Skip to main content

My comment is...

By

Message Design Logic Analysis on

Millennials and their placards

by EBALE & SERAPION


The post titled “Millennials and their placards” was written by the Philippine Star on September 21 at 8:21 pm. This was about how the so called “millennials” showed how they feel about the current administration of President Rodrigo Duterte through creatively written placards during the anti-Duterte protest in Luneta Park, Manila on Thursday in light of the 45th martial law anniversary. A lot of reactions and comments were posted. Most of the comments were coming from the supporters of the government or also known as Dutertards.  Some reactions were coming from the Marcos apologists and the so called Yellowtards who are Liberal party supporters. And last were the intellectuals who come from different universities and sectoral groups.




“Message Design Logic in a nutshell is a concept made by Barbara O'Keefe that has three logics: expressive, conventional and rhetorical. MDL is used in a situation where individuals communicate differently to each other.”


Using the Message Design Logic analysis, we found out that the comments of these people were mostly expressive logic. This only says that these people who used expressive logic just wanted to say what they want to say and what they feel. They didn’t even contextualize what they said and their statements had no context and no connection to the topic at all. There were comments saying that the Philippine Star is a biased newspaper. There were also comments that just cursed these so called millennials. There were also comments that stated that these people were not really thinking and were paid by a group. In other words, they called them “Mga Bayaran”.

Some statements were conventional logic. These people had pre-existing stands on the issue and they knew what they were talking about. However, they didn’t have an intention to change what is currently happening. The comments were pointing out the positive and negative sides of Martial Law. These people were saying that Philippine Star should display and inform the public on both sides of the story of Martial Law under the Marcos Regime. There were also comments that said that these millennials didn’t even care about what is currently happening to the people of Marawi who are actually under at Martial Law now.

And last were the intellectuals who had a really good grasp in the art of persuasion. Their comments used rhetorical logic. They had good points about the issue that leaned towards a challenge for people to be educated and enlightened. The wanted to change things. There were also student activists who commented about how these millennials made an effort to show the Filipino people that it’s time to move and join in the social action that will help the country stop all the issues concerning human rights injustices.

Through the MDL analysis, we were able to identify what kind of comments people are posting. People have different opinions but having an opinion that leads to positive change creates a big difference. In the critical theory of  Jurgen Habermas, we must understand that we, as communication students, have a role and that is to be critical in using information and at the same time, we forward this information to people to educate them. We make people aware of issues for them to participate in the political sphere (Habermas 1971). The comments of people might seem insufficient and lacking in information but it is a challenge for us to enlighten them. When these people know how to speak their minds and present their opinions properly on particular issues, it is up to them to decide on what concrete action should be done in order to enact social change.

This is the screenshot of the comment we posted:



These are the screenshots of the comments on the post:


























TALLY OF IDENTIFYING THE COMMENT WHETHER IT IS EXPRESSIVE, CONVENTIONAL OR RHETORICAL LOGIC:

EXPRESSIVE  – 32
CONVENTIONAL – 6
RHETORICAL - 2

REFERENCES

Habemas, Jurgen. Knowledge and Human Interests. Boston: Beacon, 1971.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Peanuts for your Thoughts

By
Peanuts For Your Thoughts EBALE, LANCE UP students like us have our campus literally located just a few steps away from SM City Baguio. Thus, chances are, we've already passed T.M. Kalaw Street a hundred times. The narrow sidewalk on this street serves as the main avenue for mall-goers from the east side of the mall. This path is usually quiet and clean, with the sound and smoke of passing vehicles as the only things to regard. That's until we reach the near end of the sidewalk, just before going uphill towards the mall where an elderly woman sells her peanuts from a sack. Anyone heading to SM City Baguio through this route would most likely expect this vendor. It is as if she's already a part of that road, and as unremarkable as parts can be, some people tend to ignore her. She’s just sitting there, eagerly waiting for mall-goers to buy her peanuts. Sometimes, while walking along the way and seeing her, we couldn't help but wonder why, at her age, she
Post a Comment
Read more

NARRATIVE PARADIGM

By
Narrative Paradigm by EBALE & SERAPION The Narrative Paradigm Theory talks about how human beings are story-telling animals. We favor stories over hard facts and evidences. Humans reason based on science, history and personal values. In this theory, there are two individuals involved. The first would be the story-teller or the narrator and the second would be the listener or the audience. The narrator tells a story to the audience and the audience listens to the story. The objective of the narrator is to present his/her story in a way that the audience can easily understand. On the other hand, the objective of the audience is to verify whether or not the story is legitimate and genuine. Q1. What are the main principles/points of Narrative Paradigm? The main principles are coherence and fidelity. When you talk about coherence in the Narrative Paradigm Theory, this talks about how easily understandable the story is. The story should be easily understandable and
Post a Comment
Read more

A Movie Review on “Where the Wild Things Are” Using the lens of Critical Theory

By
A Movie Review on “Where the Wild Things Are” Using the lens of Critical Theory EBALE, PAOLO LANCE NICOLO SERAPION, JAY-EM Things from him and them “Learning from the people we meet helps us become better people” is one of the lessons we can ponder on in the movie directed by Spike Jonze in 2009 entitled, “Where the Wild Things Are.” The movie is about a lonely young boy named “Max” who escaped from his family. Max ran away from home because he got in a heated argument with his mother. In his journey away from home, he unexpectedly found himself on an island after a huge storm at sea and in this island, Max met these so called “Wild Things.” He introduced new ideas to these creatures that were human-like, giant animals that have weird features. These wild things completely accepted the new ideas of Max because they believed that he was their king. They believed that he is the king that will lead them to have a greater life. Big houses were built, new activities
Post a Comment
Read more