Interpersonal Theories
Charles Berger created this theory in the 1970s. It remains popular today, probably because of the practical utility of passive, active, and interactive strategies used to actually do what you see in the name of the theory.
What is uncertainty reduction theory?
This theory focuses on describing and explaining how groups make quality and appropriate decisions, describing functions and communication patterns.
What is the functional perspective on group decision making?
Audience members make active choices about what to watch and why to watch it is a central claim of this theory.
What is uses and gratifications?
Trick question! Three answers possible:
What is communication accommodation theory?
What is muted groups theory?
What is co-cultural theory?
A set of systematic informed hunches about the way things work
What is a theory?
Judee Burgoon created this theory. As she said in her interview with Em Griffin, she was inspired by some counter-intuitive facts about life, like "maybe it's not best to do as others are doing. It might be better to do something unexpected or surprising."
What is expectancy violations theory?
This theorist developed the framework of dramatism, used in rhetorical theories and rhetorical analyses.
Who is Kenneth Burke?
This theory focuses on the agenda of the media and the choices the media makes in framing and delivering content to the audience.
What is Agenda Setting Theory?
Communication accommodation is from this approach, because it focuses on consistent patterns of behavior occurring in intercultural interactions.
What is objective?
The approach where truth is singular, regular, and we can predict, explain, and determine common causes and consistent effects through empirical observation.
What is objective?
What is relational dialectics theory?
This theorist developed the critical theory of communication in organizations.
Who is Stanley Deetz?
Both uses and gratifications & agenda setting theory come from this approach.
What is objective?
Co-Cultural theory focuses on understanding the standpoints and distinct experiences of people, embracing subjectivist epistemologies with multiple truths - it should be no surprise, then, that it comes from this approach.
What is interpretive?
The approach were multiple meanings exist, knowledge is situated, and we can only strive to understand individual choices situated in time and place.
What is interpretive?
Uncertainty Reduction Theory and Expectancy Violations Theory both seek to predict and explain consistent truths in how people think and act, generalizing behaviors. These theories share this in common, then.
Two potential answers: What is an objective approach? What is the socio-psychological tradition?
Burke's theory relies on assigning linguistic meaning to texts, a central feature of this approach/paradigm.
What is the interpretive paradigm?
The theories of media we saw in class were all theories of media effects, which gives us a hint that they're from this tradition, which studies cause and effect relationships between variables.
What is the socio-psychological tradition?
Co-cultural theory's basis in this tradition is seen in the acknowledgement that dominant cultural groups have more power than co-cultural groups.
What is the critical tradition?
This tradition involves studying communication in cause-and-effect patterns and capturing the influence of one person's behavior on another person.
What is the socio-psychological tradition?
Relational Dialectics Theory has many strengths as an interpretive theory, but scholars and students alike often agree that it lacks this particular appeal in book chapters and research applications as reading about this theory can be tough and challenging.
What is aesthetic appeal?
Because Deetz's theory explicitly notes power of shareholders and stakeholders and acknowledges the inequality of roles in organization, his theory represents this tradition.
What is the critical tradition?
The word typology was used in this theory. A typology describes and organizes information, like the reasons people use different media.
What is uses & gratifications theory?
Doing in-depth interviews that focused on people's individual experiences when communicating with people from the dominant cultural group shows Co-Cultural Theory's origins in this tradition.
What is the phenomenological tradition?
This tradition seeks to explicitly address and uncover systemic differences in power that capture unjustness and power imbalances in discourse and societal structures.
What is the critical tradition?