26 thoughts on “Expert Fields”

1. » for Wednes­day 02/10 Discussion/Activity

   » Ini­tial “Field Sketch”

   Field:
   Discipline/Major/Focus:

   → sketch/describe in brief com­ment (2 sen­tences, or in frag­ments) + me­dia, inven­tory as much as you can of the fol­low­ing:

   • “Infor­ma­tion” (how de­fined, what counts, how used?) 
   • Insti­tu­tions (gen­eral & spe­cific; “sites” of knowl­edge, like in col­lege and “out in” pro­fes­sion)
   • Figures/“Faces” (peo­ple past & present)
   • Voices/Publications (books/journals, web­sites, offi­cial / in­for­mal)
   • Online/network source for con­sult­ing spe­cial­ized info? for com­mu­ni­cat­ing, col­lab­o­rat­ing, shar­ing? (in­for­mal or for­mal)
   • Im­ages / Avatars? (per­sonal asso­ci­a­tion or pop­u­lar circulation/imagination)

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   1. 
      (exam­ple sketch — “map­ping” field I am ‘in’…)
       

      Field: Acad­e­mia
      Dis­c­pline: Writ­ing & Rhetoric (?)

      
      Insti­tu­tions: university/college, Col­lege of Arts & Sci­ences — Pro­gram for Writ­ing & Rhetoric (UC-Boulder); Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ties, Mod­ern Lan­guage Asso­ci­a­tion, uni­ver­sity press (book pub­lish­ing), Na­tional Coun­cil of Teach­ers of Eng­lish ?

      
      voices — (jour­nals): Col­lege Com­po­si­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Com­put­ers & Com­po­si­tion, Kairos, En­cul­tur­a­tion;
      an­nual Com­put­ers & Writ­ing Con­fer­ence, Bien­nial Rhetoric Soci­ety of Amer­ica Con­fer­ence 

      
      on­line fo­rums: MLA Com­mons, list­servs, indi­vid­ual blogs, #team­rhetoric (Twit­ter) 

      
      “infor­ma­tion”: aca­d­e­mic writ­ing / “re­search” (jour­nal arti­cles, books); re­ports…?

      
      im­ages: Google Drive/Docs, D2L, email (In­box, noti­fi­ca­tion, com­pose); li­brary data­bases; and

      

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   2. ex­am­ple
       
      Field: Law
      Discipline/Major/Focus: Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty

      “Infor­ma­tion” (how de­fined, what counts, how used?): copy­right, trade­mark, patents, “fil­ings,” pur­chases (of com­pa­nies hold­ing patents); statutes/ordinances, cases & rul­ings (prece­dents)

      Insti­tu­tions (gen­eral & spe­cific; “sites” of knowl­edge, like in col­lege and “out in” pro­fes­sion): firms, state/federal/international IP laws (patent, trade­mark), reg­is­ter @ United States Patent & Trade­mark Of­fice

      Figures/“Faces” (peo­ple past & present): attor­ney, indi­vid­u­als cor­po­ra­tions…?

      Voices/Publications (books/journals, web­sites, offi­cial / in­for­mal)
      Im­ages / Avatars? (per­sonal asso­ci­a­tion or pop­u­lar circulation/imagination):

      

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   3. ex­am­ple
       
      Field: Craft Brew­ing
      Dis­ci­pline/Major/Focus: Mi­cro­brew­ery, sour/wild, aging/blending

      “Infor­ma­tion” (how de­fined, what counts, how used?): chem­istry (e.g. pH), mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy (e.g. fer­men­ta­tion by mixed “cul­tures” of bac­te­ria & yeasts); plus “sen­sory pro­gram” notes by cel­lar man­ager / brewer 

      Insti­tu­tions (gen­eral & spe­cific): mar­ket­place (supply/demand); World Beer Cup (in­ter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion); Siebel In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy & World Brew­ing Acad­emy; programs/certificates in brew­ing at uni­ver­si­ties…

      Figures/“Faces” (peo­ple past & present): Pe­ter Bouck­aert, Eric and Lau­ren Salazar (New Bel­gium); Paul Can­til­lon (founder, Brasserie-Brouwerij Can­til­lon, 1900); 

      Voices/Publications (books/journals, web­sites, offi­cial / infor­mal): Brew­ers As­so­ci­a­tion pub­li­ca­tion, Beer­Ad­vo­cate mag­a­zine & fo­rums; an­nual Craft Brew­ers Con­fer­ence

      Im­ages / Avatars? (per­sonal asso­ci­a­tion or pop­u­lar circulation/imagination):

      

      (mi­crobes like “wild yeast” are in­vis­i­ble, but they’re every­where; in­clud­ing on beards…)

      Did you know it’s our Head Brewer’s Birth­day?! Which CMBC beer would you be help­ing him cel­e­brate the big day with ? Cheers Brian!

      A photo posted by Cape May Brew­ing Com­pany (@capemaybrewco) on Apr 24, 2015 at 11:16am PDT

      
      

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   4. Field: Chem­istry
      Dis­ci­pline: Bio­chem­istry
      De­fined as the study of in­ter­ac­tions be­tween atoms and the mol­e­cules the make up, with an em­pha­sis in my field on or­ganic mol­e­cules and how they in­ter­act in from a bi­o­log­i­cal stand­point
      In­sti­tu­tions: Re­search uni­ver­si­ties, Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies, DOW, other ma­jor chem­i­cal gi­ants
      Figures/Faces: Curie, Pas­teur, Mendelev, many, many oth­ers
      Voices/publications: Hand­book of Chem­istry (CRC), IUPAC, In­ter­na­tional As­so­ci­a­tion of Chemists, many oth­ers
      Net­work: Uni­ver­sity net­works, CRC, other meet­ings

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2. Field: Po­lit­i­cal sci­ence
   Dis­ci­pline: not sure yet

   In­for­ma­tion: cur­rent events; lan­guages; laws and the Con­sti­tu­tion; po­lit­i­cal sys­tems; econ­omy
   In­sti­tu­tions: re­search projects at col­leges; think tanks; dif­fer­ent lev­els and branches of gov’t; in­ter­na­tional in­sti­tu­tions
   Peo­ple: politi­cians; econ­o­mists; po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists; diplomats/secretaries of states/so on
   Voices: po­lit­i­cal jour­nals and pub­li­ca­tions; gov­ern­ment web­sites; coun​tryre​ports​.org; CIA World Fact­book

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   1. I am also mi­nor­ing in po­lit­i­cal sci­ence be­cause it over­laps a lot with my in­ter­na­tional af­fairs ma­jor. I think the po­lit­i­cal sci­ence field also gets in­for­ma­tion from his­tory, but I also agree with cur­rent events, po­lit­i­cal sys­tems etc. What was kind of hard about this is that pol­i­tics are every­where, even if we are not rooted in po­lit­i­cal cam­paigns, there are still pol­i­tics around the idea of dri­ving on the right side of the street, or pay­ing your taxes.

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3. Field: Acad­e­mia
   Discipline/Major/Focus: In­ter­na­tional Af­fairs

   “Infor­ma­tion” — In­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary ma­jor — dis­ci­ples of ge­og­ra­phy, his­tory, eco­nom­ics, a cho­sen lan­guage, po­lit­i­cal sci­ence, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, me­dia stud­ies etc. — any­thing that per­tains to the greater in­ter­na­tional world 

   Insti­tu­tions- university/college; Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences — In­ter­na­tional Af­fairs, out of col­lege there are many — UN, EU (ba­si­cally any gov­ern­men­tal as­so­ci­a­tion), Law, News me­dia cor­po­ra­tions etc. 

   Figures/“Faces” — ma­jor faces can in­clude politi­cians, Pres­i­dent, but the Vice Pres­i­dent deals with most of the in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions top­ics

   Voices/Publications — any na­tional and in­ter­na­tional news source

   Online/network source for con­sult­ing spe­cial­ized info? De­pends on the spe­cific re­search or topic you are in­ves­ti­gat­ing, but there are tons and tons of pub­li­ca­tions you can find in re­search data­bases re­gard­ing in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions

   Here are a few:
   For­eign Af­fairs — pub­lished by the Coun­cil on For­eign Re­la­tions
   Jour­nal of In­ter­na­tional Af­fairs — Colom­bia Uni­ver­sity
   George­town Jour­nal of In­ter­na­tional Af­fairs
   CIA World Fact­book
   

   

   
   

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   1. This is a topic I wish I would have cared about more over a decade ago when I was grad­u­at­ing high school. It took me around 7 years to re­al­ize my folly. Now, it is clear to me that this is an is­sue that we MUST ad­dress in all facets of our lives be­cause it af­fects all of us in all facets of our lives–which sounds like it’s a vi­cious cir­cle. Then, you re­al­ize: that’s ex­actly what it is. It’s an im­por­tant vi­cious cir­cle, though. 

      I would say the thing I’ve learned most about pol­i­tics on a global scale is that it is in­ef­fi­cient and prac­ti­cally use­less for 7-billion peo­ple on a planet of fi­nite re­sources. I’m not naïve. Tran­si­tion­ing to an­other sys­tem (say, a global re­source based econ­omy) ob­vi­ously re­quires a process of phas­ing out money and pol­i­tics (which means it will still be used dur­ing the tran­si­tion but the pub­lic will be ed­u­cated as to what money ac­tu­ally is) while re­plac­ing it with au­to­mated pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion meth­ods around the globe.… Top­ics far too deep to ad­dress here. 

      Ex­cel­lent choice! Ku­dos!

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   2. In­ter­na­tional af­fairs and the world of ad­ver­tis­ing both have world­wide im­pacts but in­ter­na­tional af­fairs deals with com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween dif­fer­ent na­tions while ad­ver­tis­ing is typ­i­cally set up in cam­paigns di­rected at an in­di­vid­ual coun­try or group of coun­tries. There are a lot of laws and cul­tural prac­tices to con­sider in your job field and the cre­ative in­dus­try is all about con­stantly chang­ing the game and stay­ing one step ahead of the con­sumer. We are on the first floor of busi­ness while in­ter­na­tional af­fairs af­fects the busi­ness world in much larger over­ar­ch­ing way.

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4. Field: Hu­man­i­ties
   Discipline/Major/Focus: Fic­tion and Re­al­ity

   Infor­ma­tion: sub­jec­tive ex­pe­ri­ences; ob­jec­tive ex­pe­ri­ences; com­mu­ni­ca­tion
   Insti­tu­tions: spans wide range of dis­ci­plines; ad­ver­tis­ing agen­cies; mar­ket­ing firms
   Figures/“Faces”: Aris­to­tle, Dem­ocri­tus, and other philoso­phers; quan­tum physi­cists; so­ci­ol­o­gists; psy­chol­o­gists
   Voices/Publications: “How to Tell A War Story”, “The So­cial Con­struc­tion of Re­al­ity”, Alan Watts, Mi­chio Kaku, Niels Bohr, and many other sci­en­tists and philoso­phers both in lec­tures and in book
   Im­ages / Avatars? (per­sonal asso­ci­a­tion or pop­u­lar circulation/imagination)

   http://​www​.world​-of​-lu​cid​-dream​ing​.com/​i​m​g​/​w​h​a​t​-​i​s​-​r​e​a​l​.​jpg

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   1. Other things you can also in­clude with in­for­ma­tion for your fo­cus of “fic­tion and re­al­ity” is base on facts and proven data from things such as the­o­ries or what sci­ence can usu­ally prove. 

      A sim­i­lar­ity that my ma­jor will have with your fo­cus and ma­jor is that both spec­trum uses com­mu­ni­ca­tion and in­for­ma­tion via experience/knowledge of each per­son to try and make sense of what is true un­der­stand­ing and mean­ing.

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   2. Be­ing an Eng­lish ma­jor, I am in the midst of tak­ing a lit­er­ary the­ory class in which we are re­quired to read “The So­cial Con­struc­tion of Re­al­ity”. As an as­pir­ing writer, this book has opened my eyes to the ar­bi­trary na­ture of lan­guage and our so­ci­etal norms and has laid out for me just how trapped we are by the so­cially con­structed re­al­ity we live in every day. My fo­cus in cre­ative writ­ing, so your fic­tion and re­al­ity ma­jor is in­trigu­ing to me.

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   3. The hu­man­i­ties are an es­sen­tial part of what makes a cul­ture, and also serves as a back­bone for folks in sci­en­tific fields like me to in­ter­act and work with one an­other. In ad­di­tion, many of the con­trib­u­tors to the hu­man­i­ties were ei­ther sci­en­tists them­selves or have done ex­ten­sive re­search into the sci­ences to en­rich their own con­tri­bu­tions.

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5. Field: Acad­e­mia
   Ma­jor: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion

   Insti­tu­tions: university/college, Col­lege of Me­dia, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and In­for­ma­tion — Pro­gram for learn­ing about in­for­ma­tion about com­mu­ni­ca­tion in all sorts of ways such as ad­ver­tise­ment, pub­lic speak­ing, busi­ness, etc., at Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado Boul­der

   Figures/“faces”- any­one, pub­lic speak­ers, busi­ness­men, any from of com­mu­ni­ca­tion
   voices —peo­ple, books, web­sites, pic­tures, etc. 

   on­line fo­rums: indi­vid­ual blogs/any type of me­dia such as Face­book, Twit­ter, In­sta­gram, Word­Press, Chi­nook, news, YouTube 

   “infor­ma­tion”: in­ter­pre­ta­tion and un­der­stand of how and what we com­mu­ni­cated; books(look into re­search and the­o­ries of learn­ing about per­spec­tive on Hu­man Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, im­por­tance of com­mu­ni­ca­tion to or­ga­ni­za­tions and how in­for­ma­tion can be understand/persumed)

   im­ages: Media(news, articles,videos,web post)

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   1. Al­though I am not ma­jor­ing in Comm, we are in the same school. Be­ing apart of the ad­ver­tis­ing course I must learn ways in which to reach my tar­geted au­di­ence ef­fec­tively, this in­cludes be­ing a mas­ter at com­mu­ni­ca­tion. The use of so­cial me­dia is ex­tremely im­por­tant in your field and how to cor­rectly and ef­fec­tively reach your tar­get au­di­ence.

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6. • I am a Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Ma­jor in the CMCI School here at Boul­der. My em­pha­sis within the ma­jor is ad­ver­tis­ing and brand de­vel­op­ment.
   • The Voice of ad­ver­tis­ing and mar­ket­ing is of­ten the cur­rent re­search and data an­a­lyt­ics that is com­piled for each prod­uct and/or ser­vice for which we are fo­cus­ing.
   • All pro­fes­sion­als in the in­dus­try com­pile port­fo­lios on­line which ends up look­ing like a per­sonal web­site with all of the projects and cam­paigns that you have been a part of.
   • The big names in the in­dus­try are com­pa­nies like Proc­tor and gam­ble who mar­ket a wide range of prod­ucts in dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories and also large ad­ver­tis­ing agency’s like Om­ni­com Group that works with clients from a wide range of cat­e­gories on the clients’ com­mu­ni­ca­tion with con­sumers.
   • There are a lot of TEDx videos and per­sonal books on their ex­pe­ri­ences while in the in­dus­try that ed­u­cate the new peo­ple to the in­dus­try, but by in large in the cre­ative in­dus­try, you carve your own path and de­velop your own style.

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   1. I’m highly in­ter­ested in the world of ad­ver­tise­ment. There are so many doc­u­men­taries and films that re­ally show me how much ad­ver­tis­ing is used in a day. Each individual’s ex­po­sure is merely fa­natic and al­though you may think you are avoid­ing any and all ad­ver­tise­ment, it is merely im­pos­si­ble. The as­pect of cre­ativ­ity baf­fles me as you must con­stantly think of new things to sell or to per­suade an in­di­vid­ual in a di­rec­tion.

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      1. In ad­di­tion, I feel like the world and ad­ver­tise­ment and the world of psy­chol­ogy col­lide as there are many as­pects of psy­chol­ogy that re­lated to how we view and in­ter­pret advertising–some of these as­pects in­clude bias and priming–in this I be­lieve that the two worlds in­ter­twine.

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   2. Some­thing we talk about in in­ter­na­tional af­fairs classes is how glob­al­iza­tion, such as the spread of multi­na­tional co­op­er­a­tions, or even the Eng­lish lan­guage af­fects how suc­cess­ful com­pa­nies will be when en­ter­ing for­eign mar­kets. And on a heav­ier note, how Amer­i­can com­pa­nies hurt for­eign mar­kets be­cause they put lo­cal busi­nesses out of busi­ness and force every­one to as­sim­i­late to west­ern ide­olo­gies.

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7. Field: Eng­lish
   Dis­ci­pline: Cre­ative Writ­ing

   In­for­ma­tion: Po­etry, fiction/nonfiction novels/novellas, edit­ing, mag­a­zine ar­ti­cles
   In­sti­tu­tions: Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences, pub­lish­ing com­pa­nies. Other than that, as a cre­ative writer you can pretty much work for your­self.
   Figures/faces: Writ­ers (Shake­speare, Hem­ing­way, James Joyce etc.), Pub­lish­ers (Pear­son, Reed El­se­vier, Thompson-Reuters etc.).
   Voices/Journals: Lit­er­ary jour­nals (Harper’s Jour­nal, The New Yorker, The At­lantic, etc.), fic­tion nov­els

   http://​car​ersup​port​.org​.au/​w​p​2​/​w​p​-​c​o​n​t​e​n​t​/​u​p​l​o​a​d​s​/​2​0​1​6​/​0​2​/​c​r​e​a​t​i​v​e​-​w​r​i​t​i​n​g​.​jpg

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8. Field: Health

   Discipline/Major/Focus: Psy­chol­ogy and Nurs­ing

   “Infor­ma­tion”: any­thing re­lat­ing to health–bedside man­ner, care for pa­tient, cur­rent epi­demics, DSMV, nu­tri­tion in­for­ma­tion, chem­istry, bi­ol­ogy, anatomy 

   Insti­tu­tions: CU Boul­der; Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences; Psy­chol­ogy, Pre-Nursing, Global Pub­lic Health Cer­tifi­cate; out of uni­ver­sity classes: clinic in­tern­ships, vol­un­teer work, do­nat­ing blood

   Fig­ures: rel­a­tives, doc­tors, nurses, any clin­i­cian, ther­a­pist, psy­chi­a­trist

   Voices: DSMV–basically an en­cy­clo­pe­dia on every psy­cho­log­i­cal dis­or­der, rang­ing from eat­ing dis­or­ders to bipo­lar

   https://​s​-me​dia​-cache​-ak0​.pin​img​.com/​2​3​6​x​/​6​7​/​0​8​/​c​4​/​6​7​0​8​c​4​f​2​3​c​a​9​3​3​1​4​5​f​e​f​6​0​f​f​1​3​e​8​c​0​e​4​.​jpg

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9. Field: Eco­nom­ics
   Discipline/major/focus: Eco­nomic growth

   In­for­ma­tion: GDP, Un­em­ploy­ment rates, gov­ern­ment poli­cies, do­mes­tic re­sources, level of tech­nol­ogy and us­ing this in­for­ma­tion to de­ter­mine why some coun­tries grow faster than oth­ers and why some don’t grow at all. 

   In­sti­tu­tions: CU Boul­der Col­lege of Arts and Sci­ences, U.S. Gov­ern­ment (CIA, cen­sus bu­reau, IRS ect.) Analy­sis Group(consulting firm) 

   Fig­ures: Econ­o­mists, con­sul­tants, data an­a­lysts, sur­vey­ors and math­e­mati­cians

   Voices: CIA world fact book (shows eco­nomic data for every coun­try in the world in­clud­ing GDP un­em­ploy­ment and spending/consumption)

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10. Field: Physics
    Dis­ci­pline:
    I’d rather be a the­o­rist than an ex­per­i­men­tal­ist, but we’ll have to wait and see.

    In­for­ma­tion:
    –The main goal of physics is to dis­cover how the uni­verse be­haves.
    –In physics, un­like most other sci­ences, there’s a lot of dis­agree­ment about “what counts.” We tend to agree about the meth­ods of dis­cov­ery, but what amount of un­cer­tainty in a mea­sure­ment is ac­cept­able is a big dis­pute.
    –Physics is used in every­thing in life. I wouldn’t be typ­ing right now if some physi­cists hadn’t dis­cov­ered laws that gov­ern the be­hav­ior of elec­tric­ity and mag­net­ism (and some quan­tum me­chan­ics in the tran­sis­tors).

    Fig­ures:
    –We’re all fa­mil­iar with Al­bert Ein­stein (a lit­tle over­rated), Stephen Hawk­ing (def­i­nitely over­rated, physics celebrity), and per­haps Isaac New­ton (God’s gift to mankind). 

    Voices/Publications:
    –In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal of The­o­ret­i­cal Physics
    –An­nalen der Physik
    –Foun­da­tions of Physics
    –Amer­i­can Phys­i­cal So­ci­ety
    –hy​per​physics​.com (good source for quick re­minders)

    Images/Avatar:
    –smartest man ever: https://​en​.wikipedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​I​s​a​a​c​_​N​e​w​ton

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11. Field: Jour­nal­ism
    Dis­ci­pline: Ad­ver­tis­ing
    In­for­ma­tion: Cre­at­ing, im­prov­ing com­pa­nies through the vi­su­als the mass pop­u­la­tion sees every­day. Work­ing with clients to cre­ate a “Brand Per­son­al­ity” that res­onates with the masses so that they may be more in­clined to buy a prod­uct.
    In­sti­tu­tions: CU Boul­der CMCI, Port­fo­lio Schools across the na­tion, ad schools as well.
    Fig­ures: Cre­ative Strate­gists, Ac­count Plan­ners, Copy­writ­ers, Con­tent Strate­gist, Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cers.
    Voices: Much of the work that is con­sid­ered to be suc­cess­ful is dis­played on web­sites such as Mash­able, AD Age and many oth­ers.

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12. Field: Acad­e­mia

    Dis­ci­pline/Major/Focus: com­mu­ni­ca­tions

    “Infor­ma­tion” (how de­fined, what counts, how used?): Us­ing tone, body lan­guage as in­di­ca­tors for the true mean­ing of a com­mu­nica­tive state­ment. Re­search into how peo­ple com­mu­ni­cate in cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, from in­ter­per­sonal re­la­tion­ships such as friend­ships and re­la­tion­ships, to busi­ness set­tings and how to present ones self and the com­pany.

    Insti­tu­tions (gen­eral & spe­cific): Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado Boul­der, Many uni­ver­si­ties alike, The Na­tional Com­mu­ni­ca­tion As­so­ci­a­tion.

    Figures/“Faces” (peo­ple past & present): We all com­mu­ni­cate and are in­volved with this area of acad­e­mia. We all even sub­con­sciously make ges­tures that be­tray our thoughts same with mi­cro ex­pres­sions and your voice.

    Voices/Publications (books/journals, web­sites, offi­cial / infor­mal): Jour­nal of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Chi­nook. In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Jour­nal of Me­dia and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

    Im­ages / Avatars?:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=communication&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1304&bih=728&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy0ePFhu7KAhVQxGMKHQxBD2UQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=padS7u3lx5PcPM%3A

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