#Comm10

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Orality and Literacy not Orality vs. Literacy

In our current learning modality, I can’t imagine learning without texts to read. I have a short attention span, and I am more comfortable in writing or typing my lessons. My philosophy is, once something is put on paper, it is solidified and can be perceived visually, so one’s brain can grasp the information.

It does not automatically mean that I abhor speaking – in fact, I hold people who can comprehend information after hearing it once to a high regard. Plus, reading a book aloud counts as a demonstration of orality. My skill in oral communication is one of the things I aim to enhance during my stay in the university. 

Human communication is different from media in such a way that media or the ‘medium’ is not quite the message. In Ong’s interpretation, human communication needs anticipated feedback to repeat its cycle and sustain itself. In models, the message flows from sender to receiver position. In human to human communication, a sender also expects to become the receiver and vice versa to complete the chain of exchanging messages (Ong, 1982). Basically, one cannot talk to themselves and call it true human communication. Furthermore, ‘media’ model of communication comprises printed or written texts, therefore, it exhibits chirographic conditioning. 

In analyzing orality and literacy, it is more productive to scrutinize how the two coexist to uphold human interaction and consciousness for thousands of years, rather than to drive a wedge between the notions. Walter Ong in his book Orality and literacy: technologizing of the word raised important statements to supplement facts about the information, dissemination, consumption as well as critical perspectives on the role of orality in media and communication. He shed light to the similarities between oral and literate cultures – the use of mnemonics and formulas, concrete real-life examples, and somatics. Mnemonics and concrete examples help retain information in the brain, while somatics engages parts of the body while communicating (Ong, 1982, as cited in Jkendell, 2012). On the other side of the coin, oral and literate cultures differ because oral culture tends to be additive rather than subordinate, aggregative rather than analytic, redundant or ‘copious’, conservative or traditionalist, close to the human lifeworld, agonistically toned, Empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced, homeostatic, and situational rather than abstract (Ong, 1982, p.31).

For example, oral cultures lean towards redundancy because to preserve it and successfully pass it to the next generation, the old communicator must repeat the information through word of the mouth, and so on. It is also  characterized by word baggage which is why oral cultures are aggregative rather than analytic.

Moving on to the brief history of orality, writing, and being human, in the past, people who identified themselves as ‘civilized’ or literate people held a prejudice against those who they deemed ‘primitive’ or those who didn’t identify with literacy. The term, along with ‘illiterate’  were offensive, and in the present, kinder and positive terms are associated with understanding the earlier states of consciousness (Ong, 1982).

Orality and literacy both propel our human experience and bridge our past and future. Thus, it is important to remain open to it and other critical perspectives of communication to understand society.

References

Blanche (2020). In their own words [Online Image]. Atlassian. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/inside-atlassian/how-to-navigate-diverse-communication-styles-at-work

Jkendell (2012). Orality and literacy – In what ways are oral and literate cultures similar? ETEC540: Text, Technologies – Community Weblog. https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept12/

Ong, W. J. (1982). Orality and literacy : The technologizing of the word. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

Roy, B. (2021). Communication skills in the workplace [Online Image]. Vantage Circle. https://blog.vantagecircle.com/good-communication-skills-in-the-workplace/

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(Module 4) Activity 1

As I examined my selfies in this class, I came upon the realization that most of my selfies do not mirror who I truly was. I did those selfies to comply with the attendance check/requirement. So, I took those selfies with the knowledge that my Professors and my other classmates would see it and because of this I became conscious and because I was conscious I represented myself in a way that would make me look good and confident. In addition, to make my selfies more appealing/pleasing/attractive I rely on angles (I am not a fan of filters, so I rarely use them). Lastly, I do not consider my selfies as a fair representation of myself because pictures or photos can be easily manipulated. I mean, I can look good in a selfie if I want to with the use of filters, photo editors and the picture-perfect angle. I can fake a smile or a laugh even though deep-down inside I am a crying mess.

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Soledad, Maria Primitiva Felicita Q.

BS FT 2nd year

Comm 10

Attendance check

One way or another, selfies do become somewhat of a reflection of ourselves although as much as most people would not want to admit it, these images are still not as "genuine" as we would like to claim considering it is still an idealized version of who we truly are. After all, there is only so much a photo can show about a person. Especially on social media where we tend to show the desirable parts of our image while there are things that are still kept hidden. It is natural though, because even in real life and during first meetings we try to present our best self to make a good impression. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean the positive image we portray in our selfies aren't a genuine portrayal of our identities because those things are a part of us as much as the hidden ones as well. Of course part of the process of portraying myself in these photos involves making sure I look pleasant either by dressing up or wearing light make up at times, showing beautiful sceneries along with photos of myself are always an option as well. It is not just because I want other people to be pleased while looking at the selfies but also (and more importantly) taking care of my appearance makes me feel good, confident, and at peace with myself. However, I do not consider the selfies I take as a fair representation of myself. Because, as I mentioned before, the things that make up the wholeness of my identity is more than what can be shown through photos no matter how genuinely I portray myself to be. After all, each selfie can have different meanings depending on random factors such as the event when I took it or just simply how I was feeling at that specific moment in time.

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Media Convergence and Blurring of Genres

                               Buenafe, J.  Ebreo, H.  Laylo, M.  

                           Image by penny zhang from Pixabay 

         Modern people communicate and gain knowledge through different platforms on the Internet. We all have extensive information to utilize, but to know what the future of the media we are using, we need to look back at the past.

          It begins with the primary oral culture, wherein people express their thoughts and convey their culture through verbal prompts and storytelling. A thousand years later, the literary culture came into being, wherein people drew symbols and markings for storing important information and evolved into writing that we all know today. The next big thing that happened is the invention of the printing press, where books, journals and newspapers were mass-produced and this help to disseminate information to a wider audience. The curious mind of people and a need for better communication led to the invention of electronic media like television and the radio that has far better reach than the aforementioned print media.  

                               Image by fancycrave1 from Pixabay 

            As the prevalence of the internet and computer has risen, we see the birth of new media, where we consume new information and entertainment in social media and streaming platforms. As more people connects through the web, and get their principal information and entertainment through it. Traditional media showed a decline in customers and sales because more people prefer browsing in the net rather than consuming traditional media. And that pushed them to integrate their media with the new media. The product is the convergence of media where different types of media are all in one platform, as a result, the blurring of media ensues. 

           The convergence of media brought us solidarity. Using our social media accounts, we can share our opinions, find people with the same interest as us ,thus, having a community that supports us.      

         Looking at the changes in communication, we can assume that the media will continue to advance to keep up with the changing world.

                                               References 

Baran, S. (2014). Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture. New York, NY, USA: McGraw Hill.

Ong, W. (2002). Orality and Literacy. London, UK: Routledge.

UP TALKS | Critical Perspectives in Communication [Video file]. (2019). Philippines: TVUP. Retrieved September 21, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD7pN1IO-TE&list=PLieLyES5G2S4mBwkzAJQsfVmCSFqxYRbL.

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Comm 10: Media Content and Representations

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Gone Girl: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss

Gone Girl is a thriller novel written by Gillian Flynn. It was published under the Crown Publishing Group back in June 2012.  Gone Girl entered the New York Times bestseller list the week it was published, rising to No 1 the following week and selling around two million copies in the first year. Gone Girl was named one of the best books of the year by People Magazine and Janet Maslin at the New York Times. Nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award for Best Novel, Flynn wrote the screenplay for David Fincher’s 2014 adaptation of Gone Girl for the big screen, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

The title of the book, “Gone Girl,” very much encompasses the overall force driving the plot of the novel, Amy Dunne. The novel revolves around Amy Dunne, the literal “Gone Girl,” as she disappears from their subpar suburban home in Missouri. Furthermore, the title could also refer to the disappearance of Amy’s fabricated identity, the loss of Amy’s “cool girl” façade that she has built upon knowing Nick. It appertains that as Amy literally disappeared, upon learning more about his wife, Nick’s image and perception about Amy changed. Gone was the “cool girl” Amy and in came “psycho bitch” Amy; murderer and mastermind.

The novel circulated around the complexities of Amy and Nick Dunne’s marriage, which took a sharp turn as Amy went missing from their subpar suburban home. On the second half of the book, it is revealed that the disappearance was only a ruse staged by Amy in an attempt to break free from their marriage. 

Gone Girl still remains to be an enigma for it’s readers. It’s identity as a novel is often debated upon. In an interview with the Hollywood reporter, Flynn states that she did not write the book with the intent of making a purposeful statement, but rather she wanted to  “play with how far can you push a female antihero, all the while tackling gender roles within a marriage”. While Flynn is successful in building an antihero, femme fatale of sorts, Amy Dunne leaves much to be desired. 

Gone Girl has always been the subject of controversy, with critics touting it as the work of a misogynist at play, giving out a poor portrayal of women and showing them in a terrible light. Others, on the other hand, praise Flynn for giving out a unique character that delves deeper into showing the capabilities of a woman. Gone Girl has broken boundaries and produced a new breed of female fictional characters that continuously entice the masses.

I, for one, am very conflicted whilst reading the book. Much praise has been given to Flynn for showing the ugly side of women, even prior to writing Gone Girl. In her debut novel, Sharp Objects, Camille Preaker is introduced. Camille is a journalist for a small-time newspaper who tends to carve words on her skin, when agitated. In Flynn’s second novel, Libby Day is introduced. The sole survivor of a massacre, born during the era of Satanic Ritual abuse.

 Flynn has continuously written complex female characters with each having their own set of flaws, the characterization of Amy Dunne, however, is one that has left me unsettled. Yes, Flynn is successful in writing a female character that makes your skin crawl and yet, she leaves you divided as there are reasons behind her actions. While Amy Dunne is a great characterization of a female antihero, it feels like a character that reinforces the crazy woman stereotype that is often harmful for women, In addition, Amy Dunne’s methods, such as framing men by making fake rape allegations (which she has done twice) leaves a sour taste due to the large number of women that have suffered backlash after having their reports of rape be dismissed in favor of men; it comes out as misandrist rather than misogynist at times.

Moreover, Amy Dunne may be a riveting character to read, but I feel like Flynn falls short in humanizing her. Yes, Amy has long suffered from marital problems and the crushing weight of parental pressure; but her motives fail to justify her actions to the point where it feels like she is grasping for reasons to sympathize with Amy, and yet you feel none. It romanticizes marital gaslighting and it portrays Amy as a girlboss-esque femme fatale which feels like a troublesome character to enforce such stereotypes to. While I do not agree, that the book is flat out misogynistic, I do feel like it reinforces harmful female stereotypes. 

Gillian Flynn has been accused of being a misogynist a multitude of times, because of her “misogynistic caricatures” (Amy Dunne, being one) and writing in a way that encompasses a deep animosity towards women, however, Flynn identifies herself as a feminist. 

In a way, she admits that her way of portraying women is rather unconventional, but her goal is not to give out the typical cookie cutter image of women, but as hardened human beings who have undergone tragic experiences. Asking for stereotypical female characters doesn’t broaden the horizon for feminism. However, showing women in a different light does. In response to misogynistic claims, Flynn responds in an interview: "To me, that puts a very, very small window on what feminism is," she further elaborates. "Is it really only girl power, and you-go-girl, and empower yourself, and be the best you can be? For me, it's also the ability to have women who are bad characters … the one thing that really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing. In literature, they can be dismissably bad – trampy, vampy, bitchy types – but there's still a big pushback against the idea that women can be just pragmatically evil, bad and selfish ... I don't write psycho bitches. The psycho bitch is just crazy – she has no motive, and so she's a dismissible person because of her psycho-bitchiness."

Despite the book being released in less than a decade ago, there has still been talks and much debate on the meaning and intent of the book. It is important to to leave space for other interpretations, as it not only provides fruitful discourse; but it also gives you a look on others’ headspace and gain an idea on how they think and reflect. Giving room for freedom of interpretation allows for diverse flow of ideas, it further develops how we think and perceive different concepts. It allows us to view the world in a different context. 

References:

Flynn, Gillian (2012). Gone Girl. New York, New York: Crown

Haupt, Jennifer (19 November 2012). "Best-selling Author Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl". Psychology Today. 

Rousseau, Caryn (22 June 2012). "Flynn's 'Gone Girl' poised to be summer thriller". Huffington Post.  

 Paul, Steve (10 February 2014). “Kansas City native Gillian Flynn emerges as a literary force with her twisted mystery 'Gone Girl'. The Kansas City Star 

Burkeman, Oliver (May 1, 2013). "Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny". The Guardian. 

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Eroy, Sharebe

BA in Literature-3

COMM10 TASK 1

a. Do your selfies reflect or mirror who you really are? Why or why not? Selfies are somehow a representation of myself. I can wear #ootds I am afraid to wear in public. I can wear makeup and other accessories to make myself good. Sometimes selfies bring out a different version of me. b. What do you do to make your selfies more appealing/pleasing/attractive? To make my selfies appealing I usually dress up. I angle my face to the side I look more attractive. Sometimes I used filters such as Snapchat filter because it's fun and somehow it makes me feel confident. c. Would you consider your selfies a fair representation of yourself? Why or why not? Even though selfies reflect who I am in the moment I took the picture. It still does not capture everything I am. There are still things selfie could not represent about me despite all the symbols you could see in my selfie. There are times selfie are facades on what who you really are.  

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Opposites?

Viewing society as Goliath, it can be big and sometimes unforgiving. As I grew older, I came to realize that I still have a lot to learn and more obstacles to conquer. My existence is a grain of sand by the shore, so I can’t help but feel intimidated sometimes.

In this big world, diverse information can be found. As humans, at some point in our lives, we tend to learn new details that could help us survive and take one step forward to our future. Processing information can be strenuous, but with the aid of convergent media, it can be workable.

Convergent media unifies other forms of media such traditional Media, print media, broadcast Media, New Media and the internet as well as portable and highly interactive technologies into a dimension. For example, a person can access the news, watch television, research, and talk with others in real time using just one device – a smartphone. In a way, it shortens the time consumed in gathering and sending information, and it promotes the concept of multi-tasking. Convergent media empowers the “Davids” or the individuals of the society by helping them navigate through several, sometimes murky data.

While convergent media somewhat amalgamates other forms of media, for me, it is not considered new media – the latter is one of the forms which is being encompassed by convergent media (Leeverage Edu, 2021). New media consists of data which is conveyed in a digital manner, while media convergence is a phenomenon of mass media.

The evolution of media, whether it be in the context of orality and literacy or traditional and convergent, is very significant when it comes to understanding how communication helps build or destroy society (Baran, 2013).  The similarity between the two evolutions is the integration of something new paper to literacy and devices to convergence of media to deliver information. In contrast, the transition from orality to literacy took a lot longer than in traditional and convergent evolution.

We, as individuals and actors of the world, can benefit in the study of the evolution of one of our tools to our modern tomorrow – but the power lies within us. We decide if we build or destroy. As a song lyric says “we run things things don’t run we.”

References

Baran, S.J. (2013), "Chapter Ten: The Internet and the World Wide Web" in Introduction to mass communication: media literacy and culture. New York, NY: McGrawHil

Bolinger, H. (2019). Who was Goliath in the Bible? What's the story of this giant philistine? [Online Image]. https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/who-was-goliath-in-the-bible-what-s-the-story-of-this-giant-philistine.html

Leverage Edu (2021). Media convergence. Leverage Edu. https://leverageedu.com/blog/media-convergence/

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Self. (20th ed.) pp.10

With life full of uncertainties, some of us may seek assurance on at least one aspect: ourselves. For me, to know my identity means having a purpose and direction of my life. But I learned well along that our true selves can never be defined with just one summary. We are like books that is continuously updated by editions. Despite realizing the inconstant truth of ourselves, I believe that we always must try becoming the best versions of ourselves. In this process, we must ask ourselves two questions: who am I today and who do I want to be tomorrow?

Who I am today:

In class, we discussed that our personal identity is shaped by our interaction with other people.  The activity we participated observed if our descriptions of ourselves matched how others perceived us. This was to illustrate our self-awareness. Observing my activity paper, it was prevalent that I am self-aware and confirmed by others that I am frank. So, to reflect on the objective of the module, personal identity as shaped by communication, I thought about how I developed into who I am today. My younger version was not as vocal and emotionally open, even towards myself, with the thought that I was stronger that way. I also thought that it was better to not risk hurting others’ feelings. However, I later observed and experienced miscommunication that evolved into bigger problems. Former problems were never resolved, just moved to another time where the anger is stronger and for longer. I became self-aware that being honest with how I truly feel may or may not help with the problem, but at least it will set me free. While this may seem a change completely for my own peace of mind, this may not be the case with the concept of performance of identity in mind. This concept pertains to how a person expresses their identity to others. Reflecting on this, maybe by being frank to others, I am communicating that I am someone who will not be silent when there is unfairness, who will speak her mind.

Who I want to be tomorrow:

While I do think it was a general improvement from my passive myself, I still do believe we can always become our better versions. As I grew, I eventually found people who stayed and accepted me for who I am, someone who values honesty, but perhaps a little too much. I became too comfortable with being vocal all the time. What I did not think early enough, was that I have been hurting people out of spite. Somehow, I wanted people to perceive me as intimidating and stronger than them. I spent most of my time whining, always irritated and hostile. This causes my loved ones became too mindful that they cannot be their true selves around me. In this dynamic, either sides are unhappy. After much pondering, the most important outcome was happiness for both of us. The person that I want to be is a someone who choose kindness everyday. While I still value honesty, I believe it must always be done out of kindness. They are not two sides of the same coin but rather two parts of a whole. 

I reckon this will not be an easy and instant change. Improvement is a process that needs time and continuity. But, I am hopeful that I am taking the right first steps of trying to be my best version.

-Angela H. Conda

[sheerfreesia007]

Fallin’ All In You (Pt. 50)

Title: Fallin’ All In You (Pt. 50)

Pairing: Agent Whiskey x Reader

Author: @sheerfreesia007​​

Words: 2,143

Warnings: Smut, Self-depreciating 

Tags: @synystersilenceinblacknwhite​, @two-unbeatable-beaters​, @randomness501​, @sevvysaurus​, @paryl​​, @talesfromtheguild​, @secretsihideinside​, @agingerindenial​

Permanent Tag List: @paintballkid711​,  @fioccodineveautunnale​

Author Notes:

Gif Credit: Pinterest

         The soft thump of your cane echoes in the empty lab as you leisurely make your way the rooms. A wide smile is on your lips as you notice all the equipment and gadgets that the New York lab has for you to tinker with. You get lost in the sight before you and don’t realize that you have an audience behind you. You hear soft snickers as your hands lightly graze over the work tables and you turn your head to stare at Agent Vodka and Jack with a bright blush on your cheeks. Ducking your head you smile softly and then look back up to the two of them. Jack’s watching you quietly with a fond smile on his face and twinkle in his eye while Agent Vodka is watching you with a knowing smirk and a cocked eyebrow.

         “Shall we leave you alone with the room?” Vodka asks in her raspy voice and you grin broadly at her as your blush intensifies.

         “Sorry, everything looks brand spanking new here and it’s all upgraded from what I’m used to. I feel like a kid in a candy shop.” You admit with a shrug of your shoulders and Vodka chuckles softly as she shakes her head. Jack saunters over to you and wraps his arms around your waist.

         “You look good here.” He says warmly to you and nuzzles into your neck. You try to move away as his mustache tickles your skin but he holds you close. “You look like you’re at home. Relaxed, happy.” He croons into your ear and you smile leaning back into him.

         “I am.” You respond eagerly. “Alright now get out you two I’ve gotta get the lab all done up for the new lab techs that I’m going to be supervising.” You shooed the two agents out of the labs. Jack moved to the exit of the lab but just before he was leaving he turned around and swept you up in his arms kissing you deeply.

         “I’ll see you later for lunch?” he asked warmly and you simpered in his arms in affection.

         “Of course cowboy.” You cooed at him and he smirked down at you softly before kissing you one last time.

           You’re standing in front of a group of five, three women and two men, who were to be your new lab techs. Each one had a skill set that would benefit your team as you all aimed to create new tech to aid the field agents while they were out on missions. You were going over the basic rules and regulations of the lab that you wanted to run with them and the rules that Statesman laid out for all of their employees.

         As you were pacing in front of them you watched as Jack slipped silently into the lab behind them and you smiled warmly at him. He acknowledged you with a slight nod and a wink before he leaned back against the wall to watch you. You were finally finishing up your little orientation with the group and released them for lunch.

         “So we’re going to go ahead and break for lunch now. When we get back I’ve set up a demonstration with Agent Vodka and her group of field agents so that you guys can get a feel for what the agents use the tech that we build for. I’m hoping that it will spark your brains in more creative ways. Does anyone have any questions?” you said easily as you came to a stop in front of the group. Watching as the hand of one of the female rose in the air you nodded towards her.

         “Is it true that you built the gps locating device and system?” she asked softly and almost shyly. You tilted your head a little bit in confusion and then smiled widely.

         “Yes I did, that was actually inspired by Agent Tequila, my good friend. We went out one night to a local fair in Kentucky and he kept getting lost so I started thinking up some ways of how to keep tabs on agents while they’re out in the field that way that their partners would be able to find them.” You explained easily.

         “Then why did it take Statesman two weeks to find you when you were captured by the Russians?” asked one of the male lab techs. You grimaced slightly at the reminder of your capture but you took in a breath and relaxed yourself as much as possible.

         “The Russians were able to scramble the gps tracker enough that the location would be delayed when Statesman tried to pick it up. I’m going to be looking into that to see how I can improve on it so that doesn’t happen ever again.” You said solemnly. The lab techs all stared at you in awed silence.

         “Wow, you’re badass.” Said the other male lab tech and you burst out in confused laughter.

         “Excuse me?” you asked bewildered as you shifted on your feet moving your cane so that you felt steady on your feet.

         “It’s just; you were captured by Russians and tortured for weeks on a rescue mission for Comm10. You survived it and now you’re talking about working to improve tech that failed you on the mission. I knew you were a badass after I heard of what you went through but you’re even more of one now since you’re going to be working to fix the tech.” he explained and you watched as all the techs nodded their heads at you eagerly. “I for one am so glad to be working with you. I can’t imagine the things I’m going to learn by working with you.”

         “Yeah it’s going to be so awesome working with you. Especially since you’re dually trained so you know how these things will work in the field and be able to help us tweak them to work effortlessly with the agents.” Agreed one of the female techs.

         “Well that’s why I’d like us to go to the demonstration with Vodka and her agents. You’ll get to see how the agents use the tech and be able to draw inspiration and knowledge from that.” You said nodding your head. “But thank you for the kind words. I look forward to working with all of you. Now go get some lunch and be back here at two.”

         The lab techs all grabbed their belongings and began walking out most of them nodding to Jack as they passed him. He smirked softly as he sauntered up to you.

         “Badass huh?” he asked softly and you scoffed grinning over at him.

         “I don’t know where they get that idea.” You said self-deprecating yourself. Jack’s arms wrapped around your waist and tugged you flush against him.

         “Oh I do.” He said lowly to you as he nuzzled his nose into your neck. “I can totally see how badass you are.” Laughing softly you shook your head and pushed away from Jack in disbelief.

         “C’mon cowboy let’s go get lunch.” You said changing the subject as you made your way out of the lab. You didn’t see the keen look in Jack’s eyes.

           You didn’t know how you had wound up in this position splayed across Jack’s desk naked with him kneeling between your open thighs, but you wouldn’t be stopping him anytime soon. Your fingers raked through his hair as his mouth seemed to devour your core. His tongue lapping up your cum as your second orgasm rushed through you. He pulled slightly away from you and you mewled at him.

         “So do you believe me now that you’re a badass?” he asked softly and you hummed feeling the afterglow of your orgasm take over your body. “That wasn’t an answer darlin’. Looks like I’m going to try harder to convince you.” Jack teased lowly and you felt his fingers tease your core. Moaning loudly you tried to twist away but Jack’s hand place firmly on your lower stomach held you in place.

         “Jack, please. Oh fuck Jack.” You gasped out softly as you felt one of his fingers slowly enter you. Your hands flew from his head to hold tightly to the edge of his desk.

         “Thank goodness you gave your lab techs an extra-long lunch huh darlin’?” he asked lowly and you gasped harshly when his finger slid past the last knuckle. You squirmed underneath him when he just stayed still, you wanted him to move. Your mind was swimming in arousal and you were barely keeping afloat. Sucking in another deep lung full of air you felt Jack begin to thrust his finger in and out of you. “Goodness darlin’. Who knew you were this responsive.” He growled and you felt the knot in your stomach tighten.

         “It’s all because of you. Only because of you.” You panted out into the air between you two. Lifting your head you watched as Jack’s eyes darkened and he surged forward to attach his mouth to your clit. Sucking harshly on it and then lapping his tongue against it. You squealed in delight at his actions and tried to move your hips to aid him but he kept you still much to your disappointment. “Jack please. Please, please.” You plead with him and felt his answering growl against you which only sky rocketed you closer to your orgasm.

         “Don’t worry darlin’ I’m gonna give it to ya.” Came Jack’s deep growl in your ear and you moaned letting your hands come to grasp his shoulders tightly. “I’m gonna give it to ya, my little badass.” He teased lowly and you heard the clinking of his belt buckle being undone as his finger continued to thrust in and out of you.

         Soon you felt Jack’s finger pull out and the head of his cock rested against your entrance. When he didn’t move forward you looked up at him confused, your mind and body were screaming for him to give you the pleasure you needed. You gazed at him and saw his darkened eyes staring right back at you. He was panting out breaths that seemed to match yours and you could see a light sheen of sweat on his forehead.

         “Tell me how much of a badass you are.” He said lowly in a demand and you felt your body bow up towards him. “C’mon darlin’ if you want this then you’ve gotta tell me.” He husked to you and you felt your body begin to relax back to the desk.

         “I’m a badass.” You said softly and felt a slight surge in your confidence. Jack pushed slowly forward and you both moaned loudly.

         “Such a badass.” He panted out as he slowly slid into you. “You survived against all odds.” He whispered to you when he hilted himself inside of you. “You went through so much pain and torture. But that didn’t stop you from surviving and not giving them what they wanted.” Jack said almost reverently as he brushed your hair out of your face. You gasped as a sudden sadness consumed your body. “You helped save Comm10.” Jack whispered to you as he pulled back and surged forward harshly. “You protected him while the two of you were in captivity.” He whispered and thrust forward harshly again. You could feel the tears gathering in your eyes and beginning to spill over. You didn’t realize that this was how Jack viewed you; you knew he loved you and all that entailed but this was something else. “You convinced the Russians to stay longer in places so that we could catch up.” Jack whispered to you. “You’re so smart and resourceful. I would be besides myself if I ever lost you like that again. I wouldn’t be able to go on.” He whispered truthfully.

         With Jack’s words he surged forward and the two of you exploded in what seemed like a million tiny pieces together. It felt as if the two of you exploded together and then came back together with pieces of each other mixed in together. You dropped your forehead to Jack’s shirt shoulder and silently sobbed into the fabric. The love and admiration pouring off of Jack to you was all consuming and overflowed your body.

         It took quite a bit of time for the two of you to calm down. Jack picked you up in his arms and sat back in his desk chair cradling you to his body. He kissed your temple and hairline while he hummed softly. Finally you were able to pick your head up and looked up at Jack with love shining through your eyes.

         “I love you so much.” You whispered to him. “So much I don’t think I could ever put it into words.”

         “Neither could I darlin’. Neither could I.” Jack whispered back to you.

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Orality and Literacy

                               Buenafe, J. Ebreo, H. Laylo, M

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           Communication has already come from a long away. Primary oral culture is the first type of communication of people 30,000 to 50,000 years ago. They passed down their tradition and ideas through storytelling and verbal cues. But because they are only dependent on oral communication and memorization, a large chunk of their history is lost. After a thousand years of verbal communication, the literary culture has emerged. Literary culture is when every thought and important occasion are all written down. This means that people have now recorded their history, and can be consumed by the people in the future. Thus, we cannot deny that both of them are related as Ong said, writing is “technologizing the word’’ in which people use a tool to write the verbal words.

          The intersubjectivity of communication is when a person is talking with a peer, they first think what to say to the other person and also coming up with possible answers that his peer may throw at him, thus making communication takes place in his head first before they tell it to his peer. According to Ong,  "communication takes place when both sides of the sender and receiver have feedback to each other". Communication only works out when the receiver hears the message encoded by the sender and gives a response on it. While media is only a passageway for the sender to send the message to make it through the receiver.

         Chirographic conditioning is a one-way type of communication, that means that the sender, sends his message through a medium and the receiver, received the message but there’s no feedback from the receiver. Some examples are writing, radio and television.

                                                  Reference

Ong, W. (2002). Orality and Literacy. London, UK: Routledge.

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Rhetorical Analysis: Assignment 1 of COMM10 Module 2 (Introduction)

For this post, we were assigned an analysis on three different political advertisements. With the knowledge acclaimed from the discussion on rhetorical strategies, we are tasked to identify the rhetorical strategies found in each advertisement. In addition to that, we were asked whether or not these ads have persuaded us, to which we said no. The following posts will present our results and findings on the matter. ----

Analysis of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Political Advertisement

Analysis of Leni Robredo's Political Advertisement

Analysis of Isko Moreno's Political Advertisment

Our thoughts and insights

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Comm 10: Media Content and Representations

Media representations

ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective.

Low and high-context cultures

refers to the differences in verbal and nonverbal communication.

High-context cultures

use communication that focuses on underlying context, meaning, and tone in the message, and not just the words themselves.

Low-context cultures

expect communications to be explicitly stated

there’s no risk of confusion, that will slow down the process of communication or misinterpretation

Evolution of Communication Models  Traditional Media

include radio, broadcast television, cable and satellite, print, and billboards

forms of advertising that have been around for years

New Media

Technology reach

Time-space

Computer technology

Electronic media

Digital

Convergence

Combination of traditional and new media Characteristics:

Blurring of time and space

Decrease content

Changed viewing experience

Became available in one

TV and film industry evolved

Free and premium content

Freelance content providers intermediary

There is also change in content

Algorithm, standards (regulation platform)

Example: Print – newspaper or online  1.     Create your own version of a timeline of the evolution of communication. You may focus on either the communication process, medium, or technology.  2.     Orality and Literacy  a.     Define Orality.  Orality is the use of speech rather than writing as a means of communication, especially in communities where the tools of literacy are unfamiliar to the majority of the population.  b.     Define Literacy.  Literacy is defined as being able to read and write, or to having knowledge about a specific subject.  c.     Differentiate oral vs Literate culture.  Oral Culture  Literal Culture  Spoken Written Additive Subordinate   Independent of grammar  Written discourse develops more elaborate and fixed grammar  Aggregative Load of epithets – reliance on formula to implement memory  Example: “not the soldier, but the brave soldier; not the princess, but the beautiful princess; not the oak, but the sturdy oak”  Analytic Redundant or “copious”  Writing establishes in the text a ‘line’ of continuity outside the mind  Conservative or traditionalist Society regards highly the wise men and women who specialize in conserving it  Less conservative; allows experimentation  Close to the human lifeworld  May be far from reality  Empathetic and participatory  Objectively distanced  The meaning of each word is controlled by ‘direct semantic ratification’, that is, by the real-life situations in which the word is used here and now.   Words are known to have layers of meaning, many of them quite irrelevant to ordinary.  (Print cultures have invented dictionaries in which the various meanings of a word as it occurs in datable texts can be recorded in formal definitions.)  Situational Abstract d.     What are the implications of differentiating orality vs literacy?  The main difference between orality and literacy is that orality is spoken and literacy is in written form. Differentiating orality and literacy gives a glimpse of the history of communication of man. In the olden times, when no form of writing such as symbols were created and paper was not yet invented, people expressed their ideas, educated people especially the young ones, and passed down their culture to the next generation through oral communication. Later on, written form of communication that is more efficient to use and lasts longer compared to oral communication emerged. Knowing the difference of the two can help generate ideas for other possible modes of communication in the future or improve the existing ways of communicating.  3.     Traditional and New Media  a.     Define traditional media.  Traditional media or old media is the media in existence before the arrival of the internet, such as newspapers, books, television, and cinema.  b.     Define new media.  New media is used to describe content made available using different forms of electronic communication made possible through the use of computer technology. Generally, the phrase new media describes content available on-demand through the Internet.  Examples: websites and blogs, streaming audio and video, chat rooms, email, online communities, social media and sharing platforms, mobile apps, web advertising, DVD and CD-ROM media, virtual reality environments, integration of digital data with the telephone, such as Internet telephony, digital cameras  c.     Define media convergence.  Media convergence is a term that can refer to either: 1) the merging of previously distinct media technologies and media forms due to digitization and computer networking; or 2) an economic strategy in which the media properties owned by communications companies employ digitization and computer networking to work together  d.     What is ‘new’ in new media? Is there really something ‘new’? Explain your answer.  There are many things that are ‘new’ in new media compared to traditional or old media. First is the presence of electronic communication made possible through computers. Content or information can now be available through the Internet specifically in

websites or blogs, and in social media. Second, new media has a wider reach compared to old media. People from all over the world can be informed just after clicking the post or upload button. Third, it is mobile. Compared to television or radio sets, one can take his/her mobile devices such as a smartphone or laptop anywhere and can be informed anytime. As time goes by, new media gets newer and newer.  4.     Write a reflection about... (Choose one).  Orality, Literacy, and Technology.  The world truly evolved in terms of how it communicates. From storytelling and chanting, petroglyphs in clay tablets, and smoke signals, we finally reached the age of technology where the use of computers, mobile devices, the internet, and various social networking sites become prevalent. Our predecessors would have never imagined that people from all over the world could communicate by just clicking a button.   No matter how ancient or modern the form of communication is, communication is a vital part of humanity for the history, cultures, and traditions of people were passed on through this. It allowed people to develop new ideas and build new civilizations.  The human mind is truly commendable for its innovativeness in creating different means of which people can communicate. Storytelling and chanting were not only simple means of relaying information but an art as well. People are also resourceful because they thought of using what is around them to make communication more efficient. This is exemplified by smoke signals and the petroglyphs on the walls of caves. Many years later, people were not satisfied with the creation of printing machines and the telegraph but moved on to the use of mobile devices that makes communication faster and more efficient. Who knows what will come next to computers, smartphones, and social media?  Communication is an essential component in life like food. We keep on adding ingredients to it to make it more delicious. It is like fashion that keeps on getting trendier. People evolves communication in style.  5. Choose one:  Think and write about the current drive to bring back the Baybayin. One of the things that show a nation's identity is its mode of writing. The Koreans have Hangul, the Chinese have Hanzi, and the Arabs have Abjad. How about Filipinos? Before we used the English alphabet, the Filipinos are already literate.  Different traders, especially other Asians like the Chinese, often came in and out of the Philippines to barter goods. Later on, our country has been under the rule of different colonizers for more than four hundred years. The Spaniards, the Americans, and the Japanese, no matter how long or short their stay is in the country, have greatly influenced our way of living. These caused the Filipinos to be a heterogeneous race. With this, there is much diversity in culture among the Filipino people which may have also led to regionalism and forgetting nationalism. The Philippines needs a unifying factor for us to have a sense of national identity, that could be, to have our own form of writing.  Baybayin is an ancient pre-colonial script that dates back to about 13th century CE. However, Baybayin did not survive into modern times because the colonizers imposed the use of the Western alphabet (Ortuoste, 2018).  There have been recent efforts to bring back our old way of writing. House Bill  1022, the proposed “National Writing System Act,” filed by Representative Leopoldo Bataoil, promotes greater awareness and appreciation of Baybayin. The bill has the support of the Department of Education, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the advocacy group Baybayin, Buhayin.  I believe that Baybayin is also a carrier of our history. It contains the story of the way our predecessors lived and how our country came to be. The script is a legacy of our ancestors. Being Filipinos, it is something that we must learn.  On the other hand, there are people who are against the enactment of the “National Writing System Act” because they say that its implementation will require

a huge amount from the national budget. They believe that the changing of street signs and signs on public buildings, changing the names of newspapers, magazines, and labels of Filipino products, and educating the people especially the children will be expensive and will require a lot of work.  Baybayin is something that can constitute our authentic identity. It is a legacy that is not only for this generation but for the next as well. Hence, it has to be respected, promoted, protected, preserved, and conserved.  Reference:  A. (2017, July 04). The Evolution of Communication (Infographic). Retrieved from https://www.technology.org/2017/07/04/the-evolution-of-communication-infographic/ Beal, V. (n.d.). New media. Retrieved from https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/new_media.html  Gasher, M. (n.d.). Media Convergence. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/media-convergence/  Literacy. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.yourdictionary.com/literacy  Nordquist, R. (n.d.). Orality and the Distinctive Characteristics of Primary Oral Cultures.  Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/orality-communication-term-1691455  Old media. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/old-media  Ong on the Differences between Orality and Literacy  |  Chapter 1: Literacies on a Human Scale  |  Literacies  |  New Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/ong-on-the-differences-betweenorality-and-literacy Ortuoste, J. (n.d.). Trying to make ‘baybayin’ happen. Retrieved April 25, 2018, from http://manilastandard.net/opinion/columns/pop-goes-the-world-by-jennyortuoste/264046/trying-to-make-baybayin-happen.html

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In the olden days, scholars believed that oral verbalization was the same as written verbalization. Before, oral art forms were basically texts that were not written down, and were believed to be unskillful and not worth serious study. With the exception of oration which was governed by written rhetorical rules. In the mid-sixteenth century, a sense of complex relationships of writing and speech grew stronger (Cohen 1977), but relentless dominance of textuality in the scholarly mind shows that to this day no concepts yet have been formed for effectively conceiving the oral art as such without reference, conscious, or unconscious, to writing. There was the presence of a term for ‘writings’ which was literature, but there was no term for the purely oral heritage (i.e. traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions (Chadwick 1932–40, passim)).

There are two kinds of orality, primary and secondary. Primary orality is the orality of a culture totally untouched by any knowledge of writing of print, which is rarely seen today. As for secondary orality it is what can be see in the present-day high-technology culture, it is a new orality is sustained by telephone, radio, television, and other electronic devices that depend for their existence and functioning on writing and print.

Then, there is the psychodynamics of orality: Sounded Word as Power and Action. Primary oral culture is a culture with no knowledge whatsoever of writing or even of the possibility of writing. Without writing, words as such have no visual presence, even when the objects they represent are visual. They are sounds. “To look up something” is an empty phrase. No focus and no trace (a visual metaphor, showing dependency on writing), not even a trajectory. They are occurrences, events.

Sound exists only when it is going out of existence. It is not simply perishable but essentially evanescent and sensed as evanescent. You cannot stop sound and have sound. I can stop a moving picture camera and hold one frame fixed on the screen. If I stop the movement of sound, I have nothing—only silence. All sensation takes place in time, but no other sensory field totally resists a holding action, stabilization, in quite this way. Vision can register motion, but it can also register immobility. We often reduce motion to a series of still shots the better to see what motion is. There is no equivalent of a still shot for sound. An oscillogram is silent. It lies outside the sound world. Malinowski has made the point that among ‘primitive’ (oral) peoples generally language is a mode of action and not simply a countersign of thought. Understanding of the psychodynamics of orality was virtually nonexistent in 1923. Neither is it surprising that oral peoples commonly, and probably universally, consider words to have great power. Sound cannot be sounding without the use of power.

Deeply typographic folk forget to think of words as primarily oral, as events, and hence as necessarily powered: for them, words tend rather to be assimilated to things, ‘out there’ on a flat surface. Such ‘things’ are not so readily associated with magic, for they are not actions, but are in a radical sense dead, though subject to dynamic resurrection. Oral peoples commonly think of names (one kind of words) as conveying power over things. Explanations of Adam’s naming of the animals in Genesis 2:20 usually call condescending attention to this presumably quaint archaic belief.  Names do give human beings power over what they name: without learning a vast store of names, one is simply powerless to understand, for example, chemistry and to practice chemical engineering. Chirographic and typographic folk tend to think of names as labels, written or printed tags imaginatively affixed to an object.

Also, orality is situational rather than abstract.

“An oral culture simply does not deal in such items as geometrical figures, abstract categorization, formally logical reasoning processes, definitions, or even comprehensive descriptions, or articulated self- analysis, all of which derive not simply from thought itself but from text-formed thought.”

Back then, people and their intelligence are more operational rather than formal. Furthermore, in a study by A.R. Luria, author of Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations, it was found that the illiterate subjects in her study didn’t like using formal deductive and logical procedures and rather found it boring. Why? Because syllogisms relate to thought, but in practical matters no one operates in formally stated syllogisms. However, this, in any way, doesn’t make them lack any sense because they understand basic things. For example, they know that an object will move if you push it. Although they’re illiterate, they’re capable of organizing their thoughts and experiences in a unique and interesting way but this can only be better understood if you know how oral memory works.

In the past few decades, the scholarly world had been newly awakened to the oral character of language and to some of the deeper implications of the contrasts between orality and writing.

One of which is Ferdinand de Saussure, the father of modern linguistics who had called attention to the primacy of oral speech, that of persons totally unfamiliar with writing. He noted that writing has simultaneously ‘usefulness, shortcomings and dangers’. Furthermore, he thought of writing as a kind of complement to oral speech and not as a transformer of verbalization.

Oral expression can exist and mostly has existed without any writing at all, writing never without orality.

Source:

Ong, W. J. (1982). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. London: Methuen.

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COMM10 Summative Assessment

Aspiras, Lance Alfonso Thaddeus L.

2015-09860

Mendoza, Brando Lawrence C.

2015-66001

In our COMM10 class we discussed the differences between orality and literacy. This assessment is based from the reference that we read,  Baran, S.J. Chapter 10: The Internet and the World Wide Web in “Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture”. Following a few guide questions, this is what we have understood from reading the reference book.:

Convergent media is a type of media that brings together different kinds of people. It unites them with a firm belief and gives them a purpose to execute those beliefs. When compared to traditional media, convergent media excels in having a vast reach to its audience and also the freedom of creativity. One popular example is the access of the Internet through the World Wide Web which uses hypertext transfer protocols (HTTP) to transport files from one place to another even if the sender and receiver are on opposites sides of the planet. The Internet is contains numerous websites but the top three websites that are visited are Google, Youtube, and Facebook. Google is mainly used as a search engine to find just about anything you want to know about the modern world. Youtube is an American video-sharing website wherein people can create and share their content with the rest of the world. Facebook is an American social media and social networking service company wherein you can meet new people and become friends with them and you can also express yourself through posting your thoughts, pictures, or videos online. I consider convergent media to be a part of new media because it can encompass the whole modern world. Anyone can expand their knowledge just by tapping into the data circulating in convergent media. Internet communication can be compared to interpersonal communication as people feel it to be more immediate and direct.

Convergent media gives people the freedom to voice out their thoughts and emotions either to achieve self-satisfaction or to influence others. A person would do something they firmly believe in, thus, convergent media hastens this process by bringing together people with the same beliefs even if they are scattered all over the globe. It can be used as a medium or a platform to get heard in the bigger society. Blogs are a form of media which showcases the views and opinions of an individual about a certain topic of interest. People mostly follow and listen to a person who blogs with the same interests in mind. For others, blogging is their way of openly expressing their thoughts and emotions especially if they cannot do so personally. Vlogs, or video blogs, are also a form of media that are essentially blogs but rather than being a text entry it is in the form of a video recording. This engages the viewer more as the video depicts visual aids as well as emotion in the voiceover rather than just simply reading paragraphs of text. Politicians nowadays use modern media to influence the opinions of the populace in their favor. Because the Internet is not centralized it is hard to ensure the security of data. False information and deceitful propaganda are a common occurrence in the Internet. Cyberterrorism can also bring people together but in a bad way. Terrorists use convergent media to rally people into their cause, sometimes getting them entangled in deviant and harmful acts that violate government laws.

Orality came before literacy in terms of usage thus, literacy is more modern than orality. With orality the recording of history proved to be a daunting task that had several drawbacks such as forgetting important information, inconsistency in relaying events, and inefficient proliferation of knowledge. For example, a simple information told to a person would probably be retained a couple of weeks or months in his/her memory and a more important or significant one would last longer but the risk of inaccuracy and mistakes in relaying the information is inevitable. At the same time, there is still a possibility that the person could still forget about the said information totally after a long period of time no matter how old or young he/she is. Also in this way of storing and passing information, the person can control or twist the information itself on will and to his/her favor. Stories told orally are the best example of it, the first person told about the original story has the ability to change it without the next person knowing. This is how “chismis” is made and it can cause conflict among people. Literacy, on the other hand, showcases both precision and accuracy in communicating various thoughts and ideas throughout the course of time. History could be stored efficiently, information could not be changed so easily, and it could be duplicated to spread data quickly. In this way, the ability of the secondary person who receive the original information to edit which is unwanted by people is gone. Written information is established which makes it accurate for a long time because the subject matter is retained. Traditional media, old media, or legacy media are the mass media institutions that predominated prior to the information age; particularly print media, film studios, music studios, advertising agencies, radio broadcasting, and television as told by Wikipedia. It is a one-way communication by the source to a generally larger group of random people or specifically people who has access to it and in the scope of reach. Traditional media is made for the sole purpose of disseminating important information especially in the past wherein not everyone has access to it and can afford to use it. As time passes by, the use of traditional media becomes more available to people. It can now be used for other purposes like entertainment. On the other hand, convergent media makes use of the Internet and has a two-way communication available for its users. As I look at it, it does not serve people the same as traditional media where mostly important information are present. As a matter of fact, convergent media can even be used to spread fake news and false information, which would easily be seen by the society with the use of Internet. This is one of the drawbacks of convergent media, less sources can be trusted compared to traditional media. We can assume that in the future we would develop storages that function as highly as the human brain with a tremendous processing speed. We can also assume that convergent media would evolve even more so that people would be connected regardless of race, gender, or age so that we would understand each other’s individuality this in turn would unite humanity as one.

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Vlog on Communication and Self-Identity

File uploaded on Google Drive of Google Classroom Comm10-P

https://drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1Mr66EYsGSanHNh4q7WYPaZx7foQ7YxoT/view?usp=drive_open

Submitted by: Cabrera, Lara Michelle B.