LARRYTRAINOR - Comm 211

We live in a society that continuously evolves and one of those things that has evolved is our technology, including our amount of usage of technology. We can see it everywhere nowadays, especially at our fingertips or hands. Most of us live in the digital world. There also have been a number of research done on the digital world and a number of opinions. Paul A. Kirschner and Marc Prensky are examples of people who have provided their input.  Photo by Ludovic Toinel on Unsplash According to Prensky, what is the immigrant/native divide, and how has it affected how students learn?  There are two divides that Prensky mentioned and one of them is called the digital immigrants or the immigrant divide . The digital immigrants are usually the people who have been born into a world without the digital aspect. At some point, digital immigrants have adapted to some areas of the digital world such as using computers, but will retain some habits of their pre-digital world. On...

How have the impacts of online communication affected your interpersonal relationship? I have had a lot of friendships over the years, but there's this one online friend group that I have had for many years and will forever appreciate them as much as I could. This friend group would have not existed if it weren't for this one friend for creating a discord server (think of it like a group chat) with the few of us. Online friendships can be just as important and fun as in person friendships are. Online friendships can be just as meaningful and enjoyable as in-person ones, and they also follow the stages of Knapp's relationship model. The first stage of Knapp's relationship model is Initiating . This happened when we first met in a separate server. I remember when it just started out as simple greetings, "hello." It then switched to the Experimenting stage. We would talk about Minecraft, BTS, our school experiences, and more. It went from small hello's to sma...

For most people their day-to-day life includes not only going to work or school, but also being on social media apps such as TikTok or Instagram. It is a common sight to see at least one social media app on someone's device. Social media apps can bring people together but they can also tear them apart. We will be discussing social media in this post about its positives, negatives, and its relation with mental health.  Photo by ROBIN WORRALL on Unsplash Do different social networking sites offer other benefits and drawbacks? The different types of social networking sites can offer many benefits, but they can also have its disadvantages. It is not uncommon to see people on social networking sites as we can see most people around us are on these sites. It really is up to the person's personal preferences on whether or not they would prefer a site like Twitter (X, I refuse to call it that), perhaps a site like YouTube, or Tumblr.  A major common benefit to social networking sites...

Hello! My name is Kory Leonard. My pronouns are he /they. I grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas and was born here. My current time zone is central which is 2 hours ahead of OSU's pacific time. I am currently in my second year of being an E-Campus student here at OSU. I currently major in psychology!  From what I can recall, I have never taken a speech class before. I'm pretty sure I managed to get out of taking speech classes in high school by doing other classes instead. This means that this will be my first one. I do believe that communication is extremely important. It is complex and there are many ways we can communicate which I do find fascinating. We, as a society, rely on communication a lot.  There are a lot of communication apps that I have used a few times before, but I have found myself using Discord a lot. I use it mainly because most of my friends are on there and it is pretty easy to navigate once you get the hang of where everything is or what they do. I have been...