How are you immersed in a sea of persuasion? Give some examples of persuasive messages you’ve received in interpersonal, public speaking, and mass media contexts. What can you do to become a more critical consumer of persuasive messages?
Persuasive messages are all around me in my daily life. Recently, I was persuaded by Presidnet Barack Obama to vote for him in the election. His whole campaign was set up to persuade the masses on different topics to vote for him in hopes that he will make changes. There are certain things that he will support over the next for years that run paralell with what I see fit for him to do. Everywhere there are ads trying to persuade us to buy products or other add or marketing to persuade us to vote for propositions or governmental officials. Chances are every decision we make should give some credit to persuasive messages from friends, family, media, or other pyublic speaking events. Interpersonal persuasive messages are received in my everday life. My friends try to persuade me to play sports with them or grab food with them at a certian restaurant. there are other messages that are verbal but take a different tone to persuade me to do something with out actually asking me to. In my chapter meetings I also hear persuasive messages when people stand up and try to get the chapter to support thier ideas and programs they want to start. I can become a better critical consumer of persuasive messages by learning what the messages purpose is and what they are tyring to persuade or convince me to do. People can also become more critical consumers by analyzing the messages that media, peers, and public perform.