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| Mead (and Blumer) We create worlds through language and our interactions with others |
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| Coordinated Management of Meaning |
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| Pearce and Cronen - When we speak to, we co-construct social realties that are shaped by interactions and rules that govern which interpretation we should choose |
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| Buber - We should speak in a way that others want to listen and listen in a way that others want to speak |
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| Expectancy Violation Theory |
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| Burgoon - When a person does something unexpected, the other person has a heightened awareness of the unexpected action and of the person who did it |
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| Edward Hall - People have different distances that they expect others to adhere to, based on the intimacy of their relationships |
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| Thibaut and Kelley - Relationships are pursued, continued, ended based on their perceived costs and rewards |
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| Social penetration theory |
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| Altman and Taylor- We become more intimate with others when we self-disclose personal information |
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| Social Information processing theory |
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| Walther - People who communicate via the internet can develop extremely intimate relationships, which can be even closer than those created face-to-face |
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| Baxter and Montgomery - Relationships are extremely complicated and full of contradictions, which create tensions within relationships |
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| Delia - People with high cognitive complexity are better able to create person-centered messages and accomplish their goals in communication |
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| Sherif - People have internal continuums of ideas that they accept and reject and can be persuaded if someone understands these continuums |
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| Festinger - In order to persuade people, one must show them that their behavior does not match their attitudes/beliefs or change their behavior |
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| Aristotle - In order to persuade someone one must have logic, ethics, and emotions |
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| Burke - Messages can best be understood through the lens of a play, in which actors are acting in order to purge themselves of guilt |
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| Elaboration Likelihood Model |
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| Petty and Cacioppo - People process messages through two routes, but are more persuaded if they process the message through the route that forces them to think about the message, instead of relying on peripheral cues |
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| Fisher - The world is a set of stories from which we choose, and thus constantly recreate, our lives |
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| Green and Brock - When people are extremely drawn into narratives, they often adopt story-consistent beliefs |
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| Barthes - Signs are socially produced and often, especially when used by the media, stand for something they were never intended to stand for |
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| Mccombs and Shaw -The media tells us what to think about, and might even tell us what to think |
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| Noelle-Neumann - People who believe they hold the minority viewpoint often feel pressured to remain silent about their opinion by the perceived majority that is perpetuated by the media |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Noelle-Neumann - People who believe they hold the minority viewpoint often feel pressured to remain silent about their opinion by the perceived majority that is perpetuated by the media |
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| Stuart Hall - The mass media manufactures dominant ideologies and suppresses minority viewpoints |
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| Gerbner - Heavy television viewers tend to share similar beliefs including the belief that the world is a big and scary place |
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| Symbolic Convergence Theory |
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| Bormann - Groups unite around stories and group fantasies that are co-created and shared |
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| Cultural Approach to Organizations |
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| Geertz and Pacanowsky - An organization does not have culture, an organization is culture |
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| Information Systems approach to Organizations |
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| Weick - Members in an organization go through the organizing, in which they interpret information and realize how to reach organizational goals through the process of retrospective sensemaking |
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| Communication Accommodation Theory |
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| Giles - People change or maintain their communications patterns in order to converge or diverge from members of other cultures |
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| Theory of Cultural Dimensions |
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| Hofstede- Cultures can be understood and compared by considering power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and individualism |
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| Taifel and Turner - People define themselves based on the groups and cultures they belong to |
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| Heider and Kelley - We assign meaning to other people's behavior and make judgements about them based on those assigned meanings |
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| Ting and Toomey - Members from individualistic and collectivistic cultures often have different styles of conflict because they have different ideas about self-image |
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| Tannen - Male-female communication can best be understood as cross-cultural communication |
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| Kramarae - Women hold a minority viewpoint and are isolated and suppressed through man-made language |
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