Don’t underestimate the power of Cyberspace because it influenced both communication and our culture. The world of Cyberspace manages to change the way we use the keyboard to communicate to others. People uses symbol in a form of expression for example :) to show someone you’re happy, and :( to show that you are sad: user using creative sign such as : and ) to create a form facial appearance. Today’s literacy is so informal it’s not even funny. The new code is to shorten things, and still get the message across. High School students, college students, and even elementary kids use just letters to represent a phrase. LOL, laugh out loud, or BRB: be right back these are terms that most people will be able to diagnose, and now the meaning for it. But, I prefer this culture instead of the business form. In the beginning of the chapter, Judith Yaross Lee’s talks about his study of the codes of electronic mailing, and its templates. I feel like there’s rules for every little things when it comes to memos, and other business letters. A certain order you must follow in the professional form of communication. I see emailing as an alternate route of a telephone phone call. But, “E-mail replies also tend to lack contextual information” For example your asking someone what happen in class today; you subject can be “Tell me about the class on April 18, 201” but your body will probably restating you subject title. Your viewer will be more willing to write back a short response “Nothing really just read chapter 2” when if on the telephone the person will give you a more details in their response. I’m a huge supporter to short and sweet, and get to the point. Also reading this chapter it made me wonder, people create persona in their emails, and some time other persona of other people’s feeling can be hurt. For example, you’re a huge user of telecommunication and you check your emails everyday and replies to each and every person that messages you. But, one day you decide not to reply to someone because you want to give a day’s thought; your user can be offended by you change of pattern, and take it as a form of disrespect. Just an interesting thought
I agree with you Rich. I think that although communication via technology such as e-mail or texting has it's pros and cons. It is convenient because a person can get so much done by just typing a few words and getting it over with whereas if they had to call it is a little more drawn out. In the world we live in today hardly anyone has time to have these phone conversations anymore but I feel sometimes this can make things a little impersonal.
ReplyDeleteOne big problem with communicating like this I think is miscommunication. Depending on how you write your sentences, what punctuation you use, etc. it is up to the receiver to denote the tone of the message and that can sometimes cause problems. When the person can not hear what it is you're saying it's easy for them to take the message the wrong way or with the wrong tone.
I also think that it is in a way unprofessional to use some of the abreviations and emotiocons at work, but it is something that is becoming more and more apparent in the workplace especially in the case of young adults and young start up companies.
ReplyDeleteIt's also funny how will know what these aberration mean without anyone teaching us. I feel once someone tells you the meaning, you will never forget it because its part of our culture. It's like a language itself.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sasha. It is incredibly easy to misread an email, message, memo, etc because of the tone of it. For example, sometimes responses that are short seem to come off rigid and mean. Although the use of emoticons definitely lightens up the mood and tone, they are def inappropriate in work realted messages.
ReplyDeleteGood point that when we communicate under any circumstances, we communicate something about who we are as well as communicating content. That works naturally in face-to-face situations, but for email and other forms of messaging, we can only do so via text.
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