First question:
What was the most meaningful, interesting, or significant thing you learned from this chapter?
Next, answer the following:
2.    FWN discuss their assumption sand beliefs about communication.
What are your assumptions about communication as you enter the course? How are your assumptions about communication similar to the authors’? How are your assumptions different from the authors’?  How do your assumptions overlap with the authors’ assumptions?
READING REFLECTION CHAPTER 1
Instructions:
1. After reading chapter 1, write-up your responses to questions below.
2. Submit your reading reflection as a .pdf or .docx file in Moodle.
First question:
1.
What was the most meaningful, interesting, or significant thing you learned
from this chapter?
Next, answer the following:
2. FWN discuss their assumption sand beliefs about communication.
What are your assumptions about communication as you enter the course?
How are your assumptions about communication similar to the authors’?
How are your assumptions different from the authors’?
How do your assumptions overlap with the authors’ assumptions?
Communication
A Critical/Cultural Introduction
Deanna L. Fassett | John T. Warren | Keith Nainby
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COMMUNICATION
A Critical/Cultural Introduction
• CHAPTER 1: COMMUNICATION: A CULTURAL INTRODUCTION
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Overview
• Identify central concerns of
communication study from a
critical perspective
• Explore how communication is
linked to culture and power
• Distinguish between
communication as
representation and
communication as constitutive
• Define public advocacy and
explore how to build a
message for an audience
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Foundations of Our Dialogue
Terms & Common Understandings
•
Informed Choices
– knowledge that there are choices present in any
given moment and that we can act in ways that
enrich our lives and the lives of others
•
Critical Paradigm
– A worldview or way of studying communication
that requires careful analysis of power and
commitment to social justice.
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•
Critical Perspective
– The idea that we question and engage what we
experience, never taking it for granted.
•
Communication
– The collaborative construction and negotiation of
meaning between the self and others as it occurs
within cultural contexts.
•
Culture
– A system of shared meanings and assumptions that
draw people together within a social context of
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shared power.
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Foundations of Our Dialogue
Terms & Common Understandings
•
System of Meaning
– A collective set of assumptions or expectations (i.e., rules and norms that link the members).
•
Power
– A productive tension resulting from our different locations within culture.
•
Cultural Locations
– Always, even subtly, mediated or sustained by power, these are identities that provide a way of
seeing oneself within social categories in relation to each other.
•
Public Advocacy
– Engaging the public through careful, reflective, thoughtful, and responsible communication toward
an end that seeks a better world for our communities and families.
•
Critical Inquiry
– Asking complicated questions and sorting out implications of your actions
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Words for Change:
The Power of Communication
• Construction
– Communication produces the social world
– Language constructs social lives
• Its use creates and maintains relationships and social
roles.
• Communication is a way of producing the social world.
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Words for Change:
The Power of Communication
• Communication as representation
• Works to abstract or separate communication from our
lives and the world around us
• Communication as constitutive
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Words for Change:
The Power of Communication
• Communication as constitutive
• Helps create us and what we think of as our realities
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Public Advocacy: Process and Responsibilities
• Communication as Process
– Idiosyncratic, a distinct process that is somewhat
unique for each of us
– Recursive, you bounce back and forth across
different stages instead of moving in a lockstep
way from one to the next
(OUTLINING YOUR PROJECTS BECOMES KEY TO
MAINTAINING FOCUS)
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Public Advocacy: Process and Responsibilities
• Responsibility as Communicators
• Where do you want to go?
• What does communication look like in
relation to the issues you’d like to
name?
• What do the power dynamics look like?
• In what order does the communication
take place?
• What assumptions are typically made?
• Are these assumptions appropriate?
• How do you know that?
“[Communication is] a project in a perpetual state of becoming therefore, to understand communication we
experiment, explore, invent, and innovate.” ~Robert Ivie, 2004
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Toward Praxis
• Reflection: How do you
typically think about
communication? Do you
usually see it as a way of
sharing your ideas, or do
you think of communication
as a way to come up with
ideas (or something in
between)? Is one way of
understanding
communication better than
another in different
contexts (at home, at
school, at work, in
government, etc.)?
• Discussion: What is social
justice? How do we know
when something is or is not
socially just?
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