Unit 5 - Communication and Technology

Communication can be done through media. Media communication includes television , radio and Internet. Through internet as a computer media communication , a message is sent to many people influencing a community. The following article that I read by Sonya Eskridge is concerned with raising a voice with language as an instrument of salvation, selfhood and empowerment.“Love as a color line” is the main underlying theme of this article. There are articles, news segments, movies and even whole books dedicated to the subject . Jill Scott- a R&B song writer, poet and actress has also been referenced in this article. She has written a blog for Essence. Com regarding this issue of Black men marrying woman outside their race.Even "ABC Entertainment news" has been acknowledged in the article provididng reference and facts about the number of single successul black woman .This is how CMC(Computer media communication) plays an important opinion as we are able to see ideas and opinions from various people, all belonging from various aspects and strata of life. The popular Jill Scott is being seen in a different role, in a differnet environment undermining her social contact, accountability and general respect to global issues.


This is a common topic and such articles are written with an aim to infiltrate certain aspects of community life influencing interpersonal relationships and social life. This article is two fold . First it has been written from the writer’s point of view and then proceeds to the generalization of why Black men pair up with White women. The details in the article are figured in terms of Jill's growing awareness of the issue influenced by the ordinary day to day experience and the dichotomy historical aspect of how black men and woman were treated by the westerners. The use of the black linguistic practice such as" brotha", " wince" are meaningful as it shows how the article is deeply personal and culturally specific. This again emphasizes on how the computer media communication could be very knowledgeable as people can voice their opinion using a structural language and culture will give way to “plainspeak”. This is considered a criticism when it comes to e-learning, at the same time I personally think that everyone should be allowed to voice out their opinions. If people are able to debate over an issue and voice our their opinons by transactional communication. How is e-learning any different?

Another aspect that can be seen in this article is how people are more open to various interpretations. It is these common issues that help people to think , see, and reason between various alternatives. This is what I personally think the various implications that the article could convey .Firstly readers might view this as a racist article and have a negative approach to this thinking that teh article is condemning all interracial couples. On the other hand, this article could also be viewed from the point of view that Jill's secondary focus is on white woman. Its focus relies on her experience and history as a black woman living in a society geared towards oppressing people that look like her. Jill describes the reaction that many black woman have seeing their men lusting for the other.


Source: http://s2smagazine.com/node/2686

Unit4- International and Mass Communication

I love Russell Peters because his comedy is unintentionally undermining; it highlights the relationships between communities of colour. In spite of the fact that he could be criticised for making racist comedy, I tend to justify why I love him. Then the other night I sat down and watched Russell Peter’s latest video “ Russell Peter’s 2010” and I had noticed that Russell seems to have lost his punch line. The video gave me a lot to think about. The video proceeds with his imitating of Spanish and Indian accent. I guess people, including me love his Spanish and Indian accent but one tends to become attached to this idea and stereotype and have difficulty in accepting new ideas. Stereotypes are not meant to represent a population that we want to identify. It is necessary to evaluate people on individual basis.

Stereotypes reflect the differences in status, religion, dialect etc. These differences are evident in all races but cannot identify one specific group of people. It is important to not have a narrow perspective and immature reactions to such issues. Stereotypes do have a degree of truth in them but this certain bit of truth cannot characterize an entire culture or an individual. Non verbal communication is one of the important aspects of communication In the video one can see how Russell Peters again talks about the Indian gesture of nodding which is a silent way of an affirmative gesture. These kinds of stereotypes he uses are to some extent negative and these images are juxtaposed in the minds of a viewer. This causes barriers to intercultural communication.

This is not even just racist but also just plain bad comedy. He’s just beginning to base his comedy and jokes on inaccuracy. He has become all lazy and that’s why racist, sexist , etc jokes aren’t funny anymore. He tries to make fun of a race intelligently which tends to lead to unfairly exaggerated jokes.

Since people all the over world do watch Russell Peter's videos a large population is being imperialised and psychologically. People base their thoughts and opinions according to their senses.

Russell Peter should try and make brilliant comedy, do something new with the monotonous accent. People who encourage him solely for his stereotypes are missing the pure and capable genius of his performances. I still believe you can come back !

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Gob-VoRKQ