Communication Studies
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How humans transmit and interpret information to and from each other.
A small group of people sit around a simple, lace-covered table to discuss the needs of Sucumbíos' children for UNICEF Ecuador in 2018. On the table is a map of the province along with note paper and various writing implements. A woman indicates that she is thoughtfully listening to the person speaking by making eye contact and placing her left hand near her lips. Humans use many different "media" to share their knowledge and feelings with each other.
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Books (11)
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Truth, indeed, is deathless speech
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There is a tribe of people known as the Ethno-graphic Filmmakers who believe they are invisible. They enter a room where a feast is being celebrated, or the sick cured, or the dead mourned, and, though weighted down with odd machines entangled with wires, imagine they are unnoticed.
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Experimental reports rich in circumstantial detail were designed to enable readers of the text to create a mental image of an experimental scene they did not directly witness. I call this ‘virtual witnessing’, and its importance was as a means of enlarging the witnessing public. The notion of a ‘public’ for experimental science is, I argue, essential to our understanding of how facts are generated and validated. In these episodes, circumstantial reporting was a technique for creating a public and thus constituting authentic knowledge.
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Western Buddhist communities must acquire an entirely different system of communicating – one in which silence occupies a central position.
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We contend that even in situations of apparent procedural equality, deliberation’s legitimating potential is limited by its potential to increase normatively focal power asymmetries. We conclude by describing how deliberative contexts can be modified to reduce certain types of power asymmetries, such as those often associated with gender, race, or class.
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Sincerity and honesty are not always the same thing.
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Political opponents respect moral beliefs more when they are supported by personal experiences, not facts.
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The first problem with feedback is that humans are unreliable raters of other humans.
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The listener seeks cues about what is important to the other, sorts these cues to conclude which are the most important, and expresses the essence of the communication back to the speaker. In other words, the listener checks out his or her understanding of what the other person is trying to say.
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Here, we applied fMRI to record brain activity from both speakers and listeners during natural verbal communication. We used the speaker’s spatiotemporal brain activity to model listeners’ brain activity and found that the speaker’s activity is spatially and temporally coupled with the listener’s activity. This coupling vanishes when participants fail to communicate.
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The precariousness of intimate speech adds to its power and the power of the reader, through whose agency the voice is encouraged in its urgent plea or confidence.
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Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted something a bit outside his lane as a sports guy but fundamentally banal in the context of American public opinion: “fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.” […] But Morey turns out to have stepped onto a much bigger landmine — Chinese politics.
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We show here, using quantitative methods on a large cross-linguistic corpus of 17 languages, that the coupling between information per syllable and speech rate properties results in languages encoding similar information rates (~39 bits/s) despite wide differences in each property individually.
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“This is how societies end,” said the tweet, as if people’s annoyance that some random lady [thought her] TikTok was more important than their safe commute was akin to the sacking of Rome. “No no,” I thought, “this, in fact, is how societies end.”
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We find that eye contact is positively correlated with synchrony as well as ratings of engagement by conversation partners. However, rather than elicit synchrony, eye contact commences as synchrony peaks and predicts its immediate and subsequent decline until eye contact breaks.
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It’s not about proving something, it’s about casting doubt.
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Don’t be afraid to walk away.
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If you’re curious, warm, and earnest, you can make a new friend—and leave your awkward adult persona behind.
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The results establish that individual use of gender-neutral pronouns reduces the mental salience of males. This shift is associated with people expressing less bias in favor of traditional gender roles and categories, as manifested in more positive attitudes toward women and LGBT individuals in public affairs.
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Symbolic gestures, such as pantomimes that signify actions (e.g., threading a needle) or emblems that facilitate social transactions (e.g., finger to lips indicating “be quiet”), play an important role in human communication. They are autonomous, can fully take the place of words, and function as complete utterances in their own right. The relationship between these gestures and spoken language remains unclear. We used fMRI to investigate whether these two forms of communication are processed by the same system in the human brain.
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Informal verbal interaction is the core matrix for human social life. A mechanism for coordinating this basic mode of interaction is a system of turn-taking that regulates who is to speak and when.
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The irony is how wrong we are about the perception of being wrong. Fetterman’s research shows admitting wrongness actually improves our reputation.
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Even when the conversation doesn’t “matter” in a traditional sense, perhaps that’s part of the joy: a small escape from the serious, a reprieve from the heavier matters …
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First, whereas Westerners represent each of the six basic emotions with a distinct set of facial movements common to the group, Easterners do not. Second, Easterners represent emotional intensity with distinctive dynamic eye activity. By refuting the long-standing universality hypothesis, our data highlight the powerful influence of culture on shaping basic behaviors once considered biologically hardwired.
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Bombu refers to a foolish being such as myself.
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…a gripping account of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s unlikely, ill-fated advocacy on behalf of a death-row prisoner with literary ambitions.
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A brief linguistic analysis of internet communication.
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… what is the essential part of our voices, and what isn’t?
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Though it wasn’t the only time that I went home and cried during that week.
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In the 1940s, a freelance wiretapper named Big Jim Vaus got mixed up with the cops, the mob, and the most famous preacher in America.
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Do the reading
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When a doctor reveals a terminal diagnosis to a patient, that process is as delicate a procedure as any surgery
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I know there are different worlds…
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While sipping coffee in my mother’s Toyota, we hear the birdcall of two teenage boys in the parking lot…
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The first set of emojis was designed for a Japanese cell phone company by Shigetaka Kurita in 1998. Texting was still really new. There were only 176 of them and they were 12-by-12 pixels each.
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May the dead be ever-evidenced
May their clandestine names
bellow from the mouth…5 min -
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At two a.m., without enough spirits
spilling into my liver to know
to keep my mouth shut, my youngest
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a field mouse
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I think I will do nothing now
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My grandfather would spell certain words so that the dog couldn’t comprehend…
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I like a private life, it’s true…
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… policy with intentional marketing titles.
Assimilation; Relocation; Termination…5 min -
Hours before the TV, my mouth
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I am only kind to my father
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We soak rice until
the water clouds. On the television, a fiesta…5 min -
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