Question #1

The Social Constructionist is an interesting perspective. The book defines it as “communication is not something that goes on between individuals, but is something that surrounds us and holds the world together”. I do believe this to be true. Most of the news that we get is from mass media such as newspapers, the internet, and television. We as people don’t for the most part see news happening, but sometimes we do. For the most part we depend on mass media to inform us as a society. How we as a society “build worlds” is we relay info through the mass media. We build worlds by communication. In the book it says that what we learn about other people’s culture is not first hand, but we learn by communicating with others. Some of the things that we have in our culture that some other cultures do not have could include freedom of speech. Some other cultures do not have this. It is kind of bitter sweet. Some speech we might agree with, but some other forms of speech are dangerous. But as a whole I think freedom of speech is great thing to have. You may not agree with what I am saying, but you have the right to challenge my beliefs, and that is the most important part of all.