What's so good about communication?
Blog three: By Nykita Paroz
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." Rollo May
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Communication has allowed us to share our knowledge, experiences and map our history. It is a form of narrative that assists in organising and making sense of our space and place (Kuttainen, 2015). Bruce Chatwain explore's the nature of narrative through Aboriginal Songlines; trails created from a journey across the country by totemic ancestors. Whose pathways are still used to organise, navigate and communicate with other kin. Interestingly, the platform of virtual social networks are organised in much the same way. Social media has remained one of the most popular forms of communication, yet how we navigate through this virtual space is reflective of our social connections. For example, a person's news feed on Facebook, will be constructed and organised to reflect previously shared interests between the user and their family and friends. Alternatively, these two forms of communication do shape and reflect our views in different ways.
The Songlines were the belief or ontology used to explain and make sense of the world, its creation and the relationship with the land. This information passed through verbal communication creating more personal experiences with narrative. While social media creates a less personal experience with our narrative, through non-verbal communication. However, social media has created a new way for users to present their narratives by both expanding our use of language, yet limiting the space we have to share it.
Either through Songlines or various forms of social networking, communication is vital in creating and expanding connections. It is how we create and present narratives, that allows us to link and exist within any given place and time.
References:
Chatwain, B. (1987). The Songlines. [Class reading]. Retrieved from http://jcu.edu.au
Kuttainen, V. (2015). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narrative and the making of Place, week 5: Stories and Places. [Power Point slides]. Retrieved from http://jcu.edu,.au
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I do agree that within the virtual world such as on Facebook, when we scroll down our newsfeeds we see things that relate to us and we are interested in, we can also freely express ourselves on social media. However I do believe that there are a high amount of people that abuse their abilities on the internet. Communication is a powerful thing, especially on the internet. People that have a higher social status are obviously very well known on the internet but majority of those people abuse their power by posting irrelevant things. I understand it’s their page they should be allowed to do what they please, however I do strongly agree that they should use communication wisely. Bruce chatwain’s main idea from the songlines was to outline the western civilisations down fall and dark future sadly chatwain was correct because society is changing and not for the best.
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