Today's class was full of an array of activities. Some of the highlights included comparing our definitions of communication and health communication from the "Code your own communication" assignment. Although the definitions did not seem to differ substantially, the numbers of total communication instances in different people's days did vary considerably. I believe this conundrum was primarily due to differences in how people spent the one day that they recorded - supporting the notion that one "experiment" is rarely reliable, no matter how well-designed it may be. Perhaps if we had each coded an entire week (or at least three days) and calculate the means, our numbers would have been more similar.
Another interesting activity was the group campaign idea presentations. My group (the "5-a-Dayer's") was asked to design a program targeting teens' nutrition. I liked our ideas and thought they should be implemented somewhere :) Maybe someday I'll take on such a large burden...ha, ha, ha!!! Listening to the other groups' ideas was very interesting. Funny how celebrity endorsement was very popular, but we tended to plan to bring celebrities in to reach out locally (a rather unlikely feat) rather than to (relatively) simply have them participate in a campaign by making a commercial or something, even though they would reach a much wider audience. I guess we all still tend to think along the lines of personalization in this modern world of mass media campaigns on the Internet and television.
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