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Important of Communication

 Society can be controlled through its means of communication

In 1984, Pasquali was appointed Deputy Director General of the Communications Sector of UNESCO and Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO from 1986-89. He played an important role in UNESCO’s New World Information and Communication discussions.

Pasquali’s contributions to media studies are well-known in Latin America, but his research is less known in the English-speaking world. His research on media and communication inspired many Latin American scholars and media practitioners — including myself — who place ethics at the centre of the discussion.

Pasquali was a fierce critic of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s view that “the medium is the message” — that the medium in which things are disseminated determines their meaning. Always returning to human communication as the basis of relationships between people, Pasquali warned us about the necessary conceptual and practical difference between communication and media.

For Pasquali, the ability to communicate is inherent to the formation of society. And so, any modification or control of communications becomes to a modification or control of society itself. He argued that technological changes, with their benefits and disruptions, have yet to transform the essence of human communication.

Pasquali’s work is important to consider because he warned us about some troubling challenges that we can see around us.

Six trends that will change communication

Pasquali wrote about the ethics of communication, or what he called “the moral dimension of communication.” In his book 18 essays about communications, he identified “six hard trends” that would mark humanity’s future:

1) A process of human-made environmental degradation that approaches the point of no return, as in the impending ecological crisis brought about by climate change and its consequences.

2) Human interference in natural evolutionary processes. He warned that advances in genetic engineering that bring hope for the treatment of diseases and also open the door to sophisticated mechanisms of social engineering and control;

3) Challenging the very idea of what being human is by: a) machines combined with living beings (cyborgs), and b) by the shift of human decision-making to artificial intelligence that could make humans irrelevant and even disposable. This will require new ways of understanding the relations between digital machines and human.

4) The persistence of nuclear, bacteriological, chemical and terrorist dangers, in a context of political polarization coupled with the emergence of extremist ideologies that could lead to internal and external violent confrontations;

5) The consolidation of the disparity between rich and poor that is already generating social unrest in different regions, as we have seen recently in Latin America and the Middle East;

6) The transformation of democracy into a plutocratic dictatorship (the government by the wealthy) based on the technological manipulation of social consensus, as illustrated in the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal.

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Society can be controlled through its means of communication

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                    film and media studies

Sometimes it takes a couple of tries to find your true passion. University of Cincinnati alumna Deja Shanks took a second swing at her path and found a professional home near the footlights and greasepaint at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Shanks originally received her associate degree in communications at UC Blue Ash in 2015. After pursuing a few passionless career paths, she decided to go back to school, graduating with her bachelor’s degree in film and media studies through UC’s College of Arts and Sciences.


Having an instinct that she wanted to pursue a career in the arts, Shanks tailored her studies to film editing and production. After graduating, she started work with the Playhouse in January of 2022.

“So far, my favorite production has been ‘Steel Magnolias,’ because it was the first time I got to interact with the actors and creative teams for the Playhouse,” she says.

“Part of my job revolves around reaching out to cast and crew to collect headshot and bio information, as well as organizing information for our programs. I also got to film my first dress rehearsal for ‘Steel Magnolias,’ which was so fun for me.”

As a content marketing associate for the Playhouse, Shanks films and edits productions, facilitates content for their programs, participates in script reads and keeps the website content updated.

Working with the Playhouse in Cincinnati’s Mt. Adams — which has served up award-winning theater to the community since 1960 — is a dream role, says Shanks. And she credits her classes at A&S for helping her land it, in particular Introduction to Film Editing. Through this course, she says, she learned the core editing skills she needed for film.

Having that hands-on experience ... was just what I needed for someone like me with zero experience in the field.

“Because of that course, one of my primary jobs at the Playhouse is editing production trailers and b-roll footage for the organization — something I wouldn’t have had any clue on how to do if it wasn’t for me taking the course,” she says.

Students who pursue film and media studies through A&S are required to take a Film and Media Studies Internship course to prepare them for careers. Shanks landed an internship with Cindependent Film Festival, a hub for independent filmmakers to pursue their ambitions with film, using the resources Cindependent provides for them.

“A benefit that was extremely helpful to me was my internship with Cindependent Film Festival,” says Shanks. “Having that hands-on experience with coordinating virtual screenplay readings and helping set up neighborhood film screenings was just what I needed for someone like me who had zero experience with the field. I am truly blessed to have this opportunity to work for the Playhouse and am excited for where it takes me next.”


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                                  LISTENING TO THE STORYS OF A CITY

Asking questions, examining issues affecting the world, and understanding how those complex concerns shape everyday life are all key skills of journalists. In Reporting the City led by Ellen Berkovitch, visiting associate professor in the Humanities and Media Studies department, students from across disciplines develop reporting experience by conducting interviews, attending public events and hearings, and writing investigative and human interest articles. Through this hands-on work, they discover how the techniques of journalism can inform their practices.

While the course in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences had been offered in previous semesters, fall 2022 was the first time for it to be held in person since 2020. The most recent class included students majoring in writing, industrial design, film, fashion, painting, printmaking, graphic design, and more, all bringing their individual perspectives to in-class conversations about the many applications and needs for reporting skills.

“There’s more overlap between journalism and industrial design than I thought there was,” said Theo Hall, BID ’24. “When you’re researching a project in industrial design, you want to talk to the people who will use what you’re designing. There are a lot of similarities in the gathering of data, interviewing, and learning.”

“Graphic design has a lot to do with talking to people and messaging, which is related to journalism,” said Milli Patel, BFA Communications Design (Graphic Design) ’24. “Being able to report on the city itself is really helpful because it’s what is around us and we’re not reading something or just writing about it; we’re experiencing it and thinking about our own experiences and our own biases.”

Their reported stories ranged from interviews with migrants who recently arrived in New York on buses sent from Texas, to the state of the subway system, to local voter registration campaigns. They also looked into Pratt’s own history as it related to the city, such as its footprint in Brooklyn and how it expanded over time. This included researching how past students reported on these issues, such as delving into the archives of The Prattler student newspaper at Pratt Libraries.

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COMMUNICATION

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                                                                              MEDIA 

Media is responsible for impacting our everyday life. The media plays a very pivotal role in our lives. We constantly educate ourselves by keeping track of the day-to-day news. The news plays a crucial role in updating us with the current affairs and everything going on in the world.

They inform, educate and entertain people. They also influence the way people look at the world and make them change their views. Mass media plays a very important role in organizing public opinion. Millions of people watch TV and read newspapers in their free time.

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Communications

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                                          Communications

    Communication helps managers to perform their jobs and responsibilities. Communication serves as a foundation for planning. All the essential information must be communicated to the managers who in-turn must communicate the plans so as to implement them.

    Organizing also requires effective communication with others about their job task. Similarly leaders as managers must communicate effectively with their subordinates so as to achieve the team goals. Controlling is not possible without written and oral communication.

    Managers devote a great part of their time in communication. They generally devote approximately 6 hours per day in communicating. They spend great time on face to face or telephonic communication with their superiors, subordinates, colleagues, customers or suppliers. Managers also use Written Communication in form of letters, reports or memos wherever oral communication is not feasible.

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