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So as of late a famous Youtuber, Shane Dawson has gained notoriety because of the docuseries he has been producing on his channel. These docuseries all involve interviewing and delving deeper into the lives of often controversial Youtubers and just exposing more of their lifestyle and their background. The first series of this nature was done on the infamous Jeffree Star, who is a beauty guru who owns a multi-million dollar makeup company, but has a past riddled with controversy which include saying racist slurs.Over the course of the 5 part series, Shane gets Jeffree to open up about his life, both before his current fame but also to talk more about his company and show some things that his viewers had never known before like the gargantuan warehouse they operate out of. This is where the uncertainty reduction theory plays a role. Before the series many people who weren't already dedicated fans to Jeffree Star had a preconceived notion about him, which was further reinforced

This week we were tasked to take a closer look at interpersonal relationships, and while it's not the traditional dyad, I figured why not take a look at some recent events on campus. Last Thursday there was a protest on campus over the musings that were made on a Brooklyn College Professor´s blog. The quote, in particular, that has been cherry-picked (sorry my bias is showing) was this one, which also happens to be the first sentence, “If someone did not commit sexual assault in high school, then he is not a member of the male sex ”. Here is a sign I saw in Ingersoll featuring it plus a photo of Langbert, photoshopped with a pig nose While the protestors claim that Langbert is a proponent of sexual assault, Langbert argues that his blog post was written as a satirical reflection on the Kavanaugh hearings. Personally, I agree with Langbert I think that the line about sexual assault being a prerequisite for political office gives away that it is satire. That being said

So in class this week we learned about communication theories and research and then were tasked with carrying out research in our groups on different sound levels on and around campus. so let's talk about how it went! My group chose to stick together and have everyone go to all of our testing sites. While this seemed like a good idea because everyone could contribute to our observations, it also added an extra variable to the sites we tested since we are not the quietest bunch. I was in charge of the recordings (mainly because most people in the group hadn't bothered to download any of the apps) and I did have a hard time navigating the NIOSH app and understanding what all the results meant. Other people in my group were able to so we worked together to record all the info we needed. One thing that I found really interesting about all the places that we visited was that there wasn't really much of a difference in the average decibels, they were all in the 60-70 rang

An age-old problem faced by people is trying to find a romantic partner to spend your life with. This is an issue that has grown more complex with the 21st century and many dating sites have risen to the challenge of helping people find "The One" like Match.com,  Ok Cupid,  EHarmony and my personal favorite Clown Dating (clowns deserve love too!). Another interesting dating company is the aptly named Smell Dating operates off the idea that "your nose knows" and that humanities oldest sense has the ability to sniff out a compatible match. The way that the service works is after paying a fee of $25 they send you a shirt that you wear for 3 days in a row, with no deodorant or perfume, you ship it back to them and they send you back 10 shirts that have gotten the same smelly treatment and you respond with which scents you liked. If there is a mutual liking of odors Smell Dating will then provide contact info. I'll be honest my first reaction was : I d

So this week we will delve into proxemics, which is basically the study of personal space. Personal space is (as the name would suggest) is a very personal topic and is very subjective from person to person, and is especially dependent on someone's relation to that person. Proxemics is an element of nonverbal communication, and just like all types of communication, it varies from culture to culture. An article from the Washington Post written by Amanda Erickson summarized research published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology that was conducted among 9,000 people from 42 different countries. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/24/how-close-is-too-close-depends-on-where-you-live/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d2c4edd34a4 This is what they found: These results were quite interesting but it also made me wonder more about how the United States and its melting pot-like nature could affect personal space among immigrant households over time. I

This week we discussed verbal communication, one might assume that verbal communication only refers to the spoken word, but you'd be wrong as verbal communication also deals with written language (like this blog post) as well as sign language. Something I've always been interested in is the difference between ASL and other sign languages because the name "American" Sign Language clearly suggests that there are more out there. A google search led me to several different results, one page claimed there were 20, another said 100, and yet another said 200. While I would love to find out more about all of these, I'll just be focusing on BSL (British Sign Language) in this post.  I found this video demonstrating the difference in the fingerspelling (aka sign language ABCs)  for each of the languages:  The starkest difference is that while the ASL versions are done with only one hand, the BSL signs required two hands for most of the signs (though both Cs looke