Web 2.0 demonstrates several characteristics associated with good communication. The video had a clear statement of purpose, to express an opinion. I believe that the teacher who created the video from Kansas City was hoping to achieve a shared understanding about the ever expanding web. To also communicate that communication itself has changed from pen and paper to mouse and keyboard and the web has been expanded throughout the years and will continue to grow. The web has grown from just a way to find information to a way of communicating information and has transformed into an entity that brings people together to share and find almost anything you are looking for.
A part of his statement of purpose he made clear that he knew his audience even without knowing who would all see the video. He used diffent media to cover a wide range of audience members; he had music and pictures for younger audience members to be entertained, he used words and writing in a way that didn't seem like he was giving a power point.
He also utilized the common sense medium portion of production in the sense that majority of the people using the web tend to be the younger generation from twelve to thirty. He used common sense in the way that he made a video, posted it on the most famous video site and made it just under five minutes(quick, easy, captures and holds our attention). He also used arrangement in a great way. In the video he started with writing on paper to typing on a computer. If he would have started with the computer he would have been able to rearrange the rest to make it work, but it would not have been a good production strategy.
In a communication strategy there are three key elements: ethos, pathos and logos. Ethos is the communication between the author and the audience. As an audience member one could assert that what he was trying to communicate came across just as it should have. Pathos is how your audience feels about what you are doing; I feel as if he has broadened my understanding of the internet world. Lastly, logos is the reason and structure in your arguments. I believe that his "arguement" was soundly structured and anyone viewing the video would clearly understand its "statement of purpose".
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Blog Post 2: Web 2.0 Video
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Blog Post 1: Quotation on Writing
" I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden." -Frances Hodgson Burnett
There is a section of the quote that says "To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden." This particular section of the quote stresses the importance of immersing yourself in the topic of choice or at least "putting yourself in their shoes" to fully understand and communicate what you are writing. By not doing so you are not being a good communicator.
Being a writer does not necessarily mean that you are a good communicator; as is proven by those whose books "flop" or are deemed as "bad literature"; to be a good writer you first must become a good communicator. Several issues that arise when writers are not good communicators can be lack of a specific purpose; they have not thoroughly thought about what they wanted to achieve and how to go about achieving it. Authors often have trouble communicating when they do not think about the audience they are trying to relate to and the communication strategy. For instance, if an author were to write a novel catered to a younger audience between the ages of twelve to twenty-one a good author would tend to not use words one would use in a dissertation! Their language and plot line would be catered to a younger audience, a sprinkle of suspense and a dash of mystery, an intriguing title to draw us in (such as Breaking Dawn), and cool cover art suggesting a larger concept or metaphor within the novel itself (like a large white pawn in the foreground shadowing a smaller red pawn).
How they arrange and combine their communication strategies would help them be better communicators. One could assert that not a one person likes to read books that jump from one idea to the next while never connecting. It differs from novels such as Beloved where the author jumps from narrator to narrator and spaces in time; at the end of the novel it all comes together to create a masterpiece called good literature!