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Uptake Blog Post 2

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WHAT IS CHAT?      CHAT, also known as cultural-historical activity theory. Is known as the modern-day Rhetorical Triangle. Yes, that's right. The three-thousand-year-old method of producing a product has been replaced. Or has it? I like to think of it just like how humans have evolved to be the intelligent creatures we are today. The Rhetorical Triangle has evolved into the CHAT. CHAT now shows up a theory when we are creating a product and even trying to classify a genre.      CHAT follows the same three principals that you have originally seen in the Rhetorical triangle. Just only this time it puts context into everything. So much context in fact that it now has six different terms to go by. Production, representation, distribution, reception, socialization, activity, and ecology.  WHAT DOES CHAT LOOK LIKE WHEN IT'S BROKEN DOWN? Now we will go over each individual term. To start we have "production." Seems easy enough. In short yes, it's the p...

Uptake Blog #1

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 What is uptake?       Uptake is the action to take known knowledge from a pass experience and trying to apply in a present situation. I like to think of it as a resource our brains use when we are put in situations, and we don't know how to act or respond.  This process is done when we find ourselves in situations such as arguments, new experiences, moments of joy and trauma. Our brains will tend to lean towards uptake as a resource to take past information from similar situations and try and apply knowledge gained then and apply them to the present. Examples of uptake...       The best example of uptake I can think of would be my time in the military. You see I enlisted in the Illinois National Guard when I was 17 years old. Therefor I did the "split option." Which is where I completed basic training between my junior and senior year of high school. Then when I graduated High School went to my AIT training. For basic training I had abs...