Human communication in Art

there are 2 pictures. one is a picture of mona lisa smoking a blunt. this was made as a mockery of her artist. the other is a picture of a monkey mimicking the zoo keeper.

mirror nuerons and human comm

quotes regarding human communication

Abraham Lincoln:
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.



Adrienne Rich:
Lying is done with words and also with silence.



Alvin Toffler:
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.



Ambrose Bierce:
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

The Devil's Dictionary

communication through social sites.(pictures)

by using websites such as facebook,and friendster and msn it can be seen that people,more often girls tend to upload many pics of themself to attract the opposite sex....the pictures that are uploaded are sometimes photoshopped.by doing this it makes the person feel confident of themself and allows them to communicate more freely without having a fear... the picture below is an example of a picture used by one of my friends in her facebook account which has been heavily photoshopped...

Art

Art can sometime express our own feelings too. In this piece of art, this artist is trying to express anger.

a punch

a punch as a result of anger is a form of communication that shows the anger of the person..

Facebook

wwww.facebook.com is a website which is used by people to express feelings.........sometimes people express their feelings in a form of shoutout...others can view this and communicate by sending comments....by doing this communication can occur

Miscommunication

This cartoon shows miscommunication. The person in the swimming pool is drowning. He needs someone to save him but the other guy gives him a soap instead. The old man thought he is bathing and needed a soap.

WHY CAN'T THE REST OF THE WORLD GET ALONG?

The lesson for whole mankind!


 PORK CHOPS

In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.. 



The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cub's, perhaps she would improve. 



After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species, will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly, were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. 

Would they become cubs or pork chops?? 


Now, please tell me one more time...? why can't the rest of the world get along???

REASONS FOR CONFLICT OR DISAGREEMENT

1. Lack of Clarity - the communication between parties is missing information or the information is not being communicated in a consistant manner.

all of us different people,and we communicate our thoughts in a different manner, we may use different meanings for the words. sometimes we make assumptions and add meaning to things we heard, all this can result in miscommunication and may lead to the conflict.

2. Position Focus - the parties involved have already each decided on their own solution and are failing to discuss the problem those solutions are addressing.

if we think that our opinion or our arguments are the only right ones, we may fail to communicate effectively. we get stubborn and do not want to listen to another opinion or another point of view , that contradicts with ours

3. Different Values - the parties are unable to agree because they are holding different sets of values but not articulating those values as part of the discussion.

all of us have different live experience, set of perceptions and values, that may differ with other people's life views, and when they clash conflict occurs .if we fail to understand differences between ourselves and our opponents we are not going to come to any effective resolutions.

4. Past History/Personalities - the parties have a previous unresolved conflict that is negatively affecting their ability to work together.

this reason explains importance of resolving conflicts once we face them, because it may affect our future relationships with the person and negatively affect our work life, love life and friendship.

retrieved from : http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2005/05/reasons_for_con.html

trust and dishonesty

Failed marriages are mostly cost of dishonesty and lack of trust between spouses.

wrong word

Sometimes when miscommunication happen due to similarity of two words with two different meaning, so we should be careful and emphasize on the right word or phrase

Gender Differences in Communication

                       Men and women may become friends, get married or work together but at the same time our communication styles are quiet different, I believe its because our view on the world around us is different We may get into arguments over the issues that isn't even there because we see things differently and put accents on different words or phrases. Listed below are some differences between  man and womens way of seeing things and handling communication

                                                             Women

Seek out relationships with others
Relate to others as equals
Prefer interdependency, collaboration, coordination and cooperation
Make decisions based on mutual agreement
Desire closeness, togetherness and affinity
Care for the approval of peers
express themselves more in private
Are more open to share problems
Tend to focus on details of emotions
More concerned with feelings
May mix personal and business talk
Tend to ask for help, advice and directions
Offer sympathy
Display empathy
Desire to understand problems
Tend to take a more sober look at challenges
Men
Tend to seek standing and position
Relate to others as rivals
Tend toward independence and autonomy
Choose or resolve by force, persuasion or majority rule
Desires space
Tend to seek the respect of their peers
Express themselves more in public
Keep concerns to themselves
Tend to focus on the details of fact
Often will not ask for advice, help or directions
Freely offer advice and analysis
Are problem solvers
Tend to look at challenges as a game unless life and death is at stake

retrieved from : http://www.speechmastery.com/gender-differences-in-communication.html

Racism

Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another. -from 'http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/racism.asp'

Ageism

The video is from 'Home Alone' it is about a boy who is forgotten by his family and left at home by accident while his family went on a vacation. This part of the video shows ageism when most of his family doesn't believe what he says and punish him for no reason.

OK sigh

Touching the thumb and index finger to suggest a circle, with the other fingers on the hand fanned out, indicates that everything is okay in the United States.
In Brazil, Germany, and Russia, however, it indicates a very private orifice and is an insult.
In Japan, the sign indicates that you want change. Use this gesture if you want a cashier in a store to give your change in coins.
In France, it is an insult. It denotes the number zero or the concept of something being worthless. When placed over the nose, it means “drunk.”
from this article we can see the importance of understanding the cultural differences in non verbal gestures. even such common gesture as "OK" sign  has different meanings as we travel around the world. Unfortunately, a lot of misunderstanding occurs because we are not aware of this kind of cultural differences.

retrieved from : http://irreference.com/gestures-to-avoid-the-ok-sign/

What i want to hear

This is what usually happens in most marriages. sometimes our partner, misunderstand the message given or hear what we want to hear.

miscommunication

This picture shows a serious human communication, when we misinterpret signals or messages.

HOW IS ONLINE COMMUNICATION DIFFERENT ?

 Nowadays you can hardly find a person who owns computer and doesn't communicate online. All those social networks such as Facebook, Friendster, Orcut  , instant messengers such as MSN, ICQ, QIP  has millions of users all over the world. It is great to be able to communicate in real time with people who are miles away, be able to keep in touch with friends and family members who moved to another country , and just make new friends in different parts of the world. But do we understand that there is some aspects of online communication that are not seem to be a part face-to-face  communication?

There is some examples:

***Many shy people find it easy to express themselves online. Typing on your own computer doesn't feel like a social situation. There is less anxiety than there might be in a face-to-face situation. Physical attractiveness is also less important online. This is the probably the basis of the famous cartoon where one dog is showing the internet to another dog, saying "On the internet nobody knows you're a dog."
***Sex is often easier to discuss than it is in a face-to-face situation. This can lead to increased online flirting in otherwise platonic relationships.
***The lack of nonverbal cues and tone-of-voice sometimes result in miscommunication. "Flame wars" often result from an online post which was intended to be taken lightly or humorously but was taken seriously or critically. The liberal use of smiley faces ";-)" to connote that a statement is meant humorously helps a little, but it may not be enough to prevent a flame war.
***The Internet is the great equalizer. A high school student can correspond with a Nobel Prize winner on an equal footing on the net. Behavior Online is a good example of this principle. Mental health professionals and others can interact online with some of the most prominent clinicians and researchers in the field.
***Gender switching and pseudonyms are fairly common. Online chat rooms are full of people who are identified only by a nickname. On the Internet you can pretend to be anyone or anything you want to be. An analogy might be a Halloween costume party. In costume people are often brasher and more outspoken than they would normally.
 retrieved from  http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/computerstuff/a/onlinecom.htm

COMMUNICATION PROCESS

When we talking about communication in our daily life , we don't really think about its mechanism...for us communication is something that happens naturally, something that we used to, however, it is important to know what communication is all about .

Communication is a process and as such contains many elements susceptible of defect. Here are the elements of the communication process .

• A message: what need to be communicated
• A messenger: the person who has something to communicate
• A receiver: the person who will receive the message
• Encoding: verbal and non-verbal convention of communication
• Decoding: reading by the receiver of the encoding done by the messenger
• Channel: the means of communication

This process works as follows: The messenger has something to communicate, a message. This message has an intent. The messenger will encode his message with words, behaviour and body language that he senses will help him to best communicate this message according to his intent. The message will go through a channel, a means of communication such as e-mail, face to face or phone conversation, letter, presentation. The receiver will then decode the message using conventions, cultural or contextual background, and language skills. The message he receives might or might not meet the intent of the messenger
retrieved from : http://soft-skills-development.suite101.com/article.cfm/communication_model