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Ruiying Lian is 16% done with Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication
I'm not sure......... I just can not understand the point of discussing which is superior, dialogue or dissemiation. This has deviated from pragmatic reality. For in life, we resort to both ways of communication, not solely one of them.
But I reckon, it is plausible that the author trys to convince the reader that the communication patho -- the impossibility of mutuality -- is not something to be lament about.
May 04, 2019 12:09AM Add a comment
Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication

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Ruiying Lian is on page 32 of 432 of No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
While I was reading this book, I retell the author's theory about why the millennials started to call their parents by name, and my mom's reactions was:'' hum?mmmm.''
Dec 18, 2018 07:49AM Add a comment
No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

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Ruiying Lian is on page 32 of 432 of No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
The previous researches on media mostly focus on the content delivered by media, i.e. how different media was used as a political, economic end, but largely ignore the one important possibility about how media changed people's lives -- electronic media created ''new social environments with new patterns of social action, feeling, and belief.''
Dec 18, 2018 07:47AM Add a comment
No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

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Ruiying Lian is 42% done with Is It Just Me?
This book awkwards me.
I like the monologue part. With a little bit of a mocking and sacarstic tone, Miranda really hits funny things in everyday life on the neil. But some scenes and dialogues, such as her conversation with the waitress, her visiting the doctor, etc., are so unnatural, a bit trying to hard. I wouldn't believe someone would actually said to a doctor ''spank me''. Even if there is people like this, I
Jan 02, 2018 10:16PM Add a comment
Is It Just Me?

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Ruiying Lian is on page 44 of 321 of On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Love it! It brings a new perspective of writing. All the problems, clutter, imaging a big audience, etc. I all have, and I strike me that I've been doing it wrong, no wonder why I don't like writing anymore ever after entering high school---- I've been pretending to be an authority while writing, which I'm obviously not.
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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