As the final class for my communication master’s degree I will have to do a master’s thesis or master’s project.
Some people in my current classes are already talking about different ideas, and the professor is encouraging people to focus early. I haven’t found anything specific I want to focus on.
Then yesterday I had a thought, that linked to some other thoughts from the past year or so. I have the germ of a quasi theory that might be worthwhile. Or it might not.
It all comes from the phrase “selective hearing.” You know, the stereo-typical husband has selective hearing where his wife is concerned.
Spinning off that, for the past year or so I have described myself as having “selective vision,” an inability to see things that are right there in front of me.
Yesterday someone complimented me on having a great memory, and I realized that was true, and it wasn’t. I have “selective memory.” As I told the person, I have very good memory about the things I decided I need to remember, and then relegate other things to the categories of 1) that is something I look up, or 2) that is something I go to someone else (specific) to ask in a question.
Which got me to wondering if this sense of selectiveness, in what we hear, see, remember, fits into a theory of communication, or theory of how technology affects communication, or of how people shape technology, or something.
At least I have one idea. Maybe I’ll come up with something better by the time I need to.
At The Rainbow 