Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Care Communication
I would say my topic falls under the care communication category. Care communication deals with risk managers educating the audience about the risk so that they have the information needed to make a decision (Lundgren & McMakin 7). This category fits the approach I am trying to communicate to my audience about rape, so that they have the needed information and can make a decision on how they would deal with the problem.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Decision Being Made
My topic was about Rape and how much of a problem it is here in the United States. The statistics of this problem are fairly startling and moving enough to invite to want to help if we know someone who has been raped to know what to do next.
Rape is a type of assult where one person forces another person to have sexual intercourse against that person’s will. Rape has been a problem since about the 12th century. The most common type of rape is when a man forces a woman to have sexual intercourse against her will, but there are cases when a woman does the same to a man. There is also same sex rape, statutory rape, date rape, gang rape, marital rape, prison rape, acquaintance rape, and wartime rape. No matter what type it is raping someone is still wrong.
According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network every two and half minutes someone is sexually assualted in America and about 44% of rapes are under the age of 18 and 80% are under the age of 30. The problem of rape occurs because it is an aggressive desire to dominate the victim rather than an attempt to achieve sexual fulfillment. Sexual fulfillment or the lack there of is where the line is drawn for rape victims. For the victims, since there is no fulfillment for them, the act of rape becomes a violent crime.
The effects of rape leave the victim with many feelings such as uncertainty, shamefulness and anger, anxiety, and many other psychological thoughts and feelings. These effects can be long term if untreated or can be short term. Also these effects can vary depending on the circumstances and the individual. For the most part many of the people who are raped feel something, and it is one thing not to ignore.
The people who are affected by rape are the victim, the person who raped victim, the friends and family of the victim, doctors if applicable and police and researchers if applicable. Since there is such a broad spectrum of who can be raped and who rapes, it is hard to determine a number of who all is and will be affected by the crime.
Some solutions to the problem of rape; the victim reporting the crime to the police, talking to someone with an unbiased opinion such as calling the national sexual assault hotline 1800-656-HOPE, learning self defense methods to use on attackers or seeking a community center geared towards their needs such as Community Violence Solutions and Rape Crisis Center.
These solutions could work to help resolve the problem of rape. Simply because it puts the victim in control of the situation and they are now able to take some sort of action against their attacker. If we can get the victim to realize that being raped was not their fault that it is their attacker’s fault, the conflict with rape could pretty much be solved.
Rape is a type of assult where one person forces another person to have sexual intercourse against that person’s will. Rape has been a problem since about the 12th century. The most common type of rape is when a man forces a woman to have sexual intercourse against her will, but there are cases when a woman does the same to a man. There is also same sex rape, statutory rape, date rape, gang rape, marital rape, prison rape, acquaintance rape, and wartime rape. No matter what type it is raping someone is still wrong.
According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network every two and half minutes someone is sexually assualted in America and about 44% of rapes are under the age of 18 and 80% are under the age of 30. The problem of rape occurs because it is an aggressive desire to dominate the victim rather than an attempt to achieve sexual fulfillment. Sexual fulfillment or the lack there of is where the line is drawn for rape victims. For the victims, since there is no fulfillment for them, the act of rape becomes a violent crime.
The effects of rape leave the victim with many feelings such as uncertainty, shamefulness and anger, anxiety, and many other psychological thoughts and feelings. These effects can be long term if untreated or can be short term. Also these effects can vary depending on the circumstances and the individual. For the most part many of the people who are raped feel something, and it is one thing not to ignore.
The people who are affected by rape are the victim, the person who raped victim, the friends and family of the victim, doctors if applicable and police and researchers if applicable. Since there is such a broad spectrum of who can be raped and who rapes, it is hard to determine a number of who all is and will be affected by the crime.
Some solutions to the problem of rape; the victim reporting the crime to the police, talking to someone with an unbiased opinion such as calling the national sexual assault hotline 1800-656-HOPE, learning self defense methods to use on attackers or seeking a community center geared towards their needs such as Community Violence Solutions and Rape Crisis Center.
These solutions could work to help resolve the problem of rape. Simply because it puts the victim in control of the situation and they are now able to take some sort of action against their attacker. If we can get the victim to realize that being raped was not their fault that it is their attacker’s fault, the conflict with rape could pretty much be solved.
My Previous Ideas
When thinking about risk communication a lot of things came to my mind. At first I assumed I already knew what the term meant. After attending the first class and reading the book I noticed how in depth risk communication can be. There are three main parts, and they are care communication, consensus communication and crisis communication. With those three branches in mind, now it is easier to understand what risk communication is and where it stems from.
I am a junior CGS student majoring in media communications and with this class I can see that there are so many ways to share one idea. Risk communication goes a lot deeper than “duck and cover”, “run for cover”, “be careful” and “watch out” just to name a few. In learning the different branches of risk communication I now know what would be the most interesting for me to explore this semester.
The most interesting issue for me is the War in Iraq. This topic hits very close to home for me because of my ties with the United States Air Force. I watched people very close to me feel the cause and want to help, so they joined the military. I personally do not agree with the topic but I support our troops immensely. My ex-fiancée went to the Air Force with good intentions and watching step for step what he went through and following the politics and news stories that surround it, it is hard not to have an opinion on what is going on. Being lied to by our president (is how I feel) about the intentions for the war and then the conflict of the Iraqis and Americans, it seems to not make any sense. Since people are losing their lives for what seems to be the truth and duty is so disgraceful to our military.
Another topic that interests me is Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on America (see http://hurricanekatrinarelief.com . What is so disturbing about it is that there are still so many things that have not been resolved and it has been 2 years. When I went to CCAC I remember I sat next to a girl in my English class. It was the first day of class and the professor wanted to get to know everyone, so we all to introduce ourselves. It was this girl’s turn; she started to tell where she was from and her story for being in Pittsburgh. She started crying and told us that all she wanted to do was to be successful and to have a college degree. She went on to tell us that this was her 3rd attempt at finishing college because the 1st time she was not ready and dropped out, the 2nd she was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the college she went to was destroyed and there was no more records of the students and she had to start over, and finally with it being her 3rd attempt she ended up transferring to Pittsburgh until she found the rest of her family. With that in my mind I want to research and review what happened and how it could have been prevented.
These topics affect us today and there are so powerful it is hard not to notice them. I want to do my part and learn how these things can be avoided and how I could affectively communicate my ideas and concerns as far as risk communication (more so the crisis communication branch of risk communication).
I am a junior CGS student majoring in media communications and with this class I can see that there are so many ways to share one idea. Risk communication goes a lot deeper than “duck and cover”, “run for cover”, “be careful” and “watch out” just to name a few. In learning the different branches of risk communication I now know what would be the most interesting for me to explore this semester.
The most interesting issue for me is the War in Iraq. This topic hits very close to home for me because of my ties with the United States Air Force. I watched people very close to me feel the cause and want to help, so they joined the military. I personally do not agree with the topic but I support our troops immensely. My ex-fiancée went to the Air Force with good intentions and watching step for step what he went through and following the politics and news stories that surround it, it is hard not to have an opinion on what is going on. Being lied to by our president (is how I feel) about the intentions for the war and then the conflict of the Iraqis and Americans, it seems to not make any sense. Since people are losing their lives for what seems to be the truth and duty is so disgraceful to our military.
Another topic that interests me is Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on America (see http://hurricanekatrinarelief.com . What is so disturbing about it is that there are still so many things that have not been resolved and it has been 2 years. When I went to CCAC I remember I sat next to a girl in my English class. It was the first day of class and the professor wanted to get to know everyone, so we all to introduce ourselves. It was this girl’s turn; she started to tell where she was from and her story for being in Pittsburgh. She started crying and told us that all she wanted to do was to be successful and to have a college degree. She went on to tell us that this was her 3rd attempt at finishing college because the 1st time she was not ready and dropped out, the 2nd she was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the college she went to was destroyed and there was no more records of the students and she had to start over, and finally with it being her 3rd attempt she ended up transferring to Pittsburgh until she found the rest of her family. With that in my mind I want to research and review what happened and how it could have been prevented.
These topics affect us today and there are so powerful it is hard not to notice them. I want to do my part and learn how these things can be avoided and how I could affectively communicate my ideas and concerns as far as risk communication (more so the crisis communication branch of risk communication).
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