Teaching a Sexist Person Feminism; Not Going to Happen
By: Ellie Thornsbury
When I say the word bark, what do you think of? Probably the sound a dog makes. You can be so confident in your assumption that you understand what I am trying to communicate. Well, what if I told you I was actually talking about the bark on a tree? Messages can be perceived in so many ways, which can be quite a problem in the journalism field.
In Journalism 1, we have been talking about mass communication. What qualifies certain messages as mass communication, the process of transmitting messages, and last, but not least, impediments and filters. People can compose the most meaningful and revolutionary messages, but they can be destroyed just because something goes wrong in the delivery.
What interested me most was the filters. A filter is something wrong with the message receiver that prevents them from getting the message. For example, you could be fully literate and capable of understanding and interpreting English, but if you are blind, you won't be able to read a newspaper.
Possibly the most engrossing filter is the psychological one. This filter is something wired into the receivers brain that prohibits them from even considering some messages. The receiver's morals and opinions have so intensely damaged their comprehension, that they can't fathom some concepts. This may sound exaggerated, but we see this in everyday life. Have you ever tried to convince a friend that the earth is flat? Or attempted to have a conversation with a sexist person that even remotely involves a woman? These situations can be nearly impossible because of a psychological filter.
There are many elements that go into transmitting a message. Communicating can be so simple in everyday life that we forget about impediments and filters. So, the next time you try to convince a normal human being that you saw an alien, just keep in mind that your message may be perfectly fine, but you may be unsuccessful because of communication filters.
By: Ellie Thornsbury
When I say the word bark, what do you think of? Probably the sound a dog makes. You can be so confident in your assumption that you understand what I am trying to communicate. Well, what if I told you I was actually talking about the bark on a tree? Messages can be perceived in so many ways, which can be quite a problem in the journalism field.
In Journalism 1, we have been talking about mass communication. What qualifies certain messages as mass communication, the process of transmitting messages, and last, but not least, impediments and filters. People can compose the most meaningful and revolutionary messages, but they can be destroyed just because something goes wrong in the delivery.
What interested me most was the filters. A filter is something wrong with the message receiver that prevents them from getting the message. For example, you could be fully literate and capable of understanding and interpreting English, but if you are blind, you won't be able to read a newspaper.
Possibly the most engrossing filter is the psychological one. This filter is something wired into the receivers brain that prohibits them from even considering some messages. The receiver's morals and opinions have so intensely damaged their comprehension, that they can't fathom some concepts. This may sound exaggerated, but we see this in everyday life. Have you ever tried to convince a friend that the earth is flat? Or attempted to have a conversation with a sexist person that even remotely involves a woman? These situations can be nearly impossible because of a psychological filter.
There are many elements that go into transmitting a message. Communicating can be so simple in everyday life that we forget about impediments and filters. So, the next time you try to convince a normal human being that you saw an alien, just keep in mind that your message may be perfectly fine, but you may be unsuccessful because of communication filters.
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