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Communications final
Exam 4 FINAL
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04/14/2018

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What does a Hierarchical Structure do in an Organization?
Definition
  1. Assigns different levels of power
  2. Assigns status to members
  3. Specifies who communicates with whom

 

 

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What are the key features of Communication in an organization?
Definition
  1. Structure
  2. Organization Networks
  3. Links to External Environment
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What are the 2 types networks?
Definition
  1. Formal
  2. Informal
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What is a "Ad Hoc"?
Definition
This type of Network settles Discord with-in an organization
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Structure in an organization is very important what does it specifically do?
Definition
  1. Orders Procedures
  2. Relationships with-in the Organization
  3. Expectation of Predictability
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What are the four kinds of communication that are vital to developing, expressing, and sustaining Organizational Culture?
Definition
  1. Vocabularies
  2. Stories
  3. Rites & Rituals
  4. Structures
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What do vocabularies express?
Definition
Organizations History, Norms, Values, & Identity
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What are the 3 types of vocabularies?
Definition
  1. Hierarchical Language- Status level
  2. Masculine Language- Male driven interests
  3. Feminine Language- Organization oriented women to be passionate  
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How do Stories Help?
Definition
Stories help structure and organize the Organization's culture
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What are the different types of stories?
Definition
  1. Corporate
  2. Personal
  3. Collegial
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What do Corporate stories impact with-in an Organization?
Definition
Corporate stories convey Style, History, and Values of the organization
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How do Personal Stories impact an Organizations Culture?
Definition
  1. They announce how people see themselves
  2. They convey how the individual wants to be seen
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What are Collegial Stories?

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What do they inform?

Definition

Collegial stories are from co-workers.

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They tell us what to expect from whom.

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What is the difference between Rites & Rituals?
Definition

Rites occur in a single event

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Rituals are Repeated

Term
dramatic, planned sets of activities that brings organizational culture together in a single event; is called what?
Definition
Rites
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What is the rite of passage?
Definition
Used to mark different levels in an organization to excel
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What is the Rite of Identity?
Definition
acknowledge name and title
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What is the Rite of Integration?
Definition
Affirms and enhances sense of community in and organization
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If an Employer fires someone they are likely using which Rite?
Definition
Rite of Blamming
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What is the opposing Rite of Blaming?
Definition
Rite of Enchantment
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What Rite Helps an Organization manage change?
Definition
Rite of Renewal
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What is a form of communication that occur regularly?
Definition
Rituals
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What are the 4 types of rituals?
Definition
  1. Personal
  2. Social
  3. Task
  4. Common
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What do Personal rituals do?
Definition
set a routine Behavior
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What do Social Rituals set with-in an organization?
Definition
Performance standards between members of an organization
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What type of ritual specifically help individuals perform their job?
Definition
Task Rituals
Term

Where do Informal networks base themselves?

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What is the specific term that describes this?

Definition

Outside of the organization

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The grapevine

Term

What is cultivation?

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What are the two dimensions of the Cultivation Process? 

Definition

Cultivation occurs when television tries to shape belief about social reality

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The cultivation process is made up of:

  1. Mainstream Media
  2. Resonance Media
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What is Mainstream Media?
Definition
It is Mass Communication to stabilize and point out social perspectives
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What does Resonance Media represent?
Definition
It represents Personal Experience
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What are the 4 elements that make up Mass Media?
Definition
  1. Gratification
  2. Agenda Setting
  3. Cultivation
  4. Ideological Influences
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What is the Agenda Setting Theory?

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What is the specific name for the individuals who do this?

Definition

It is the filter to decide what the media shows the consumer. like events that the out-let of media are funded by.

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Gatekeepers

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What is it when a broadcast is sent to a large amount of people without direct content with the source and specifically uses GRATIFICATION?
Definition
Mass Media
Term

How is the relationship between an Organization's Culture and the communication with-in it viewed as?

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What can it do for an Organization's Culture?

Definition

It is viewed as a Reciprocal Relationship

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This Relationship can:

  1. Create
  2. Sustain
  3. May alter/ change the organizations culture
Term
_______ _________ are ways of thinking and acting that REFLECT the organization's Identity.
Definition
Organizational Culture
Term
What are the Components of Media Literacy?
Definition
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Before the people knew that Facebook was selling our data; they were attempting to supply a free platform in-order to bring poverty stricken communities Access to internet.

What were the trying to minimize?

Definition
They were trying to reduce and eliminate the Digital Divide.
Term
What is it when wealth allows more access to something like the internet or technology?
Definition
Convergence
Term

Fox News promotes world views that have been proven to be inaccurate, but their viewers believe that their program reflects real life:

What theory is this referring to? 

Definition
Cultivation Theory
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What is the main conclusion of the Cultivation Theory?
Definition
The "Mean World Syndrome"
Term

Mean world syndrome is one of the main conclusions of cultivation theory.

But What does it mean?

Definition
  A term coined by George Gerbner to describe a phenomenon that violence-related content of mass media makes viewers believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is.
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What is the difference between Mass Media & Social Media?
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