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WEEK 5

Carey (p. 152) states that “we are awash now in nostalgia for the future.” It what ways does your “nostalgia for the future” impact your present? That is, unlike nature, we construct our worlds teleological (designed or directed toward a final result). How are your actions now designed to create your specific future?

My “nostalgia for the future” impacts my present because it will push me now to make a better future for myself.  Nostalgia is the desire and or yearning for happiness and that is what I am working for now in my present. I work hard now for a more desirable future. An example of this would be looking into my past and reminiscing about the conditions I grew up in. This makes me yearn for the future where I hope to provide my children with a better upbringing than I had experienced. So, in the present, I am focusing on the “pursuit of happiness”. I believe that working hard and staying focused on the future (rather than my past) will help me get to the future I yearn and the happiness in my future I seek. In my present I am grateful that I am no longer in my past and look towards the future as something even better than my present.

My actions are now designed to create a specific future. I am aware of the patterns I have seen from the negative people in my past and have learned to avoid them in my present so they will not be a thought in my future. I am staying focused on bringing positive things into my future by never giving up on things in my present that are difficult for me to handle. In my present I will not allow myself to be a victim of the past but, instead, remember the valuable lessons that it taught me.

 

 

 

Week 4

How will new technology affect the development of your future “cultural-self?” Using technological developments of past “communication revolutions,” project into the future. Think about how culture in the past might have been influenced by the technology of the time and how new technologies (say in 15 years – 2024) might impact our personal cultural selves. Try to use specific, rather than general, historical references or concepts from the text.

New technology will affect the development of my future “cultural self” by making me less self-sufficient I believe. I do not know how I would survive without a cell phone or access to my e-mail. It is essentially humorous when I consider the past, when these things were not so easily accessed, and I wonder how I survived all those years.

 

In the past (within my culture), being close to our community was one of the things that was sacred. Nowadays, with all the new technology, my culture community has broadened because it is uncomplicated to stay close through Internet or cell phones. The plus side of new technology is that family members who are overseas are able to become closer to the family they are not able to see as often due to distance.

Carey says, “Electricity promised, so it seemed, the same freedom, decentralization, ecological harmony, and democratic community that had hitherto been guaranteed but left undelivered by mechanization. But electricity also promised the same power, productivity, and economic expansion previously guaranteed and delivered by mechanical industrialization” (Carey, 2006, p.94). I believe that this means that when electricity came about in the past, it changed life dramatically. It allowed communities to have a certain freedom because they did not have to rely on things resembling having to make a fire for light and further things. Things became easier and this allowed for the communities to become more productive. I am sure economically there was growth as well. I think in the future new technology will provide us all a tad more power and economically we will be capable of accomplishing more because things can be completed faster. On the other hand, it is kind of frightening to see how easily accessed certain things will be to the immoral people who do not need that kind of power.

 

 

Week 3 

What is the “value” of a college degree? Why did you choose to attend college and what are your expectations (specific or general) for earning a degree? 

 

The “Value” of a college degree is big in this society. Having a degree is supposed to mean that more doors will open for you in life and you will be able to make more money in your career of choice. However, I know many people who did not go to college and were successful being an entrepreneur.  They worked hard and built businesses out of nothing. Also (especially in the economy today), I know many college graduates that are struggling to make ends meet. They are stuck working jobs that are below entry-level. It is important to get a degree if you are going into a specific field, but now a college degree holds as much value as it may have in the past. A college degree theoretically means that more job opportunities will open up to you than an “Average Joe”, yet; many people that have worked entry level within a company have reached top levels without obtaining a college degree. They did eventually get their education paid for so the company could pay them more.  They hold the equal job title but, now (with the degree) the company found it suitable to pay them extra. The “value” of that college degree was money.

I chose to attend college because it was the step I had to take after high school. I expect to obtain a good paying job by earning my degree. I have chosen Communications as my major. I expect when I graduate I will be a great Communicator and be able to assist in humanizing cultures within our communities that most Americans do not bother to understand. With my degree, I expect I could have a louder voice in my community because, if you have proof you are educated more people tend to listen.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 2

What communication rituals do you practice? Interrogate a media based communication ritual - trace its origins - where did it come from? How did you create/adopt this ritual?

 

 

There are many communication rituals that I practice. The ritual I am involved in the most is social networking; more specific, Facebook. Facebook allows users to stay in touch with a certain network of friends on a real-time basis. It also allows you to rekindle old flames, reunite with old classmates, and find those long lost family members. It sort of emulates the MySpace ritual, but Facebook seems to be more personable.

Facebook came about February 4th 2004 for a network of friends at Harvard College (http://www.communitties.net/Facebook_Origins.html). The founder of the phenomenon was none other than Marc Zuckerberg, a graduate of the class of 2006 at Harvard University. He never knew how rapidly this social networking experiment would catch on world-wide (http://www.communitties.net/Facebook_Origins.html). Facebook has now reached all college networks and high school networks world-wide. It is amazing how quickly this type of communication ritual caught on to the world wide communicators. Facebook has become the new way to e-mail, share photos, learn about what is going on in your community, and stay active in political scenes going on around the world.

When I first learned about Facebook, I was a faithful "MySpace" user so I did not look twice at the different social network. Eventually I got bored of MySpace and decided to give Facebook a try. I have to admit I was hooked right away. My MySpace has been deleted soon after that day I converted. There are many communication rituals out there that I take apart of, but I am definitely a huge fan of the Facebook social networking.

 

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