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Small Group Spring2006 Session28

Announcement: Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communications Honor Society, is sponsoring a Communications Community Networking Night on Thursday, May 11 at 6:00PM in Lanigan 104. Free Pizza. Real dirt on the professors in the department.

Evaluations

Return papers

Discuss final

Closing comments Small Groups and an unending study of Communication

You live through your communication with others
Inevitably, you create closet theories of how it works
- One hopes that you learned some things in this course that will help you be a little more self-critical in those theories
- And that will make you more effective as a group participant
For myself, I study Communication for a living.
My focus, if you haven't figured it out already, is the structure of media and the messages that are inherent to those structures
But lots of people actively study lots of elements of Communication, including everything we've covered here
You can advance your study of communication within this department
- Interpersonal Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Persuasion
- Semantics
- Female/Male Communication
- Communication Relationships and Communities
- Advanced Interpersonal Communication
- Message Criticism
- And many more
To some closing thoughts based on my work

Interpersonal Media: The Internet and our Time, Space and Scale Machines

Media are built with technology to manage at least three dimensions:
1. Scale (and Complexity)
2. Space (and Selectivity)
3. Time
  - Memory
  - Parallel Interaction
  - Coming soon: Supersynchronous Interaction
Media aren't built just with technology (mediators), but with:
- Characteristics like the above
- Uses
- Effects
- Practices
Lets briefly discuss just a few "new media":
- cellular telephones
  - Living the Clueless Moment
  - And changing the way we interact
  - We always thought of communication as a serial process
  - Now we talk on the phone while we walk and talk with our friends
  - Phones around the table
- family radios
  - Staying in touch while skiing
- instant messenger
  - Parallel interaction and media use
  - Filling in the non-verbal gap
    - emoticons
    - personal names
    - personal icons
- electronic mail
- chat rooms
- personal and commercial web sites
Tech Media and Relationships
- Relationship Equals Sum Media Use:

Good luck.

I've enjoyed teaching this course.

Stay in touch. I'm easy to find on the web: http://davis.foulger.info

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