GROUP FINAL PAPER
Posted: 18 Dec 2019, 15:47
You Live your Life Online. Don’t Forget Your Manners.
Clare Sandford, Dom Scata, Max Smith
Interaction: The manner in which we interact with the world around us impacts the meaning of our relationships with ourselves and others.
As we as people live further through the digital age, our methods of communication have begun to drastically change. As our methods of communications change, so do our mannerisms and interactions. If we hope to communicate in this new age, we have to morph our etiquette to match how people currently speak.
Life is full of meaningful connections that can be made even between two people who are just meeting. This concept goes beyond just real life connections. According to the New York Times article, Wesson believes we are constantly making judgements based on people’s online presence and etiquette. Whether you are in a professional email exchange to a casual conversation with someone you mutually swiped right with on Tinder. Since everyone’s online reputation is being taken into serious consideration in combination with their personality and characters in real life interactions. The article also stresses the importance of your words online and how that affects the validity of the connections you make online with others. The way that you use certain punctuation marks can change how you are coming off online to others. So, it is all relative to the type of relationship and connection you hope to develop with the person or people on the other side of the screen.
Complex thoughts activate your true potential and help you understand life in new and exciting ways. In digital messaging, you need to activate your complex thoughts to comprehend what the world is trying to tell you. In the article it states a period can make you assume there is some sort of passive aggression, whereas it may not be meant like that at all. Complex thoughts help you understand if that is the real meaning to the situation or not. Without these thoughts you could be assuming the wrong things and making something out of nothing.
Understanding a topic comes through looking at our own growth and using our memories to impersonate what might happen in future situations. When we look at how we compose ourselves in the online world, much of our mannerisms and interpretations don’t transfer over. Our words are stripped of the meaning they hold in our minds and instead take up the meaning the receiver gives it. This does give the added benefit of learning to communicate in the technological age. We can use the mannerisms of others to attempt to better communicate with them. By adopting their patterns you can form your words to better fit their understanding. This is similar to classic face-to-face conversation but has added effects due to the nature of digital communication. Keeping up with these quickly changing “norms” of digital communication can greatly help you convey your messages concisely.
As we get older, we start to appreciate our unique personalities and characteristics, whether that be good or bad, in order to continue to grow as a person. As you grow as a human being, you start to understand yourself better, which in turn helps you understand how to interact with other personalities.In the ever changing digital age we live in now, our personalities are also shown through our online presence. According to Wesson, it is important to be able to read the “room” online as well as physically in person. The context of your digital interactions are context dependent and as we get older we begin to understand that each one warrants a different tone of voice. Adaptability is a major component to being able to communicate with people of diverse backgrounds online.
Ideals are simply how we perceive the outside world, which we use as our inspiration in generating new thought. When looking at communication in the digital world, this is still true. Seeing the world through the digital lenses, gives things a different meaning than we would see in the physical world. These ideals that we create are different in the sense that we mustn’t become too set in them as in the digital age, etiquette is so rapid in its changes, one would be left behind if they were to hold onto one set method of speaking. For example, in the article they talk about how when emails first came out there was an accepted length of time to wait until a response was received. Nowadays, with such easy access to email, we expect a similar response time to that of a text. Those who have lived long enough to see this change have had to adapt to this change or be left behind in the digital world.
We have to change our etiquette in communicating in the world. Meaning is created when two people interact, and as the nature of the interaction changes, so does the meaning. Through the complex interpretation of communication in the digital age, we attempt to comprehend messages in other people’s eyes. As we use our own memories and growth to give our own words meaning, in the digital age we must also consider the meaning others memories give our words. As we live in this digital age, we will become more accustomed to interacting in the digital age and how meaning is conveyed. Although the way meaning is being conveyed is changing, we still are generating thought. By keeping our etiquette flexible, we can continue to meaningfully communicate in the digital age.
Clare Sandford, Dom Scata, Max Smith
Interaction: The manner in which we interact with the world around us impacts the meaning of our relationships with ourselves and others.
As we as people live further through the digital age, our methods of communication have begun to drastically change. As our methods of communications change, so do our mannerisms and interactions. If we hope to communicate in this new age, we have to morph our etiquette to match how people currently speak.
Life is full of meaningful connections that can be made even between two people who are just meeting. This concept goes beyond just real life connections. According to the New York Times article, Wesson believes we are constantly making judgements based on people’s online presence and etiquette. Whether you are in a professional email exchange to a casual conversation with someone you mutually swiped right with on Tinder. Since everyone’s online reputation is being taken into serious consideration in combination with their personality and characters in real life interactions. The article also stresses the importance of your words online and how that affects the validity of the connections you make online with others. The way that you use certain punctuation marks can change how you are coming off online to others. So, it is all relative to the type of relationship and connection you hope to develop with the person or people on the other side of the screen.
Complex thoughts activate your true potential and help you understand life in new and exciting ways. In digital messaging, you need to activate your complex thoughts to comprehend what the world is trying to tell you. In the article it states a period can make you assume there is some sort of passive aggression, whereas it may not be meant like that at all. Complex thoughts help you understand if that is the real meaning to the situation or not. Without these thoughts you could be assuming the wrong things and making something out of nothing.
Understanding a topic comes through looking at our own growth and using our memories to impersonate what might happen in future situations. When we look at how we compose ourselves in the online world, much of our mannerisms and interpretations don’t transfer over. Our words are stripped of the meaning they hold in our minds and instead take up the meaning the receiver gives it. This does give the added benefit of learning to communicate in the technological age. We can use the mannerisms of others to attempt to better communicate with them. By adopting their patterns you can form your words to better fit their understanding. This is similar to classic face-to-face conversation but has added effects due to the nature of digital communication. Keeping up with these quickly changing “norms” of digital communication can greatly help you convey your messages concisely.
As we get older, we start to appreciate our unique personalities and characteristics, whether that be good or bad, in order to continue to grow as a person. As you grow as a human being, you start to understand yourself better, which in turn helps you understand how to interact with other personalities.In the ever changing digital age we live in now, our personalities are also shown through our online presence. According to Wesson, it is important to be able to read the “room” online as well as physically in person. The context of your digital interactions are context dependent and as we get older we begin to understand that each one warrants a different tone of voice. Adaptability is a major component to being able to communicate with people of diverse backgrounds online.
Ideals are simply how we perceive the outside world, which we use as our inspiration in generating new thought. When looking at communication in the digital world, this is still true. Seeing the world through the digital lenses, gives things a different meaning than we would see in the physical world. These ideals that we create are different in the sense that we mustn’t become too set in them as in the digital age, etiquette is so rapid in its changes, one would be left behind if they were to hold onto one set method of speaking. For example, in the article they talk about how when emails first came out there was an accepted length of time to wait until a response was received. Nowadays, with such easy access to email, we expect a similar response time to that of a text. Those who have lived long enough to see this change have had to adapt to this change or be left behind in the digital world.
We have to change our etiquette in communicating in the world. Meaning is created when two people interact, and as the nature of the interaction changes, so does the meaning. Through the complex interpretation of communication in the digital age, we attempt to comprehend messages in other people’s eyes. As we use our own memories and growth to give our own words meaning, in the digital age we must also consider the meaning others memories give our words. As we live in this digital age, we will become more accustomed to interacting in the digital age and how meaning is conveyed. Although the way meaning is being conveyed is changing, we still are generating thought. By keeping our etiquette flexible, we can continue to meaningfully communicate in the digital age.