Communication in "Shattered Glass"

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1.) What is communication according to you? Discuss various elements of communication and use scenes or aspects from the motion picture to illustrate your view. Communication, by my own means, is a way to for two or more people to interact or influence each other. It is a way of discovering our world without having to travel kilometres or spending millions. Communication is the single most important aspect in our human society, that without it, the chances of survival are finite. There are about five key elements of communication and the each are involved with parallel processing, where both individuals initiates the communication process. Some of the elements include the source (sender), message, channel, receiver, and feedback. Each element simplifies the process of communication, so we are able to see what takes place from the moment a word is spewed from the person’s mouth to the message the listener receives. In the movie “Shattered Glass”, a young journalist named Stephen Glass fell from his meteoric throne and into a bottomless pit of lies and disarray. He was found to have fabricated twenty-seven of his published forty-one stories at “The New Republic” for the last three years. While I watch the demise of Stephen Glass’s writing career, there was three elements of communication that Glass has used and was also used against him. The first element example is the feedback, where the response from the receiver of your behavior that you have generated towards them. In the scene where Glass notices his colleagues are not impressed with his writing he quickly says they hate it and called it horrible. He continues his self-loathing by begging his colleges to help him edit his paper or else he would not turn it in. After not see... ... middle of paper ... ... ways that are favourable to you. It is easy to manipulate someone but in the long run it is the harsh judgment of ethics that harden the process. Works Cited Ray, B. (Director). (2003). Shattered Glass [Film]. Santa Monica: Lions Gate Films Tubbs, S. (2009). Human communication: principles and contexts. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social Sciences Languages. Virtual University of Pakistan. (2009). Elements of Communication and Early Communication Models. Introduction to Mass Communication (Lesson 4). Retrieved from http://www.zainbooks.com/books/mass-communication/introduction-to-mass-communication_4_elements-of-communication-and-early-communication-models.html Warner, K. (2003). Shattered Glass [Review for the movie Shattered Glass]. The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/

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