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Term
Effects is like the ____ tradition, but is different because it's science and the ____ trad. is an _____
Definition
rhetorical     art
Term
Effects: communication is mediated through _____ factors
Definition
soc-psych   such as attitudes, emotional states, peronality and relations
Term
_________ influences both the Effects and Critical, during WW?
Definition
propaganda, WW1
Term
Hovland: 3 things the soc-psych model asks
Definition

1. what do people pay attention to?

2. What info do they retain?

3. What effect does it have on persuasion? 

Term
How does Hovland define the communication process?
Definition

communicator-->stimuli-->communicatee--> response

 

soc-psych factors effect how the communicatee interprets the stimuli 

Term
Bandura: Theory of Observational Learning
Definition
we model what we observe
Term
modeling needs _________ comm.
Definition
symbolic
Term
  • How does Bandura define modeling and how does he relate it to media effects?
Definition

attention, retention, production, motivation

 

 

rewards thru ads 

Term

ads show _______ through modeled acts 

 

Strong Effects =

Weak Effects = 

Definition

rewards 

 

direct influence

early adaptors 

Term

Campo and Cameron

 

3 Critisisms of Effects

Definition

1. too individualistic

2. doesnt cover macro institutions

3. isnt cross-cultural 

Term

Campo/Cameron

 

social norms campaigns assumptions (4) 

Definition

1. harm reduction

2. people want to be like others

3. change misperception--> change norm

4. actual norm is healthy 

Term

Campo/Cameron

 

expectency violation theory

 

boomerang theory 

Definition

when people dont do what we expect them to do

 

campaign= threat, so it backfires 

Term
Key finding of Campo/Cameron
Definition
heaviest drinkers had the unhealthiest attitude change due to boomerang theory
Term
Peters:  3rd person effect
Definition
overestimate influence on others or underestimate influences on themselves
Term
Peters: Factors for analyzing message effects: 4
Definition

1. intensity

2. size

3. duration

4. practices 

Term
How is the Social-Cultural Tradition similar to and different from the Semiotic Tradition? 
Definition

Similar: both share core concept of understanding, define comm. As symbolic and social.

 

Different: Semiotics= signs systems, Socio-Cul= how they are built and maintained.

Term
Carey: communication is a symbolic process where ___ is (4 steps)
Definition
reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed
Term
Communication Creates ________ and _________
Definition
Reality and community
Term

Carey: Ritual Model and newspaper

 

 

  • How is reading the newspaper a communication ritual?
Definition

communication as dramatization, ceremonial sense of community

 

newspaper is transmitter, but readers engage in different ROLES as they read.

 

Newspaper= sense of security and escape 

Term
Transmission vs. ritual
Definition

sender-receiver            Participants

sent-received           created-recreated

receiver "gets it"        sense of community

space                   time 

Term
  • What does Carey mean when he says that communication creates reality?
Definition
Communication imposes specific order and meaning on reality.  Need to use certain mechanisms to make sense of reality.. Culture specific!!
Term
Socio-Cultural: Mead's ideas on symbols
Definition

when we use symbols, we move back and forth between different social roles and perspectives

Term
 
  • How does Mead understand the relationship between the individual and the community?
Definition

individual and community are co-created

 

communication (understanding others) makes a community.
Term
Criticism of the Socio-Cultural Tradition
Definition
community bias and conflict is left out
Term

Critical Tradition: Marxism

 

Base shapes_______, ways of thinking, and _______

it DETERMINES the ________ 

Definition

our ideas, and consciousness

 

determines the Superstructure 

Term
Marxism: the superstructure _________ the base
Definition
legitimates
Term

Marxism:  Dominant interests and ideas become _________

 

 

  • How do Marx and Engels define ideology?
Definition

universals interests and common sense

 

 

Origin of ideas come from the base, dominant ideas become universal truths

Term

Critical: Horkheimer&Adorno

 

culture industry creates _________ tastes 

 

What historical events inspired Critical Theory?
Definition

standardized

 

 

WWI and Nazi Fascism

Term
  • What is the Culture Industry?
Definition
Standardized culture= standardized tastes, it is industrialized-  can only have things that are produced
Term
What parallels did Horkheimer & Adorno see between Nazi Fascism and U.S. Mass Culture? 
Definition
Dominant ideologies influence what we think is good and bad.
Term

Critical: Deetz

 

strategic actions are equal to _______

Communication actions are equal to __________

 

 

which is better? 

Definition

persuasion

invitational rhetoric or understanding

 

Comm. Actions  because you get alternative perspectives

 

 

 

Term
Deetz: Distorted Comm. is good or bad? why?
Definition
Bad, because it is trying to persuade, therefore, it is controlled and doesnt allow the best ideas to emerge
Term
Deetz: Discursive Closure
Definition
suppression of alternate views to avoid potential conflict
Term
What is Critical Org Comm and how does it study the process of communication? 
Definition

Decision making processes that is narrow minded and biased

 

communication needs conflict to be productive 

Term
What is Discourse and how is it related to Ideology?  
Definition
System of ideas and practices that shape and limit who we are. Ideologies of the base create the superstructure…. We consume what the dominant culture gives us as important.
Term
  • What does Deetz mean by “consensus models” of communication? 
Definition
All opinions out on the table.. agree to disagree. Consensus has conflict, but being productive.
Term

Critical trad. thinks that conflict is _________!

 the transmission model is good or bad?

Definition

healthy

 

bad 

Term
Relational communication is ________, and similar to the ________ tradition
Definition
interpersonal, critical
Term

Relational- Baxter:

 

influenced by _____ ______ 

Definition
Mikhail Bahktain
Term

Baxter: dialogue theory

 

monologue is like ___ ___ and is _____

 

dialogue is _____ 

Definition

discursive closure and is bad

 

good because it has multiple voices 

Term
Baxter says conflict is ______, which means it is ______
Definition
healthy, dialogic
Term

Baxter: language is dialogic because communication is what creates _____ and ____ _______.

 

 

we need multiple voices in order to _______ 

Definition

us and our world

 

communicate 

Term
  • What are 2 major claims that both Baxter and Condit make about communication as a process of relating?
Definition
Can’t communicate outside of relationship, don’t exist outside of relationships
Term
Condit: communication is constatly ________ and _______ both parties
Definition
changing and influencing
Term
Condit says that each relationship is _______ but it is made up of the ______ _____ _____.
Definition
unique, same conversation basics
Term
  • How does Kelshaw combine Relational and Critical approaches to communication?  
Definition
Meaning is made between spaces and conflict is healthy
Term
anytime we are communicating, we are participating in _________, because communication is laden with ?
Definition

politics

 

social, ethical, and moral meanings 

Term

 

  • What are some examples of political participation as Kelshaw conceives it? 


Definition
Public demonstrations, personal choices, private choices
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