IN the textbook theres an activity that asks you to draw a sketch of you room, and where you view your media.
which allows for there to be discussion, if you have a television in your room, is it mounted on the wall? is it in the centre of the room, and allow engagement with others, or do you use your laptop on your bed, which is independent and disallow for visitors.
these questions, lead to the main question, if your in your dorm room watching lost alone, apposed to in a common room for example watching alone, with friends, how does your viewing change ?and in seminar we came up with many different ways in which our viewing habits change,
we mentioned how if we are alone and something is funny, we wont laugh, but if we are in s group we will laugh.
we also discussed how you could be distracted in your dorm, such as on your phone, not really paying attention to what your watching.
which in the textbook is explained as the " reception spaces are partially defined and the relationships that are found are there"
contextual aspects of media, the specific environments in which media consumption occurs
Time
how and when we engage with media at specific moments during the day our daily routines. Whether it be listening to the radio in your car, watching a rerun of television show. We fit media into our busy schedule whether it be by filling in gaps with media usage when we are tired, bored or having nothing to do.
The history of the television is interesting when talking about family and communication. In the early 1950s the television was marketed as an object to bring families together, families would come together and watch the night programs before bed. Television became a generated space within the home, and televisions were found in every living room.
We see the introduction in the television We see the introduction in the television sparked profound shifts in the organization of living spaces in American homes and distributed existing family communication patterns by introducing a new vocal point for family attention and activity in a domestic environment
Main space for understanding media reception – our out look on life and sense of self, particularly as a child and adolescent is profoundly shaped by the people who inhibit this personal space.
Our media choices and interpretations can be shaped by our intimate social and physical environment.
this idea of the transformation of the living space, from the beginning when tvs were introduced in the home, to being a space were families could gather, to a modern living space were the tv is the centre of the living space.
the article Ledbetter, A. (2010). Family communication patterns
and communication competence as of online
communication attitude: Evaluating a dual pathway
model.
Grounded in both Koerner and Fitzpatrick’s (2002a) generalized family communication theory and Bandura’s (1977) social cognitive theory, structural equation modeling tests a model whereby family communication patterns act as both direct and indirect (i.e., via communication competence) predictors.
do you have a younger sibling- their relationship with technology and your family ?
my mom use to monitor my man time, would tell me an hour a day was enough and it was time to go outside, or come hangout with the family. o remember my mom reading over my shoulder. and talking with my friends parents are msn chats.
i use to have to call my parents from the friends house phone when i got there.
now my younger siblings are complexity reversed, my brother has to go outside for at least an hour a day but can the rest of his time, playing video games, on his phone watching YouTube clips,
and my sister has to text my mom when she arrives someplace
we talked in lecture about the dynamics of technology in the home and how it was negotiated, or if it was an on going battle.
we all we asked to talk with a neighbor about how are family dynamics are, my partner and I discussed how after school the “kids” would get the television to watch after school programs, my mom would make dinner and my dad would be getting home from work, after dinner the ‘family” would watch tv together, and the program was usually game shows, because it was suitable for the whole family, we watched a lot of wheel of fortune. and then After 8 it was “adult” TV time so it was my siblings bed time, and my parents watched their recordings or shows they've been waiting all week to watch like the new survivor.
in the textbook this is explained by audience scholar Sonia Livingstone, by interviewing and surveying children from 6-17 she found in her results that. Tv has become less of a social experience in which others can participate at the same time, that there has been a gradual shift from children's leisure time spent outside, to that spent primarily at home, on reflecting and shaping cultural conceptions of childhood over the past half century.
In lecture we discussed “social” capital which is the ability for social interaction regarding media platforms. So if you didn't go see the new James bond film on opening weekend this past weekend, you would have low social capital in this conversation, because you don't know what’s happening.
online self disclosure as tendency to prefer self disclosure in online contexts
Previous research indicates that some prefer self disclosing online versus face-to-face (Ho & McLeod, 2008) and that poor social skill may motivate this tendency (McKenna et al., 2002). Caplan’s (2007) program of research further demonstrates that attraction to the perceived interactional safety of online communication provokes avoidance of offline communication and thus generates “a growing neglect of offline professional, social, and personal responsibilities that result in negative consequences” http://www.buzzfeed.com/laraparker/insane-catfish-stories-that-will-make-you-want-to-delete#.arlNJPbgm (#5)
Today its more normal to meet online, and get to know a person online before meeting them face-to-face like traditional means, heres an example, of a negative to a high online self disclosure.
online social connection (OSC), facilitates healthier relational outcomes. Scholars have long recognized that online communication serves to maintain both local and long distance relationships (Baym, Zhang, & Lin, 2004; Quan-Haase, Wellman, Witte, & Hampton, 2002)Ledbetter’s (2009b) instrument measures tendency to use online communication to maintain social network ties, with OSC positively predicting relational close- ness indirectly via Facebook communication (Ledbetter, Mazer, DeGroot, Mao, Meyer, & Swafford, 2009). Thus, OSC may foster the creation and maintenance of online social networks which, in turn, builds social capital (Ellison, Steinfeld, & Lampe, 2007).
in this interview, they state that meeting online is more common, and that it leads to better relationships and longer marriages.
First, conversation orientation addresses “the degree to which families create a climate in which all family members are encouraged to participate in unrestrained interaction about a wide array of topics”
can you talk to your whole family about everything, or just your mom about school, your dads about sports, and your sister about gossip
low conversation orientation families discourage talk and open expression of emotion, whereas high conversation orientation promotes mutual family discussion and decision- making. Second, conformity orientation addresses “the degree to which family communication stresses a climate of homogeneity of attitudes, values, and beliefs”
social cognitive theory
Social cognitive theory (SCT), used in psychology, education, and communication, holds that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influences.
Schrodt and his colleagues posit that children learn communication skill, in part, by observing and actively modeling parental communication behavior. To the extent that high conversation orientation families engage in both everyday and serious conversation, children in such families might learn to communicate competently; relatedly, to the extent that high conformity orientation suppresses discussion of high-risk topics, it might inhibit competence development. Schrodt et al.’s results confirm both of these expectations in the zero-order correlation matrix
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