This channel focuses on communication-related concepts to accompany various communication courses: Public Speaking, Argumentation & Debate, Communication Experience, Interpersonal Communication, Small Group Communication. The most recent addition is Mediated Oral Communication (oral communication and presentations via mediated channels such a RU-vid, video conferencing, etc.). Additionally, concepts related to Survey Research are included. (And, of course, the rare personal videos, or those that others have requested I create.) I am a professor emeritus of Communication at Sacramento City College in California, as well as California State University, Sacramento. My experience is in both face-to-face and online teaching. Additionally, I own a Communication Consulting business, Jenkinson Associates.
Aristotle annoys the sh*t out of me. He's such a persistent left-brainer, an OCD rationalist, a masculine, chauvanist thinker. He has no time for either right hemisphere intuition, nor dual hemisphere integrated realisation. The ancient Eastern philosophers and pundits were not solely logicians but took all modes of human perception as means towards truth. Modern Westerners falsely consider reasoning to be the highest human faculty of mind -- hence the elevation of sciences into religious canons. Sorry, but not true. Logic has its place, but rhetoric is not always the best tool of communication.
Long live parallel relationships! ✊ I unwittingly learned about how complimentary relationships function a few years ago. Growing up, my best friend and I were in a parallel relationship, except for the difference in our socio-economic backgrounds, which, like with most kids, wasn't an issue... at the time. My affluent friend was happy to lend me his stuff as often as he could and I was happy to borrow it. It didn't define the friendship... yet... Cut to: End of 9th grade, 1996. My parents bought me one of those swanky technical drawing sets for me to take the end of year exam with. You know the drill; T-square, drawing board, set squares etc. I knew I wouldn't be taking the subject beyond this point, but my best friend would. That year, for his birthday, I cleaned up the TD set (I'd only ever used it once) wrapped it in newspaper (couldn't afford wrapping paper but added a bunch of bougainvillea flowers from outside his gate where the bow would traditionally be 😂) and left it with his mother when it turned out he wasn't home. I never got to see him open it, but he loved it and for the last 3 years of highschool, it was always a source of pride for me to see him with it (even if his parents could afford to get him 10 more without batting an eye) because I'd never been able to give him anything as materially substantial before. And, of course, most of the other students relied on the school's old-fashioned wooden sets. Cut to: A few years ago, now both working adults, we were chatting idly and the TD set somehow came up. I was taken aback when he dismissively (and even irritably when contradicted ) insisted it had been a gift from his brother and not me. I didn't push the issue further but when I got home, I mulled it over for ages, part indignant, part amused and completely baffled. I recognized there was no malice in the mix up. The guy genuinely seemed to believe the gift had come from his brother and, more so, was very protective of this "memory". But why had he subconsciously transferred the association from me to his older sibling? I figured out complementary power dynamics were at play (even though I didn't know the term for them). Receiving the gift from me had, somewhere along the line, made him uncomfortable. It messed with our tried & tested dynamic where I was the borrower and he was the lender. I had unwittingly overstepped by making this gesture. I think recognizing this is part of the reason I didn't push back too much against his reimagined history. Plus it was so long ago, it seemed petty to bicker over. Cut to: Present day. The friendship has completely imploded because of an insistence by this now ex friend to, not only cling to this obsolete power dynamic between us, but also attempt to influence the dynamics between myself, my ex work colleagues, my friends (some of them exes too now) and even my family. He has flagrantly crossed the line and, I can only imagine, justifies it through our childhood friendship, even if it's disintegrated in adulthood for reasons I wont go into. I still can't imagine involving myself in his family's politics, especially behind his back, even in spite of how close I once was to them. Perhaps that's also a vestige of our past dynamic... and thank God for it! Moral of the story: interpersonal dynamics are as fascinating as they are precarious. NEVER involve yourself in other people's. It's impossible to fully grasp how two people's (nevermind a whole family's) rhythm works. Insinuating yourself into the rhythm is simply arrogant, naive, disruptive and often destructive. RIP Jason Turner. Rot In Purgatory, Ulcer Van Hermit. You both know who you are. PS: Thank goodness I'm still not a rich man. Can you imagine how much that would rub him the wrong way? 🙄🤡 #2341 #KnowYourPlace
Excellent dive into rhetoric, I think it's perfect as a 2nd visit to rhetoric, after a student initially understands the triangle more simply. This deeper dive reinforces the concepts well. Very clearly presented, with refined inventio, dispositio, and elocutio. :)
1 in 2 marriages ending in divorce has nothing to do with what will happen in the future because the statistic is about historical data. this is nonsense.
Thank you for making this. I have watched this video twice to be able to write a speech in my politics class, and it has helped me create a speech that my teacher has praised.
I think this video interprets uncertainty avoidance incorrectly. Cultures that are high on uncertainty avoidance have a low tolerance for ambiguity. Watchers should note that the cultures identified here as being tolerant of ambiguity are not (Sweden, Singapore, Denmark, Germany), and those identified as being intolerant of ambiguity are (Russia, Hungary, Guatemala, Bolivia). The confusion might be because Hofstede classified the USSR as having high uncertainty avoidance, while Project GLOBE found Russians to be low in uncertainty avoidance.
