The importance of communication

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Communication can be defined in many different ways.   The actual definition of communication is the exchange of information between people, e.g. by means of speaking, writing, or using a common system of signs or behavior. The definition of communication does not   say anything about technology, Although there is no doubt in my mind that all forms of technology are changing how people express themselves and convey a message in two seconds After reading Chapter one I realized that in communication sometimes the medium is the message.  In other words how you send a message is a message and it can be more important that your original message. In Chapter one Marshall McLuhan Is saying the content of a message does not matter the thing that matters is the technology that allows you to send a message and how the message is sent or communicated to another person.   In my opinion, the content of a message is more important to me than how the message is sent to another person. At the same time I realized that medium of the message is message in itself that can be more powerful than the words of an original message. The medium of a message can personalize and humanize words of a message especially if you are receiving bad news.  For example if you are getting fired for a job would you want to get a pink slip under your desk or would you rather get called into your boss office for him to tell you that you are fired and why. Personally I would rather my boss called me into his to tell me that I am fired and why. It is more personal and respectful to you if your boss takes the time to deliver the message in person it is more powerful that way.   
The  most interesting   thing to me in Chapter  one was when McLuhan describes a criminal  on page 17 in chapter as nonconformist who cannot meet the demand of technology  that people behave in identical and continuous patterns. McLuhan IS saying that the literate man is only the middle class ,or upper-class white man and everyone else  in society that are different from the literate man is only the middle class or upper-class white man is considered pathetic and they are looked down upon for not being able to conform to social standards.  The people who cannot conform in society are children, people with disabilities, the women and African-Americans all of these people in our society are seen as victims of injustice in a world of visual and topographic  technology in McLuhan eyes . I Think McLuhan is being unfair and he is wrong just because people can be different from the normal in society does not mean a white man is superior to any other human being and the white man should not look down on people who are different  from him. We are all human beings.  

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