Communication Project #11 - Psychology of Communication

-Modern Technology, Robotics, Robot Soldiers, Predator Drones-
This article is about tapping into drones' video feeds. It is bringing surveillance above head down to soldiers and Marines on the ground. But, there is a problem that is an enormous security breach. At first, the military developed the Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver, or ROVER. Early units were done with an unencrypted signal and it could be both intercepted and jammed. The article supposes that if the aircraft has an encrypted transmitter and the troops have an unencrypted ROVER receiver, that surveillance footage can't be passed down to the soldiers who need it most.

After reading this article I thought that more and more modern technology is used to our lives. It's good that our lives come to develop because of this technology. However, I think that human should not follow robots. Making convenient robots for our lives is good, but we should not follow them. In this article's case, the military has to consider making efficient robots for them, but, not ones that they have trouble controlling and catching the robots.

Analyzing the photos of Iceland - Photojournalism class

These picture show the volcano of Iceland. This volcano is very huge and velches out a lot of ashes. Especially, the pictures that are No. 2, 5, 12, 14, 25, 32, 33, 35 present this in detail. Also there are pictures of nature and people in this area. Because of volcano, people are cleaning volcanic ashes in their houses and wearing goggles. Since almost all the pictures seem to be taken "close-up", when I see them, I feel it's very realistic and vivid.

This Is War - Psychology of Communication and Photojournalism class

This video starts from American soldiers' voice. In Bagdad, Iraq, people were walking to the street ordinarily. Suddenly, American soldiers began to shoot people at random. It was an unexpected event, so people couldn't escape from the attack and they died at the street. Soldiers sent signals when they focused on and shot people. They shot people continuously, moving with car and laughing. In these victims, there were two Reuters employees. Soldiers didn't kill only a child for an excuse of what they did. After seeing many people lay on the street deadly, they crossed the street with their car, even though they knew that there were many dead people under their car.

When I saw this video, I got really surprised. I thought how these soldiers can continue to laugh when they kill people, even cross the street that dead people lie on. As the article "This Is War" says, I agree that American army and the media try to hide the bad things like this cruel event. I think that the media should also have the equal coverage of each events. There are many violent events, most of them might not be known. I hope these victims to be reduced.

Absolutist, Utilitarian, and Golden rule - Photojournalism class

Absolutist
1. a.A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority.
b.A form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority.
2.An absolute doctrine, principle, or standard.

Utilitarian
1.pertaining to or consisting in utility.
2.having regard to utility or usefulness rather than beauty, ornamentation, etc.
3.of, pertaining to, or adhering to the doctrine of utilitarianism.
4.an adherent of utilitarianism.
Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome. The most influential contributors to this ideology were Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

Golden rule
The Golden Rule is an ethical code that states one has a right to just treatment, and a responsibility to ensure justice for others. It is also called the ethic of reciprocity. It is arguably the most essential basis for the modern concept of human rights, though it has its critics.[2] A key element of the golden rule is that a person attempting to live by this rule treats all people, not just members of his or her in-group, with consideration. The Golden rule appears to have an evolutionary basis, see Reciprocity (evolution).

The Vietnam War pictures by Eddie Adams - Photojournalism class

Case Study #3 - Psychology of Communication

Here are the Media Coverage of each list.
1. Rodney King & Reginald Denny - 21,200
On March 3, 1991, video tape captured Rodney King, an African-American, being repeatedly beaten by a group of LAPD officers. More than a year later, on April 29, 1992, all four officers (three white and one Hispanic) were acquitted when the jury could not reach a verdict. The result sparked outrage about racism across the country, especially in South Central Los Angeles and South East Los Angeles where a largely African-American mob took to the streets shouting "Black justice!" and "No justice, no peace!" in what became known as the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Reginald Denny, a white construction truck driver was beaten nearly to death by a group of black assailants who came to be known as the "L.A. Four". The attack was captured by a Los Angeles News Service helicopter piloted by Bob Tur and shot by Marika Tur. The video was broadcast live on US national television.

2. Channon Christian - 90,400
Hugh Christopher Newsom and Channon Gail Christian were a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee. They were both raped, tortured and murdered after being kidnapped early on the morning of January 7, 2007. Their vehicle had been carjacked.

3. Abeer Hamza - 563,000
Abeer Qassim Hamza, an Iraqi girl who, at the age of 14 was gang-raped and murdered together with her 6-year-old sister, mother and father, in their home, by U.S. soldiers who then set fire to the girl's body before decamping.

4. James Byrd - 1,060,000
James Byrd was an African-American who was murdered in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. The murderers wrapped a heavy logging chain around his ankles, hooked the chain to a pickup truck, and then dragged Byrd about three miles along a macadam pavement as the truck swerved from side to side.

When you see these accidents, each list has different number of the Media Coverage. It means the media gives different attention. For example, in case of Channon Christian, the media coverage is less than ten thousands, while Abeer Hamza and James Byrd accidents' coverage are much more than this accident. But, the media should not give different attention. If the media gives different attention continuously, people also might focus on what the media tries to gather attention. Thus, the media must give equal coverage.

Pastor John MacArthur "When God Abandons a Nation", Korean actress - Psychology of Communication

I agree with this message. Especially, I was impressed with the message that when a man or a society is abandoned by God, it operates only out of the passions of its own impure heart.
I interviewed my friends and parents. They feel sad about the current moral direction of South Korea, because South Korea's moral direction is going with wrong way. There are many people who break morality.
We discussed morality, abortion, drunkenness, the occult, rebellion, technology, greed, theft, TV shows. Today, these issues are big problems. As the technology develops more and more, some people become greedy, and they don't think of morality as an important matter.

Here is the story of the Korean actress who committed suicide after being forced to sleep with the Chaebol business men and other factors.
Jang Ja-yeon was a South Korean actress. At the time of her death, Jang had been starring in the KBS television drama series Boys Over Flowers. She had been suffering from depression, and a police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide.
Since the death of her parents in a traffic accident in 1999, Jang had been living with her older sister and younger brother. Prior to her own death, Jang had been suffering with depression and had received medical treatment for her illness during the past year.
An alleged suicide note left by Jang describes how she was beaten and forced to entertain and have sex with several program directors, CEOs and media executives, causing considerable debate about relations in the entertainment industry, as well as a police probe into her management agency. According to South Korean reports, Jang claimed that her agent Kim Sung-hoon had regularly beaten her and forced her to have sex with a string of VIPs, including directors, media executives and CEOs. Kim Sung-hoon, who was in Japan, denies the accusations.

War of the Worlds, dust bowl, nazi, japanese, and economic collapse - Psychology of Communication

1. I listened to War of the Worlds from Youtube.com and read about it from wikepedia.

2. How did it meke you feel? - 5 strange things about War of the Worlds
- 1. Many people didn't listen that it was a play.
- 2. People were too weak. They believed that it was true.
- 3. It was so realistic.
- 4. It was a sensitive content.
- 5. People wanted to be crazy about something. Americans were thingking of invasion.

3. dust bowl, nazi, japanese, economic collapse
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.

Nazism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany. It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and anti-Semitism. Nazism presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies; in practice, Nazism was a far right form of politics.

Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion (22 August 1910 to 15 August 1945). Japanese rule formally ended on 2 September 1945 upon the Japanese defeat in World War II that year.

An economic collapse is a devastating breakdown of a national, regional, or territorial economy. It is essentially a severe economic depression characterised by a sharp increase in bankruptcy and unemployment.
The decade of the 1930s witnessed the most traumatic economic collapse since the start of the Industrial Revolution. In the USA, the Depression began in the summer of 1929, soon followed by the stock market crash of October 1929. American stock prices continued to decline in fits and starts until they hit bottom in July 1932.

I think that all of the isssues show that each one was a hard time to people. Even though there were a lot of damages from these events, people tided over difficult situations well.

From The X-Files episode "Talitha Cumi" - Psychology of communication

1. Can men never be free?(because they are weak, corrupt, worthless, and restless...)
- I think that men can never be free. The reason is that everyone has their concepts about something, so people can never be free perfectly.

2. Do people need miracles/signs to believe in God?
- I don't think that people need miracles or signs to believe in God. Because people believe in God not because of visual things that they can see. I think there is something like trust in people's minds and hearts in believing God.