Communication

There are 4 different styles of listening (action, time, people, and content oriented listening). Take the self-assessment attached. After taking the assessment, write 1-2 cohesive paragraphs, double spaced. It should be about ½-3/4 of a page. You do not need a formal introduction or conclusion, but you need a clear topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph. Address the following: 1. Using your self-assessment results, identify listening style or styles you use the most. Explain briefly whether or not you thought the assessment was accurate. 2. Then provide at least one specific example to illustrate a time when you used one of the listening styles you identified above. 3. Explain why you think you might have used that listening style in that situation. 4. You should use your example to explain how your listening style helped to create either productive or non-productive communication. Explain why you think it was an effective or ineffective listening style in that situation.

You are to watch and analyze this clip in your essay due Monday, July 27 at 11:59 pm. In 500 words, explain two ways in which President Obama invokes convenience in his discussion of drone warfare, referring to Slack and Wise. Then, one consequence in this instance (related to drone warfare) of living in a technological culture that privileges convenience? Again, draw from Slack and Wise in explaining this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1tz9XiqqMQ&t=304s

Who today has a cult of personality? Why? It used to be you had to actually do something to become well known. Now, you’re well known because you’re, well, well known. Also, there are cults of personalities on Youtube. These people can cause a lot of heartache (re: Alex Jones) as well as humor and talent. Then there are the people who get a million hits because they show themselves eating a different bagel these days. There are also far right web sites with young appealing looking people hosting them that are out right fascist. What are your thoughts about this?

Explain how personal cultural values and biases, and verbal and non-verbal communication impact relationships Describe the value of understanding intercultural communication in our work with individuals or groups from different cultures Be able to apply your understanding to a more recent immigrant/refugee group ( such as Syria, Somalia, other Arab cultural groups etc). coming to Canada. Choice A Read: Ing’s “Cultural Competence” and review Ing and Gabor’s “Cross-cultural supervision: From differences that divide to strength in diversity.” and Module 6. The book chapters stress the importance of evaluators/supervisors becoming culturally competent and responsive and to individualize their approach for evaluation and to better influence their staff’s learning, development, and performance. 1.In the discussion board, discuss how you would demonstrate understanding of a variety of the concepts discussed in the articles, and Module 6. Apply these chapters and Module 6 to a) your work in human services (EA etc.) and as well as personal/working/teaching relationships and b) to one refugee/immigrant group that recently came to Canada. You must provide examples in your discussion so it teaches your readers how to work with that group and important intercultural communication and information to know about the group 2.Be certain to include in your discussion a) how differences in intercultural communication (verbal, non-verbal communication, and perceptions – please include all) impacts working and personal relationships. Remember to provide describe concepts, apply with examples! This Discussion response must demonstrate knowledge (description and application of concept) in Intercultural Communication as well as demonstrating awareness, understanding and its application in your work. Again, choose one refugee/immigrant group that recently came to Canada for your examples.

Communication Triangle Analysis Assignment The concept of the communication triangle is reinforced throughout this program—in particular, understanding the needs of a specific audience. This assignment will demonstrate your ability to analyze your audience in an effort to establish a high degree of common ground throughout your proposal. After you’ve selected an issue for your proposal, and before you write an outline, you will analyze key areas of communication: the issue (stated as a claim), general purpose, intended audience, reader usability, and issue exigency. Your task is to analyze the audience’s needs according to key features, exemplifying how you intend to establish common ground. For this assignment, you should also analyze each area of the proposal: Benefits Reader expectations Cost and materials Sources (existing and still needed) The future, if nothing is done Rhetorical devices You’ll find a sample analysis in Lesson 3. Requirements: Fully develop each area in paragraph form. Use APA style of documentation. Include a four-line heading (your name, facilitator’s name, course information, due date), the title of assignment, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and indented paragraphs.

The books to find key theories are : Planet TV (Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar 2003), Golden Arches East (James L. Watson, 2006) Feel free to use these Key Terms foud in Chapter 6. Media Imperialism, Culture, Culture Imperialism, hermeneutic naivety of most culture imperialism, cultural appropriation, Cross cultural communication (pg 277), Culture representation, Book Recentering Globalization (Koichi Iwabuchi). Feel free to use terms: Japanization (pg 9) transnational (pg 16,52), cultural discount (pg 26), Cultural Odor (pg. 27), Culture Imperialism (pg 39),Transculturalization (pg 40), Hybridity (pg 5,43), Fluid essentialism (pg 54), Japaneseness (pg 55),racial/ethnic assimilation to symbolic/cultural mixing (pg 57), Culture and civilization (pg 64), Asianism (pg 158-9), PanAsian Identity (pg. 175), Cross Fertilization (pg 210) Other Terms: Cultural-hybridization Please use Korean Hip Hop or K-Hip Hop as examples and popular Korean Rappers compared to black rappers. Please use K-Pop as an example compared to Black groups like New Edition, Boyz II Men. How South Korean women get butt, lip and breast enlargements to look lile black women. How South Korean youth wear cornrows, get their hair treated to wear afros and other beauty treands found amongst african americans. How they imitate african american fashion trends. Wearing Jordans, Michael Kors, baggy pants…etc How in Seoul Korea ( south Korea) they eat soul food like fried chicken, korean candied yams, mac and cheese. How South Korean youth used african american slang. Is their obsession with black culture a compliment or offensive. In additon to the two books listed above…here are a few other books that “may ” help all sources must be text books, books, journals (peer reviewed) sources can NOT be magazine articles, web info: “Hybrid Hallyu: The African American Tradition in K-Pop.” In Global Asian American Popular Cultures, edited by Davé Shilpa, Nishime Leilani, and Oren Tasha, 290-303. New York: New Yo Condry, Ian. Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalisation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 Fuhr, Michael. Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea. New York: Routledge, 2016. Hong, Euny. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture. New York: Picador, 2014. Huq, Rupa. Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2006. Jin, Dal Yong. New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Will need an annoted bibliography or provide sources and I will create one.

Define and describe the specific activities you participated in to build your self esteem. Why did you choose these specific actions? Explain for example: If you posted quotes or words of affirmation around your living space, why did you choose these specific quotes? What did they represent to you and why? I choose to post quotes in my mirror bathroom and vanity mirror. I changed them every two/three days. Telling myself I am beautiful, trying to feel more confident with in myself. What was your goal in choosing these actions? What did you hope to accomplish before starting this activity week? To feel more confident within myself. What were the feelings you had as you practiced building your self esteem? Connect to concepts and key terms within the textbook to help define and describe in detail. Explain how you used these actions or quotes within your activity week. How did you take negative self messages and turn them into positive ones throughout this week? Explain Did this make a difference? Why or why not? Apply the notions of self-fulfilling prophecy to your response. What was the “aftermath” or result of this activity week? Did you notice a difference in your self talk ? Explain Did you notice a difference in your interactions with others? Explain Were you able to build the muscle of changing your thoughts from negative to positive over the week? Why or why not? Explain What is your overall impression of this activity? What could you have done differently to make your communication experience better? Explain What did you learn about mindfulness and/or listening from this activity? Explain What do you plan to do differently in your everyday life now that you have gone through this experience? Explain

What are, in your opinion, the main differences and similarities between the 19 century and 20 century social movements? How and why did those differences occur? And the 21st century social movements? What is new and what’s old in today’s social movements? Elaborate a critical essay responding to these questions; support your paper with the syllabus’ readings (especially Tilly’s chapters and other materials you consider useful). Tips for writing: Read the prompt carefully, draft an outline with major ideas, cases of social movements, readings, etc. Think on a structure for your essay, and one or two arguments to organize your thoughts on the subject. Then write. please give at lease 3 citations. Word length: around 1000

prepare a PowerPoint presentation that focuses on a different culture that you would like to learn to communicate with effectively. At a minimum, the presentation should include the following elements: -Overview of the culture -Key characteristics /dimensions of the culture that should be learned before communications begin (include at least six dimensions) -Compare/contrast the culture with your culture (based on the dimensions you included in #2) -Create a culture communication plan specifically for your chosen culture that will help you and your workplace to conduct -effective communications. This culture communication plan should include an outline or brief discussion of the three or -four components you have found most critical. -Provide a summary/recommendations for your organization to move forward with training for cultural communication. Your presentation should be a minimum of 15 content slides (not including the title slide and references slide). Your slides should include speaker notes placed in the “notes” section of the slide In addition, you should have a minimum of three scholarly sources. References should be written in proper APA formatting.

Identify one popular social media platform and select a company that utilizes it on a regular basis to interact with its customers. Then, write a 1-2 page paper that addresses the following: 1. Review the company’s social media page and explain how they use the site to provide customer service, respond to customer concerns, and highlight customer satisfaction. 2. Based on your review, provide an example of one situation where the company used the site to address a customer concern or complaint. 3. Finally, describe some specific ways that you would use social media to enhance customer service and improve communication with customers if you were in charge of customer service for the company.