Communication and Media

The final paper is an original piece of research. The topic must be within the parameters of the course and is chosen by the participant, and approved of by the instructor. The paper is to be double spaced, 2500 words in length, not including footnotes or bibliography. 6 FALL 2020 DTEM1401 – VERSION 1.8 DR MATHIAS KLANG FOCUSED: Provide all the arguments needed to support your thesis/answer your question.  Do not add random facts or quirky points of interest. Unrelated or unsupported facts/arguments lower the legibility and grade.  STRUCTURED: You may know what you mean but you are not there when the paper is being graded. Expect to be misunderstood. Creating an outline, putting arguments in order, & rereading your paper are excellent ways of improving the structure.  DOCUMENTED: The point of the paper is to provide strong arguments. The weakest argument is the unsupported argument. I may agree with you but its still weak. Provide support for the positions you take. For example, if I was to argue that smoking is healthy you wouldn’t believe me if all I said to support the argument was “because I said so”. Show me the expert. Show me that you have read and understood the expert.  WELL PRESENTED: You are a student of communication. This course is not about grading your grammar or spelling. However, turning in a badly written paper will not improve your grade. I am looking for your ability to present analytical substance in a structured argument. I want to see you use supporting material in a clear and persuasive manner. I want you to show me that you have thought about the issue you are discussing and are able to argue in a way that does not confuse assumptions and value judgments with analysis and argument. And I want you to do all this with a high quality of writing. i uploaded the outline that i wrote, please follow it to finish this paper.

I need 5 blog posts, each being 500 words and including text and at least one visual element such as a photo or infographic. The blog posts should be related to social media trends and technology.  Here are a list of blog ideas I was given: A reflection on your most successful social media post of the semester A look back at any Turning Off a Noisy World-type disconnecting activities that you’ve tried Your opinion on a recent news items related to technology A description of your favorite thing on social media at this moment and why A roadmap to the future, explaining the skills you intend to gain after this class and your ultimate career goal

Requirements State the title of your speech and center it before starting your outline. Follow this by stating the specific purpose of your speech. Divide your outline into the introduction, body, and conclusion. Begin each section with Roman numeral I. Use roman numerals (I, II, III) for main points, capital letters (A, B, C) for subpoints, Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3) for supporting points, and lowercase letters (a, b, c) for further subdivisions. There should always be a “b” to match an “a.” There should always be a “2” to match a “1.” There should always be a “B” to match an “A.” The introduction has four parts: an opening with impact, thesis statement, connection with the audience and a preview of the speech’s main points. The body should include three to four main points with well-developed subpoints and transitions. The transitions between main points should be written in parentheses between main points. The conclusion has two parts: a review summarizing the main points and a conclusion with impact. Use complete sentences. Use only one sentence per letter or number, and separate distinct ideas into different sentences. It is not necessary to use complete sentences in situations such as the following: lists, parts of a larger whole, or places where complete sentences would be awkward or unnatural. When citing sources, put the author’s name and date in parentheses after the point (American Psychological Association, 2001). If you are quoting directly, also include the page number (American Psychological Association, 2001, p. 69). Include the full source citation in your references section at the end of the outline. References should be listed in alphabetical order.

Step 1: Follow the link to the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire, answer questions and submit https://www.webtools.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ Step 2: Read the explanation of your learning style Step 3: Write a short essay (350 words min.) that addresses the following questions: i) What (if anything) surprised you about your score and/or the descriptions? ii) How do you plan to use this information? iii) Why do you think I asked you to complete this assignment.

Argumentative Essay about Does the use of communication devices like cell phones etc. hampering our relationships? Each paragraph has logical reasoning, arguments, rebuttal, counterargument supported by specific supporting material

The module is called: everyday life and technology This module: explores the sphere of everyday … This module: ·       explores the sphere of everyday life and the position of media technologies within it.  ·       explores historical and contemporary examples of technological media within the public and private spaces of the everyday.  ·       considers major theoretical approaches to the study of media technology.  ·       asks how a variety of new media forms – including television, radio, mobile communications, the internet, computers – are socially shaped, re-shaped, and experienced as forms of material culture and how everyday life itself might be theorized in relation to media.   Information about media diary essay 1.    This can take many forms. You are encouraged to think of your own way of presenting the material, and of gathering the material. The diary (which might be ‘actuality’ or ‘ethno-fiction’, and might be based on you or someone else) should be fieldwork of some form. It shouldn’t take the form of an essay but should be data, bringing together material and references to the reading. The simplest way of doing this is to think of it as the day in the life of a media/technology-using creature, but you might also want to think of doing it in other ways (a day in the life of a ‘family’ computer, for instance). The point of the exercise is to collect empirical information and to connect this to the issues that we have been addressing in the module. You should aim to investigate the rhythms of media use embedded in the everyday.   Information for the essay for Everyday Life and Technology Word length 4,500 words Basically you are allowed to set your own project which you can think of as a mini-investigation that might be historical, ethnographic, and so on. This essay requires two things from you – an engagement with the module material and research – and this is what you will be marked on.   If it helps you, you could think of your essay in a variety of ways: If  it  helps you,  you  could think   of  your essay  in  a  variety  of ways: :Issue-based: identify the issue that you think is most interesting a productive (dailiness, or domesticity, or distraction for instance) and then identify the technology and/or media that you think is going to make this issue most vivid. Your research would need to pursue the issue (i.e. what else has been written about domesticity that might be useful in this context) and to study the specific media-techs you are looking at (this might be historical, via representation, small-scale ethnography, etc.) Object-based: here you might want to start with the media-tech that you think is particularly interesting (or weird, or awkward, whatever). The crucial think here would be to provide the most productive description of it and how it connects to the everyday. Then out of this descriptive analysis you could choose a specific issue or set of issues that you let the object dialogue with. Other based: this is open (of course). You might want to pick up on something from the worksheets, or devise your own project. It might have to do with a method more than an object or an issue (small scale ethnography, for instance). It might start with a place (the media technology of a kitchen, for instance), or of a communicative forum (weather forecasts, for instance). You might want to make this a particularly creative piece. While this allows you to be very free you still need to follow the main ingredients – engagement with ideas, and your own research.   My attempt to write an introduction  Modern technology in countless ways has changed our lives – revolutionising how we work, live and play. Until early as the 1990s, in many American households televisions have been the height of technology. In 1989, a mere 15 per cent of households had a personal machine, according to the Census Bureau. The figure had grown to 75 per cent by 2011. Owing to the abundance of emails, video conferencing, tablets , and computers, new workplaces will be unrecognisable to staff of the past.  One place where technology has had the biggest difference is in the media domain. It was once a complicated task to converse with others outside of the immediate surroundings, requiring actual letters and a lot of patience. Professional communication has involved writing letters, faxing, or spending hours on the phone for the most part of the last century. No more. Email is now the primary mode of communication for business in the workplace today.  Nowadays the world is living through a pandemic. The 2019 coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). A pandemic is described as “which happens over a large geographic region and affects an unusually high proportion of the population.”. Technologies play a vital role during the COVID-19 pandemic in maintaining our society functioning at a time of lockdowns and quarantines. My aim in this media diary is to explore my everyday technology practises throughout the outbreak.   I would like to have the essay (issue based) way. Here are some bullet points. –       On the last week of April Kuwaiti students in the UK have been evacuated due to the coronavirus outbreak.  –       We had to download an app called “shlonik” in Kuwait when we arrive so they could track our location as we should be quarantined for 28 days. –       For people who can’t quarantine at home because they don’t have a place by themselves or they have an elderly or sick person who live in the house, just to be safer the Kuwait government provided free 14 day quarantine for students that were abroad in hotels in Kuwait.  –       I was in one of the hotels when I first arrived they gave me a bracelet that was linked to the “shlonik app”   –       Three times a day for 28 days the shlonik app sends me a notification to send them a selfie for them to make sure that I am indoor and alone  –       I wanted the essay to be about the routine in quarantine which is basically for 14 days I would wake up at 12PM join the online class using my laptop, at 3 I used to kill time watching tv, and I use my phone to contact my family and friends few times a day and take selfies using the shlonik app. These are some bullet points for what I want to be written in the essay. The three main technologies that I want the focus on are the laptop, phone, tv. –       Some of the references I want in the essay: 1      Evereyday life as a critical concept (Ben Highmore) 2      EVERYDAY LIFE  SOCIOLOGY Patricia A.  Adler and Peter Adler  3      Let us then Return to the Murmuring of Everyday Practices: A Note on Michel de Certeau, Television and Everyday Life (Roger Silverston) 4      Saturated and situated: expanding the meaning of media in the routines of everyday life. (Sarah Pink) 5      Most importantly anything from the writer (Michael Bull).

They say after you deliver a speech there’s three speeches that you think about 1) the speech you prepared 2) the speech you gave 3) the speech you wish you would have given  Reflect on your Informational Speech submission. What went well? What areas do you have for improvement? What lessons did you learn?

Please answer the following in APA format.  APA-6th-Edition-Template-without-Abstract.dot How well do you communicate with others?  Where do you feel like you can improve? USE APA Template 300-350 words

1. Actively complete the required readings, highlighting key phrases, terms, and quotations. Take notes, with careful attention to page numbers, identifying and explaining the main arguments and critical points made by the author(s). Define key terms.  2. Consider your interest in the topic, your knowledge of the Australian media industry in question, the relevance of the material discussed. (THE PRESS) 3. Draft your Reflective Journal Entry. You might like to consider some of the following questions to assist your reflection: • What knowledge do you bring to this topic?  • What were you hoping to learn?  • What were the key points from the required reading? How useful were they to your understanding?  • What does the reading not achieve?  • How does a case study of your choice illuminate the critical concepts of the week?  4. Redraft, edit, and proof-read your work. Ensure that your expression is clear, and you use proper referencing throughout your journal entry. Direct quotes and paraphrasing require page number referencing. The tone of the Reflective Journal Entries is critical (that is, substantiated with references to the required reading and written in full, coherent sentences), but it also a personal form of writing that allows you to speak about your own knowledge and experience of Australian Media and how the required reading has shaped your knowledge. Therefore, writing in the first-person (“I think that this means…”, “I connect this idea…”, “In my experience…”) is encouraged. You must mark your writing based on the document provided. YOU MUST ACHIEVE THESE CRITERIA.  Please check the file: (Rubric) this is a requirement if not achieved will get a refund.

Make 5 visualisation with Tableau+ one visualisation with Leximancer and write 1300 words report.  (data sets will be provided) about ( Master Chef Australia) Introduction (~200 words) Briefly, tell the reader what the dataset is about, and what the analysis involves.     Main Body (~1000 words) Start with the summative report of your findings from Tableau. What have you learned about the data using the various visualisations that you have created? You can screenshot or export some of the visualisations and include them in the text, so that the reader can easily follow your report. If your visualisation contains identifiable information, blur it out or redact it.   Please avoid being too descriptive, and instead provide critical insights.       Move to the second type of visualisation that you have created (Gephi or Leximancer). Explain what it can add to the findings from your Tableau analysis. Summarise the main findings you obtained from the visual investigation of the network or texts. You can screenshot or export the network graphs, and the settings you used to create them (e.g. algorithm, parameters, sizes, number of themes, etc.).   Conclusion (~200 words) Briefly discuss the strengths, potentials, and limitations of the study. What are some other approaches that we can use to understand the data better? Where do you think this type of analysis can be used? Who might benefit from the sort of analyses that you have showcased?