Communication and Personal Identity
For this week’s discussion, please share your thoughts on how social media affects your self-esteem or personal identity. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Do you look to social media to build your self-esteem? What aspects of social media make you feel better about yourself? What aspects make you feel worse?
Do you think that social media has had an effect on your personal identity or has changed how you see yourself?
How do you decide what to share on social media? Do you curate your content to control how you portray yourself to others? Why or why not?
Do you feel challenged to measure up to others? How so?
Personal Identity
Use your Communication in Our Lives text to read the following:
Chapter 3, “Communication and Personal Identity,” pages 46–66.
The following media will help you begin the process of looking at your personal identity and self-concept.
Kuder Task Self-Efficacy Scale: Rating yourself on your confidence to complete difference tasks gives you an idea of how you perceive yourself and where you see your strengths and weaknesses.
Introduction to Cultural Identity: This presentation identifies the various social and cultural forces that shape your identity. As you watch the presentation, think about the different cultural groups that you’re part of and how that has influenced your personal identity.
Active Listening
Jacobs, E. (2020, January 31). You’re not listening — Has technology robbed us of empathy? FT.Com.
Learn about how technology has affected the art of active listening.
Hingst, J. (2018). Learning active listening skills. Sign Builder Illustrated, 32(280), 18–23.
This article provides strategies to develop good listening skills personally and professionally.
Hoppe, M. H. (2006). The active listening skill set. In Active listening: Improve your ability to listen & lead (pp. 12–18). Center for Creative Leadership.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to improve your ability to actively listen as a leader.
Hoppe, M. H. (2006). Barriers to active listening. In Active listening: Improve your ability to listen & lead (pp. 18–21). Center for Creative Leadership.
In this chapter, you’ll learn about the challenges to active listening and how to improve them as a leader.
Hoppe, M. H. (2006). How to improve your listening skills. In Active listening: Improve your ability to listen & lead (pp. 21–27). Center for Creative Leadership.
In this chapter, you’ll learn ways to improve your active listening skills.
Wheeler, K. (2021). What is active listening? [Video]. SAGE Research Methods.
In this video, the speaker discusses the many nuances of active listening skills.
