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Interactives are increasingly popular ways to personalize news stories and gather big data on audiences for analysis or resale. You probably have a favorite that has moved you, which you can share
The online global lifestyle magazine The Outdoor Journal was first launched in India and now has content from the United States (http://www.outdoorjournal.us), Europe, and beyond. Read some of the
How do you feel about the journalistic norms of objectivity and balance in reporting environmental stories?What does it mean to be “objective” in reporting on climate scientists’ forecasts?
What media sources do you trust in answering the following question: Did Exxon know of worrisome climate change trends in the 1970s but worked for the next 20 years “to discredit climate
And through its interactivity, does increased consumption through new/social media further fragment public discourse …through information silos where members of the public can stick to sources that
In this democratized space of content production, do new/social media provide more space for contrarian views to circulate?
Do these spaces provide opportunities for new forms of deliberative community … and offline organizing and social movements?… Or has the content of this increased coverage shifted to polemics and
Does increased visibility of climate change in new/social media translate to improved communication or just more noise?
Begin writing: Hook your reader with an interesting opening, share compelling details or an interesting anecdote, use direct quotes, mention flaws as well as strengths, and close with a compelling
Decide which personality profile genre you are going to write.
Gather information on that personality.
Identify a worthwhile environmental personality and determine why that person is newsworthy. Consider what the person is best known for: an environmental invention? Environmental adventure?
Design an infographic about climate change or another environmental topic you care about. How are numbers used, if at all? What choices did you make to have complicated data appear quicker and easier
Both authors of this textbook have been influenced by what we have seen or not seen in the world, though(and sometimes perhaps because) we long have worn glasses and contacts. Because we live in an
Find three environmentally focused photographs about nonhuman animals online: one you share the dominant message with, one you resist completely, and one you think shows both persuasive and
The LCA of cell phones is an undercovered news story (Good, 2017). How many phones have you owned in your life? What do you do with the old one when you buy a new one: trash, donate, or recycle it?
There are many debates over food today, from whether or not we should reduce pesticide consumption to what we should serve kids at lunch to the rights of food producers to participate in shaping food
Are apocalyptic warnings about global warming effective, or do such warnings create problems of credibility or paralyze action? How can scientists raise awareness of future serious effects from
Because our understanding of the environment is symbolically constructed, does that mean there is no inherently “right” or “wrong” view or attitude toward environmental matters? Where do our
What do Herndl and Brown (1996) mean when they claim that “in a very real sense, there is no objective environment in the phenomenal world, no environment separate from the words we use to
Do you believe the environmental justice movement invites a distinct understanding of the environment or an overlapping one? Reread the Principles of Environmental Justice. What similarities and
Many people have become motivated to care about ecology (particularly air quality and water quality)because they have known or know someone with asthma, cancer, or another illness that is
Is wilderness merely a symbolic construction? Does this matter in terms of whether or not you want to protect it?
European colonialists in North America initially were scared of and threatened by nature, but a love of nature arose once European settlers felt a distance from nature in their everyday lives. Do you
Watch this toy store ad on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhBaU4cFDQ. Pragmatically, this company wants its audience to go to its toy stores and buy more toys that it sells; what is less
With some people living in segregated neighborhoods and many using personalized digital media newsfeeds, do we hear a diversity of voices in our everyday lives? What steps do you take to hear voices
The rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke (1966) claims that “much that we take as observations about ‘reality’may be but the spinning out of possibilities implicit in our particular choice of
Is nature ethically and politically silent? What does this mean? If nature is politically silent, does this mean it has no value apart from human meaning? Which environmental voices are you trying to
Does your example illustrate constitutive functions in its use of words or visual images? How do these invite a particular perspective or orient you to a set of concerns that establish or invoke a
What pragmatic function does this communication serve? Who is its intended audience? What is it trying to persuade this audience to think or do? How? What does the communication assume about the
13. Strategies for Becoming Allies. In a dialogue with someone who is culturally different from you, generate a list of ways that each of you might become an ally of the other. Note the specifi c
12. Roadblocks to Communication. Identify and list some of the biggest roadblocks to successful intercultural communication in the future. In what ways will the increasingly global economy be a
11. Global Trends and Intercultural Communication. Identify and list global trends that are likely to infl uence intercultural communication in the future. Refl ect on the contexts and dialectics
15. How does your own social position (gender, class, age, and so on) infl uence your intercultural communication competence? Does this competence change from one context to another?
14. How might the European Union affect the United States?
13. How might you better assess your unconscious competence and unconscious incompetence?
12. How can you be an interpersonal ally? How do you know if you are being an ally?
11. In what ways is the notion of intercultural competence helpful? In what ways is it limiting?
13. Was your religious community all white? Was the leadership of your religious organization all white?
12. What did you learn about people of color in Sunday school or sermons? About Jewish people?
11. What is your religious upbringing?
15. What is the racial composition of the people who actually own your workplace?Who makes money from the profi ts of your work?
14. Are there “invisible” workers, people who cook, clean or do maintenance, for example, who are not generally noticed or paid well?
13. Is hiring non-discriminatory? Are job openings posted and distributed? Do they attract a wide variety of applicants? Are certain groups excluded? Does the diversity of your workplace refl ect the
12. Who, by race, gender and class, has the power to make decisions about hiring, fi ring, wages and working conditions in your workplace? Who gets promoted and who doesn’t?
11. What is the gender, race and class composition in your workplace? Which groups hold which positions?
19. Identify several challenges for future intercultural communication.
18. Explain the role of forgiveness in intercultural communication.
17. Identify and describe specifi c strategies for working for social justice.
16. Understand the relationship between social justice and intercultural competence.
15. Identify strategies for building coalitions across cultures.
14. Describe the various ways one can enter into intercultural dialogue.
13. Describe the importance of applying knowledge about intercultural communication.
12. Explain how various contexts infl uence individual intercultural competence.
11. Identify and describe four individual components of competence.
3. Strategies for Becoming Allies. In a dialogue with someone who is culturally different from you, generate a list of ways that each of you might become an ally of the other. Note the specific
2. Roadblocks to Communication. Identify and list some of the biggest roadblocks to successful intercultural communication in the future. In what ways will the increasingly global economy be a
1. Global Trends and Intercultural Communication. Identify and list global trends that are likely to influence intercultural communication in the future.Reflect on the contexts and dialectics that
5. How does your own social position (gender, class, age, and so on) influence your intercultural communication competence? Does this competence change from one context to another?
4. How might the European Union affect the United States?
3. How might you better assess your unconscious competence and unconscious incompetence?
2. How can you be an interpersonal ally? How do you know if you are being an ally?
1. In what ways is the notion of intercultural competence helpful? In what ways is it limiting?
5. What are some general suggestions for dealing with intercultural conflict?
4. How does an attitude of forgiveness facilitate conflict resolution?
3. How are conflict strategies used in social movements?
2. Why is it important to understand the context in which intercultural conflict occurs?
1. How can a dialectical perspective be applied to intercultural conflict situations?
2. Friendship Dialectics. Choose one friend who is different from you. Describe a situation or situations in which you experienced the dialectics discussed in this chapter. (Hint: Think of the ways
1. Intercultural Relationships. List all of your friends to whom you feel close. Identify any friends on the list who are from other cultures. Answer the following questions, and discuss your answers
5. What are the advantages of taking a dialectical perspective on intercultural relationships?
4. What challenges do intercultural couples face when they decide to make their relationships permanent?
3. How is the development of intercultural relationships different from that of intracultural relationships?
2. What factors contribute to our forming relationships with some people and not with others?
1. What are some of the benefits of intercultural relationships?
11. Describe how various contexts influence LGBTQ intercultural relationships.
2. Ethnic Representation in Popular Culture. For a week, keep a log of the TV shows you watch. Record the following information for each show and discuss in small groups:a. How many different ethnic
1. Popular Culture. Meet with other students in small groups and answer the following questions:a. Which popular culture texts (magazines, TV shows, and so on) do you watch or buy? Why?b. Which
3. Values and Language. Although computer-driven translations have improved dramatically over earlier attempts, translation is still intensely cultural. Communication always involves many layers of
10. In what ways is the increasing and widespread use of English around the world both a positive and a negative change for U.S. Americans?
9. Why do people have such strong reactions to language policies, as in the“English-only” movement?
8. Why do some people say that we should not use labels to refer to people but should treat everybody as individuals? Do you agree?
7. Why is it important to know the social positions of individuals and groups involved in intercultural communication?
6. What does a translator or an interpreter need to know to be effective?
5. What aspects of context influence the choice of communication style?
4. In what ways do social media and online communication affect language use and communication style?
3. What are some cross-cultural variations in language use and communication style?
2. What is the relationship between our language and the way we perceive reality?
1. Why is it important for intercultural communication scholars to study both language and discourse?
1. Define the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis
2. Stereotypes in Prime-Time TV. Watch four hours of television during the next week, preferably during evening hours when there are more commercials.Record the number of representatives of different
1. Stereotypes in Your Life. List some of the stereotypes you have heard about U.S.Americans. Then answer the following questions:a. How do you think these stereotypes developed?b. How do they
5. What are some of the ways in which members of minority cultures and members of majority cultures develop their cultural identities?
4. What are the roles of avowal and ascription in the process of identity formation?
3. How does being white affect one’s experience in the United States?
2. What are some ways in which we express our identities?
1. How do our perceptions of our own cultural identity influence our communication with others?
2. Family Histories. Write a brief personal narrative that tells the story of your family history. This may require additional research or conversations with family members. You may want to focus
1. Cultural-Group History. This exercise can be done by individual students or in groups. Choose a cultural group in the United States that is unfamiliar to you.Study the history of this group, and
2. Culture: Deeply Felt or Contested Zone? Analyze the lyrics of songs you listen to and try to identify patterns in the songs. Then think about your own cultural position and discuss which

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