Here is the link regarding my blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OOjHrGP754
In the video you see the lady and gentleman discussing how
texting someone can be misunderstood and it shows how women can over analyze a
text message. This is common in everyday life, not only text messaging but text
in general. In chapter 3 Rhetorical Methods talks about how text encourage
people to understand certain meanings and how some text may be hard to depict
the meaning of. For example in the video you see the lady reading text messages
from fans of the show, one stated how a guy had sent her “OK.”, after reading
it she replied back with a nasty message to him thinking that he didn’t want to
talk to her. However it turns out that it wasn’t anything of the sort he just
simply said ok and didn’t mean anything by it other than that. This is an example
of what’s discussed in chapter 3 under critical attitude and method section;
the author describes how messages can be hard for one to understand and he also
about the complexity of texts.
Not only in
the video did they discussed discrepancies in text messages but they showed how
even emails can be confusing, the girl on the video described how one day her
boss had emailed her something about her job and in the email he sounded very
upset but when she actually talked to him he wasn’t as upset as the email had
made him seem. In conclusion we are only human and misunderstanding the tone of
a text message or email is just apart of our everyday life.
Brumett, Barry (2011), Rhetoric Popular Culture- Third editi
