Bricarah Thull
Mrs. Miller
CAPP Speech
Research Summaries
Baker, Megan. “The Importance of Face-To-Face Communication in the Digital Age.”Australian
Institute of Business, 15 Sept. 2016, aib.edu.au/blog/communication/face-to-face- communication-in-the-digital-age/.
This is going to be a great article to use in my paper. To start, it is super relevant to my topic, why face-to-face communication is important, because it gives me a starting point for my research. This article talks about how face-to-face communication leads to stronger relationships, the enhancement of being able to read nonverbal cues, more engagement towards the topic of discussion and how it’s easier to make sure the people you are addressing actually understand what
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“What Are the Advantages of Face to Face Communication?” Star Medical, 20 Oct. 2016, www.starmedical.co.uk/blog/2013/04/15/advantages-and-disadvantages-face-to-face-comm unication/ This source gives it’s opinions on why face-to-face communication is essentially in not only the business world but also the medical world which will be a great asset in my research paper. On the blog it mentions how face-to-face communication allows you to get to know someone better compared to getting to know someone through technology. The blog talks about how important body language is to communication, how traveling to meet someone can show them that you value them, it can build stronger relationship and you are less likely to have a miscommunication. Overall, this article appear to be relevant and credible. It is the most recent source that I have since it was published in 2016. Also, the website that published Star also known as Star Develop Academy is a British run website that publishes medical speeches and findings. It appears to be a highly reputable blog run by multiple people. I will use the points made to add into my subtopics to strengthen my points. This will be a great source to strengthen the points that I already …show more content…
This paper dives into how technology can affect people’s relationships. It touches on how it can lead to trust issues and miscommunications within a relationship. Technology can also lead to people feeling neglected in a relationship. This article was published on The Qualitative Report which is an educational site where professors and students can post their findings. The domain is .edu and appears to be a reliable source from highly educated people. The article was published in 2014 but, touches on problems that are relevant today. This source will be used in my paper as another viewpoint as to why people need to have face-to-face conversations. It gives valid points as to why people need to have face-to-face conversations in order to have a successful relationship. Overall this is a great source that gives a different viewpoint on the topic of why face-to-face communication is
Due to the fact many people use the internet and phones to talk or text, the percentage of face-to-face conversations are decreasing. A decrease in conversations can lead to lack of experience, which in turn leads to more awkward and poor communication. The ability to talk to others in reality is vital, for many important conversations are held face-to-face, like job interviews. If a certain person spends most conversations online, it will lead to poor communication skills in reality when it is necessary.
In the21st century, Amazing changes in communication has affected interpersonal relationships. Some prefer to use technology like Facebook, Line, and Wechat to communicate with their friends rather than talking in person. Communicating with technology will make them alienated. Interpersonal relationships are also important by personal talking, which may lead to improve relationships. In her essay, “Connectivity and Its Discontents”, Sherry Turkle believes technology weakens interpersonal relationship among friends, and relatives. In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan claims talking with her mother and husband in a personal way can improves their relationship. Using technology to communicate will alienate and widen the distance between friends; talking
This is in contrast to Turkle who talks about how it is ruining our communication skills, Wortham states that technology is doing just the opposite and bettering our connections with others. Wortham, even though her article is a bit shorter than Turkle’s, still is able to get across the idea that without the technology that we have today she wouldn’t be able to have the relationship she has with her boyfriend. This goes for everyone who is in a long distance relationship, or those who are far away from their families. The use of video chats, texting, and calling improves communication for those who we can’t see on a daily basis. Wortham believes that without these options of technology she would not still be in the relationship with her current boyfriend, or if she was in the relationship still they would not be as close as they are with the use of the video chat dates they have. As it says in her article “we chatted…before bidding each other good night.” (Wortham 393). This may seem like a common thing for couples to do but “we did all of this despite living more than 3,000 miles apart” (Wortham 393). They were only able to do such a task do “to smartphone applications and services” (Wortham 393). As one could see Wortham is for the use of technology, and communication over electronic
In the article “The Rule of Thumbs” Moore discusses the use of text messages in a romantic relationship. Also, she points out the negative effects that the new generation of technology has had on today 's relationships and she clearly gives her thoughts on how technology interferes with today 's relationships, with the consequences that technology is slowly killing romance. This essay expresses many strong points about the use of texting and I lean towards Natalie Moore’s opinion because texting has strongly changed the way we communicate, unite, and become literate. After all, while analyzing the role that text messaging demonstrates for communication today, it has open four main arguable points that if it is discussed it would be easy to realize that texting is a hard issue overcome. In other words, texting not only has become part of our life today and it has reduced face to face interaction, but also texting has destroyed dating and the way people write or communicate to one
Oral communication provides fast speed and feedback when conveying a message to a person or a group of people. The problem with oral communication is that when you begin to pass a certain message thru many people the message is distorted. In the article oral communications is the method that is used in face to face communications. Although, face to face uses oral communication it does not suffer from the disadvantage provided from this form of communication. The book provides a breakdown of what nonverbal communications is which is used highly in face to face communication. When a verbal message is received it contains a non-verbal attachment that is received by the person in which you are talking to. Nonverbal messages are not always attached to verbal messages so they are created directly or indirectly. Both the article and the book provide an explanation on how we are able to read nonverbal cues. Unconsciously are body sends messages that provide information that explains our current state of mind. The book explains how body movements communicates emotions that are within us and we merely attach spoken words to that nonverbal cue. This relates to the article because it helps us understand why we try to imitate the end user who is talking. We are trying to understand the emotional context that his nonverbal cues are sending so we try to repeat
Since the rise of the technological era, society has faced many different opinions on the topic of cell phones. On one end, mobile devices help us connect to the world in a lot of beneficial ways, and on the other hand, it damages our real-life relationships. Two authors, who were featured on The Wall Street Journals’ piece called “Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?” argued their points of view. The first argument was given by Dr. Larry Rosen, who spoke about the pitfalls of today’s communicative relationships over a cellular device. The counterargument was given by Dr. Keith N. Hampton who believed that virtual relationships helped strengthen real-life ones. Based on both of these authors, the stronger argument was given by Dr. Hampton
The author asserts that technology hampers face to face interactions, which has caused people in this era to become more detached from one another. Though she concedes that individuals can still engage in these intimate conversations, Turkle notes that there has been an overall downward trend.
In the essay, “Relationships and Technology,” by Joseph A. DeVito, he wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of online dating and its effects. Technology has made an enormous effect on our relationships, both physically and mentally. Some argue, our mental obsession with technology has become so dire in order to interact with others. While on the other hand people argue these improvements have only physically enlarged our communication with others and improved our lives. There is no denying the growth of technology has gotten extremely big, and it now plays an important role in our daily lives.
Personal relationships are central to being human. We have relationships of so many kinds and maintain so many roles throughout our daily lives. We are expected to be a successful communicator as coworkers, parents, children, friends, siblings, and intimate partners. Interpersonal communications investigates both nonverbal and verbal message exchange between two people regardless of their relationship. Interpersonal communications is a fairly new profession and field of study but it is one that applies to all. Humans cannot, not communicate; perhaps that is why the amount of research available in this field is increasing to rapidly. Scholars such as Timothy Levine, Rene Dailey, and Megan Dillow are doing countless experiments on hot topics in the communication discipline such as topic avoidance, similarity breeding liking, taboo topics, and uncertainty in intimate realtionships.
People have the fundamental desire to maintain strong connections with others. Through logic and reasoning, Sherry states, “But what do we have, now that we have what we say we want, now that we have what technology makes easy?”(Turkle). Face to face conversations are now mundane because of the accessibility to interact at our fingertips, at free will through text, phone calls and social media. Belonging, the very essence of a relationship has now become trivial.
Relationships can be unsuccessful and have difficulties from technology because there is a lack of face to face communication. Conversations work best when the two people speak in person
In our culture, technology serves as an instrumental aspect of our lives. Regardless of where you turn, you are constantly surrounded by technology. Whether it is our cellphones that spend their entire lives within an arm’s reach of us, our computers, or the newest wave of technology that is moving us towards tablets, much of our life is lived in front of screens. With these advancements comes the notion that there is an application that can solve every life problem we may have. Thanks to technological advancements like text messaging or social media networks, there are plenty of ways a relationship can be sustained for a significant period without personal contact. Unfortunately, most people have a misconstrued belief that these resources are a great substitute for personal time in relationships that have periods of long distance separation. Scientists and relationship experts debate the usefulness of technology in relationships and many do not share the above mentioned belief. They debate if technology helps sustain relationship or helps ruin relationships. Just as social media can be a great way of keeping up with others while they are away, it can also be used to spy on others and assume an intimate connection between anyone who posts on your significant other’s wall often.
As a member of the healthcare community, I was intrigued by the title of this article. The section heading grabbed my attention as I know that many factors can affect our personal health, but I had not truly considered how interpersonal communication; interaction between two people, usually face to face (Adler and Proctor 13); correlated to a person’s physical health. In an effort to show the important relationship between the quality of your communication and the quality of your life, Parks reviewed extensive research that strongly connects interpersonal communication with five aspects of mental and physical health. (Parks 41-42)
Over the last century, information technology, such as the Internet, has brought our society forward and helps us get through life more efficiently and conveniently. In addition, it helps making global communication easier and faster as compared to hand-written mails that may take days if not weeks to reach its intended recipient. However, with such luxury and convenience, there is a debate whether the way we currently interact with fellow human beings with the help of technology is good or bad to our personal relationships. The Internet has increased the amount of communication globally, yet ironically the very technology that helps us increase our communication hinders our ability to socialize effectively in real life and create a healthy interpersonal relationship.
With 80% of Americans using internet, and that 80% spending an average of 17 hours a week online (each), according to the 2009 Digital Future Report, we are online more than ever before. People can't go a few hours let alone a whole day without checking their emails, social media, text messages and other networking tools. The average teen today deals with more than 3,700 texts in just a month. The use of technology to communicate is making face to face conversations a thing of the past. We have now become a society that is almost completely dependent on our technology to communicate. While technology can be helpful by making communication faster and easier, but when it becomes our main form of conversation it becomes harmful to our communication and social skills. Technological communication interferes with our ability to convey our ideas clearly. Technology can harm our communication skills by making us become unfamiliar with regular everyday human interactions, which can make it difficult for people to speak publicly. Technology can also harm our ability to deal with conflict. These days it is easier to h...