Question

How might the way we think about communication (as transmission, as cultural literacy, as difference) connect to the ways we think about identity (as essentialist, nonessentialist, socially constructed, etc.)?

Answer 1

The way we think about communication might connect to the ways we think about identity in the following manner:

• The transmission of knowledge that happens through communication between two or more individuals that bear similar ideologies, must be processed by the brain as ‘essentialist’ as far as the identity of the persons in conversation is concerned.
• Similar levels of cultural literacy must be the reason that helps enhance the communication through the knowledge of identity.
• The difference in the methods of communication must be the primary indicators of the realisation of social construction of the community that the persons in conversation belong to.