10 - Listening Posts

 

Listening Posts: Everywhere Around You 

When thinking about listening posts I think of anywhere or way you can gather information. Living on a college campus makes for a broad range of listening posts. Being a student athlete I gain a lot of information from my fellow teammates and friends. Our teammate is very diverse as we have many girls from different cultures Hawaiian, Hispanic, and Samoan. Also looking into some of the student ran blogs that we have access to through the University. I mainly get my information through my friends, teammates, and fellow students for my listening posts. 

I spend almost every single afternoon with my teammates and we are constantly talking about things going on around the world. We discuss politics and the recent protest against racial injustice. We have many teammates that are in interracial relationships they often discuss issues like police brutality and issues that affect the African American community. It's interesting for me to listen in on these outside perspectives and take them as learning opportunity. We are constantly providing new information for each other. Gathering information through different listening posts I believe solely depends on where you are and who you are around every day. 

I also love reading the blogs ran by students on campus here at SAU. We actually have multiple fellow classmates who help run the student blogs. They are known as the Southern Arkansas University Social Media Ambassadors. Fellow classmate Lindsey O'Neal writes for the student blogs she has multiple entries that I have used for information. She does helpful blogging for students around campus like one of her posts "Study Tips for Midterms" which she included advice like write it out, know yourself and how you study, use multiple resources, think in terms of the test, and etc. I know some students on campus don't know they have access to things like student ran blogs. This is a good form of listening posts that students around campus should access. 

When it comes down to it the definition of listening posts varies with each person. We may not realize it but our environment and people around us provide us with different information. Listening posts are constantly evolving and I'm sure like most people listening posts are reliant on people they talk to or who they are around in their day to day lives.