Chapter 1: Foundations of Public Advocacy

Public advocacy is an everyday activity, not just formal speeches. It involves understanding your purpose and pushing it forward in various contexts, including social media and classroom interactions.

Public speaking involves discussing an issue to move an audience by advocating for a purposeful message, considering the audience's attention and beliefs. Different delivery methods exist, including online lectures and TikTok videos.

Key components include sharing a message from speaker to audience, understanding the cultural and situational context, preparation through outlines, and having a clear purpose (informative, persuasive, or entertaining).

Watching videos on advocacy and figuring out how both the older person and a high school student see it similarly and what are the qualities to have of a good public advocate.

Joseph Campbell explains five core aspects of advocacy: motivations, role models, understanding historical context,focus, and a forward path.

Pearl shares her story of founding the Diverse Gaming Coalition to combat bullying, modernizing discussion through a comic book.

A comparison of the two speeches to connect public speaking with advocacy.

Public advocacy is an active promotion of a cause, actions leading to a goal, and one of the possible strategies to approach a problem. Civic engagement, such as voting, is also a form of advocacy.

Ethical advocacy involves sharing factual information rather than opinions, avoiding defamatory or hate speech, and balancing individual interests with the larger community's interests. The goal is to get it right, not just be right.

Communication creates meaning and thus reality. The constitution is an Example of such and there are many ways to Constitute.

Meaning varies depending on the context. Examples given on giving speech about why covet is a hoax during the peak of COVID and where to break up with someone, either in person, text or letter.

Culture influences context, power, and meaning. Culture is created through communication relying on symbols.

Addressing public speaking anxiety through mental preparation (focus on audience/message, confidence), physical preparation (sleep, etc.), contextual preparation (venue, tools), and speech preparation (rehearsal).

Preparing to listen to new messages and research supporting different Perspectives.

Posting an answer to the discussion board and giving the responsibilities to be reflexive about the engagement with others.