Here's the link to comment #3 and I am done and done!!!: http://natlombardo250.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/bloody-hell.html?showComment=1350552490373#c1168971749981272058 And here's my comment:
Oh
hello there Nat!
It's
so true although two may speak the same language there are so many different
forms of this depending on what culture you are from. I have a Chinese friend
named Ming who is living in Australia studying at Uni. When he first came over
he could hardly speak English and we would constantly be staring at him blankly
trying to figure out what he was trying to say. But now that he's been here
awhile and can actually speak English I still find so many things get lost in
translation. That is because he is not used to our Aussie slang and culture of ‘talk’,
I didn't realise the cultural language could differ so much until I met him
because he is constantly asking me to explain what I mean. Some examples in
which I have recieved blank confused stares include - when I told him he was a
"sticky beak", when I asked whether he wanted any "chewy",
when he was told his drink was in the "esky" , and when a bird flew into
the window and "carked it". Although he was confused Ming has adopted
many of these Aussie sayings and slangs into his vocabulary the most recent one
being "no worries" which he now says allllll the time
Here's the link to comment #2 -- http://joshnoblee.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/order-in-talk.html?showComment=1350551187272#c9087606739002588943 And this is what I wrote:
Hi
Josh, I also found this topic interesting as I have the opportunity to witness
talk in institutional settings at uni everyday. What stuck out to me in the
reading was tutor-student interactions and Goffman's notion of face. 'Talk' in
tutorials involves many features of politeness which are often used by a tutor
to attend to the face needs of the students. I have seen and experienced
examples of threats to individuals negative and positive face. Negative - when
a tutor may make a demand of a student by asking them a direct question and
Positive - relates to self-image, when they evaluate their response negatively
they are threatening their positive face.
I
agree with you that there are so many rules and regulations of 'talk' that need
to be followed. However these ways of talk are so ingrained into our
sub-conscious that you often don't even realise that you are doing it
Here's a link to my comment of Brittany's blog http://bbecker771.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/data-presentation-do-you-pretend-to.html?showComment=1350549855974#c6962052026100415036 Just in case that didn't work this is what I wrote:
Hi
Brittany, I really like your idea for your data discussion and completely
agree. Although technology has been designed to connect people, there seems to be
more socially disconnected people than ever before.
People
are using technology as a means to avoid communicating with others. A similar
example I thought of was when people avoid potentially hard, awkward,
conversations by sending a text instead of facing the person and dealing with
whatever their reaction may be (good, bad or ugly). In my opinion this is a real
problem because as people are avoiding dealing with face-to-face interactions
the result is often a lot of hurt, confused and socially disconnected people.
I
actually posted a video in my last blog that I think you would find very
helpful for your essay. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4
It's
titled "Connected, but alone" and is all about how the world is
increasingly emotionally disconnected from one another as they are missing
vital face-to-face contact with others and instead replacing it with computer
mediated conversation
Online
interactions for my personally, really started to happen around year 7. It was
just like any other the latest hot new trend that swept through the school –like
when we were all at some stage obsessed with handball, Pokemon cards or those
annoying little tamagotchis. But unlike these short-lived phases
computer-mediated communication did not die out, it is in fact expanding encompassing
all areas of life. We all started to learn a new special msn language LOL =
funny, ROFL = roll of floor laughing, LMAO = laughing my ass off??, Seriously
who came up with this stuff? Even though it was ridiculous everybody started
typing this way, shortening words, adding little numbers and not to mention all
those glittering emoticons.
Another
thing I have noticed with CMC is that often people start arguments and controversial
statements there is no way they would make in real life. Maybe it’s because
they have found a new sense of courage as the computer screen acts a sort of
barrier, shielding them from the people they are arguing with. Either CMC has
opened up an entire to platform and medium for one to express their ideas, values
and thoughts.
With
CMC comes with potential interactional complications as this form of
communication significantly differs from real life interactions. You don’t have
to reflect your true emotions (unless you type them) so one is not getting the
same emotional cues (e.g. facial and body language) to gage the direction /
vibes of the interaction. Also it poses the question do these forms of communication
allow us to form genuine emotional bonds with people or is widening the gap of
people that live in social isolation?
I
found this video from TED on online interactions the women speaking is Sherry
Turkle titled: ‘Connected, but alone’. She speaks of potential negative psychological
impacts of CMC. She expresses that CMC can cause people to end up hiding from
each other even though you are constantly ‘connected’ to others. Adolescence
who use texting for all forms of communication are missing out on learning how
to have face-to-face conversations. This form of communication lets us alter
the form of self we are going to present we can add, delete and edit what people see
of us. People may be able to tell a message to some e.g. “I love you” but they
do not help in learning about each other and how we come to know and understand
the ones around us as it gives us the illusion of companionship without the demands of
friendship. It is actually so interesting and has made me think deeper about
online interactions and really appreciate the real interactions that I have
with the people I love and care about.
