Analyzing Message in My Text

In this post I will be talking abut the specific as to how the message of my text is delivered to the audience and how that affects the overall message of the text.  I will be doing this by addressing several questions posed by reading.

Settergren, "Message in a Bottle, Post, Bottle, Sand, Beach, Glass" uploaded 8 August 2014 via pixabay.com, Public Domain

Three most useful bullet points?

I found that the three most useful bullet points to use while evaluating the message of the text were,

• What contemporary events may have shaped the author's view and the audience's responses
• What medium is used to deliver the message? What "rules" or conventions are typical to the medium?
• What social or historical movements are related to the topic?

I found that these were most effective because 

1) The way in which this article is published (online) means that the targeted audience is a lot smaller and fit a younger demographic making his article specifically tailored to them and not a general audience.

2) There must have been something that sparked this sudden outrage against the idea of quantum consciousness which means that the events surrounding this article are important to look at.

3) Along with 2, the common misconceptions by the public about what physic topics means has produced a lot of controversies over the years and is key to understanding why this topic came about.

Which bullet points do not seem relevant?

I found that the date of publication and the the physical materials surround the article to be less important because the date of publication was so close to current events that there is not much difference in the culture between then and now. In addition to this the fact that this was published on slate.com does not have much of an effect on the context of the article due to the fact that this article does not carry much political bias.

Are there layers to the message?

I think that there are definitely key layers to the message the author is trying to convey. For one the article's title is about "Quantum Consciousness" however the author spends a good majority of the article discussing two separate things: language in science and cross discipline research.  To the audience it may seem as though these are all connected and they are, but they are layers to the deeper message being put across: that the misinterpretation of science leads to misinformed public and lack of understanding of how science actually works and functions.