Special Issues Megan Huff
Special Issues
Megan Huff
COM/100
January 19, 2015
LaVette Burnette
Special Issues
“I 'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they 're interested in. – Bill Gates” (Brainy Quote, 2015). Communication is more than just speaking with other individuals in order to get a point across. Nonverbal communication is also a big part of how individual’s points are taken. If someone does not know how to project themselves physically in any communication atmosphere, chances are the listening audience will stop listening wholeheartedly. It is very difficult to follow a speech that speaker does not have faith in as well. There are many barriers that make communication between one another a challenge; for example, diversity, ethics, and technology just to name a few. Mass communication also plays a large roll in communicating but can also hinder the effectiveness of spreading information. There are also other barriers that tend to be overlooked when talking about communication such as gender and mass communication. Individuals, at times, have a hard time looking past whether a person is male, female, or transgender in order to get their point across.
Gender Differences
Gender has been widely studied when it comes down to communication and how both men and women do so. Everyone has heard the saying that women speak more mindlessly than men and because of this a woman’s speech is assumed to be less assertive and lacking in power than a man’s speech. However, this is certainly not true. “In one Toronto classroom, the males were found to speak 75-80% of the time (Gaskell, McLaren, & Novogrodsky, 1989)” (Meier, 1999). It has also been found that men tend to interrupt in conversations more so than women do and are also more competitive in conversation and communication. Men and women definitely communicate differently; however, this is
Megan Huff
COM/100
January 19, 2015
LaVette Burnette
Special Issues
“I 'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they 're interested in. – Bill Gates” (Brainy Quote, 2015). Communication is more than just speaking with other individuals in order to get a point across. Nonverbal communication is also a big part of how individual’s points are taken. If someone does not know how to project themselves physically in any communication atmosphere, chances are the listening audience will stop listening wholeheartedly. It is very difficult to follow a speech that speaker does not have faith in as well. There are many barriers that make communication between one another a challenge; for example, diversity, ethics, and technology just to name a few. Mass communication also plays a large roll in communicating but can also hinder the effectiveness of spreading information. There are also other barriers that tend to be overlooked when talking about communication such as gender and mass communication. Individuals, at times, have a hard time looking past whether a person is male, female, or transgender in order to get their point across.
Gender Differences
Gender has been widely studied when it comes down to communication and how both men and women do so. Everyone has heard the saying that women speak more mindlessly than men and because of this a woman’s speech is assumed to be less assertive and lacking in power than a man’s speech. However, this is certainly not true. “In one Toronto classroom, the males were found to speak 75-80% of the time (Gaskell, McLaren, & Novogrodsky, 1989)” (Meier, 1999). It has also been found that men tend to interrupt in conversations more so than women do and are also more competitive in conversation and communication. Men and women definitely communicate differently; however, this is
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