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Not so long ago, during a law class, we discussed the influence of the media on people's actions and how the legal system should deal with it. The media effects and how they affect the mass consciousness are a very interesting topic. One of my favorite theories in the field of mass communication studies is Gerbner's cultivation theory, which touches on sociology. He believed that the media can leave a long-term effect. According to this theory, the media cultivate images that are slowly integrated into real life. I agree that the media certainly changes our lives, but I do not think that we have become "slaves to the media". The development of the media has given ordinary consumers a wide choice. If earlier people had a choice of 10 TV channels, now the variety is uncountable.

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Quarantine period of 2020 according to manny people changed their minds and point of view. Some people have found something new in themselves. Some have explored their new talent, some of them recognized their loved ones differently etc.
How did you cope with lockdown? Share your experience:)

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Fact:
What word does the author use in this essay to signify the activity of finding out which position is most worthy of our belief?
Structure:
What structure the author uses: thesis first and evidence second or evidence first and the thesis second?
External:
What are the "concrete, easily recognizable differences between these two types of argumentative papers"?

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Belated reflection on participation in the online Oxford  and St Andrews  University panel.

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Belated reflection on participation in the online Oxford  and St Andrews  University panel.

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What concerns the structure and atmosphere of the panel it didn't seem to me too rigid or formal. The atmosphere was rather friendly and unconstrained. There were some significant unique characters I have noticed:
-Before the presentation each participant was introduced and his achievements were listed.
-Questions could be asked not after the performance itself, but after a number of presentation, which was confusing. I noticed that questions were asked mostly about the first previous presentation.
-During most of the time participants had their cameras on and were looking interested and engaged, only as a presenter from Vietnam spoke they turned them suddenly off. Why, still unclear.
For me it was hard to understand the essence of performances, partly because of the specific vocabulary used and partly because of accents of participants. Anyway all the presenters had vivid interesting materials and posters from USSR included in their presentation, which made entertaining to watch them. I was quite happy to watch this panel, as it made me feel a part of something meaningful. And a big thanks to Emily for answering our questions.

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It was a really interesting and new experience! I’m glad I managed to get a glimpse of what such international conferences look like. Although, it was nothing like what I expected! I thought everything there would be very formal and strikt but everything turned out to be very relaxed and almost like a friendly chat. Also, I commend the organisers for engaging us into the conversation as well even though we are not only just students but the first-year ones. And there we were being asked for educational advice by a professor! Terrific!

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Difficulties of practical application of the Hofstede model

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Difficulties of practical application of the Hofstede model

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When we read the chapter " Intercultural communication", where the Hofstede model was described, I wondered if this model could have practical benefits. Obviously, Hofstede has created a classification that best reflects cultural differences, but does this theory have a connection to reality?

I have always been interested in the question, how does culture affect the development of entrepreneurship? Is it true that some nations are more enterprising, and some are less?

Take, for example, the power distance index. This index shows the extent to which people tolerate the unequal distribution of goods. In the Hofstede ranking, most countries considered favorable for doing business, such as Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States have a rather low power distance index.

Thus, we see that in countries where people are less tolerant of inequality, entrepreneurship is more successful, that is quite logical. However, the value of the power distance index directly correlates with the index of economic differentiation. That is, countries with less inequality are less tolerant of economic inequality.

We know for sure that entrepreneurship is more active in countries with low inequality. But the question is, what caused this low level of inequality - some external economic reasons or a cultural peculiarity?

The problem with all these cultural studies, in my opinion, is that it is difficult to understand where the cause is and where the consequent is.

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I think that not every 1st grade student can say that their group has participated the real conference. But we can! I don't stop being surprised how much British professors are kind. It seems that 10 minutes break is not so long to communicate with us. Anyway, she did it. They try to attract attention to academic life. Probably, if everyone loved their work so much, out world would become much better!

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To be honest, it was a great experience to be present at international conference. It is always interesting to see the differences in styles of communication between different cultures. For example, I saw that in our Russian culture people are usually try to be as official as possible, our people are always too serious on conferences. English participants seemed a little more relaxed. Also, Russians present their thesis first and then prove it. English people structure their works vice versa.

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By the way, taking about economic stagnation in Russia, can you provide me with your own examples of your family or friends who in past several years (mainly from 2015 and on) did not gained much of the improvement in their economic conditions or it'll be even better, for my topic, if these conditions have weakened. In order to make the process more comfortable and transparent for you I'll talk about my family. My father, before the 2015 crises had a stable job and earned stable 3000$ a month + the bonus (which can be even more). But in 2015 sales of the company he worked for (premium pet food) had decreased rapidly and he was fired as the company focused more on cutting spending. Then, a few years of economic uncertainty followed, we spent all our savings and sold our flat at the cost of Black Sea (combined more than 5 million rubles were lost). Then he started his own business, since he couldn't find a job that meet his salary expectation (150k+). And now he doesn't have a stable income, since it depends on sales and on average earns between 2000 and 3000 $ a month, which is less than in 2014, considering that cost of living in Moscow have risen.

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By the way, taking about economic stagnation in Russia, can you provide me with your own examples of your family or friends who in past several years (mainly from 2015 and on) did not gained much of the improvement in their economic conditions or it'll be even better, for my topic, if these conditions have weakened. In order to make the process more comfortable and transparent for you I'll talk about my family. My father, before the 2015 crises had a stable job and earned stable 3000$ a month + the bonus (which can be even more). But in 2015 sales of the company he worked for (premium pet food) had decreased rapidly and he was fired as the company focused more on cutting spending. Then, a few years of economic uncertainty followed, we spent all our savings and sold our flat at the cost of Black Sea (combined more than 5 million rubles were lost). Then he started his own business, since he couldn't find a job that meet his salary expectation (150k+). And now he doesn't have a stable income, since it depends on sales and on average earns between 2000 and 3000 $ a month, which is less than in 2014, considering that cost of living in Moscow have risen.

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Can the mention of a term without mentioning a name be considered a reference? For example, in the last debate I used the term "social fact", which is a direct reference to Durkheim, isn't it? Or is it necessary to say « ...this is a social fact that Durkheim wrote about » ?

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The rating system harms the relationship between students

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The rating system harms the relationship between students

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It prevents them from building closer social ties with a friendly pattern.  What do you think?

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I think that we should set up some limit of earning points here because some people have already earned 100+ points and the others don’t have enough time to write here all the time. Who’s with me?

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What solutions to the problem of corruptipn can you find? But there is a condition that the government itself is in on it and doesn't minds bribes. What do you think about the so-called "present tradition"? Where and when do you think it came from? Write your ideas down below. (Alina, Nastya, Sergey)

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First, I have managed to find something interesting in all of the 6 key terms of system thinking.
Speaking of interconnectedness, the idea that everything is connected due to the survival seems very thought-provoking to me.
Speaking of how system thinking is connected with our course, that we can name the feedback an interconnectedness. So, with the help of feedback we can improve our debating or writing skills.

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Междисциплинарное эссе

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Междисциплинарное эссе

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Тема: Проблемы и основные механизмы формирования экологического сознания и культуры в России

Тезис: Экологическая культура олицетворяет единство природы и человека, являясь мерой выражения человечности. Ее развитие необходимо и неизбежно. Однако, при всей натуральности процесса эволюции экологического сознания, подобный механизм не существует вне правил и паттернов. Осознанность можно воспитать и направлять. Чтобы понять основные принципы, при помощи которых можно усовершенствовать и ускорить процесс формирования эко-культуры в России, стоит посмотреть на духовное, философское начало этого явления. Для перехода в качественное иное состояние мышления необходим синтез знаний и убеждений, в котором научные знания становятся частью сознания, конкретизируются и воспроизводятся как собственные, переходят в мировоззрение.

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What do you think about connection between money and happiness? Do you consider that the happiness in money? if it is no, explain your opinion. 

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What do you think about connection between money and happiness? Do you consider that the happiness in money? if it is no, explain your opinion. 

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As for me, money plays important role in my life. A lot of things which brings me happiness have a price.

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I often like to think about time and whether it is linear, spiral or even a loop as we discussed in our Political Science class.

Marcel Danesi with his lecture made me fall into this rabbit hole of thoughts again by showing how we as a species have come so far and yet our communucation now resembles that of our ancestors 17.300 years ago. Humanity went from depicting its ideas as drawings on a cave wall to using miniature images to wright texts to swapping the images with conveniet symbols. And now we are basicly partially back to the point 0 with the invention of the emoji alphabet. It's not like we are back in caves or anything but I mean we are back at this state of being able to have a whole conversation via images. How crazy is that?!

I have always been a strong believer in the fact that our time is linear because that is what we are told in history class at school (time there is shown as an arrow). But my opinion on this matter is starting to sway more in the direction of time being  more of a spiral than a straight line.

What are your thoughts? Do you think time is linear, a spiral or maybe a loop?

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Marcel Denesis Communication comes full circle

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Marcel Denesis Communication comes full circle

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While listening to this brilliant lecture of Marcel I got puzzled thinking whether it is beneficial for humanity to communicate in emojis or not. Inevitably the book 1984 here comes to mind. In there under the state guidance a new language newspeak is created where all difficult words are simplified or erased and useless synonyms removed. Because the citizens can use only certain words they can only think in a certain way presupposed be the state. So I am questioning myself, if we cut down our communication to emojis and symbols will we not be doomed to narrow our thinking to the set of emojis? Because there are so many emotions that could not be reduces to emojis.... It is true that language is determining our language 100%. Imagine aliens! Probably they are not trying to connect with us yet because our communication system is not comparable to their. If they are more developed they probable are using a totally different communication method.... So, what do you think are emojis a brilliant invention to combine feelings and meaning or a stupid reduction??????

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From cave drawings to emojis: Communication comes full circle | Marcel Danesi

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From cave drawings to emojis: Communication comes full circle | Marcel Danesi

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To begin with, I would like to mention that the lecture was so engrossing that I was watching it without distracting on something else (like my instagram or twitter feed).
The first thing which amazed me was the revolution of the letter 'A'. To be honest, my first thought about it was that we become more and more lazy over time. Like at first letter 'A' was a drawing of Aleph (the ox) and now it is just a symbol which consists of three straight lines.
The second thing which amazed me was the fact that the emojis have become our new alphabet. We express what we feel not with the help of the text but with the help of mini pictures. For example, if our friend sends us a meme, we won't write something like "That is really funny! I am laughing so hard!". We will send them "😂😂😂" instead.
Concerning emojis, I personally don't think that they are stupid or so. They help us express our feelings more graphically. And this makes our communication easier.

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I want to ask you to give me a favour. Since I will be discussing a topic of an economic crisis and wealth disparity between Russian regions (Moscow, St. Petersburg holding the most wealth of Russia specifically). I has not started on this project yet. I want some of you, who originally came from different regions of Russia to give me some examples of how our cities are different to Moscow in economic and wealth terms. Thank you for your cooperation. 

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I want to ask you to give me a favour. Since I will be discussing a topic of an economic crisis and wealth disparity between Russian regions (Moscow, St. Petersburg holding the most wealth of Russia specifically). I has not started on this project yet. I want some of you, who originally came from different regions of Russia to give me some examples of how our cities are different to Moscow in economic and wealth terms. Thank you for your cooperation. 

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Today i fortunitously saw a short cartoon in my YouTube recommendation. I was impressed by it. I'm interested in your impression on this cartoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dZQelULDk

TRIGER WARNING:
this cartoon raises problems of  routine, meaning of life, meaning of happiness - if these topics are triger for you, i advise you not to watch it.

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I don’t even handle why it deleted by itself...

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Soulmates. Do they exist? Try to prove your opinion.

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Soulmates. Do they exist? Try to prove your opinion.

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Междисциплинарное эссе 

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Междисциплинарное эссе 

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Тема:
Фальсификация истории как инструмент для достижения политических целей

Тезис:
Фальсификация истории стала серьезным идеологическим оружием с развитием средств массовой информации, потому что их влияние было предназначено для формирования и конструирования
человеческого сознания

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тема междисциплинарного эссе

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тема междисциплинарного эссе

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тема: влияние социальных сетей на психику человека
тезис: социальные сети формируют зависимость у людей, тем самым оказывая воздействие на их психику

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Междисциплинарное эссе

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Междисциплинарное эссе

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Проблема влияния индустрии моды на экологию.

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to be honest, I liked the debates. of course, it’s a little difficult for me to freely express my thoughts in English and sometimes, when emotions went off scale, I wanted to switch to Russian to be more convincing. besides, I was glad that my team won:)
and it also seems to me that the offline debates would be even brighter and more interesting.

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Тема: природа социального неравенства

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Тема: природа социального неравенства

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Тезис: социальное неравенство не является неотъемлемой частью человеческого общества, оно возникло в результате фундаментальных экономических и социальных преобразований и является следствием вполне конкретного тренда, а не константой человеческого поведения.

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Supposesly the topic and the thesis for the interdisciplinary essay.

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Supposesly the topic and the thesis for the interdisciplinary essay.

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Topic: Predictive programming and its impact on a person's perception of reality.

Predictive programming has a negative impact (influence) on human minds because the negative (dark) psychology went into its design and development.

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Due to the mass media, we consume a huge amount of useful information, we have more choice than before, at the same time, large-scale media studies of the 1970s and 2000s discovered and studied such media effects as the "agenda effect" and the "spiral of silence». Certainly, the integration of mass media into people's lives is not one-sided, it means that the audience also has an impact on the media, for example, selectively choosing content, creating a request for an agenda, etc. ( limited effects theory). However, mass media continue to be used for propaganda, threats, and hate speech in countries with very poor and illiterate populations. We can also see the example of America, where Trump managed to provoked the crowd into storming the Capitol via Twitter using only emotions. Therefore, the mass media should obviously be considered as one of the most important factors influencing the behavior of modern people.

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Guys, i'm interested whether you listen to music when you do your homework or not? Is music a distraction or does it help you concentrate?

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Guys, i'm interested whether you listen to music when you do your homework or not? Is music a distraction or does it help you concentrate?

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A reflection on the experience of today's debates

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A reflection on the experience of today's debates

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WELL, first thing first I want to thank our moderators and professor for the opportunity of participating in an activity like that. I do not really know whether I said it or not, but the debate is one of my main passions. From the 11th grade in school, I tried to participate as much as I can. A great number of hours were spent watching debates on YouTube and other resources. Considering this fact, it is easy to understand that I was excited about today's lessons. I am pleased with the fact that my groupmates are excellent opponents and speakers. To tell the truth, it was one of the best experiences in this field. I hope that in the near future we will have more debates! I’m really impatient! Thank everyone one more time for today lesson<3

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Thoughts not included in my argument in the debates

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Thoughts not included in my argument in the debates

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As long as social, political, and economic status determine who is important and who is not, the media will continue to be instruments of control. However, this control function can be weakened when media infrastructure and administration are decentralized and closer to the masses. But there is a way out of this problem. Solutions to the problems of the masses are the priority targets of media contents. The democratic-participant media theory calls for the right of access to the mass media for citizens. Moreover, the rights of the masses should be served by the media according to their own self-determined needs.

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I was a judge.  To tell the truth, I always enjoy debates. Also, I wanted to try myself as a judge. It was interesting but at the same time difficult. It happened because we didn’t have any written arguments so we needed to listen to everybody very carefully but it was sometimes impossible due to poor connection or manner of speech of every person. At the same time, I didn’t want to miss some important words. The theme was familiar and understandable but at the same time very controversial. Next time, I will prefer to be a speaker but do not deny that today’s experience isn’t last. 

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I was a judge.  To tell the truth, I always enjoy debates. Also, I wanted to try myself as a judge. It was interesting but at the same time difficult. It happened because we didn’t have any written arguments so we needed to listen to everybody very carefully but it was sometimes impossible due to poor connection or manner of speech of every person. At the same time, I didn’t want to miss some important words. The theme was familiar and understandable but at the same time very controversial. Next time, I will prefer to be a speaker but do not deny that today’s experience isn’t last. 

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Another argument on influencing mass media on teenagers

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Another argument on influencing mass media on teenagers

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Another negative influence on teenagers, especially in the USA, that has grown over the last years is obesity. There are millions of adolescents fighting obesity, but at the same time they are exposed to thousands of advertisements of junk food, while the ideal image of a successful person is told to be thin and wealthy. (Nastya Gordienko)

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This is incredibly interesting, since you have to closely follow every work and be extremely objective in your refereeing , despite the huge difference in presentation of each argument and example to it.  Moreover, for me personally, the most complicated thing was to understand the position of each and highlight which is better, because both sides had such great arguments, that my own opinion was hesitating during the whole time of debates . (From Mia)

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A reflection on the moderating experience

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A reflection on the moderating experience

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It was really fun to do! Also, everybody had such interesting arguments and it was nice to just sit and listen to them. When you are yourself in the debates, it's pretty difficult to relax and pay attention to anyone and anything else other than yourself and your own speech. It was nice to just sit down and listen to what everybody had to say.
Also, I hope, everyone is satisfied with our job as moderators, even though I was messing up from time to time a little bit (omg I can't believe I asked everyone to present their most despicable arguments instead of compelling, haha, what). All in all, we tried our best and hope you appreciated it! :)

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reflection upon the moderation of the debates.

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reflection upon the moderation of the debates.

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To be honest, first I was a little confused by the rules of the debates. But when the debates started everything became clear. What is more I am really happy that the debates were not messy. They were structured. Speaking about the topic, humans are not rational themselves. So, mass media is just one of the thousands of reasons of our irrationality.

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There is a widespread belief that there are no mass media sources which are objective enough. It means that all sources of information tell us news but at the same time reflect the subject opinion of the company or journal which publishes these news. For instance, recently, rallies were held in Russia and various media covered them. Nevertheless, in the Telegram channel, he focused on one thing, and in the usual news on TV, completely on the other. Therefore, there is no single objective opinion of the media.

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тема : Государственное частное партнерство 

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тема : Государственное частное партнерство 

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тезис: Города России должны больше использовать механизмы вовлечения частных инвесторов, потому что это поможет решить множество общественно важных задач

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Тема: Формирования «Я» человека в современных условиях при участии социальных сетей.

Тезис: Социальные сети оказывают влияние на формирование «Я» человека, потому что большинство из нас сравнивают себя с персонажами, которыми мы сталкиваемся в сети.

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What is the origin of the physical pain? Like is it always just physical or is it more psychosomatic in most of the cases?

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Interdisciplinary essay topic: Fascism has not died, but transformed into neo-nazism, because of the dangers of globalisation. 

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Interdisciplinary essay topic: Fascism has not died, but transformed into neo-nazism, because of the dangers of globalisation. 

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Does a straw have two holes or just one?

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Does a straw have two holes or just one?

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Recently I heard this question somewhere and it seemed so funny to me I could't stop laughing. Is a straw just an object with one long hole in it or is there two separate wholes on each side? I'm really interested in hearing you opinions! But could you please try and come up with a justification for your ideas as well because that way it will be ten times more interesting.

P.S. No pressure to take just one side, you could very well argument both positions if you'd like to.

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Do you think people could ever be completely alone? If yes then in what circumstances?

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Do you think people could ever be completely alone? If yes then in what circumstances?

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I personally struggle to find a definite unswer to this question. Can you truly be alone? Could we already be counted as never alone due to having our mind? I mean, even when you stay outside of society your thought are there to keep you company. Also, even if there are no people in sight who is to say that there are no ghosts or spirits all around you?
Very interested in hearing your opinions and suggestions.

P.S. You can express ideas regarding both mental and physical loneliness.

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Is it possible for an individual to be truly independent from society? Super-individual factors.

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Is it possible for an individual to be truly independent from society? Super-individual factors.

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I don't think that a person could be truly independet from the society's influence. If you think about it, everything we want and think about is dictated by the society. Even if you wake up one day and decide that you want to be not like others you are still influenced by it as your ideas of "normal" and "different" come directly from the society you exist in.
In our sociology class we have even discussed that such seeminglt personal and willful things as suicide are still heavily influenced by the society. In the examples the people who took their own lifes stated the reasons why, e.g. feeling alone, feeling pain and have no one do anything to stop it (as deadly injections were banned), feeling like a burden to the loved ones and so on. In the lecture by Nicholas Christakis (YouTube: Big Think) he called all these "super-individual factors".
Or take as an examole another phenomena, the so-called “obesity epidemic”. I thought it had little to nothing to do with social issues, but, in fact, it did. The epidemic was explained by social networks: people who had some kind of relationship (family/friends/acquaintances) going on with an obese person, were more likely to start gaining weight themselves as well. That is how the “epidemic” part of the title came to be.

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"It's not good enough to be right. You also have to be effective."

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"It's not good enough to be right. You also have to be effective."

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What does it mean “to be right” and why do so many of us want to be right? That is the question which I want to ask you.

Personally, in my opinion it is important to be right. I am that kind of person for whom it is important to have the final say. But I can say that it is even more important for me to be convincing. For that you should know how to make a person believe you. During our psychology course we have learnt about two types of conviction. The first one refers to the primitive reaction of the person. The ones’ who are being convinced notice not the quality of the information and facts but the way this information is being told (the orator’s manner of speaking, different effects etc.). But this type of conviction is short-lived. The other type refers to the audience who appreciates the quality of the information. So, the orator has to choose the best and most structured arguments to convince the audience. And that type of conviction is durable.

To sum everything up, it is important to present information in such a way that it would remain with the listener for a long time. Otherwise the conviction will not be effective.

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Is it possible for a human to be truly independent from society's influence ?How is it possible?

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Is it possible for a human to be truly independent from society's influence ?How is it possible?

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We are all perceived as both individuals and social creatures.

Firstly, we all make our own decisions, but at the same time we are influenced by the society. Such point leads us to the following thing: to understand the individuals themselves and their actions, we must study the social groups to which they belong. Here is an example. We all consider suicide to be an individual act. But, in fact, there are a lot of social aspects and consequences which make a person to commit suicide such as peer pressure, the feeling that the person is a burden for his or her nearest and dearest or even such thoughts as no one cares about you and your problems. All of the listed thoughts arise, because we live in a society and we care about what the others think of us. Therefore, suicide is a social act. Such a conclusion made me surprised.

Secondly, everyone forms social networks, which create ties, which connect people to each other.  This leads us to the following point: our problems are connected with the problems of people around us. The reason for that is simple: our desires are collective and are determined by the groups of which we are members. Saying this in a more simple way, people usually imitate each other. For example, when one person in a teenage group of friends starts smoking, practically everyone in that group starts smoking too. So, here we can see the widespread problem of smoking and how it propagates.

In conclusion, I would like to say that, as we understood from all written above, society has a great influence on an individual.

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Speaker kept my attention with his statement about w
what there are 3 types of truth - personal truth, political truth, objective truth. This theme interested me for a long time as I always think about the question “what the reason of the different opinions on one thing in our society”. So, speakers gave me an idea that individual has opportunity to evaluate new information through 3 different ways. These ways are - how you see it by yourself, what is the opinion of the government in this field and what scientific research shows. Using all 3 ways help us to think more rational. Our everyday decisions require us to go through all of them.

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AR: Is it possible for a human to be truly independent from society's influence ?How is it possible?

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AR: Is it possible for a human to be truly independent from society's influence ?How is it possible?

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what are the differences between semantics and syntactics? (im sorry, i forgot to put this in the padlet in the last AR lesson. So, send it now;))

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The main thing that attracts me is the way he spoke. He was extremely emotional and because of that I want to trust him and even listen to his opinion on some cases. I am an emotional person too and that is why I like people who can speak fast, loud and use gestures, it additionally draws me into the topic. And the second thing that made me pay attention is the music which increases my interest.

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I really enjoyed the beginning when he said that there are 3 types of truth: political, personal and objective. So, personal and objective are familiar to me, but political… Why does he focus on politics? i do not understand it.

Also, during the video I was always thinking that I was watching a new part of marvel's film due to the background music.

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It’s not enough to be right, you must also be effective.

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It’s not enough to be right, you must also be effective.

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It’s not enough to be right, you must also be effective. And what can I say? It’s true. If you just know stuff good for you. But if you want to try and convey your knowledge to others you must know how to interest them in your subject. If, for example, you are doing a speech just like Neil deGrasse Tyson, you must possess this precious skill. He uses dramatic music, his surroundings are colour coordinated and so warm and cosy his voice is very soothing. All that helps make an impact on the viewer and get them interested.

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The thing which came to my mind is that it’s very hard for me to understand and agree with an argument against my position if I really believe that I’m 100% correct. Also, the thing that I noticed in my life is that I live in a “bubble” of liberal-minded people in a mostly liberal youth community in one of most liberal city in Russia and that really make a difference in how I observe the word around me and how I think it should work. And I don’t really know and able to know how other people in other communities think.

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The thing which came to my mind is that it’s very hard for me to understand and agree with an argument against my position if I really believe that I’m 100% correct. Also, the thing that I noticed in my life is that I live in a “bubble” of liberal-minded people in a mostly liberal youth community in one of most liberal city in Russia and that really make a difference in how I observe the word around me and how I think it should work. And I don’t really know and able to know how other people in other communities think.

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Reflection on Neil deGrasse Tyson's video (Natalia)

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Reflection on Neil deGrasse Tyson's video (Natalia)

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He’s a scientist but he used several options and methods to make everybody pay attention to what he says. While I was watching this video, I noticed some methods. For example, gorgeous music which is used in blockbusters and Neil used different tones of his speech and he made pauses to highlight the main moments. He wants to pay our attention in his masterclass and he does. What is more, he doesn’t just sit in front of the camera and sparks, he uses visualization of his words, he changes decorations, he does different things while speaking and these tricky methods affect people's attention very effectively. He uses our emotional parts to make us think about rational things and about going to his masterclass and developing our scientific and critical thinking and reasoning.

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Sometimes people cannot control their emotions while having an argument with someone. This happens if the topic is really close or triggering for them or when people understand that they do not have enough vivid facts and reasons. In such cases emotions interfere with a person. Yes, emotions are important, but we have to control them sometimes in some way not to lose our temper.

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"Search engines are the epidemy of confirmation bias". 

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"Search engines are the epidemy of confirmation bias". 

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Very often if we see something written on the Internet, if have no idea about what the source of this information is or what is the reputation of the media company we accept this information as true because we don't have time to conduct a real research on the problem. If we want to prove our point of view for example for a friend, but can't thing of plausible evidence we go to the Internet and collect evidence on our position without paying attention to other opinions and evidence.

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Who has already watched Parasite? Share your impressions. Attention, there will be a spoiler!!!! Please, explain me why Kim Gi-taek killed Park at the end of the film. I have some ideas but I am not sure. Maybe I haven't mentioned something important. P.S It was my first experience to watch Korean film. 

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Who has already watched Parasite? Share your impressions. Attention, there will be a spoiler!!!! Please, explain me why Kim Gi-taek killed Park at the end of the film. I have some ideas but I am not sure. Maybe I haven't mentioned something important. P.S It was my first experience to watch Korean film. 

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This is a place for your current emotional statues. (in 1-3 adjectives or emojis write how you feel today)

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This is a place for your current emotional statues. (in 1-3 adjectives or emojis write how you feel today)

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Reflections on Kants article "The supposed right to lie from benevolent motives" 

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Reflections on Kants article "The supposed right to lie from benevolent motives" 

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In the article Kant concludes that we should never lie despite anything because if we lie we are placing ourselves at risk (if you have lied that a friend of yours who is followed by a murderer is not in the house because you know that he is, hiding, but it appears later that your friend has escaped the house through  the back door and got killed by the murderer in the street, you are partially guilty in his dead. But if you have said the truth you could not be blamed even if your friend died because it was a matter of coincidence.) The more we lie, Kant says, the less is the strength of legitimacy, so while lying you harm the society. He disputes the statement that "we should tell the truth only to those who has right for it" due to the fact that noone can own the truth because it would mean that he could change it. It might be true that this statement leads to funny logic, but I totally agree with the idea that is in its basement. I think we should never lie in 3 cases: if we are interacting with an officer of law, if we are talking with our friends and family because it might undermine our relations and if we are sure that lying would harm another person. Indeed, if you were in this situation when lying could possibly save your life our a life of your friend wouldn't you lie? What do you think? Are there some cases when liying is needed and is justifiable?

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What do you think about the afterlife? Do you think that people reincarnate and become someone or something else in the our world? Maybe, they turn into ghosts and spirits when they die? Or maybe your idea of the life cycle is the same as was depicted in "Soul"? Submit your thoughts!
Also, I found out recently that there is a belief that if a person was born with a disability it means that they had done something awful in their previous life. I personally don't want to believe in this because it's hurts me to think that it is somehow a person's fault that they are disabled. But, I'd like to know your thoughts on that too as it intertwines with the main topic of the post a little bit.

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what is pragmatics? give a specific example when we use pragmatics?

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I think that it is a good example of how other students should prepare for classes. if it is okay , when I decide to be moderator, I want to find the same exercise as "yes/no". Also, the answer to the puzzle reminds me the case from Jurisprudence about Speluncean explorers. Too much canibalism this week))) Thank you for inspire all of us to be "teachers" next time!

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I really liked the way our lesson was held today (19.02). The moderators organised a very fun game and I personally think that we should do such stuff more often because it's fun x)
It was a good idea to bring in that concept of moderators because it makes our lessons much more creative.
Also, I'm interested to see what others will organize in the future!
As for the second part of the lesson, I liked it very much as well because I like working in groups and especially on something that involves conversation and debating. This problem with stolen money was really fun to think about.

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How technology affects the way we communicate.

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How technology affects the way we communicate.

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With the advent of technology people have changed the way they communicate. We used to communicate face-to-face more often. Now it is a lot easier to us to communicate using messages.

This means that we start using semiotic model a lot more than rhetorical model. I cannot say that our communication degrades because of that. The world have changed and we changed too. Yes, our vocabulary has become poorer in some way. But, I think, that is the only point in which new technologies affected our communication.

To sum up, I would like to say, that nowadays semiotic model of communication prevails over rhetorical.

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I honestly was so shocked when the main character, Joe Gardner, strait up died only like a little over 10 minutes into the movie. It was especially heartbreaking coming after when his life, as it seemed, started to get better.
This movie made me face one of my fears - death and how sudden and unexpected it could sometimes be. I was on a verge of having a panic attack but then thankfully everything became cute and fluffy.
When the main hero snatched 22's sticker I felt really bad for her as it is really unfair to show her the Earth and then, when she warmed up to it, take everything back to point zero.
However, it was refreshing and heartwarming to see that in the end Joe was ready to give up his life in order for 22 to go to the Earth.
In that regard I think you could say that the title "Soul" could be interpreted not only literally, meaning a movie about souls, but figuratively as well. In my opinion, it reflects on the main hero's journey toward acquiring "a soul" by doing what is right and willing to sacrifice his life in favour of 22.
I also want to comment on the ending. I am sooooo glad that they decided to make it happy! Although, I think that those universe beings would not really care about just an avrege soul, nonetheless, I am happy the movie was ended on a high note because had it gone otherwise I would've cried even more than I already did.
All in all, this movie was an emotional rollercoaster but at the end of the day it made me think about whether I do appreciate my life or not. And even if I do, to some extent, whether it is enough.

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I do not agree with the statement that people are inherently selfish and that there is no place for altruism in human society. I think this is an obvious fallacy. Because in the struggle for survival, man took the first place in the food chain precisely because people are social animals. The ability to cooperate and help each other was what made people so strong.

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I agree with this thesis, because the interaction of people is based on their mutual needs, respectively, if one gets something, then the other will lose

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Everything in the world changes and take its own place but it's important for developing to put away some things to make new ones grow.

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Everything in the world changes and take its own place but it's important for developing to put away some things to make new ones grow.

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I liked this text in a way that it shares my opinion about the topic “what is good for one is harmful for another”. The simplest example in support of my idea is competitions. Participants do all the best to demonstrate to others that they surpass them in any sphere. As a result we can see from the one side joy and happiness of the success and on the other side falling of self-estimate and negative emotions. I think conclusion of this example can be viewed as the confirmation of Monten  idea that was behind the text.

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I cannot agree with such a statement. There are a lot of things that making profit for people who do that but still is good for all people. For ex. pet care and health care is one of the biggest things that are good for everybody and make their runners profit. They help ill people and get a bonus for doing that, it's a win win for all.

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it is true that everything we do, we do for own benefit. Even if we donate some money to charity we fulfill the need to seem a good person to ourselves. There is an interesting thought from Mephistopeheles that people mostly intend evel but end up with good results for society. while trying to make ourselves rich we support the market economy.

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ch. 4
what is a sign?
how do signs  function within system of communication?

(Agnia Saveliy)

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Why would we want to sit down if we will eventually stand up?

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Why would we want to sit down if we will eventually stand up?

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Explain that, science!!!

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Покопайся каждый из нас хорошенько в себе...

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Покопайся каждый из нас хорошенько в себе...

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I don't think that most of us identify themselves as despicable people who want to benefit from the misfortune of others. But, actually, most of us fell a little bit happy, maybe deep in their souls, when someone fails and this fail is beneficial for you.

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What do you think according to critical thinking?

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First, it is really interesting to think about the concept of souls and characters like of something which is formed in advanced.

Secondly, the other thing which made me think is the data (every day 151000 souls go to the “after” world). it is sometimes scary to think that everything is planned.

Thirdly, during the moment when the main character understood that his life was worthless, understood he lost everything and he cannot fix everything i felt a little devastated as that is one of my main fears.

The next thing which made me think was the case at hairdresser's. When the main hero found out that he was a little fixated on his life and problems and he sometimes forgot that the others have their own lives too.

To conclude, I would like to say, that the cartoon is called "Soul", because during the cartoon we find out that our souls are not computers which have some sort of programme with our 'sparkle' (the thing we dedicate our lives to). We are looking for (and then, finally, get) the 'sparkle' in the process of living our lives to the fullest.

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In my opinion you cannot state that there no altruism in our world. There, definitely, is pure will to care for someone or help someone just like a mother wants to provide good and happy life to her child no matter the cost

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Your textbook for Academic Reading: Media Studies 101:

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Your textbook for Academic Reading: Media Studies 101:

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https://opentextbc.ca/mediastudies101/

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Something useful is going to be here later

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Something useful is going to be here later