impersonal communications

Examples of impersonal communications in the following topics:

• Saloon Culture

  • Music halls also offered male and female impersonators, Lions Comiques, mime artists and impressionists, trampoline acts and comic pianists such as John Orlando Parry and George Grossmith.
  • Male and female impersonators also performed, most notably Vesta Tilley, whose male impersonations communicated biting social commentary.
  • Such impersonations paved the way for "stand up," spoken acts in which a wisecracking performer would be prompted and interrupted by a "straight" partner.

• Mass marketing, direct marketing, and Internet marketing

  • Mass marketing is characterized as having wide separation and indirect communication.
  • Communication is impersonal, as evidenced by its national television and print advertising campaigns, couponing, and point-of-purchase displays.
  • Direct marketing establishes a somewhat personal relationship with the customer by first allowing the customer to purchase the product directly from the manufacturer and then communicating with the customer on a first-name basis.

• Computer Mediated Social Communication

  • Does communication via a network impact how people interact with each other?
  • Computer mediated communication for social purposes has developed along with the growth of technologies.
  • Some of those visual cues encourage communication, others inhibit it.
  • In contrast to what would be expected from social presence theories (e.g., communication on the computer is impersonal and cold), friendly and relaxed communication styles have been associated with increased use of CMC (Rice, Chang, & Torobin, 1992).
  • Another issue in computer mediated social communication involves computer communication within the home.

• Organized Crime

  • Focusing more on how the operations works, succeeds, sustains itself or avoids retribution, they are generally typified by: a complex authority structure; an extensive division of labor between classes and the organization; responsibilities carried out in an impersonal manner; and top-down communication and rule enforcement mechanisms.

• Impersonal Verbs

• Flat versus tall organizations

  • Organizations that follow this type of structure have wider spans of supervisory control and have more horizontal communication.
  • As a result, all levels have the potential of working more closely together which enhances a closer working environment with better communication and creativity.
  • When numerous levels become involved in daily operations, decision-making tends to be more impersonal.
  • Departments can become more compartmentalized, which increases the communication within them, but does not lend itself to communication with other departments.

• Resocialization and Total Institutions

  • A total institution is a place where a group of people is cut off from the wider community and their needs are under bureaucratic control.
  • A total institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, lead an enclosed, formally administered life together.
  • These needs are handled in an impersonal and bureaucratic manner.
  • Institutions established to care for people that are incapable of looking after themselves and are also a threat to the community, including leprosarium, mental hospitals, and tuberculosis sanitariums
  • Institutions organized to protect the community against perceived intentional dangers, with the welfare of the sequestered people not the immediate issue, including concentration camps, prisoner of war camps, penitentiaries and jails

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • "Gemeinschaft" (community) and "Gesellschaft" (society) are concepts referring to two different forms of social organization.
  • Gemeinschaft, frequently translated as "community," refers to individuals bound together by common norms, often because of shared physical space and shared beliefs.
  • Characteristics of these groups include highly calculated divisions of labor, impersonal secondary relationships, and strong social institutions.
  • Amish and Hassidic communities are examples of Gemeinschaft, while state municipalities are types of Gesellschaft.

• Layers in an Organization: Tall vs Flat Organizations

  • Given the numerous levels of the organization involved in daily operations, decision making tends to take longer and be more impersonal. "" Given this type of structure has more levels, the division of labor also tends to become much more specialized.
  • The risk in tall structures is that departments can become more compartmentalized which may increase intra-departmental communication at the expense of an inter-departmental flow of information.
  • Organizations that follow this type of structure have wider spans of supervisory control and have more horizontal communication.
  • Internally, the organization as a whole encourages more participation between all levels within the organization, promoting closer working relationships that potentially lead to better communication and creativity.

• Variations in Objectivity

  • By relying solely on hard data and research, your audience may find your speech impersonal and not connect to your material on a personal level.