How Real is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, CommunicationThe connection between communication and reality is a relatively new idea. It is only in recent decades that the confusions, disorientations and very different world views that arise as a result of communication have become an independent field of research. One of the experts who has been working in this field is Dr. Paul Watzlawick, and he here presents, in a series of arresting and sometimes very funny examples, some of the findings. |
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The Benefits of Confusion | 27 |
Semantic Punctuation | 65 |
Threats | 106 |
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