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| the distaste and aversion that people feel toward working in groups |
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| groups that provide members with a sense of belonging and affection |
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| groups that meet principally to solve problems |
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| the tendency for people to work harder and do better when others are around |
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| SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION |
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| communication among a small number of people who share a common purpose or goal, who feel connected to each other, and coordinate their befavior |
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| leadership theory that suggests that leaders are born |
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| FUNCTIONAL (SITUATIONAL) THEORY |
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| a theory that assumes leadership behaviors can be learned |
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| theory that asserts that a leader's manner or style determines his or her success |
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| leader who takes charge, makes all the decisions, and dictates strategies |
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| leader whose style is characterized by much input from group members |
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| a leadership style characterized by complete freedom from the group in making decisions |
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| potential pitfall in small group interaction:occurs when excessive analysis prevents a group from moving toward a solution |
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| generating as many ideas as possible without critiquing them |
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| the four-phase process used by a group to evaluate information and arrive at a decision or solution |
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| the uncertainty commonly felt in the beginning phase of decision making |
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| SECONDARY (RECURRING) TENSION |
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| conflict or tension found in the second or conflict phase of the decision-making process |
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| the third phase of the decision-making process; occurs when group members express a cooperative attitude |
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| the final phase of he decision-making process when group members reach consensus, and members feel a sense of accomplishment |
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| a negative, and potentially disastrous group process characterized by "excessive concurrence thinking" |
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| the methods , including communication, by which a group accomplishes a task |
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| communication that is used to influence the attitudes or behaviors of others |
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| a person or institution that addresses a large audience: the originator of a communication message but not necessarily the one delivering it |
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| the rhetorical use of emotions to affect audience decision making |
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| rational appeals; the use of rhetoric to help the audience see the rationale for a particular conclusion |
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| those people who can take the appropriate action in response to a message |
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| any event that generates a significant amount of public discourse |
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| the type of rhetoric used to argue what a society should do in the future |
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| the arena in which deliberative decision making occurs through the exchange of ideas and arguments |
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| rhetoric that addresses events that happened in the past with the goal of setting things right after an injustice has occurred |
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| a large, organized body of people who are attempting to create social change |
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| an informed consumer of rhetorical discourse who is prepared to analyze rhetorical texts |
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| those that extend one's senses with a lot of data or information |
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| those that require the receiver to full in much more information because less is given |
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| the plural form of medium, a channel of communication |
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| large organizations in the business of mass communication hat produce, distribute or show various media texts (culture products) as an industry |
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| seekers of various media messages and resisters of others |
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| portrayal of communication as a process occurring largely in one direction |
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| the influence that media have on people's everyday lives |
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| a television show, advertisement, movie or other media event |
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| the idea that people seek media messages and/or interpret media texts in ways that confirm their beliefs and, conversely, resist or avoid messages that challenge their beliefs |
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| the idea that people use media messages and find various types of gratifications in some media texts rather than in others |
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| approach to understanding media that focuses on specific aspect of the content of a text or group of texts |
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| approach to understanding media performed by researchers who focus on a small number of texts or images using methods similar to those of literary critics |
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| the power of media coverage to influence individuals' view of the world |
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| idea that long-term immersion in a media environment leads to "cultivation" or enculturation, into shared beliefs about the world |
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| occasions or catastrophes that interrupt regular programming |
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| representation of violent acts in media |
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| the ways in which media institutions produce texts in a capitalist system and the legal and regulatory frameworks that shape their options for doing so |
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| the practice of organizing to communicate displeasure with certain media images and messages, as well as to force change in future media texts. |
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| Motion Picture Association of America |
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| the exchange of messages carried through an intervening system of digital electronic storage and transmitted between two or more people |
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| synonymous with the Internet of online world |
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| degree of psychological closeness or immediacy engendered by various media |
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| the potential information-carrying capacity of communication medium |
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| pictographs used in e-mail to convey relational information |
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| occurs when a message is sent and received at different times |
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| an identity that is fragmented or lacks coherence |
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| taking on a new Internet identity for recreational purposes. |
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| theory predicting that the more people are socially connected, the more intensely they are likely to communicate using various media available to them |
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| potential partners and friends, typically much larger via CMC than face-to-face relationships |
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| HYPERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS |
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| Internet relationships that develop intimacy more quickly than face-to-face relationships |
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| cultural knowledge and cultural knowledge and cultural competencies that people need to function effectively in society |
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| access to technological skills and resources |
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| theory that explains why some innovations, like computers and Internet technology, are accepted by some people and rejected by others |
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| theory that explains why some innovations, like computers and Internet technology, are accepted by some people and rejected by others |
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