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Communication
Visual 1: The message of the visual is clear, since it provides clearly drawn pictures of each food group, a written description close to each drawing, and a clear key to describe the fat and sugar symbols. Each written legend also states clearly how many servings of each group per day is recommended. The color is relatively clear, although the symbols for fats and sugars could have been more clearly distinguished in terms of both color and form. There does not seem to be an overabundance of either chartjunk or misleading information.
Visual 2: The updated food pyramid does not seem as clear as the former one, since it is highly symbolic. The symbol is described by means of a color chart, but it appears that elaborate explanations are required to clarify the chart for users. Furthermore, the pyramid itself contains no clear specification on the food portions or indeed the amount of exercise required per day. There does not seem to be chartjunk and I do not believe there is any intention to mislead. I just find the chart very unclear.
Visual 3: This visual is both simple and clear. In a few moments, the reader understands that the visual represents the number...
The visual is designed very well, providing a three-dimensional chart to clarify the comparison. Again, at a single glance, the reader can see clearly that there are many more deaths in Africa from malaria than for the rest of the world. There is no chartjunk and no misleading information.
Visual 4: The message only becomes clear when the reader investigates the information more closely. At the top of the visual, the information seems to indicate information about phobias or heart disease. Each explanatory paragraph also further confuses the issue. The rest of the chart is filled with chart junk, including a long list of diseases and accidents that might kill people. The visual is not at all presented in a clear way, with a lot of misleading information.
Visual 5: In contrast to the visual described above, this one is again very simple and very clear, at least at first glance. The heading clearly states the purpose of the chart, which is to provide information about the levels of unemployment for white, Hispanic, and black populations from…
Visual 6: This visual provides clear information about access to broadband at home and at work between the years 1999 and 2005. What is not clear, however, is the meaning of the colored portions of each chart, and what the difference is between these and the grey areas on each chart. There is no explanation for the differences in color. There is, however, no chartjunk or information that could be regarded as misleading.
Visual 7: This visual contains two presentations: One that indicates the increase of fossil fuel usage and one that provides information about the increase of global warming gas emissions. Both provide very clear messages regarding the increasing risk to the environment. Both visuals make good use of color and imagery to fit in with the message of the charts. There does not appear to be any chartjunk or any misleading information.
Visual 8: This visual provides clear information about the worldwide burden of diseases attributed to alcohol. There is a clear color code to the bottom right of the chart, along with a narrative explanation of the legend. The chart clearly indicates that the burden is not uniform across the world, and that the southern parts of North American, along with South American and the central and eastern parts of Europe are most heavily plagued by these conditions. There is no misleading information or chartjunk.
Communication The Application of Five Communication Theories There are countless communication theories, with each one looking at a different aspect of communication or looking at communication in a new way. The number of theories that exist raises the question of how they can be used to understand communication. The answer is that every communication is complicated, with one single theory not being enough to understand every communication completely. For this reason, various
..now requires understanding and manipulating the processes used to create messages in the modern world" (Adams & Hamm, 2000, p. 22) in fact the student is expected to be able to decode the information from various types of media. However the equally important point is also made that this expanding definition of what literacy comprises does not "...diminish the importance of traditional reading and writing skills; rather, it recognizes the
Communication History Fans of science fiction are fond of recalling a remark by novelist Arthur C. Clarke, to the effect that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I am currently typing these sentences onto a laptop, where I am also currently watching a grainy YouTube video of the legendary magician Harry Houdini, performing one of his legendary escapes -- from a straitjacket, in this case. Houdini is probably the
Communications skills test I took was from MindTools.com. I scored a 33 on this test. This level says that I need to work on my communications skills (36 is the threshold for the next level up, and 75 is the maximum score). The assessment was further detailed on different elements of communication. On the element of planning the message, I scored 7 out of 15. The second element is encoding,
Communication: Arguments What is the communication problem? When two cultures meet, both are likely to be ethnocentric. Those from the United States, try to find similarities in the other cultures with that of their own. Brazil as a country is unique in many ways. It is stated that what was considered non-fashionable in U.S. -- for example being fat is taken as natural in Brazil. (Palka, 2006) Thus in that culture messages
Communication & News Framing - Case Study of the U.S. & China Standoff of 2001 An event is a fact. It happens. People witness it. People talk about it. People report it. In today's world, the even t may be recorded for posterity in a variety of ways. It may be capture on videotape. It may be captured in the voice recordings of an airplane's "black box." It may be tracked