Assignment 6

Home Learning Week 6 (2 Points)

1.a. Discuss the goals of any communication you might need to craft at the workplace, and describe actions that can be taken to achieve that goal.

b. Which of the following is a disadvantage of the oral, in-person combination of channel and medium?

c. Which channel and medium combination allows flexibility of multiple formats and channels but can be limited in terms of reach and capability?

d. Which of the combinations is used most often on the job today?

2. Read the below article written in a high school newspaper. Identify 5 poorly written parts of the text by providing specific examples and make a suggestion on how to improve each according to what we have learned in this course thus far.

In the early 1960s, it was written by poet and playwright T.S. Eliot that television “is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome” and although FYI Eliot is not an authority about technology, this still remains true today about social networks and the Internet.

Facebook, which recently celebrated its 15th birthday, has billions of users, half of whom log in on any given day and spend an average of 18 minutes per visit and it connects families across continents, friends across the years and people around the world. However, it will be noted that Face-book’s affects on it‘s users may not be entirely benign insofaras the ability to connect does not necessarily make people any happier, and it could in fact reduce the satisfaction they feel about their life.

Can it really be possible that Facebook makes you sad? Yet last summer, a team of psychologists asked questions of a group of people five times a day over two weeks about their emotional state. They asked questions such as “how do you feel right now?”, “how lonely do you feel right now?”, “how much have you used Facebook since we last asked?” and so on.

This gave them a snapshot of each individual’s well-being and Facebook usage throughout the day. The team found that Facebook use correlated with a low sense of well-being. “The more people used Facebook over two-weeks, the more their life satisfaction levels declined over time,” they said. “Rather than enhancing well-being, in accordance to these findings, Facebook may under-mine it.”