COM 395 Comm & Social Cognition Group Project 1
Interpersonal Communication in Work and Family
Project Completion Date
November 8, with short (10 miunte) group presentations made at
that time.
The Groups
Groups were formed based in part on concentration within communication
studies and in part based on preference. Hence the public relations workplace
group is formed entirely of students concentrating in public relations, the
core of the mass media (broadcast journalism) group are majors in broadcasting
and journalism, and human communications concentrations are distributed between
family, the knowledge worker workplace, and (to a lesser extent) the mass
media (broadcast journalism) workplace. If you were in class, you got to choose.
If you weren't, I assigned you to a group and you should make contact as soon
as possible (e.g. right now). I have provided e-mail addresses for group members
that have agreed to be on the lookout for your e-mail.
Group Focus |
Members |
E-mail contact(s) |
The Public Relations Workplace |
D'Ippolito, Melissa
Fidler, Karen
Lavin, Colleen
Luisi, Amanda
Proscia, April
Yockell, Kathleen |
kmyockell@aol.com
lavin@oswego.edu |
The Mass Media (Broadcast Journalism) Workplace |
Kehoskie, Thomas
Perry, Katie
Regan, Kristin
Sunga, Michelle
Vecchio, Sara
Williams, Scott
|
kperry@oswego.edu
|
The Family |
Derby, Shanissia
Drayton, Cedric
Figaro, Holly
Fors, Desiree
Rovin, Samantha
Slywka, Tricia
|
drayton@oswego.edu
shanissia21@hotmail.com
fors@oswego.edu
rovin@oswego.edu
fighol21@hotmail.com |
The Generalized Knowledge Worker Workplace |
Cassidy, Mary
Entrekin, Jennifer
Herzog, Robert
Lloyd, Daniel
Moynan, Kelly
|
kmoynan@hotmail.com |
The Project
This is a two part project in which your groups will explore the
various kinds of one and one and group communication that people use in specific
"interaction ecologies"
Part 1.
- Do a brainstorming session (about 20 minutes of dedicated group time) in
which you list all of the ways in which people, working in your assigned
interaction ecology, communicate with each other on a one to one or small
group basis. Note, in particular, that this assignment has no interest
in "mass media" (e.g. speeches, television, radio, newspapers, magazines,
newsletters, etc). Recall that the rules of brainstorming can be found in
the Brookfield text. You should probably review those rules briefly before
doing the brainstorming session. Save the list that results from this brainstorm.
It is one of the outputs of this project.
- When you have completed the brainstorming session, select, from among the
"ways of communicating" that you identified in the brainstorming
session, three "ways of communicating" as follows:
- the most valuable
- the most trivial
- the most interesting
- Note that it doesn't actually matter to this assignment that a particular
form of interpersonal interaction is actually the most valuable, most trivial,
or most interesting. It only matters that the group thinks/decides they are
after discussing the results of the brainstorm. Note that the second stage
of the brainstorm, in this case, is a sort of a modified PMI: in this case
one might call it a "VTI" (valuable, trivial, interesting).
Part 2
- Research each of the three forms of interaction as a group to see what you
can find out about that kind of interaction. I would imagine that you will
be able to find a fair amount of literature on any of the forms of communication
you decide on. Of course, if you can't that's interesting too (but keep in
mind that I can look things up too).
- Create a short group presentation (no more than 10 minutes total) in which
overviews what you found out about each of the three ways of communicating
interpersonally. Be prepared for questions. You will present on November 6.
- The group does not need to turn in a paper. It does, however, need to submit:
- The ecology you group focused on
- The results of the brainstorm
- A list of the things you found for each form of interpersonal interaction
- A reference list showing the places you found the information.
That's it. If you have any questions, send me e-mail,
drop by my office during office hours, or ask during class.