How Does Communication Affect Our Identity

The book claims that communication is the method by which we adopt our identity – through our interactions with others and how their perceptions impact us; the book explains, “We decide who we are based on how others react to us” (Adler 6). While this chapter seemed accurate in many

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.

One will either come out of a situation with a positive or negative concept of these surroundings. Poor communication can cause one to have a poor perception of oneself. One's emotional state, dislikes, likes values and body image are affected by the opinions of others and can render one to have an inferior and insecure self-concept.

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

Communication and the self is a chapter I felt very relevant to my life as a young adult in the midst of finding and affirming my own identity, among my other pursuits of success in various facets of life which then relies

The saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” was first heard in the third century by the Greeks. Meaning that the view on one’s perception of beauty could be another one’s ugly, the standards of what is beautiful and what is not could differ from person to person. The media, which consists of highly edited images of men and women, sets unnatural standards for what is considered beautiful and what is ugly. Often illustrating standards impossible to reach, magazines teach boys and girls that if you are not a certain size in clothes, a certain height, or a certain weight, you are ugly. In the media, they never report the beauty of someone based off of their personality; however, there are always stories about models losing weight, or how great a celebrity looks after plastic surgery. Ultimately, the perception on what is ugly and what is beautiful is highly influenced by the

In a restroom, in a church or anywhere else in the world you will judge a person by their appearance whether it be negative or positive, you cannot help it, it just happens whether you like it or not. For an example, when you are walking down the street and you see someone wearing ripped up clothes and bad hygiene then you automatically assume negative things such as beggar, homeless or even possibly a drug abuser. Being judged can go a different way also, you can think of someone as a rich, snobby individual because they are wearing very nice clothes and act a certain way but in all actuality, they could be a wonderful person. A more serious case of people judging other people that I have noticed is that most people

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.

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.

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

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

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

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