Knowing Your Audience and Communication Release BCOM/275 Knowing Your Audience and Communication Release On August 5, 2010, the world focused on a small copper mine named San Jose Mine In northern Chile, when it was discovered that a mining shift had collapsed and thirty three miner’s were trapped 310 meters (1017 feet) below the ground. This tragedy captured audiences of every source of mainstream media around the world. The media reported updates on the conditions of the trapped miners
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Tragedy In Chilean Mine Daniel H Cox BCOM/275 11/26/2012 Rhonda Waters Knowing Your Audience To know your audience is what every company and personal communication is about, without an idea of your potential audience, your communication will not be received properly. Depending on your audience you will want to use on of the three elements of persuasion; logos- the logical approach, pathos – the emotional approach , and ethos- the you approach- showing
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is very important that the company knows their audience. If the information is regarding a disaster, it is even more important to make sure the company knows their audience. One example of a company needing to know their audience was the Chilean copper mine in South America. In such a disastrous circumstance, the company would need to take great care in how the world found out about the disaster. If not done properly then the companies audience, the world, would view the company is a much worse light
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Chilean Mine Collapse Trapped in a mine for months is unimaginable. People wondering are their survivors and how the family will take the news. Many people are asking questions and so many people are waiting on responses. Communication takes center stage in this instance. Communicating such a tragedy to the families, certain steps need to be put in place. Consideration is to be taking when delivering a message to different audiences. The families of the Chilean Miners and the company’s employees
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Knowing Your Audience The sender must be aware of their audience while communicating and they intend to say in the message. The collapse in 2010 of a Chilean copper mine is an example of this requirement. “San José, a small copper operation in northern Chile owned by Minera San Esteban Primera, suffered a cave-in on August 5, leaving 33 workers trapped underground” (Weik, 2010). With this paper I intend to list possible pitfalls the company should evaluate before delivering a message to the
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Demonstrative Communication Brian Poole BCOM/275 03/17/2014 Demonstrative Communication The following paper has been designed to effectively explain the pros and cons of effective Demonstrative Communication. According to Answers.com (2014) the definition of Demonstrative Communication is “nonverbal and unwritten communication and involves such things as facial expressions, tone of voice, body language.” “Research estimates that
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information should be shared. You would not want to share information that has not been confirmed. The families of the miners will need reassurance. They need a caring individual as well as someone who is determined to help those who are stuck in the mine. The miners’ families are going to need reassurance that everything thing will work out but they also need reliable information. Many will end up relying on news stations for information if they are not kept in contact with someone at the scene, this
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people, and the audience should be considered to guarantee the successfully code and decode of the message. An inadequate misunderstanding of your audience can lead to a poor delivery of information. During the unfortunate event at the Chilean Copper Mine Collapse the most important consideration to anyone in the audience was to hear the wellbeing of the miners. The families of the miners and the employees of the company must receive the message differently, according to their needs and persuasion of
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Knowing Your Audience BCOM/275 Memorandum To: San Jose Mine Employees From: President Date: August 5, 2010 Subject: San Jose Mine Collapse I am writing to San Jose mine employees to notify every one of the cave in of the mine in which 33 of our fellow colleagues are currently trapped in. Although is too early to tell if the miners are safe, we are in the process of working with the government to assemble a rescue operation. We will be relentless in our efforts to exhaust every channel
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02/03/2014 By: Michael Hobler On august 5, of 2010 there was a cave-in in a small copper miner in Chile were thirty-three miners have trapped underground. These miners are trapped three hundred meters underground they have an inadequate amount of water, food, and oxygen. There still was no sign that any worker was still alive on the 4th day since the cave-in since there was no one that had made it out of the mine alive. Luckily all the miners were located and rescued with no lives lost. In a situation
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