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  1. Jan 2025
    1. Murdering someone is generally thought of as unethical and illegal, but many instances of hurtful speech, or even what some would consider hate speech, have been protected as free speech.

      I feel this comes down to the question would you kill Hitler if you could stop everything he did? And ethics come into play because murder is bad, but would you commit one to save the lives of thousands? How about hundreds? tens? one or two? it gets complicated because what is ethical to one person might not be to the next.

    1. Whether it’s the size of the room, the temperature, or other environmental factors, it’s important to consider the role that physical context plays in our communication.

      How would these concepts relate to something like an online interview? I feel like to me they can be more stressful in some aspects. I worry about lag and having parts of what I am saying being cut out. I worry about eye contact and where to look on the screen to show I am engaged. But I am also in some ways more comfortable, I can wear sweats and have a blanket wrapped around me as long as its not in the camera frame. I can have my dog in my lap to comfort me. The setting itself can be comfortable but the means of communication can be stressful.

    2. The transmission model of communication is well suited for describing the act of text messaging since the sender isn’t sure that the meaning was effectively conveyed or that the message was received at all.

      I like this example to convey the transmission model. With sight of the text itself and the sound indicating its arrival, I can see the similarities with the model. I also like how the mention that abbreviation can hinder the transmission of the message as well. I feel like with texts, we lack an understanding with the message because you can't hear the tone of the message. It can be hard to understand what a person is meaning because you can say one thing sarcastically and it can be taken literally.

    1. Even though creating the illusion of a personal connection is often a goal of those who create mass communication messages, the relational aspect of interpersonal and group communication isn’t inherent within this form of communication.

      I like this sentence because it touches on an aspect of social media posts that I feel we often forget. When we interact with medias we can sometimes see ourselves in the work being created. But much of the time the post is created by someone we don't know, that does not realize their post has extended to us, and does not thus personally interact with us.