Week 7 Post

    This week was all about the eyes. We talked about how nonverbal signs can be seen in the way one looks at their surroundings or the people in it. I am sure that we have all had that moment where something strange happens in public and we make eye contact with a friend in a way that tells them to look at the strange thing. After they look they return the eye contact in a way that says they saw it and also found it strange. 

   I have something like this happen recently with my boyfriend. We were walking to class from the dorms and to do that we needed to cross the street. This street has a cross walk and there are often cars stopped there while students cross. When we were crossing the street my boyfriend keep giving me weird looks. I could tell he wanted me to look at something surprising, but I couldn't figure out where it was. It wasn't until he starred straight at it that I saw. The two people in the stopped car at the crosswalk were making out pretty heavily. I looked back at him with an expression that told him that I saw it and we laughed at it. Below I added a dramatic recreation how it went down and what we saw.

 

Week 6 Post

    This week in class we looked at haptics, which are the types of touch that convey nonverbal messages. The types include ritualistic touch, positive touch, control touch, playful touch, task-related touch, and hybrid touch. In this post I wanted to look at the music video for the song "Sanctuary" by Joji. Note: you might want to watch the video to understand the events I am going to talk about. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWN81V7ojOE

    Right when the video starts we see our main character fighting with someone. This is task related touch because he is using touch in order to subdue his enemy. The next time there is an example of nonverbal touch is when the main characters best friend flicks a worker on the ear/back of head (its hard to tell which one exactly) to wake them up. This could be read a couple different ways, but I would call it control touch as the touch was done to control what the person who was flicked was doing. After that was see an example of ritualistic touch when the main characters grieve the deaths of the aliens they were dancing with. They closes the eyes of one of the dead aliens. Next, there was a good example of playful touch when the crew of the spaceship is celebrating and they are hugging in a group and singing together.

    I think this music video did a fantastic job at telling its story through nonverbals and showed a large array of haptic touch.