Monday, November 29, 2010

Communication Domain and Stem Cell Research

The Communication domain consists of written communication, visual communication, and oral communication. The ongoing debate about stem cell research is among these various types of communications.

As far as written communication, there are thousands of popular articles and scientific journals regarding stem cell research. Political journalists try to convey their view points to the uneducated population reading popular articles. Scientists publish their research findings to the scientific world through journals and scholarly articles.

Stem cell research is involved in visual communication. This includes political cartoons and television advertisements. The political cartoon above just one of several different animations on the subject. These are put out in various newspapers across the country. This is done so the majority of our country's population can see these biased animations.

Oral communication is a large part of stem cell research. We've all watched Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc. We've all seen the heated discussions about different things. You can witness heated debates on stem cell research. Stem cell research is also involved in something of a smaller scale such as a classroom debate.

The fact that stem cell research is such a controversial issue makes it a hot item for the communication domain. It is involved in all of the communication domain.

4 comments:

  1. I really like how you broke down each part and gave not just examples, but also tied them back to stem cell research. My favorite part though was the political cartoon, I found it to be supportive and funny.

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  2. You did a good job at not just describing what each aspect of our domain is, but also relating them back to stem cell research. The political cartoon added a nice touch as well.

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  3. Thank you all for the "constructive" comments lol...

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  4. I really like how your post connected many aspects of our thinking domain to stem cell research. Like Toby and Lindsey said, the many examples were good, as well as the political cartoon, which was funny and added to your description of visual representations.

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