Communicating Online (COMM 211)

1. What is the immigrant/native divide and how has it affected the way students learn? Digital natives are the generations that grew up in the era of technology, digital Immigrants are the generations that didn't grow up with technology. Some digital immigrants (the flexible ones) encourage their kids, and new generations to adapt to the use of new technologies to improve their performance in school, but some other digital immigrants (non-flexible) judge constantly the idea of using technology to improve education and talk about "how good things were in the old times." The digital immigrants that are flexible help new generations to feel comfortable using technology to improve their learning experience, therefore allowing new generations to learn faster and in different ways. The digital immigrants that are not flexible make new generations feel ashame or even reject the use of technology, which makes their learning slower, and sometimes makes new generations isola...

Relationship type: friendship For this topic, I will talk about a person that I met in OSU the last term and that now I consider a friend, to respect her privacy and not harm our relationship I will call her Juliet because I have always loved the name, Juliet. [ Knapp’s Relationship Escalation Model  (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. , 2013] Knapp's relationship model  (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.  states that the third step towards “coming together” in an interpersonal relationship is  intensifying .  According to the relationship model of Knapp, in the intensifying phase of “coming together” people within an interpersonal relationship try to share personal information to strengthen the relationship and expects to spend more time with the other person. In this phase, Juliet and I emailed each other to figure out our availability to meet on campus. We both have an email app on our cellphone, so our ...

In this week lectures, we learned about the effects of self-disclosure online. Alex Lambert noted in  Discovering Intimacy on Facebook , that in face-to-face communication the disclosure of intimate details about ourselves is disclosure when we have an intimate and meaningful relationship with somebody, but not in online communication. Alex and his team observed that members of social media shared intimate details about themselves to fulfill a narcissist need and their social media friends were just a mean to fulfill that narcissist need. (Communicating Online. Page 156-159)  So the question arises:  “Are We Sharing Too Much Online?”  And if so, what are the outcomes? Kayla Perrin, noted in  Our Sex Lives & Social Media: Are We Sharing too Much Online?  (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. , that around 2015 there was a hashtag that went viral named  #OrgasmQuest  (Links to an external site.) Links to ...

In this lecture, we read about the correlation between social media such as Facebook and mental health of college students. According to Brian A. Feinstein, social media such as Facebook increases depression, because people will be constantly comparing their lives with the lives of others (Communicating Online. Page 183-191), but According to Amy Gonzales and Jeffrey Hancock, social media such as Facebook actually have a positive impact on people such as positive social awareness (Communicating Online. Page 192-197). So the question arises:  Is social media such as Facebook impacting positively or negatively the mental health of college students? The answer is not that simple, social media have many positive and negative outcomes. According to Alice Walton in  New Study Links Facebook To Depression...  (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. , she mentions that a study in the  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology  disc...