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I feel that we're standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man's consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos. I have a deep and...
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How to Teach Civil Debate Every community confronts divisive times. A healthy community has figured out how to have disagreements without being disagreeable. So, a key skill is teaching how to have a civil debate. The civicsrenewalnetwork.org offers a range of...
Conservative Approach to Public Speaking A post caught my eye The New Bible for Public Speaking. It's from townhall.com, a very conservative media outlet. And while the author mentions Trump in this piece, it is still important. The take-aways from this post are:...
Mediated Democracy - The Future of Political Agency The notion of ‘political agency’ draws attention at the (media) practices through which social actors re- produce, reorganise and challenge politics. At the same time, it poses questions about the structures, econom-...
Information Technology and Social Change Contents INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1. THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES 2. SOCIETY IN THE SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE THE DYNAMIC STATE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS THE EVOLUTION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF...
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” — Peter Drucker
People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty. There are many different...
Quarantine Fatigue Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic. In the earliest years of the HIV epidemic, confusion and fear reigned. AIDS was still known as the “gay plague.” To the extent...
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This Constitutive Approach to Interpersonal Communication Studies suggests Communication can be measured by the stability of the network built.
Source, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/05/08/georgia-murder-arrest-n2568454 I feel so sorry for the family of this young man, apparently a very nice young man at that, but please, can we have a moratorium on calling every single death of anyone of...
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor known as the “father of information theory” and as the “father of the Information Age”
HarpersMagazine-The Origins of Speech
History of Information Technologies In an iBook I wrote, “The 5 Ages of Information,” I break information into 5 distinct ages. In the iBook I lay out a timeline for the changes. It is critical to note the acceleration of changes over history. The first...
This lesson suggests that Fractal Thinking is a new answer to the age-old question: How can we improve our “political” systems?” This lesson suggests that A Stable Political System can be achieved using Fractal Thinking. Fractal Thinking says that individuals can create a stable system “spontaneously” without a Government or Church Central Authority. Updated Feb. 2024
Protect yourself from misinformation? Throughout history, many smart people have fallen for misinformation. It is often hard to protect yourself from misinformation. As a result, few actually try. However, while it is often hard to protect yourself from...
Conservative Approach to Public Speaking A post caught my eye The New Bible for Public Speaking. It's from townhall.com, a very conservative media outlet. And while the author mentions Trump in this piece, it is still important. The take-aways from this post are:...
The Cognitive Science of Free Will How to make the best decisions is one of the "Key Questions" the @lantis Learning Community is interested in. This lesson is focused on how the brain constrains our decision making by fooling us about Free Will One of the main...
The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas. Networks pervade our lives. Every day we use intricate networks of roads, railways, maritime routes and...
The Ritual Model of communication suggests we communicate as a way to maintain our communities, not just to pass information. The thinking suggests that connecting with others is “sometimes” more important than what we might connect about. Updated Dec. 2023
How to Write a Vision and Mission Statement Do you know where your business is headed? And how it’s going to get there? Do you know where you are going? Do you know when you get there? Clear mission and vision statements will certainly help you focus on your core...
Levels of Communications Goals Overview Relative to the broad subject of communication, there seem to be three levels of goals for effective communication. There could be more, perhaps 4 or 5 levels. Could pragmatic also be a level? Thus it seems reasonable...
Humble Inquiry - The best way to learn more. American culture prioritizes action, practicality, and competition over courteousness and respect. But there’s a different way. In his popular book, retired MIT professor Edgar H. Schein encourages openness and curiosity...
Educational Blockchains are Catching On Blockchain is advancing in higher education, as it is in all of society, with some interesting new applications and ramifications. The origins of "Blockchains" stem from the need to track packets as they move through the network...
Communication with Diplomacy and Tact Defined generally as communicating in ways that instill good feelings in others and avoid creating bad feelings, communicating with diplomacy and tact requires specific linguistic and nonlinguistic considerations. This course...
OTHER WIRELESS CONSIDERATIONS Installed Life Cycle Costs The cost of a wireless system is a rapidly moving target, and it can’t be said if costs are rising or falling because the equipment is getting more complex. Most people assume that a wireless LAN is less...
Providing Feedback is a fundamental force in Communication. This lesson suggests three things to do before giving feedback: assess the quality of your relationship, diagnose the situation and clarify your motives, make sure there is clear agreement about goals, roles, and expectations. Updated Sept. 2023
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset” So often in preparing to communicate, we make a fundamental mistake: we enter a messenger mindset. Rather than establishing a clear goal and aiming to persuade our audience, we set out to inform, to update, to share. On this path, we end...
Communication Styles to Avoid Very negative. Seeing things in black and white, and blowing things out of proportion. The glass for this person is usually half empty as they dwell heavily on the worst possible outcome. They “should” on others, placing expectations of...
Communication Quotes No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. — Mark Twain To effectively communicate, we...
Telecommunication Law Fundamentals The course focuses on the development of telecommunications law and policy as it relates to a variety of telecommunications technologies: broadcast spectrum of radio and television cable and satellite wireline and cellular telephone...
Lawrence Lessig http://www.lessig.org Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet...
Telecommunications Law deals with several themes, which specifically include: The Role of Laws and Regulations in a Community and How to ensure the laws are optimal How Laws affect the integration and convergence of the different telecommunications technologies The...
Reasoning Well is Critical for Effective Decision Making There is much truth to the old saying that life is just one decision after another. That’s why decision-making is one of life’s major preoccupations. "Reasoning well" is an essential ingredient in...
Who is Charlie Munger? Wit and Wisdom From The World’s Most Irreverent Billionaire Charlie Munger is one of the great minds of the 20th century. Below is an attempt to capture that wisdom in one shareable place. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you...
Being Critical, Not Thinking Critically Too often in practice, people equate critical thinking with merely being skeptical of whatever they hear. Or they will interpret it to mean that, when confronted with someone who says something that they disagree with,...
Herodotus mentioned whistled languages in the fourth book of his work The Histories, but until recently linguists had done little research on the sounds and meanings of this now endangered form of communication. New investigations have discovered the presence of...
Neuro Linguistic ProgrammingSkeptics ViewI think the more you want to become more and more creative you have to not only elicit other peoples' (plural) strategies and replicate them yourself, but also modify others' strategies and have a strategy that creates new...
A Basic Introduction To Neural Networks http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/shipyard/neural/local.html What Is A Neural Network? The simplest definition of a neural network, more properly referred to as an 'artificial' neural network (ANN), is provided by the inventor of...
[ted id=2265]Great Videos of how we think. Specifically the comments about how we can take very little information and create huge conclusions. Here is a Transcript of one of them. 00:12 Imagine that you invented a device that can record my memories, my dreams, my...
Obstacles to Learning Noise as a Fundamental Obstacle to Learning Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason...
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake. So a Review of the Stanford Media Literacy Study Finds Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting...
4 Simple Media Literacy Rules I just heard the news: "The top 20 fake stories received more “shares, reactions, and comments” than the 20 top real news stories in the final months of the presidential campaign." It seems fake news is more appealing and, apparently,...
Media Literacy Challenges Did media literacy backfire? Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are...
Updated March 1, 2023 This Lesson is focused on finding the best ways to promote and support media literacy in the community. Our focus is on helping everyone, young and old, to develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st...
Several of these have names in Latin, but I mostly ignored that and used English. If anyone is bothered by my using "he" everywhere, note that "he" is the person arguing fallaciously. Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man) Affirming The Consequent Amazing Familiarity...
In order to process all the information available, we need to know how to translate conservative speak. In this case we can use GOP Rep Steve King. Steve was on CNN yesterday to explain to us all that Vladimir Putin is no real danger to free speech because, hey, Garry...
Agnotology Described In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry was revealed to the public. Called the Smoking and Health Proposal, and written a decade earlier by the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, it revealed many of the tactics employed by big...
Noam Chomsky discusses the evolution of language and lays out the biolinguistic perspective — the idea that a human being’s language represents a state of some component of the mind. The important contribution Chomsky is making here is about “Biolinguistics.” Because there is a genetic “biological” foundation to communication, understanding how our biology influences our language development and use will help us better master communication.
The reason I post it here is for the community to find stuff in this Noam Chomsky Interview that we can use to add to our overall community learning. Updated Feb. 2024.
Develop the Skills to Understand Bias
How to use Questions Effectively Questions to Consider in Conversations Questions are a great way to start and maintain successful communication. Here are some suggestions of questions to consider in conversations. But, the questions have to be honest and you really...
The Most Important Communication Skills Needed to Improve your Decision Making And Information Gathering. Becoming a great communicator – what does it mean and what does it take? Communication Styles De-Coded: How to identify and understand the different communication...
Communicating Ideas At some point in our lives, we all have to communicate an idea or concept to someone or some audience. Sometimes the idea is simple and the communication is simple. Sometimes the idea is complex and that raises the difficulty of communicating...
Asking Why questions can be very bad if you're not carful. “Why? Why not?” These questions seem innocent—even helpful. But they’re quietly killing your business. When someone hears “why” or “why not,” they are primed to justify the current situation. Your team hears...
Communication Careers List Last Updated - July 9, 2019 Public Relations Journalism Media Production and Direction Graphic Design and Direction Information Management Network Management Speech/Language Therapy Please note: The communication careers list was...
Communication can be simply defined as, "The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else." http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communication...
What career opportunities are with a communication degree? Career Options: There are many career paths that a person with a Communication Major can choose. Here are some job titles that former graduates with Communication Majors hold. Use this as an ideas list,...
This Lesson describes the basic Functions of Communication: Getting what you want, getting someone else to do something, entertainment, and learning. (Updated Oct 2022)
The theory was first put forth by Goffman, under the title of Frame Analysis (link to PDF of article). He put forth that people interpret what is going on around their world through their primary framework. This framework is regarded as primary as it is taken for...
Before I get into the golden rules of communication, it’s important to understand how our understanding of communication has changed. Yes, plenty has stayed the same – people are still people, after all – but the way that people interact with one another and the...
Foundations of Communication Communication Models Over time, communication scholars have increasingly expanded our understanding of the communication process through the use of three models: 1.Linear Model - The oldest, most simplified model 2.Interactional Model - A...
Communication History The history of communication begins before Humans. But, let's start with humans anyway. Let's just start with the concept of "Symbols." For the purposes of this discussion, communication is defined as the movement of some intent from a sender...
This lesson describes some of the commonly misused phrases that would improve your communication if you avoided them Updated Oct 2023
There are some things you might be doing to undermine your effectiveness as a communicator, and you may not even know you’re doing them. Over-Communicating You’re not an effective communicator if you just repeat the same message over and over. If you want to remind...
Communication Economics and Development aims to determine a methodology for integrating communication variables into economic development models. The first five chapters of the book cover the theoretical issues and their conceptualization as the basis for deriving a...
This lesson on the Neurophysiology of Religion looks at the cognitive science that tries to understand how we process Religious Information.
Iran J Neurol. 2014; 13(1): 52–55. PMCID: PMC3968360 PMID: 24800050 Neurotheology: The relationship between brain and religion Alireza Sayadmansourcorresponding author Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been...
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
I consider Claude Shannon one of my most important influences. Along with Alan Turing and F. A. Hayek. So, when I came across a post about Shannon's Problem Solving Algorithm, I had to read it. The post is Claude Shannon: How a Genius Solves Problems. In the post...
9 Traits of Emerging Disruptors Disruption causes quantum shifts in industries and societal behavior by digitizing the analog, upending economic models and otherwise challenging the status quo. The disruptors think differently and act differently than the incumbents....
President Trump on Twitter behavior: ‘I’m a very stable genius’ When asked during a NATO press conference if President Trump will tweet differently once departing on Air Force One, the president said he will not because he is a "stable genius." President Donald...
Fractal Thinking Perfectly Fits Communication Theory. The Three Ages of the History of Communication Models The history of communication models can be divided into three "Ages:" Age 1 - Linear Communication ModelsIt starts with Aristotle and goes through...
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This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank Roberts Brad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be just as Fascistic as non-Jews. Trump...
On Sunday Dec. 4, 2016, Edgar Welch, 28, fired a real gun inside a real Washington, D.C., pizzeria filled with real people. When The New York Times asked Welch what he thought when he realized there were no child slaves inside the restaurant, as one fake news story...
I think it is possible to create a "Universal Media Literacy Machine" in the same way Alan Turing created a "Universal Computing Machine." Alan Turning, the fundamentally complicated and brilliant mathematician, suggested, in his groundbreaking 1936 paper, that a...
Without Media Literacy Our Future is Bleak. And without Media Literacy we cannot have any chance for reasoned discussion. “At present, we worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish. … If...
Why the Confederate flag started trending after the Charleston shooting It was reported later that suspect Dylann Roof drove a car with Confederate flag licence plates. In the wake of the mass shooting in South Carolina, the image of the Confederate flag started...
There are 5 things we should do in 2016 to make our community better! We should listen more and preach less. We should build more opportunities to learn from each other,. We should tap into our seniors to provide them an opportunity to be more productive. We should...