human machine dialog systems
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Face To Face Communication In So You Ve Been Publicly Shamed
Technological advances have undoubtedly changed the way that humans communicate with each other, but is it leading the old fashioned method of
face–to–face communication towards deterioration? Popularity in the usage of cyber communication has most definitely expanded, coming with its
own advantages and disadvantages. The argument that cyber communication is possibly replacing face–to–face communication is argued, while many
fail to realize that face–to–face communication has its own disadvantages as well. Both these methods of communication function in conjunction with
one another, consequently, one cannot replace the other. Jon Ronson is able to provide strong examples of the disadvantages of cyber communication
in his novel So You've Been Publicly Shamed, while failing to note that there are also definite advantages to cyber communication, as well as positive
and negative aspects to face–to–face communication.
Cyber communication has the ability to completely deteriorate people's reputations, as shown in Jon Ronson's novel So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
Cyber communication, more specifically, social media, has 'internet trolls' hiding behind screens that voluntarily slander others. Then there are
everyday people, such as Justine Sacco, that choose to say the wrong thing and find their lives ruined and jobs lost. Jon Ronson poses an interesting
question in regards to the slander that Sacco received after posting her tweets, "what was it for: just some social media drama?"
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The Importance Of Face To Face Communication
When using a cell phone, a person can send texts, connect to social media, and make voice calls as a way to talk with others in the community.
While this feature of cell phones are good for helping a person create and support his or her social life, relying on this feature too much can do
more harm than good to a person's communication skills. Depending on a cell phone as the only means of communicating to the rest of the world
eliminates the need for a person to speak face to face with someone else in the community. If a person does not engage in these everyday social
activities, then face to face skills receive a lack of development, are not applied to the social aspects of life, and ruins a person's ability to sit down
and have a normal conversation. While face to face communication in our society may seem traditional and obsolete in a world dominated by cell
phones, this traditional form of communication is still very much relevant in our society as it helps to produce a unique form of interaction that
cannot be emulated by the interpersonal nature of cell phones. While cell phone engagement is broad, digitized, and allows a person to conversate
anywhere, it does not capture the true essence and meaning of what it is like to partake is a conversation with someone else like face to face
communication can do. In a social situation, face to face communication excels at allowing a speaker to develop a better understanding of a
conversation through a person or audience's
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How Technology Affects Our Communication Skills With Face...
Technology: Love It or Leave It
It hasn't been but only recently that the use of modern technology has become so important to an individual's everyday life. If we're not calling
someone, we're texting, we're snapchatting, we're even checking the news and up–to–date sports scores on our phones/computers/tablets/TVs/watches.
As we're tranced by a lit screen, do we notice the affect that technology has on us, or is it just day by day we keep getting more sucked in to the nicer
amenities of life without a second thought? How has the use of technology affected our communication skills with face–to–face conversations with
other individuals?
Communication has been an important tool humans use since the dawn of time. However, the new millennium especially, has found new ways to
communicate through technology. Looking for ways to explain more about my topic, I looked into the databases Mizzou offers and found a helpful
article through ERIC database. "We can define communication as the expression of meaning or a message conveyed by a sender to a receiver
through some channel or medium" (Deal 11). When one thinks of communication they probably think of a conversation that takes place between two
or more individuals using voices or sound waves. The message may be as simple as a "hello and the weather is great" or even as complex as a
scholarly article being discussed between professors. Wherever you are in the world, communication surrounds us.
Throwing it back to the 1800's, every
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Face To Face Communication Essay
Communication is an activity of sharing ideas, information, feelings, attitudes or commands through the use of verbal or non–verbal gestures. Email,
text messages and face to face communication are all methods of communication. Effective communication is when the sender sends a message by
using an appropriate medium and the receiver completely understands and gives a feedback if necessary. A world without effectivecommunication
would be in total chaos! As far as I am concerned, Face to Face communication is better than other types of communication like telephone, email or by
texts.
Recently the development of communication tools has accelerated. New and easier ways of communication have been brought forward which have led
to a decrease in face to face communication.
Even though there are different ways of communication methods such as text messaging, email or telephone call, talking to the people by facing their
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As in very large organization it might be very difficult, expensive and time consuming for a director communicate face to face with each employee. It
is ver difficult to get a message accros to a large gathering even though the speaker is addressing them face to face the audience seenms to miss the
message because the most vital point of face to face communication which is the personnel touc is missing. The feedback is often misinterpreted.Face
to face communication is very ineffective if the listener is not attentive . he can misunderstood the message and whole point of communication would
be very useless. One of the major problem in an organization is miscommunication it can lead to inefficiency and wrong deciosns . the listener mught
miss the message if the communication is too long and irrelevant . the use of proper language is also very important. The receiver does not have any
record of the message which might lead to human
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Face Of Face Communication A Lost Art
Face to Face Communication a Lost Art
As of today I can truly say that most youth and young adults are lacking in social communication skills. We have lost the art of letter writing, face to
face interaction, even phone conversations lack in social etiquette. However, the most important of these loses is the face to face communication,
without it we will be lost in a world of Tweets, Instagram's and Facebook.
I am of the old school beliefs that face time more efficient than other kinds of communication. When you are face to face with someone you can see
there non–verbal clues, this clues will tell you how to react to someone while talking with them. Another way to explain it is that you can understand
verbally what someone is saying to you, by taking in their facial features, body languages, the tone in their voices, oh and what you are seeing in front
of you. If there are notes, PowerPoints, charts etc...
Let's take for example Facebook, a person can have thousands of friends and not know ninety–five percent of them. There is no closeness or warmth
with this type of communication. It is very impersonal and just plain lazy to me. Individuals are telling their whole life story on this thing, and
venting all of their emotion which no one can see or hear. So what happens when someone reads it, most likely what you are saying and how they
receive it, will be to very different.
Texting, the main culprit of all technology, I just can't stand this one. It has made our youth lazy
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Goals in Conflict Essay
Wilmot and Hocker have stated in the Seventh Edition of Interpersonal Conflict that "[c]onflict is more than a disagreement; it is when people believe
that another interferes with their interests and goals" (p. 62). When considering conflict, interests and goals are considered the same thing. There are
four general types of interests and goals which are topic or content, relational, identity (or facework), and process; these together are easily
remembered by using the acronym TRIP(Wilmot, 2007. p.63). To better describe and explain these types of goals, the following personalconflict will
be used.
The Crossen Family consists of five members, the mother (myself), the husband (William), and the three female children (Brittney, Kerra, and... Show
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p.65). In conflicts relational goals need to be realized and managed because they are the center of all conflicts (Wilmot, 2007. p.67) but they are not
easily recognized internally or externally, and they are interpreted differently by each party (Wilmot, 2007. p.67). In the reviewed conflict, the parents
feel that the children are becoming more independent, and do not care what the parents think or need. The children believe that the parents do not
consider the things that are important to the children to be important. Basically, each seems to seek the respect from the other units. The way that each
will react throughout the conflict will express how that person believes the other is thinking about them. They will react to an image that they have
created of the other person that probably is not accurate (Wilmot, 2007. p.69). Because relationship goals are not easily determined, these goals will
escalate.
Identity or face–saving goals consider who a person is in the interaction. The focus includes how identity of self is protected or repaired throughout the
conflict. Although this goal continues throughout the conflict, it will be more prominent at certain times of conflicts (Wilmot, 2007. p.69). Maintaining
self–identity and face–saving can be very open and obvious. In the described conflict I told
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Sherry Turkle Communication : The Negative Effects Of...
Face to face communication. So a while or so was thanksgiving. My mom had stressed too much about the food and my sisters and I all fought for
the last roll. Every year at Thanksgiving, since my family is pretty big, we fight over really little things. This year my mom, my sisters, and I were all
seated on our long sectional and fighting over who could take home what leftovers. It was about fifteen minutes into our arguments when I looked up
and realized that we were fighting without words. All of us had our phones out and were arguing with each other through the family group chat. This
shows how much technology has set us apart from one another. We need to think about the effect that a lack of face–to–face communication
brings...By looking at what harm replacing phone conversation with face–to–face talking causes, the benefits of actually talking to another person, and
how to put the phone down and start talking to one another, we can prevent a future where all of our holidays are skyped in. Sherry Turkle argues in
her new book Reclaiming Conversation, much of the "communication" that takes place on our smartphones is actually a poor substitute for genuine,
face–to–face conversation. Since the invention of texting and the ability for messages to be sent at a rapid speed, Teens have shifted from conventional
conversational methods to communicating mostly through the use of texting and emojis CNN once said– Developmental psychologists studying the
impact of texting and
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Course Description : Academic Coaches
Course Description: Academic Coaches/Leaders
You will attend four face to face (F2F) Professional Learning days. During those days you will be actively engaged as a learner. Your engagement will
happen along two different paths. First, you will be reading, thinking, collaborating, and writing reflections about mathematical domains, professional
journal articles, and or the mathematical practices. Secondly you will be actively engaged in learning about and doing hands–on AIMS math tasks.
Once the Face 2 Face Learning day is completed and upon returning to their school, academic coaches and academic leaders are expected to observe
the implementation of ONE AIMS math task in a math class, and submit TWO written reflections of the experience in an organized manner by using
the Haiku online site. One of these reflections will be visible only to the AIMS F2F Facilitators and the AIMS Online instructors and one will be visible
to all of the AIMS Instructors and all of the participants in your academic coaching and academic leaders group to encourage collegiality, connection,
and to create and maintain a learning community.
For the purposes of this project the academic coaches and academic leaders will use "An Instructional Implementation Sequence for Attaining the CCSS
Student Practices in Mathematics" from Hull, Balka, and Harbin Miles (2011) as a guiding document from which to base their observation and
reflections. Coaches and leaders will look for patterns of growth in
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The Face Of Face Communications
In the past twenty years, the face to face communications as well as the ways of communication have changed. With the creation of numerous
devices, applications, and an unbelievable connection with each other, the biggest distances have been shortened in ways never imagined. Two
decades ago, people could not imagine how effective and fast a device of the size of the palm of your hand could connect you with people all over
the world. With great ideas and a mentality of progress, humans and technology have changed the way we interact and how we used to see the world.
These changes have helped to create a more capable society which is able to do things we once thought they were impossible, but it also has had a
negative impact in the way we behave.
Within the communication world, the evolution of the telephone is the biggest attraction for people of all ages. In the past, landlines were the main
source of communication, while cellphones were uncommon, or actually inexistent. We have come from telephones which only capability was to call,
to smartphones that have calling, texting, emailing, and different social networks that connect you with people world widely; and all this is in one
simple device that is every time smaller and better. A smartphone is the combination between a phone and a computer. It is capable of do multiple task,
such as connect to internet to check emails, make video calls, take pictures, access to documents and websites of your preference, and the
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The Face Of Face Communication
Face–to–Face communication (F2F)
Businesses nowadays are constantly making an effort to monitor employee movements and improve productivity. This is where a device that can help
to monitor and build profile of an employee, and improve productivity required. This will enable the organization's management to gather business
insights and improve their profitability. Prosodica will play a significant role in order to analyze performance of employees who deal with clients on a
regular basis. Using the real–time analysis feature of Prosodica, meaningful alerts can be generated for the employee and the communication summary
can be obtained for a particular time interval, which the performance management team can review. In addition, the employee can perform better due to
real–time alerts generated by Prosodica and hence increase the conversion rate for each sale.
[*Source: Sociometric BadgeВ®, Humanyze.com]
Applications:
Extract social signals from voice communication.
Track location of employee.
Collect metadata to create customized reports; one for employee and one for management.
Map business goals with employee's sales performance.
Improve engagement which in turn will reduce stress.
Risks:
It may lead to an oppressive work environment that will affect the team/individual's morale. Use – Cases:
Employee/Team Performance: The means of communication between employees can vary. It mostly involves verbal communication and electronic
communication. Prosodica
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The Naked Face By Malcom Gladwell
Is it Possible to Understand Facial Expressions? The essay "The Naked Face" written by Malcom Gladwell is about the ability of recognizing the
meaning behind someone's facial expressions. He starts the essay with a life or death situation between an inner city police officer and a suspect that
both are pointing guns at each other. The officer clearly has the right to shoot the suspect, but decided not to base on a hunch that the armed suspect
was not a threat (Gladwell 24). Gladwell then demonstrates that the police officer is one out of a thousand people that scored really well on a
psychology test to determine if someone is lying or telling the truth based on facial expressions (Gladwell 59). Gladwell's essay then continues with...
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When mom and dad smile with their baby, the baby smiles back. If mom or dad makes a sad face, the baby sees there is no joy in their face and will
start to instinctively begin to frown. Even though that this pattern of happy and sad facial expressions are intuitive, it is also providing the baby with
experience of how facial expressions are displaying playing happiness and sadness. Now that the child is school age, it has many different learned
experiences with facial expressions from parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. A child will be reprimanded for doing something against the parents'
wishes and will be told to stop. Children will often test the parents' limits and continue with the action and when the parent combines the verbal action
along with the stern facial expression, the child understand it has reached the parent's limit. Verbal communication combined with facial expressions
provides more meaning to the conversation than just words alone. Within daily communications, people judge conversations not only by the words
spoken, but with the facial expressions during the conversation. However, a lot of today's conversation is taken place over digital communication
which hampers the subjective of the conversation. Typed conversations can be misconstrued and taken the wrong way since there are no visual
references between the two people. As Gladwell states in his essay, people who
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Autobiography Of A Face : Exploration Of Health...
Autobiography of a Face: Exploration of Health Communication Concepts
Kara Martin
University of South Dakota
Over the years I have observed that it is not uncommon for people to judge others based upon standards in our society which are imposed upon us
through the media via television, movies, celebrities, magazines, and music. Autobiography of a Face, is a memoir written and narrated by the late
poet Lucy Grealy and was published in 1994. This book followed Lucy beginning at the age of nine when she was first diagnosed with a rare type of
cancer located in her jaw called Ewing's Sarcoma. Lucy's story chronicled her struggle with her self–identity after surviving childhood cancer. A facial
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Rather than simply compose a story that heroically depicted her battle with cancer, Lucy added authenticity and depth to her novel with themes that
revealed her struggle to "fit in", to cope with the pain of loneliness, of feeling lost within her own family, of enduring illness with stoicism, and to
somehow find happiness in the aftermath of illness. This book report will examine how Lucy's story metamorphosed from an examination of her
childhood experiences with cancer into a search for her own identity as an adult. The starting point where Lucy began telling her story in this novel
was significant. Lucy delved in to describe a happy time in her life when she was working as a teenager with horses and children at the Diamond D
Stables. By this time, she had already persevered through several surgeries. Lucy was aware that her facial disfigurement often attracted unwanted
attention from smaller children, parents, and others in the community. In her mind, she felt that she got the job at the stables because she did not attend
a face–to–face interview. Instead, she used the telephone to inquire about the job and did not mention her appearance. This may have been Lucy's first
"real" job, but she was already suspicious that her appearance could have an undesirable effect on her ability to get a job. Beginning her story at
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The True Value Of Face-To-Face Communication : Texting And...
We are living in a period demanding us to frequent use of social media, especially texting, when we have to communicate with each other. As the
society is getting developed more and more, the more social media occupy our daily lives incomparably than the previous generations. Nowadays, it is
hard to find someone who don't have their own smartphone or any other personal devices, and their own small devices allow them to live much more
convenient than those who don't have theirs. Because most of our daily work is connected to the social media, including conversation, it keeps
disconnecting people's face–to–face conversation. As a result, people's preference for communicating via texting or email is making the result of an
absent of face–to–face conversation. Even though there are many valuable things we can acquire only from face–to–face talk, it is a real circumstance
that people do not aware its importances. It becomes pretty natural for the present generation that, even prior generations, using our own smartphone in
order to fulfill our convenience and to adapt the requirement of many working places seems the best way to be a member of current society. For those
reasons, however, the true value of face–to–face conversation is getting vanished.
According to the book "Reclaiming Conversation" by Sherry Turkle, she points the problems we are facing has caused by frequent use of social
media and the lack of face–to–face conversation and how it affects on our relationship,
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A Text Message From My Life
One dark stormy night I got a text message from my boyfriend saying get dress we going out. When he arrived at my house we went to dinner and
then back at his house. As we was sitting on the sofa, we was talking about how each other day went until his phone goes off and then he starts
replying back to text message. I kept talking to him and he wasn't paying me no mind so then I sent him a text while he was sitting a couple inches
from me to get his attention. It's likely you've done this, too. Then he looked at me because he knew I was mad by my facial expression, so he put
his phone away in his pocket. When a person is spending alone time with their mate or just anyone in general it's a place when one gets to enjoy ones
company, not a place where one get to enjoy what's going on ones side of the phone. This illustrates that there is little empathy towards people if they
can't even get a face to face conversation with each other for a couple hours without one person looking at their phone. Nobody should have to send a
text message to get ones attention or make them feel empathy towards them.
Technology has become an important part of our daily lives and is gradually affecting the way we feel for others. As the years go on, it becomes faster,
smaller. Everywhere we go we see technology or someone using it and many people would say it's a second you. Technology has made as lazy and
self–aware of the world around us. We're missing out on the important conversation with others
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  • 1. The Importance Of Mobile Phones Inhibiting Face-To Face... After conducting the in–depth interviews, I was surprised to find that people are very aware of the stated problem, that mobile phones are inhibiting face–to–face interpersonal communication, but they are doing very little about it. One theory on why people are doing very little about it could be attributed to Dr. Bruce Bryski's statement that "Americans are rude in general and when you throw this variable of cellphones in, it makes Americans even more rude." If it is already an accepted statement that Americans are rude, than what's adding mobile phone use in social settings do to the vast array of actions that are considered rude things that Americans do? Not much, and it seems to be the attitude that Americans are taking, that it's ok to do this. But, it's not. All the participants agreed that class time and work were unacceptable times to be on your mobile phone. These are largely accepted as group social settings that happen in real time and cannot be replicated. The vast majority of the information distributed by mobile phones is user generated and can be found at any given time. In other words, you can only experience face–to–face interpersonal communication events once, while mobile phone use, outside of verbal communication, is there to interact with whenever a user chooses to do so. Among the six people that I conducted an in–depth interview with, it was interesting to find that only one person really didn't seem to mind if people were on their phones in social ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 2. Case Study of Electronic Communications Limited, China Essay Your analysis of the ECL in China case paper should identify, analyze, and recommend solutions for 3 of the following "problems": communication and listening skills communication planning at the team level teams and teambuilding Relevant cultural issues involved with each "problem" must be included in your analysis, but should not be the entire content of your analysis. Paper: Submitted paper is to be composed of the following sections: Cover Page Table of Contents Executive Summary (≤1 page in length) Body of Report: Problem Identification (no more than one–half page in length) Situation Analysis (3–4 pages total length; use subheading for each problem followed by the analysis of that problem) Problem 1 Problem 2 ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Needless to say that to do business in the current globalized economy, business partners need to communicate effectively in a given language. But communication requires much more than a solid knowledge of a language. Becoming communicatively competent in a foreign or second language implies more than being able to speak fluently and accurately. Being communicatively competent in a language requires having not only good linguistic knowledge but also knowledge of the culture that is beneath that language, the culture that this particular language reflects. When doing business in a global context, the ability to communicate cross– culturally is a must for the success of any enterprise. Electronic Communications Ltd. (ECL) had decided to start business in China and to form a relationship of common prosperity with Chinese people. The company knew that there was major progress to be made, but there were also risks and challenges. One of these was the management of cultural differences. An issue the management was whether it should adapt ECL's management practice to the Chinese culture or to establish ECL's global management policies in China. Successful cultural alignment is an important element for multinational organizations. Electronic Communications Ltd (ECL), like many other companies entering foreign markets, is faced with how to adequately incorporate their corporate culture with the Chinese national culture ECL, as a leading corporation throughout the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 3. The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Face To Face... INTRODUCTION Importance of communication by face–to–face is declining in today's digital era as one can live about a whole day without interacting with people. Now days, people depend highly on the facilities of text messages, emails, and social media. As long as it is impossible to reject the role of these facilities and the method that they have changed communication, so it is necessary to balance these online communications with face–to–face communication. In common, communication is a process of connecting people or places. In the case of business, it is a main management function of, it means without communication an organization cannot function between levels, departments and employees, customers. So face to face communication is the two–way processes of reaching understand mutually, wherever participants not only transfer information, news, ideas and feelings but also make and share meaning. In this ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It allows you to communicate without creating conflict or destroying trust worthy even negative or difficult messages. At the same time, effective communication is a learned skill; it is more effective rather than conventional when it's simple. So it is necessary to develop skills to become an effective communicator for the successful of business and all other victory in life. ADVANTAGES FACE –TO–FACE COMMUNICATION Non–Verbal Cues You can measure by reading body language of person you communicating how interested he is in what you are talking about. If you are in a meeting and your partner are fiddling with their pens, or checking their watches, you know that you have to пѓ Adjust the tone of your voice or пѓ To take their attention, use more impressive language. Similarly, you can understand that they are engaged with you and your message when partners are actively nodding their heads and smiling, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 4. Summary Of The Flight From Conversation In today's generation, digital technology plays a huge role in the majority of people's lives to the point that it has become a kind of addiction. People are so glued to their cell phones that young people do not know how to start a conversation in person or successfully communicate face–to–face. Technology has negatively changed the way people communicate with others which is a source of concerns for Sherry Turkle. In her essay, "The Flight from Conversation," Turkle argues how digital devices and the virtual world have negatively affected the communication between people. She believes that conversations that are face to face are much more meaningful because they cannot be edited or change what you are going to say. Once one thing is said in a face to face conversation, one cannot change their response like in a text message. Digital technology lets people escape from feeling alone to the point where when they are alone, it is a strange and lonely feeling for them. Turkle believes that people do not want to be alone because they are afraid of such feelings of loneliness that the experience of solitude entails. This contrasts with Jane Goodall, who describes her experience of solitude in the forest in her essay, "In the Forests of Gombe." For Goodall, being alone had helped her cope and find comfort after the death of her second husband. Goodall goes to the same forest she has been to many times as a scientist to study the chimpanzees, but this time she goes to be alone and find comfort by connecting to the natural world. Being around nature helped her to enjoy having alone time to herself and being solitary where she experienced quiet moments realizing that she did not feel lonely at all. Technology can be a form of escape from solitude and self reflection, thereby keeping people from having a sense of oneself or identity. The identity that one can learn from by finding out who one truly is and having a real, meaningful face to face conversation with one another. Because technology can consume people's time on social media, being solitary seems strange for them and individuals have the constant urge to communicate with their cell phones. Many people aren't able to know what it feels like to actually be ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 5. Increasing Communication Through Technology and Declining... There are computer labs all over the state campus. These labs help students perform many academic related tasks, such as printing off their assignments. When people print things off there is usually a line of fellow students waiting to do the same thing. You finally make it up to the monitor and select your computer number and the documents you want to print off, plain and simple right? It is a very under–observed activity, but there is something I have noticed; these people waiting in line rarely ever interact. Printing off documents is a very simple task and does not require much concentration. The computer labs are on campus to help ensure that students succeed throughout their college careers. There are an uncountable number of... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... All the fairly negative body language and attitudes, but there was the occasional kind hearted person who would toss a sincere smile at someone and a greeting. Things like that can make someone's whole day better, and more bearable; just by spending a few moments of your time. Personally, if I can make someone's day better by being polite; I see no reason to pass it up. There are people that may just need a smile to show them hope for a better day, which could actually be life changing. I can recall times when I was a little kid that people would converse over anything with just about anyone. I remember walking through grocery stores with my mom and making frequent stops to talk to people she knew or random strangers that were wandering down the same aisle. There was no fear of the person you were talking to being some sort of psycho. People did not worry about being followed home or harassed, there was no reason at the time. Peoples' interaction did not seem to be so based on social classes and how good or bad someone looked, or what brand of clothes they were wearing. Over the years there have gradually been incidents where someone gets harassed or even hurt by interacting with a stranger, and because of this many people avoid human contact unless it is mandatory. The sad part ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 6. Situational Problems Arise When Doing Business Essay Situational problems arise when doing business. This study is caused by cultural differences like relationship building and a contractual obligation. The Chinese focus on personal relationships that are face to face versus a factual relationship approach like the American's use. Each party has to adjust to each other's cultural style. There is a lack of communication is presented as a breach of faith between the parties' business arrangement. Introduction Beijing Bio–Tech (BBT) is an animal fed manufacturer in China who hired Edward Tang of Asia –Pacific Consulting Group to locate a United States supplier for feed grade lecithin. Lecithin is produced from soybeans. China's main grains are for human consumption, which are wheat and rice. Mr. Tang found a handful of companies that sold lecithin in the United States, but those companies only wanted to deal with the seller directly instead of a middleman, Mr. Tang. Therefore, Mr. Tang contacted Bill Wright of US Fortune to help with his search. Mr. Wright reached out to Dr. Robert Fisher at NutriNex, a lecithin producer. Dr. Fisher was enthusiastic to work withthe middleman and sell the product overseas. To secure funding, Mr. Wright elected to use a letter–of–credit to avoid any financial burden, to collect a commission for the transactions and to remain the middleman. The contract negations on the purchase agreement, a natural disaster, a lawsuit, and lower commissions are dilemmas discussed. Dilemma Contract ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 7. Negative Effects Of Face To Face Communication Last technological developments have had a major impact on the way individuals interact and react , therefore , they had an important role in the modern life . Despite the appreciated variety of their benefits , yet , use of mobile phones can decline the value of awareness to real–world situations (Strayer, Drews, & Johnston, 2003; Strayer & Johnston, 2001). In this research , former studies were analyzed , and results were deducted from questionnaires which have been distributed to youth , in order to determine the level of individuals' obsession with technology , neglecting the importance of face–to–face communication. In both, clues have proved that the increased usage of technology has negative effects on interactions and conversation quality. KEYWORDS: Face–to–face interactions , technology, lack of communication ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This research would never have been accomplished without the guidance and help of a number of people. First, and foremost, I would like to thank my research advisor , Professor Durriya Haidar. Despite the difficulties and struggles we faced along the way, she encouraged me to fulfill my desired achievement . DEDICATIONS : I dedicate my project to my soulmate , Noura Abdelmouti , primarily for her ultimate encouragement , and for being my rock throughout this journey . A big thank goes out to my love , Majd aldeen mashta , for his support and encouragement. I would like also to thank my biggest source of inspiration , my ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 8. Face And Face Of Face Communication Face–To–Face Communication With the rapid growth of high technology, computer, telephone and other communication tools have become more and more important in our daily life. "Through the advent of technologies such as e–mail, wireless Internet, and cell phones, organizations are becoming more wired both within and outside of the workplace." (Marcus, Becker and Boswell). What people have gradually ignored face–to–face communication ? Face–to–face communication means people interact with each other without any barriers. In the past, people only can communicate with others in this way; however, nowadays, more and more people, especially young persons, get contact with their families and friends by using telephone, e–mail, text massages and letters. It is true that the advanced communicational technologies get the distance between human–beings closer, but in some way, they also elongate the distance, as people are no longer need to keep connect face–to–face, which means strange and unbelievable. Hence the best way of communication is face–to–face. Face–to–face communication could make people directly know the actual personality of people, avoiding being deceived by others. "Conversation is powerful. If you know how to talk with people instead of talk to them, your business opportunities may just become limitless."(Duestin). In fact, we live in "Almighty Dollars" society, under which there are many persons who only want to get money as free riders. They maybe take the advantages ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 9. Perowne's Rationality Ian McEwan's novel, Saturday, takes place on a single day, Saturday February 15th, 2003, and follows the events of middle–aged man, Henry Perowne. Perowne lives a comfortable and privileged lifestyle. He works a high paying job as a neurosurgeon, owns a nice house, and drives an expensive car. He is happily married to his wife, Rosalind, and he has two talented children, Daisy and Theo. Although he seems to live a "perfect" life, he is flawed by being primarily driven by his rational thoughts. McEwan writes, "Perowne, the profesional reductionist, can't help thinking it's down to invisible folds...written in code" (272). This mindset limits his capacity to feel and leads him to a simple way of thinking, which makes him unable to fully connect with his surroundings. In the novel, he experiences a series of events that makes him question his set way of thinking. Through his two interactions with a young thug named Baxter, Perowne's rationality is challenged which ultimately makes him change his perspective on his privileged life by the end of the novel. Perowne gets into a minor car accident in the morning with a young thug named Baxter, but he sways himself out of the situation through his ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The novel ends this way because it shows that even though Perowne is back to his clear thinking, he has still changed due to his interactions with Baxter, who he calls his "unpickable knot of affliction" (272). Perowne does not press charges on Baxter because he thinks he has a "diminishing slice of life worth living" (278), and he asks himself, "Is this forgiveness...or is he the one seeking forgiveness?" (278). Baxter helped him realize that he can be wrong and does not always have to have control. If Perowne had not encountered Baxter, he would have not known how lucky he is to be a neurosurgeon with a privileged ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 10. Compare Electronic Mediated And Face-To-Face Communication Compare Electronic Mediated and Face–to–Face Communication Communication is evolving quickly, offering us more options than ever before. Cellphone calls, texting via short messaging (SMS), Skype, teleconferencing, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, and face–to–face communication all play a major role in how people communicate with others around the world. Despite how I may fee, face–to–face communication is the best way to communicate with people because a lot of things won't get taken out of context and their won't be any misunderstanding. People are now connected electronically to 24–hour news cycles, updates on all the movements and activities of friends and celebrities, and even, in the case of physicians, with latest research findings on diagnoses and treatments of illnesses. Even counseling has expanded thanks to the Internet where some counselors now offer group sessions via chat, or provide treatment via instant messaging and emails. Psychologists have expressed concern whether computer mediated communication (CMC) will help or hinder those individuals who may be lonely and isolated from others. CMC has definitely changed how we communicate with others and has had an equal amount of problems related to misinterpretation. When it came to choosing one form of computer or electronic mediated communication, I decided to go with texting via short messaging system (SMS) due to many reasons with the main reason is because in the generation I live in we are always on our phones ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 11. How To Build A False Identity Hiding in Plain Sight In a twenty–four–hour day, internet users will have communicated online at least once whether it is writing to a classmate on a message board, posting pictures on Instagram, or responding to colleges via email. It is possible that a different username and identity are used for each of these online communications, each username constituting, in effect, a separate "personality." These online personalities may be a part of one's authentic self or a separate identity altogether. In The Times article, "Internet 'trolls' ignore social rules: Expert: Online disinhibition effect means many people feel invincible online," the anonymous author states, "This is your brain in cyberspace: while in warp–speed from forum to... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Many social media users, for example, have felt the blow of a very hurtful comment from strangers or friends hidden behind a false identity. For example, Twitter has become a venue where anyone from famous politicians, Hollywood elite, to one's immediate family may spew out inflammatory and bombastic comments that they would never utter in a face to face encounter. This kind of startling exchange is just a sample of how toxic the Internet can be when the users are not accountable and can hide behind the screen of the internet. Due to the loss of face–to–face contact while online, some people obviously feel free to say whatever they want, and with the lack of initial personal reaction from the recipient of these remarks, the online troll feels no remorse. In the article, "Hiding Behind the Screen," Roger Scruton states, "In human relations, risk avoidance means the avoidance of accountability, the refusal to stand judged in another's eyes, the refusal to come face to face with another person...to run the risk of rejection. Accountability is not something should avoid; it is something we need to learn." (59). This statement makes one wonder if the cultural shift to online communication and the inevitable lack of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 12. Communication And Communication Conversation is such an important element when forming relationships with others and is needed when bringing communities together. In order to establish communities, you need people who are able to create bonds with one another through similar interests, common goals, and anything that can stir up simple conversations. It sounds easy to talk to people, but most of the time, conversation is a lot more complex than it sounds. In order to have conversation, we need to put aside our internal conflicts that we all are guilty of having; such as stereotyping, putting our emotions first, and not listening to other peoples opinions. Environment, people, topic, and many other characteristics are crucial in order to have a good conversation. Communities have been bonded throughout the years by conversation, but how we communicate has changed and continues to change as time progresses. Communication can be done in multiple ways. You can have aface–to–face dialogue with people, call someone, text, facetime, email; the ways these days are endless. These types of connections were not around when the adults of this generation were younger, but the teenagers now are part of an era where technology is major and available when wanting to speak to people. Some people will say those who overuse cell phones are fleeing from conversation and can change who we are (Turkle). While you can perhaps have an opinion on today's society being overly technical, you cannot conclude that ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 13. Face-To-Face Communication Tactic Section For the Face–to–Face Communication Tactic section the most effective tactic for college students would have to be the special events tactic. This is because it has a little bit of everything. "Annual meetings, groundbreakings, open houses, grand openings, anniversary celebrations, awards/recognition events, sporting events, fundraisers" (Swanson 563). This is because as college students none are exactly alike and with this special mix it allows everyone to be happy. The most effect tactic for parents would be special events as well. This is because like college students the parents will want to focus on what their kids are into. The social events tactic allows for the parents to get an inside peak of what their kids are seeing. In the Media ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 14. Advantages Of Face To Face Communication Since the beginning of the time, the most important method of communication has been the face to face communication (1). In fact, for a long time, face–to–face communication was the only method ever used. As the time passed many new methods came along with the use of letters, telephone calls, and emails. Even though with the improvements in such type communication, nothing like other types of communication has been able to change or replace the face–to–face method. Face to face is better than any other types of communication because it allows one person to see the facial expressions of another, you can tell whether if the person is telling the truth or not and it allows one person to express his/her feelings towards the person. Firstly, face to face communication is better than other types of communication as it allows one person to see the facial expressions of another person. For example, when a person is talking to someone or telling him/her about a good news they usually smile and their eyes light up due to the excitement. Additionally, when a person is having a serious conversation with a person, their eyebrows are usually lower due to being serious and they keep a straight face on while talking (1). You cannot understand a person how his facial expression is while you are talking to him/her through a telephone. In fact, face–to–face communication involves more continuous turn–taking behaviors between partners, which has been shown to play a pivotal role in social ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 15. Mediated Communication Vs. Face-To-Face 1. Do you believe mediated communication allows us to express ourselves more freely since we are not face to face? Use an example from the video to support your answer. Mediated communication does allows us to express ourselves more freely. Unlike face to face conversations and meetings, we do not have the immediate verbal or nonverbal feedback on impolite comments. On the phone you cannot see the other person's facial expressions, nor is there any fear of physical consequences. In the video, Ellen makes the inappropriate comment "Don't count on it." This is something she may not normally say in a face–to–face meeting. 2. Do you believe we should more carefully consider our channel, manners and emotions when using mediated communication? Why/Why Not? Support your answer with reasons or examples of HOW. I believe we should more carefully consider our channel, manners and emotions when using mediated communication. Important or complex ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... On mediated communication, we only receive the content of the message and not the relational dimension of the message. The urgency of a task or the importance of a due date is missed in the decoding of the message when the nonverbal cues are not available. As another example from my work experience, my manager questioned on the group IM conversation if a project was done or not. My co–worker responded that she was not done with it as of yet but was currently working on it. My manager asked if it would be done that day or the next, and the response would be yes. Our immediate supervisor responded to that part of the conversation instructing my co–worker to have it done by the end of the day. Without having the nonverbal message, our manager's urgency in the completion of the project was not received; however, our supervisor clarified the urgency. If we were face to face we would have received the complete message and better understand the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 16. The Importance of Perception in Face to Face Communication... The Importance of Perception in Face to Face Communication between Individuals Perception is one of the most important fragments of the communication process. It allows us all to see an individual experience of the world. The process is simple, the brain actively selects, organises and interprets stimuli, in order to process this experience. Even before we engage in communication, we perceive things about the receiver. Whether it's the bad things we've heard about them previously– which would build up a feeling of dislike or the good things e.g. support same football team. Both of these perceptions are examples of stereotyping which will affect the expectation of an individual in a different way ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Our communication is not produced within any single system, but in the intersection of several interrelated systems, each of which is self–standing necessarily described by dedicated theories, but each of which is both the product of the others and, in its own limited way, an instance of the other. The medium is, as McLuhan famously observed, a message that is inherent to every message that is created in or consumed from a medium. The medium is, to the extent that we can select among media, also a language such that the message of the medium is not only inherent to a message, but often an element of its composition. In what may be the most extreme view enabled by the processing of messages within media, the medium may also be a person and consumes messages, recreates them, and makes the modified messages available for further consumption. A medium is really none of these things. It is fundamentally a system that enables the construction of messages using a set of languages such that they can be consumed. But a medium is also both all of these things and the product of their interaction. People learn, create, and evolve media as a vehicle for enabling the creation and consumption of messages. The same might be said of each of the constituents of this model. People can be, and often are, the medium (insofar as they ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 17. Humane Communication : The Anxiety Of Face To Face... Technology advanced over the years, from a big, bulky computer to a five inch phone within our pockets. Over billions of men, women, and children have been sucked into their phones because of how effortless it is to utilize technology. Especially in our society today, technology has become too relied upon on multiple occasions. The usage of technology has made many men, women, and children's lives more trouble–free. However, because of technology's amount of usage, people have become dependent on it. Technology drove billions of people lack humane communication skills, too trusting to false information, and created lower self worth within people. Communication became easier for many with the use of their phones and laptops. Within two seconds, a text can be sent to anywhere across the world. Though this kind of communication is greatly used today, millions have lost the true meaning of communication, humane conversation. A touch screen makes millions of people lose touch with the people in their lives, they're being reduced to looking at a glass screen to simply start a conversation. A study conducted by Tamyra Pierce examined 280 high school students to estimate their usage of technology and how it affects students socially. This observational study consisted of numerous factors like how comfortable he or she was in face–to–face situations. The results showed that a relationship between social anxiety of face to face conversation which increases with the amount of online ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 18. Tardanico discusses how lack of face-to-face communication... Tardanico discusses how lack of face–to–face communication can lead to miscommunication. She starts off the article with an anecdote about a mother texting her daughter who is away at college and based on the messages exchanged the daughter seems to be doing just fine. She used various emoji's expressing happiness. No one knew that she had been isolated in her room portraying signs of depression, an entirely different world from the one portrayed on Facebook, Twitter, and to her mother. "Awash in technology, anyone can hide behind the text, the e–mail, the Facebook post or the tweet, projecting any image they want and creating an illusion of their choosing. They can be whoever they want to be. And without the ability to receive nonverbal... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The youth is the biggest user of communication technology and changing social interaction in ways not yet understood. Adolescents make friends and form bonds online. Media richness is a concept that is the foundation for understanding human behavior using online communication (e.g., Allen & Griffeth, 1997; Carlson & Zmud, 1999; Kahai & Cooper, 2003; Kock, 2004). The study focused on the development of online friendships among teenagers. It was found that media richness and communication control makes teens want to engage in communication for presentation and friendship development. Being up front with a person will eliminate any doubt and speed up friendship development. Webcams and other MSN features helped facilitate a relationship between two strangers. They helped create first impressions and attract all kinds of friends. Sharing information online makes it easier to get to know someone. The adolescents used believed that self– presentation in important when instant messaging someone new. The typical high school student spent an average of 3.10 hours a day using Instant Messaging. Text messaging helped the newly formed relationships progress. The American Academy of Pediatrics published an article in 2011 about the effects of social media on teens, families. Their goal is to inform parents about the potential dangers of social media sites because not all of them are safe. Today pediatricians are helping parents ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 19. Mobile Cloud Computing : Face Recognition Mobile Cloud Computing Face Recognition Sahil Palvia (sap8231) Fall, 2014 Advisor: Dr. Minsoek Kwon Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science Table of Contents Introduction3 Background4 Proposed Solution5 Design and Implementation6 Results12 Conclusions19 Future Work20 References21 Introduction Every person today uses an Internet–enabled mobile device. Majority of the applications running on mobile devices transfer their data to cloud servers for processing. The advancements in cloud technology allow applications to reduce data processing on mobile devices. The advancement and affordability of mobile devices has resulted in the exponential prevalence of these devices. Cloud servers ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Cloudlets are placed between the client application and cloud servers. By leveraging this cloudlet–based architecture, singular dependency on cloud servers to perform data processing is eliminated. Further, the computational requirement on the mobile devices can be limited to lightweight processing by offloading the heavyweight processes to the cloudlets
  • 20. In this project a cloudlet–based architecture is implemented for a facial recognition application. The memory usage and time consumption parameters of a cloudlet–based architecture are measured against client–server architecture. Background Face recognition applications are computation intensive applications. They try to extract every small detail from the image provided for accurate face detection and recognition. They are able to accurately recognize the faces with the results being accurate up to 90% [1]. Accuracy of recognized objects is a crucial factor. The accuracy of the recognizer depends on the recognition algorithms implemented. The object needs to be recognized quickly without compromising the level of accuracy [2]. Mobile devices currently use the cloud servers for processing their data and keep on offloading their heavyweight processes to the cloud servers. In this case the application waits for server to deliver the result and suffers ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 21. Face Communication Is More Effective Than Other Types Of... There are many different points to consider when considering whether face to face communication is more or less effective than other types of communication, such as the importance of facial expressions and nonverbal body language. Communication would be considered effective when the most information is conveyed between the people involved. Nonverbal body language is generally nonverbal behaviours that can include interpersonal distance, body movement, facial behaviour, touch, vocal behaviours, and others. (Hall, Coats and LeBeau, 2005) With nonverbal body language one needs to consider what signals do people pick up from nonverbal communication as well as what conversations lose with these signals. However, there is the other side to ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Another thing that is offered by face to face communication is that it offers something when information is received and understood, without delay, something electronic forms of communication cannot offer. Face to face communication also offers the opportunity to take turns when speaking and in turn create a sequence whereas with electronic communications, such as emails or texts, the conversation can be broken up by irrelevant interruptions and do not have the same effect. However Clark & Brennan, (1990) did look at how electronic communication can also be a more effective form of communication. For example with emails and texts information will always be there and can be later reviewed by other people in case there needs to be editing of information before sending. Face to face communication can possibly be irreplaceable as well. Hallowell, (1999) looked at how face to face communication is essential for human movement, an authentic psychological encounter that occurs when two people share the same physical space as well as emotional and intellectual attention. However on the other hand face to face communication can be disruptive and costly, and other forms of communication might be preferable. Sproull and Kiesler, (1992) found that technological changes can help people cross social, psychological and physical boundaries and can effect group behaviour and decision ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 22. The Facebook Sonnet: Decreases Face-to-Face Communication "The Facebook Sonnet" by Sherman Alexie brings up ideas and controversy over social media because it decreases face–to–face communication. Though Facebook allows people to contact old and new friends, it renders away from the traditional social interaction. Online, people are easily connected by one simple click. From liking one's status to posting multiple pictures, Facebook demands so much attention that it's easy for users to get attach. They get caught up in all the online aspect of their lives that they fail to appreciate real life relationships and experiences. Within Alexie's diction and tone, "The Facebook Sonnet" belittles the social media website by showing how society are either focused on their image or stuck in the past to... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Facebook can have the biggest impact on someone without even knowing it. Alexie uses great diction in the poem to demonstrate his disapproval of Facebook by using words that have much more effect such as "present" and "fame." Facebook portrays life as it truly is but most of the time it portrays life as people think it should be or wish it could be. This goes back to Alexie's use of "present." Today, due to the high usage of social media, people in our society haven't been living in the present. Hiding behind computer screens, users have made Facebook their escape from reality. It's easier to hide behind a screen than to face real problems in the real world. People are either imagining their unrealistic future or stuck in the past trying to relive their glory days. Facebook allows people to see other users' lives and wish upon themselves that their lives would turn out as glamorous. For many users in older generations, Facebook enables them to reminisce on old times with old friends. Therefore, a lot of the time people forget to live in the present. It's human nature to always want what we can't have or to ask ourselves the what if question. On the other hand, with the word "fame" in the poem, it regards back to the major attention people yearn for on Facebook. If it's not how many friends a user have on Facebook, then it's how many comments one will get on a post. Users are so worried about their image that they ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 23. The Pros And Cons Of Face To Face Communication Whenever meeting up with friends or family, they always seem to be scrolling up and down on their phone. Majority of the time this means that they're either on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, replying to text messages or emails. Many of us have become dependent on using our technological devices to communicate and to meet new people since it's convenient for us, making face to face communication scarce in modern society. Using social media to communicate comes with many high risks. Not being able to see who you are communicating with personally can be risky because you wouldn't be able to know if the person is real or fake. Although technology and social media are used all around the world by individuals who are looking for new people to interact with face to face communication would be the best way to interact with new people, since you can personally see them and be more comfortable in trusting them. Using face to face communication can express emotions through the tone of your voice or facial expressions, which you cannot receive when using social media. Instead of using facial expressions to show how you feel you would use emoticons or tell the person the way you feel through a text message. Many times the use of emotion through social media can lead to cyber bullying because the person wouldn't be able to see you to know if you are being serious or sarcastic towards them. Paul Booth, an assistant professor of media and cinema studies in the College of Communication ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 24. Negative Effects Of Face To Face Communication 1: There are positive strides in the way we communicate via phone, and at the same time technology has it's fair share of adverse effects; in this case its face–to–face communication. Most people do not even bother with checking in personally anymore. In fact, Rebecca Bedrossian admits to this when she says, " It's true, these days I'm more likely to check in with family and friends via text, than I am to pick up the phone and call, or drop in to say 'Hello'" (2). Shooting a quick text is more convenient than having to get in your car and drive over a friend's or relative's house to see how their doing. Being honest, no one really has time for friendly chats anymore. Nowadays, we rely on social media to see what our family and friends have been up to. A few clicks and we have instant access to their personal lives; in fact, Matthew Murray is a perfect example of how most people use social media "This year has been momentous in the lives of my facebook friends. Four got engaged. One had a baby. Two who are married and have been trying to get pregnant for the better part of 10 years announced that they were finally expecting." (1) With no worry of being left out of what's going on, people rarely physically go see how someone is doing. Carter goes on to prove the extent of how social media affects our communication by saying, " ...I didn't find out about any of this when it happened. Why? Because I relied on Facebook for following their lives" (1) People don't actually ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 25. Personal Narrative: Face-To-Face Communication Throughout my college career Communication Studies has always been what I anticipated my job field to be in due to my interest in public speaking as well as the interpersonal skills that I gained when working and talking to people in previous jobs as well as in classes. When looking to take on an internship I knew that I wanted to work in a field that required being face–to–face with clients and that is why I chose to accept the internship at World Class Solutions in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania as a Marketing Communication Assistant. When interviewing for this position I loved the atmosphere as well as the people that work for this company as they were so friendly and welcoming. This internship has everything I hope for in a full time career and I hope to learn how to market different products to clients as well as gain more experience in face–to–face communication. With this internship I am hopeful that I will be able to learn more of the roles throughout this company such as the different promotions they offer and a bit of what each person does in the office as well as sit in on interviews with clients and see the step by step process in how they promote the clients product. Accepting this internship and having it be everything I hope for in a new job has really set me up for success because I am able to learn the field through an intern perspective and hopefully get a taste of what the... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Overall, this internship will be a great fit for my future endeavors. I am extremely interested in the field of working with clients and being able to help them. By promoting their products and being out in the field to promote them it will allow me to gain even more experience. This internship will allow me to get a taste of the real world while allowing me to gain experience and hopefully move forward with this company as an ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 26. Emotion Detection Using Sobel Filtering And Retrieving... Emotion Detection using Sobel Filtering and Retrieving with Sparse Code words Mahevish Fatima Mohammed Gani Study Branch: Computer Science and Engineering Designation: Student Contact Number: 9637064965 Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra ABSTRACT : Extracting and understanding of emotion is of high importance for the interaction among human and machine communication systems. The most expressive way to display the human's emotion is through facial expression analysis. This paper presents and implements an automatic extraction of facial expression and emotion from still image. There are steps to detect the facial emotion; (1) Preprocessing,skin color segmentation and edge detection using Sobel filtering and (2) Verifying the emotion of characteristic with Bezier curve.Retriving emotion using sparse codewords which are used to analyze this results in medicine, and enhancement in CBIR. To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, we assess the ratio of success with emotionally expressive facial image database. Experimental results shows average 66.6% of success to analyze emotion. Keywords: Facial Expression,Preprocessing ,Skin Color Segmentation,Sobel Filters,Bezier Curve, Attribute enhanced sparse codeword. I. INTRODUCTION: Emotion plays an important role in human communication and therefore also human machine dialog systems ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 27. Face To Face Communication In So You Ve Been Publicly Shamed Technological advances have undoubtedly changed the way that humans communicate with each other, but is it leading the old fashioned method of face–to–face communication towards deterioration? Popularity in the usage of cyber communication has most definitely expanded, coming with its own advantages and disadvantages. The argument that cyber communication is possibly replacing face–to–face communication is argued, while many fail to realize that face–to–face communication has its own disadvantages as well. Both these methods of communication function in conjunction with one another, consequently, one cannot replace the other. Jon Ronson is able to provide strong examples of the disadvantages of cyber communication in his novel So You've Been Publicly Shamed, while failing to note that there are also definite advantages to cyber communication, as well as positive and negative aspects to face–to–face communication. Cyber communication has the ability to completely deteriorate people's reputations, as shown in Jon Ronson's novel So You've Been Publicly Shamed. Cyber communication, more specifically, social media, has 'internet trolls' hiding behind screens that voluntarily slander others. Then there are everyday people, such as Justine Sacco, that choose to say the wrong thing and find their lives ruined and jobs lost. Jon Ronson poses an interesting question in regards to the slander that Sacco received after posting her tweets, "what was it for: just some social media drama?" ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 28. The Importance Of Face To Face Communication When using a cell phone, a person can send texts, connect to social media, and make voice calls as a way to talk with others in the community. While this feature of cell phones are good for helping a person create and support his or her social life, relying on this feature too much can do more harm than good to a person's communication skills. Depending on a cell phone as the only means of communicating to the rest of the world eliminates the need for a person to speak face to face with someone else in the community. If a person does not engage in these everyday social activities, then face to face skills receive a lack of development, are not applied to the social aspects of life, and ruins a person's ability to sit down and have a normal conversation. While face to face communication in our society may seem traditional and obsolete in a world dominated by cell phones, this traditional form of communication is still very much relevant in our society as it helps to produce a unique form of interaction that cannot be emulated by the interpersonal nature of cell phones. While cell phone engagement is broad, digitized, and allows a person to conversate anywhere, it does not capture the true essence and meaning of what it is like to partake is a conversation with someone else like face to face communication can do. In a social situation, face to face communication excels at allowing a speaker to develop a better understanding of a conversation through a person or audience's ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 29. How Technology Affects Our Communication Skills With Face... Technology: Love It or Leave It It hasn't been but only recently that the use of modern technology has become so important to an individual's everyday life. If we're not calling someone, we're texting, we're snapchatting, we're even checking the news and up–to–date sports scores on our phones/computers/tablets/TVs/watches. As we're tranced by a lit screen, do we notice the affect that technology has on us, or is it just day by day we keep getting more sucked in to the nicer amenities of life without a second thought? How has the use of technology affected our communication skills with face–to–face conversations with other individuals? Communication has been an important tool humans use since the dawn of time. However, the new millennium especially, has found new ways to communicate through technology. Looking for ways to explain more about my topic, I looked into the databases Mizzou offers and found a helpful article through ERIC database. "We can define communication as the expression of meaning or a message conveyed by a sender to a receiver through some channel or medium" (Deal 11). When one thinks of communication they probably think of a conversation that takes place between two or more individuals using voices or sound waves. The message may be as simple as a "hello and the weather is great" or even as complex as a scholarly article being discussed between professors. Wherever you are in the world, communication surrounds us. Throwing it back to the 1800's, every ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 30. Face To Face Communication Essay Communication is an activity of sharing ideas, information, feelings, attitudes or commands through the use of verbal or non–verbal gestures. Email, text messages and face to face communication are all methods of communication. Effective communication is when the sender sends a message by using an appropriate medium and the receiver completely understands and gives a feedback if necessary. A world without effectivecommunication would be in total chaos! As far as I am concerned, Face to Face communication is better than other types of communication like telephone, email or by texts. Recently the development of communication tools has accelerated. New and easier ways of communication have been brought forward which have led to a decrease in face to face communication. Even though there are different ways of communication methods such as text messaging, email or telephone call, talking to the people by facing their faces would provide many advantages. The first is body ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... As in very large organization it might be very difficult, expensive and time consuming for a director communicate face to face with each employee. It is ver difficult to get a message accros to a large gathering even though the speaker is addressing them face to face the audience seenms to miss the message because the most vital point of face to face communication which is the personnel touc is missing. The feedback is often misinterpreted.Face to face communication is very ineffective if the listener is not attentive . he can misunderstood the message and whole point of communication would be very useless. One of the major problem in an organization is miscommunication it can lead to inefficiency and wrong deciosns . the listener mught miss the message if the communication is too long and irrelevant . the use of proper language is also very important. The receiver does not have any record of the message which might lead to human ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 31. Face Of Face Communication A Lost Art Face to Face Communication a Lost Art As of today I can truly say that most youth and young adults are lacking in social communication skills. We have lost the art of letter writing, face to face interaction, even phone conversations lack in social etiquette. However, the most important of these loses is the face to face communication, without it we will be lost in a world of Tweets, Instagram's and Facebook. I am of the old school beliefs that face time more efficient than other kinds of communication. When you are face to face with someone you can see there non–verbal clues, this clues will tell you how to react to someone while talking with them. Another way to explain it is that you can understand verbally what someone is saying to you, by taking in their facial features, body languages, the tone in their voices, oh and what you are seeing in front of you. If there are notes, PowerPoints, charts etc... Let's take for example Facebook, a person can have thousands of friends and not know ninety–five percent of them. There is no closeness or warmth with this type of communication. It is very impersonal and just plain lazy to me. Individuals are telling their whole life story on this thing, and venting all of their emotion which no one can see or hear. So what happens when someone reads it, most likely what you are saying and how they receive it, will be to very different. Texting, the main culprit of all technology, I just can't stand this one. It has made our youth lazy ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 32. Goals in Conflict Essay Wilmot and Hocker have stated in the Seventh Edition of Interpersonal Conflict that "[c]onflict is more than a disagreement; it is when people believe that another interferes with their interests and goals" (p. 62). When considering conflict, interests and goals are considered the same thing. There are four general types of interests and goals which are topic or content, relational, identity (or facework), and process; these together are easily remembered by using the acronym TRIP(Wilmot, 2007. p.63). To better describe and explain these types of goals, the following personalconflict will be used. The Crossen Family consists of five members, the mother (myself), the husband (William), and the three female children (Brittney, Kerra, and... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... p.65). In conflicts relational goals need to be realized and managed because they are the center of all conflicts (Wilmot, 2007. p.67) but they are not easily recognized internally or externally, and they are interpreted differently by each party (Wilmot, 2007. p.67). In the reviewed conflict, the parents feel that the children are becoming more independent, and do not care what the parents think or need. The children believe that the parents do not consider the things that are important to the children to be important. Basically, each seems to seek the respect from the other units. The way that each will react throughout the conflict will express how that person believes the other is thinking about them. They will react to an image that they have created of the other person that probably is not accurate (Wilmot, 2007. p.69). Because relationship goals are not easily determined, these goals will escalate. Identity or face–saving goals consider who a person is in the interaction. The focus includes how identity of self is protected or repaired throughout the conflict. Although this goal continues throughout the conflict, it will be more prominent at certain times of conflicts (Wilmot, 2007. p.69). Maintaining self–identity and face–saving can be very open and obvious. In the described conflict I told ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 33. Sherry Turkle Communication : The Negative Effects Of... Face to face communication. So a while or so was thanksgiving. My mom had stressed too much about the food and my sisters and I all fought for the last roll. Every year at Thanksgiving, since my family is pretty big, we fight over really little things. This year my mom, my sisters, and I were all seated on our long sectional and fighting over who could take home what leftovers. It was about fifteen minutes into our arguments when I looked up and realized that we were fighting without words. All of us had our phones out and were arguing with each other through the family group chat. This shows how much technology has set us apart from one another. We need to think about the effect that a lack of face–to–face communication brings...By looking at what harm replacing phone conversation with face–to–face talking causes, the benefits of actually talking to another person, and how to put the phone down and start talking to one another, we can prevent a future where all of our holidays are skyped in. Sherry Turkle argues in her new book Reclaiming Conversation, much of the "communication" that takes place on our smartphones is actually a poor substitute for genuine, face–to–face conversation. Since the invention of texting and the ability for messages to be sent at a rapid speed, Teens have shifted from conventional conversational methods to communicating mostly through the use of texting and emojis CNN once said– Developmental psychologists studying the impact of texting and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 34. Course Description : Academic Coaches Course Description: Academic Coaches/Leaders You will attend four face to face (F2F) Professional Learning days. During those days you will be actively engaged as a learner. Your engagement will happen along two different paths. First, you will be reading, thinking, collaborating, and writing reflections about mathematical domains, professional journal articles, and or the mathematical practices. Secondly you will be actively engaged in learning about and doing hands–on AIMS math tasks. Once the Face 2 Face Learning day is completed and upon returning to their school, academic coaches and academic leaders are expected to observe the implementation of ONE AIMS math task in a math class, and submit TWO written reflections of the experience in an organized manner by using the Haiku online site. One of these reflections will be visible only to the AIMS F2F Facilitators and the AIMS Online instructors and one will be visible to all of the AIMS Instructors and all of the participants in your academic coaching and academic leaders group to encourage collegiality, connection, and to create and maintain a learning community. For the purposes of this project the academic coaches and academic leaders will use "An Instructional Implementation Sequence for Attaining the CCSS Student Practices in Mathematics" from Hull, Balka, and Harbin Miles (2011) as a guiding document from which to base their observation and reflections. Coaches and leaders will look for patterns of growth in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 35. The Face Of Face Communications In the past twenty years, the face to face communications as well as the ways of communication have changed. With the creation of numerous devices, applications, and an unbelievable connection with each other, the biggest distances have been shortened in ways never imagined. Two decades ago, people could not imagine how effective and fast a device of the size of the palm of your hand could connect you with people all over the world. With great ideas and a mentality of progress, humans and technology have changed the way we interact and how we used to see the world. These changes have helped to create a more capable society which is able to do things we once thought they were impossible, but it also has had a negative impact in the way we behave. Within the communication world, the evolution of the telephone is the biggest attraction for people of all ages. In the past, landlines were the main source of communication, while cellphones were uncommon, or actually inexistent. We have come from telephones which only capability was to call, to smartphones that have calling, texting, emailing, and different social networks that connect you with people world widely; and all this is in one simple device that is every time smaller and better. A smartphone is the combination between a phone and a computer. It is capable of do multiple task, such as connect to internet to check emails, make video calls, take pictures, access to documents and websites of your preference, and the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 36. The Face Of Face Communication Face–to–Face communication (F2F) Businesses nowadays are constantly making an effort to monitor employee movements and improve productivity. This is where a device that can help to monitor and build profile of an employee, and improve productivity required. This will enable the organization's management to gather business insights and improve their profitability. Prosodica will play a significant role in order to analyze performance of employees who deal with clients on a regular basis. Using the real–time analysis feature of Prosodica, meaningful alerts can be generated for the employee and the communication summary can be obtained for a particular time interval, which the performance management team can review. In addition, the employee can perform better due to real–time alerts generated by Prosodica and hence increase the conversion rate for each sale. [*Source: Sociometric BadgeВ®, Humanyze.com] Applications: Extract social signals from voice communication. Track location of employee. Collect metadata to create customized reports; one for employee and one for management. Map business goals with employee's sales performance. Improve engagement which in turn will reduce stress. Risks: It may lead to an oppressive work environment that will affect the team/individual's morale. Use – Cases: Employee/Team Performance: The means of communication between employees can vary. It mostly involves verbal communication and electronic communication. Prosodica ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 37. The Naked Face By Malcom Gladwell Is it Possible to Understand Facial Expressions? The essay "The Naked Face" written by Malcom Gladwell is about the ability of recognizing the meaning behind someone's facial expressions. He starts the essay with a life or death situation between an inner city police officer and a suspect that both are pointing guns at each other. The officer clearly has the right to shoot the suspect, but decided not to base on a hunch that the armed suspect was not a threat (Gladwell 24). Gladwell then demonstrates that the police officer is one out of a thousand people that scored really well on a psychology test to determine if someone is lying or telling the truth based on facial expressions (Gladwell 59). Gladwell's essay then continues with... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... When mom and dad smile with their baby, the baby smiles back. If mom or dad makes a sad face, the baby sees there is no joy in their face and will start to instinctively begin to frown. Even though that this pattern of happy and sad facial expressions are intuitive, it is also providing the baby with experience of how facial expressions are displaying playing happiness and sadness. Now that the child is school age, it has many different learned experiences with facial expressions from parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. A child will be reprimanded for doing something against the parents' wishes and will be told to stop. Children will often test the parents' limits and continue with the action and when the parent combines the verbal action along with the stern facial expression, the child understand it has reached the parent's limit. Verbal communication combined with facial expressions provides more meaning to the conversation than just words alone. Within daily communications, people judge conversations not only by the words spoken, but with the facial expressions during the conversation. However, a lot of today's conversation is taken place over digital communication which hampers the subjective of the conversation. Typed conversations can be misconstrued and taken the wrong way since there are no visual references between the two people. As Gladwell states in his essay, people who ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 38. Autobiography Of A Face : Exploration Of Health... Autobiography of a Face: Exploration of Health Communication Concepts Kara Martin University of South Dakota Over the years I have observed that it is not uncommon for people to judge others based upon standards in our society which are imposed upon us through the media via television, movies, celebrities, magazines, and music. Autobiography of a Face, is a memoir written and narrated by the late poet Lucy Grealy and was published in 1994. This book followed Lucy beginning at the age of nine when she was first diagnosed with a rare type of cancer located in her jaw called Ewing's Sarcoma. Lucy's story chronicled her struggle with her self–identity after surviving childhood cancer. A facial disfigurement that ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Rather than simply compose a story that heroically depicted her battle with cancer, Lucy added authenticity and depth to her novel with themes that revealed her struggle to "fit in", to cope with the pain of loneliness, of feeling lost within her own family, of enduring illness with stoicism, and to somehow find happiness in the aftermath of illness. This book report will examine how Lucy's story metamorphosed from an examination of her childhood experiences with cancer into a search for her own identity as an adult. The starting point where Lucy began telling her story in this novel was significant. Lucy delved in to describe a happy time in her life when she was working as a teenager with horses and children at the Diamond D Stables. By this time, she had already persevered through several surgeries. Lucy was aware that her facial disfigurement often attracted unwanted attention from smaller children, parents, and others in the community. In her mind, she felt that she got the job at the stables because she did not attend a face–to–face interview. Instead, she used the telephone to inquire about the job and did not mention her appearance. This may have been Lucy's first "real" job, but she was already suspicious that her appearance could have an undesirable effect on her ability to get a job. Beginning her story at ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 39. The True Value Of Face-To-Face Communication : Texting And... We are living in a period demanding us to frequent use of social media, especially texting, when we have to communicate with each other. As the society is getting developed more and more, the more social media occupy our daily lives incomparably than the previous generations. Nowadays, it is hard to find someone who don't have their own smartphone or any other personal devices, and their own small devices allow them to live much more convenient than those who don't have theirs. Because most of our daily work is connected to the social media, including conversation, it keeps disconnecting people's face–to–face conversation. As a result, people's preference for communicating via texting or email is making the result of an absent of face–to–face conversation. Even though there are many valuable things we can acquire only from face–to–face talk, it is a real circumstance that people do not aware its importances. It becomes pretty natural for the present generation that, even prior generations, using our own smartphone in order to fulfill our convenience and to adapt the requirement of many working places seems the best way to be a member of current society. For those reasons, however, the true value of face–to–face conversation is getting vanished. According to the book "Reclaiming Conversation" by Sherry Turkle, she points the problems we are facing has caused by frequent use of social media and the lack of face–to–face conversation and how it affects on our relationship, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 40. A Text Message From My Life One dark stormy night I got a text message from my boyfriend saying get dress we going out. When he arrived at my house we went to dinner and then back at his house. As we was sitting on the sofa, we was talking about how each other day went until his phone goes off and then he starts replying back to text message. I kept talking to him and he wasn't paying me no mind so then I sent him a text while he was sitting a couple inches from me to get his attention. It's likely you've done this, too. Then he looked at me because he knew I was mad by my facial expression, so he put his phone away in his pocket. When a person is spending alone time with their mate or just anyone in general it's a place when one gets to enjoy ones company, not a place where one get to enjoy what's going on ones side of the phone. This illustrates that there is little empathy towards people if they can't even get a face to face conversation with each other for a couple hours without one person looking at their phone. Nobody should have to send a text message to get ones attention or make them feel empathy towards them. Technology has become an important part of our daily lives and is gradually affecting the way we feel for others. As the years go on, it becomes faster, smaller. Everywhere we go we see technology or someone using it and many people would say it's a second you. Technology has made as lazy and self–aware of the world around us. We're missing out on the important conversation with others ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...