How Does Communication Affect Our Identity

The image of a person is often something that gets judged very quickly in society. People often see others and instantly think of something about that person. Men, women and children are all outcast for many different reasons. Society judges people for traits including, skin colour, gender, hair color, and body type. The media and society constantly make people feel bad about the way they look.

Media can influence people and has the power to manipulate people's ways of thinking. Another reason on why people judge people based on culture, is by how they are raised. Racism is probably the most common way of judgement upon culture and race, and it is not something that is inherited or gained from genes, it is taught to children from their parents and other elder family members. Kids are influenced at young ages by what their parents and other elders do causing something like a ‘follow the leader’ effect in life causing social conflicts and dilemmas. To elaborate further on reasons why people are judged I have a few more reasons that are different but similar as well.

Alberts, J., Nakayama, T., & Martin, J. (2007). Communicating Identities/ Communicating Perceiving and Understanding. In Human communication in society (3rd ed., pp. 54-102). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

An appearance is what most of the world looks at to determine a person’s lifestyle. Have you ever been judged when no one knows the true story? Where they right? When people are judged without good reason, it can affect their self confidence. Most of the people judged by characteristics instead of character. Our status, more times than not, is defined by what we look like, how we dress,and where we’re from.

The source discuss the effect that the media has on body image. The writer of Media and Body Image said that "the major reason many people has a negative body image is because of the impact that the media have had on our perception of body image" (Walden Center, n.d.). This statements shows us that the media finds thinness attractive, so they promote thin body has the one body type that is beautiful knowing that there are many types that are beautiful. What we see on social media is something that could actually not be real, most of the actors and actresses that we would see on television could actually

Identities are built through our society, social situations, and through communication. The building foundation for humans as social beings is through our identities that comes from where relationships, communities and communication are built. Throughout life we will have shifting and multiple identities that varies to social situations. Stewart et al. define “identity or self as a constellation of features or labels that establish social expectations that we have of ourselves and others” (Stewart, et al. 2012, p. 73). Our interaction with the environments we are surrounded by allows us to learn our personality traits. We inherit personality traits from

Do people judge others from how they look? Today, I will be talking about two books/movies that talk about appearance. Then I will talk about how humans and society react to appearance.

People in society are judging people for their looks. If someone judge them for their looks the

I chose the topic of self-concept through interpersonal communication because I had an interest in it. This interest is because I didn’t understand that one’s self-concept affected the way one is perceived by others. I learned self-concept through class discussions, but I wanted a better understanding of how communication affects one’s self-concept and how it affects one’s perception

2). There are three aspect of intrapersonal communication. “Self-concept is the basis for intrapersonal communication because it determines how a persona sees him/herself and is oriented toward others. Self-Concepts (also called self-awareness) involves three factors: beliefs, values and attitudes.” (Intrapersonal and Interpersonal” p. 2). Beliefs we base upon our religion, our upbringing and our personal knowledge on things that we know about. We have values that by being up brought have been instilled inside of us and we base right and wrong not only on values but beliefs as well. Attitudes are how we view a particular topic and/or person and they way we feel about a topic is the way we present ourselves and our attitude. “Other things that can affect self-concept are personal attributes, talents, social role, even birth order/” (Intrapersonal and Interpersonal” p. 2). Self-concept looks inward into a person. The next aspect looks outward and this is called perception. “Perception of the outside world also is rooted in beliefs, values and attitudes. It is so closely intertwined with self-concept that one feeds off the other, creating a harmonious understanding of both oneself and ones world” (“Intrapersonal and Interpersonal” p. 2). Both perception

Our ability to communicate well with others is important to personal and professional success. The interpersonal communications course is planned to help us in being familiar with the system of effective, and to assess our own interpersonal ability to sharpen our critical understanding of the communication, also to improve the interpersonal skills. Mainly assess our interpersonal skills and to put in goals for improving our communications ability. To development of self-concept and identity are examined as basics for understanding personal communication. We explore our own communication behaviors and to identify areas of personal strengths and

First off, I think impressions are not always correct about people because of the way a person looks or something as simple as what someone wears. For example, one cannot help if they aren’t attractive or very pretty. Some studies show that about one in three young people struggle with body image. Furthermore, I think too often people are judged for

I chose the topic of self-concept through interpersonal communication because I had an interest in it. This interest is because I didn't understand that one's self-concept affected the way one is perceived by others. I learned self-concept through class discussions, but I wanted a better understanding of how communication affects one's self-concept and how it affects one's perception

Our identity can sometimes be shaped by the way others see us. As we have seen, the way in which others view us can have some sort of impact on how we see ourselves. There are also other contributing factors such as our years of adolescence, the basic human need of wanting to belong and maturing; all play an equally important part in the forming of our character and who we are. On balance it appears that there is not only one influence in the shaping of our identity, but there are many.

The understanding of how individuals’ characteristics such as their communication styles affect the ways in which people create and sustain their social/communication networks. Research on organisational communication has focused on individual behavioural tendencies when they communicate with others. These behavioural tendencies are used by organisations to maintain positive relationships with their communities. Identification communication strategies in organisational communication are necessary in modern organisations and “frequent communication leads individuals to feel that they are active participants in the organisation” (Huff, Sproull, Kiesler, 1989, p. 1372). These strategies include; the common ground technique, identification through aesthesis and the assumed or transcendent “we”. The purpose of this literature review is to examine and explain how identification communication strategies can be used to create engagement with their publics, which internal organisational communication issues can be identified from the communication processes. This literature review will define organisational communication, explain why organisational communication is essential to a company, take a close look at the often overlooked area of internal communication, and detail the criteria for successful organisational communication. It specifically explores identification communication strategies engagement with women in organisation and explains how identifying