Assessment Activity

Q1) Visit your Facebook page and then click on home tab. If you don’t have an account you
might make one to observe while completing this course. Read through the postings and
identify which of them adheres to and do not adhere to the ethical communication principles
proposed in the chapter.

Dark Side
Messages that are not ethical.

Bright side
Would be one that is both ethical (honest, respectful).

Hard side response

Would be ethical but inappropriate in that it is likely to hurt and damage your
relationship.

Easy Dark Side response

Would be unethical but appropriate and not damage your relationship.

Evil Dark Side response

Would be both unethical and inappropriate.
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Skill Building Activities
Identifying element of the communication process for the following interactions

Identify the message, channel, contexts, interference (noise) and feedback.

"Maria and Damien are meandering through the park, talking and drinking bottled
water. Damien finishes his
bottle, replaces the lid, and tosses the bottle into the bushes at the side of the
path. Maria, who has been listening to Damien talk, comes to a stop, puts her
hand on her hips, stares at Damien, and says angrily, "I can't believe what you just
did! Damien blushes, averts his gaze, and mumbles, "Sorry, I'll get it I just wasn't
thinking." As the tension drains from Maria's face. she gives her head a playful
toss, smiles, and says, Well, just see that it doesn't happen again.
1 Message
Keep environment clean.

2 channel
Face to face

3 Context
 Physical
Park,bushes,bottles
 Social
Friends (Close friends)
 Historical
Pleasant relation in past
 Psychological
Anger, tension

4 Interfernce
Throwing bottle

5 Feedback
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2 communicating over the internet
Consider the advantages and disadvantage of communicating via the following
internet based mediums: email, newsgroups, ichat, Gchat, social network in
sites(e.g facebook,twitter),and blogs. Enter your thoughts into a two colloumn
table with advantage in first coloumn and disadvantage in the second

E-MAIL
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Emails are delivered extremely fast when No guarantee the mail will be read until the
compared to traditional post. user logs on and checks their email.
Emails can be sent 24 hours a day, 365 days The recipient needs access to the internet to
a year. receive email.
Emails can be sent to one person or several Viruses are easily spread via
people. email attachments

Twitter
ADVANTAGES
Easily communicate with family and friends
catching up on your favorite celebrities and
posting content such as photos
DISADVANTAGES
Twitter limits each tweet to 140 characters
posting duplicate updates

Q4) Watch a video on “A Failure to communicate” by Tyler Chan on YouTube and enlist all the
communication barriers you think were there in the video.

The interruptions that were in the video are given below:

1) Cross culture differences: One of the cartoon was clearly from Muslim country and
other belonged to a different place
2) Physical Interruptions: Noise of train, Broadcast speech etc.
3) Psychological Interruptions: The deaf cartoon couldn’t comprehend the message of the
other cartoon
4) Social Interruptions: At the end of the video they ended talking as both of them failed to
communicate with each other.