by carriesteppgraves | Aug 6, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree, religion, Spirituality
In Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference, the authors discuss the theory developed by Robert Bellah that organization are holders of a “community of memory” (Arnett, Fritz, and Bell, 2009). No organization or individual exists in a vacuum,...
by carriesteppgraves | Jul 30, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree
In our culture of global connectedness, dialogue and opinion, more often opinion, are as widespread as the air we breathe. In communication ethics, “the public arena does not offer the final answer; it is the place where one takes a grounded stance, engages the...
by carriesteppgraves | Jul 25, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree
Interpersonal distance is an important part of ethics in interpersonal communications. You can read more about it in Communications Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference by Arnett, Fritz and Bell, 2009. In the vlog linked below I wish to illustrate the importance...
by carriesteppgraves | Jul 16, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree, religion, Spirituality
The narrative that guides my life can be summed up in referencing the story of the search for the Holy Grail. This may seem like a big story to throw out there at you as my life’s narrative, or it may seem overly cheesy, but I’d like to explain. The Grail...
by carriesteppgraves | Jul 9, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree, religion, Spirituality
Have you ever thought about how your notion of “the good” is different from someone else’s? For years I have studied personality typing. I am a nine on the Enneagram and tend to want to understand the viewpoints of all around me for the sake of...
by carriesteppgraves | Jun 30, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree
In COM 601, Communication Fluency, at Queens University, I have learned a great deal about myself and how I process information, as well as how others receive it. The seven traditions of communication theory have given me the tools to question to whom I am...
