Speech Community Contribution
There is an infinite amount of chat rooms available on the internet and each one can be defined as its own speech community. I have chosen to analyze a chat room that is devoted to the hit Fox reality show, American Idol. The transcript used was from a chat session that occurred at 10:00 PM on March 27, 2005. This online chat room seemed to be the source of a continuous flow of opinionated statements regarding the television show.
Due to the anonymity of the internet, members of the many speech communities within are uneasily identified. Members tend to rely solely on “screen names” for identification purposes. With names such as TanBear251 and MegaBob12, most statistical information regarding the identity of participants is limited. The context and purpose of the chat room, however, allow for various limited conclusions to be drawn. For the American Idol chat room, it can be assumed that participants include people who watch the television show regularly. These people are likely to statistically fall into the show’s target audience in regards to age and income, among other factors. The target audience of American Idol consists of middle to upper-middle class viewers between the ages of 20 and 45 years of age.
No physical location can truly be defined for this speech event. One participant may reside in Houston, Texas, while another may live in Puerto Rico. Due to the time of day, a casual setting can be assumed since it is likely that most participants are located within their own homes. Participation is fully voluntary and in most cases is for enjoyment purposes.
For this chat room in particular, knowledge truly is power. The status of a participant grows with their expertise on a subject of discussion. The chat room “regulars” seem to hold a higher status that those who are entering for the first time. This is seen with the amount of posted messages a person makes. Those who regularly participate in the chat room from day to day dominate the discussion while newcomers tend to sit back and watch. In order to gain inclusion in a discussion, one must prove themselves as knowledgeable about the subject at hand.
Some of the barriers that coexist with chat room communication include a limited ability to show emotion as well as a tedious typing requirement. To address these issues, many new abbreviated expressions have been introduced.
In the article“Speech Communities” by Paul Roberts, he uses examples in the text to helps give his audience an understanding of what a exactly speech community is and how they are formed in our lives.
UTEP Blast: A Discourse Community Khaleb King University of Texas at El Paso UTEP Blast: A Discourse Community Introduction A Discourse Community is a group of people that share a set of goals or discourses and within this group, find ways to communicate about these set goals. Discourse Communities can mean having a spot on a sports team, being a part of a school club, and even your workplace can be considered a discourse community. To be accepted into a discourse community, one must be seen as a credible source, one that has knowledge on the topic at hand and can help the group reach the goals of the discourse community.
Downs, Doug. "The Concept of Discourse Community." Writing about Writing: A College Reader. By Elizabeth A. Wardle. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. 466-78. Print.
To be able to start and hold a conversation seems like a skill people eventually perfect as they get older. However, are lowered heads and silence becoming a trend at parties, cafes, and at our own dinner table? Sherry Turkle, the author of “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.”, has been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than thirty years and has taken full notice of the burning fact that people would rather text than talk (par.3). As a first-year student in college, I agree with Turkle. It is occurring in every class, dining hall, and dorm room. The quiet is deafening. The silence and the speedy thumbs have consequences. I strongly support many points Turkle made in “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” and relate to many of the people surveyed.
Lin, Yu-Ru, James P. Bagrow, and David Lazer. More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks. Publication. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2011. More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks. Opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/, 2011. Web. 1 Dec. 2013.
In life we encounter many things that can withhold someone from obtain a good education, but in the society we live in today were are giving the tools to make sure the things that withhold us from accomplishing our goal does not hold us completely back. In the education system we live in today we are exposed to so many different types of resources and we can use those tools now to carry our future even farther. Professor Deborah Brandt defines literacy sponsors as “agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way. Professor Deborah Brandt definition of literacy sponsor can also be defined as a form of transportation
The twenty-second chapter of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking is all about informative speaking. The authors break down informative speaking into five categories; those being, gaining and sustaining audience involvement, finding ways to increase understanding, what informative speeches are about, deciding how to communicate the information, and reducing the confusion.
As technology continuously evolves and integrates with our lives, its impact inevitably attracts the attention of people ranging from researchers to parents, and conservative elderlies to adolescents. When chatrooms and other game based chat mediums were popularized in the early 1990s, research papers, with massive empirical data, that suggested strong negative correlations between CMC and social well-being flooded academia. However, more recent studies have proved otherwise. Communication researchers Valkenburg and Peter, explore this change in data in their 2009 publication. Their paper first explores the possible aspect of CMC that might have given rise to unhealthy social life in the 90s (for example, lack of internet connectivity could
. Cyberspace is a realm of communication. Cyberspace is like its own way of talking. People are part of this cyberspace as well. I say this because humans don’t really talk in person anymore. Do humans intentionally do this to the community or were it unintentional, and we were just consumed without knowing? Intentional is something done with a purpose or pertaining to it. Unintentional is something done by accident or no reason. A community is built by people with a purpose, or it can be built by accident because people decided it would be a good idea. The purpose of this essay is to explain the difference in an unintentional and intentional community and how the author feel about these two different types of communities.
Preparing for an oral presentation can be a daunting task for people with all kinds of experience in all types of fields (McConnell 2005: 77). Therefore the preparation time that goes into creating a presentation is vital for not only the speaker, but also the audience. Aspects of a successful presentation include; eye contact with the audience, voice projection and using concrete language. These are a few aspects of a successful presentation and the incorporation of these will not only enhance and create an effective speech but will also benefit a town and regional planner.
A means of convincing people of such is known as Ethos. Turkle expresses ethos initially by stating, “I’ve been studying psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years. For the past five, I’ve had a special focus: What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather test than talk” (Turkle Par. 3)? Even without reading the article or knowing what her opinion is, readers now know that Turkle has spent years studying in this field along with half a decade studying face-to-face conversations. Sherry Turkle has passed the first step to winning an argument by proving that she is a trustworthy source of information, but she has not won the entire argument
The younger generation particularly has seized on the strange communication through the Internet. Using chat groups on different subjects they are taking in school, they conduct live conversations by keyboard through the internet.
1. For this Civic Engagement Speech Analysis, I will analyze my experience at the “Battling Speech Anxiety with the 3 Ps: Preparation, Practice, Performance.” The purpose of this speech is to demonstrate three practical ways to help people overcome their fear of public speaking. It was delivered to the audience by extemporaneous style. The workshop occurred in a classroom setting. There were snacks and drinks provided for everyone. The audience and the speakers were all college students. It was not a formal presentation where we should be quite the whole time. It was more relaxed; everybody had a chance to raise their voice to participate for better results. One activity of the workshop is to present an outline
In public speaking I learned many types of concepts, theories and terms of communication. In concepts of publicly speaking there’s, relaxation, practice, credibility, attention getters, attire, organization, volume, emotion, audience relation, and movement. In my first speech, “The any old bag speech” I quickly learned the do’s, don’ts and concepts of my speech performance.
...of the list. It has been said that it is not necessarily what one says or even particularly how they say it, but how the person being spoken to hears it that counts. The need to properly express one’s self is drastically reduced when the comments made are to a person one thousand miles away. This disconnect provides a false sense of security and the detrimental consequences could be felt for an entire generation. With teens devoting more and more time to on-line social media, the safety net of non-face-to-face communication is already having adverse effects. “Teens are showing ‘a decrease in risk taking’ from previous generations when it comes to expressing themselves and interacting with other people”, says Katie Davis (Clemmitt 5). How can we expect our society to survive if a whole generation loses its ability or desire to openly communicate face-to-face?