Saturday, February 27, 2010
Journal Entry Due March 1
For this journal entry I watched the a Season 2 Episode 10 named "Socializing Sucks." It was about a member of a gaming group named Codex, who had a crush on a boy at a party and was nervous to go up and talk to him since he walked in with some tall girl. Codex's body language changes a lot throughout the episonde depending on who she is talking to. At first she is speaking with her friends and she leans in closer and there is less space between them, she speaks casually and uses normal words. Then she bumps into the tall girl her "man" walked in with and her body language and tone become more standoffish and almost agressive at the end, although she does learn that the girl is just a roomate and "f buddy". Finally at the end of the episode, the girl's friends convince her to go talk to they guy with them as her "wing-women," which she agrees to. As the girls all approach him she stands as far as she possibly can from the guy with her friends a good 3 feet in front of her. She is quiet and because of that her friends do all the talking and end up embarrasing her. Then, as she tries to defend herself, her hand motions get frantic and she is having a hard time speaking. Finally she just kinda freaks out and says "I hate people!" and RUNS away. Not difficult to decode THAT body language. I think her behavior is a good example of watching body cues to determine a persons state of mind or comfort level with their enviornment. Clearly we see three different situations and three different types of body control.
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Nice... sounds like you found an easy episode. Some of us had a harder time with our episodes. Body language is easily the most common type of nonverbal communication. I'm wondering, is Codex someone who spends a lot of time socializing online? If so, one can appreciate the irony of being social when eye contact and body language doesn't matter. I may watch this one later to see her reactions to everything at that party.
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It sounds like you found a funnier episode than I did. It also sounds like you had a completely easier time decoding your non verbal communication. I on the other hand had a much harder time picking up my non verbal ques. I agree that body language is the easiest to pick up. I was also able to pick up body language in my episode. I found it interesting that I had such a hard time decoding these. I would have thought I would have had an easy time with this assignment.
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