Conflict Experience

 

In my workplace, the floors are arranged in a honeycomb of interlocking cubicles where employees share walls, and can hear everyone else’s conversations and exclamations.  In my great unfortune, of the thousands of employees in the company, I am seated at a cubicle sharing a wall with an incessant talker.  Not just any talker, but a talker that only talks about himself.  Usually, I just sit in my cubicle, happily working away.  However, on one particular day, my overly verbal coworker would not stop talking about his love of exercise, diminishing body fat percentage, and all around physical fitness for solid hours, to anyone who would listen.  I sat quietly trying to tune out his unhelpful diatribes for a few hours with the help of my iPod, before I told him angrily to “shut up!” over the wall of our cubicle.  He quickly replied, “turn on you headphones!”  I, just as angrily answered, “they’re on!”  He replied, “ well, turn them up!!”.  At that point I just said forget it, and took my 15-minute break in the hopes that it would all be over by the time I got back to my desk. 

Personal Values

How do your values compare to the dominant United States cultural patterns?

After completing the values checklist, it is apparent that my values align with dominant United States cultural patterns with a few exceptions.  According to the course text, it is widely accepted in the United States that “change is basically good” (Jandt, 2013, p. 211).  I disagree with this value as I dislike change once I have become accustomed to a certain process or product.  Additionally, the belief in a personal God value is a point where I differ from the dominant pattern.  The United states “is the most religious of the world’s industrialized states”, and while I feel that I am religious, I do not believe God is as accessible as a friend (Jandt, 2013, p. 222).  Lastly, I disagree with value number three on the checklist as well as the correlating U.S. cultural pattern.  Though I believe humans are more powerful than earths plants and animals, I do not necessarily “place a higher value on human life” than other life forms (Jandt, 2013, p. 222).  

Creating My Blog

Blogging can be an effective tool by which one may share thoughts, ideas and opinions in the context of the Internet.  

In order to create and maintain a successful blog, the essential criteria of purpose, design, content and audience must be clearly identified and considered.  A blogs purpose should do one of four things:  

inform, inspire, invoke or incite (Reyes, 2014). 

The purpose of Quiet is the New Loud will be to inform its audience regarding communication related topics, as well as additional posts pertaining to music related content. 

Hello.

Quiet is the New Loud pays homage to iconic radio shows like FM 94/9’s Big Sonic Chill and Indie 103.1's Big Sonic Heaven, and draws its name from Norwegian folk-pop duo Kings of Convenience’s first album.  Quiet is the New Loud is a radio program that doesn’t seek to reinvent chill-out radio, but further explores the ambient, chill-out, dream-pop, down-tempo, dark wave, bliss-pop, Britpop and Shoegaze genres. 

On Quiet is the New Loud, expect to hear artists like: M83, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, Air, My Bloody Valentine, Röyksopp, Radiohead, Bat for Lashes, Fever Ray, Mew, Azure Ray, Metronomy, Mogwai, Tycho, The Album Leaf, Starflyer 59 and Kings of Convenience.