The Iceberg
Digital Models
Animal & Human Communication
Definitions & Theories
Miscellaneous
200

You have a terrible day at work, you come home and pick a fight with your roommate. This is an example of a particular part of the communication iceberg.

What are Interacting Contexts and Levels?

200

Lane argues that in addition to the physical street, there is a _________ street in Harlem that social media opens onto?

What is a digital street?

200

These are rules for organizing words into sentences.

What is syntax?

200

Research findings, observations, or events that cannot be explained by, or are inconsistent with, existing paradigms.

What are Anomalies?

200

Someone who helps disseminate information to the public.

What is an Opinion Leader?

400

Using symbols and meanings to deal with an interpretation of reality, rather than a physical reality.

What is a Second Order Information-processing Event?

400

This affordance of networked publics means that content online can quickly reach large audiences?

What is Scalability?

400

The taste of ocean salt water is a good example of this type of cue.

What is Gustatory?

400

These theories – based on systematic observation and testing – can help us to assess our personal theories more critically.

What are scholarly theories?

400

Our favorite “Soup or salad?” Tik Tok video can account for this fundamental communication anomaly.

What is MS≠MR?

600

A system of norms or knowledge shared by a large group of people.

What is Culture?

600

Although the confrontation looked on camera to be one on one, how many people were likely involved in the intimidation of Rugged?  

What are three people?

600

Vocalization, whistling, and vibrations are all means used by living things to produce this type of message.

What is Auditory?

600

Based on his research into communication among primates, Robin Dunbar argues that human language evolved out if this.

What is grooming?

600

Westley and MacLean suggested that communication does not begin with a source, but rather with these.

What is a series of signals or potential messages?

800

The invisible aspect of communication represented by the phrase “we cannot not communicate.”

What is inevitability?

800

Detectives, market researchers, and parents could be part of this kind of audience in networked publics where users may not know who views the content they post.

What are invisible audiences?

800

Invertebrates primarily rely on this mode of communication.

What is Chemical/Olfactory?

800

The property of language that makes it possible to create an infinite number of messages.


What is Productivity?

800

Two unique aspects of human communication that distinguish people from animals.

What are syntax and productivity?

1000

Self-consciousness and the ability to reflect on our experiences and how we come off to other people can be called this.

What is Self-reflexivity?

1000

According to boyd, the properties of these – the most basic units of computing information – make digital environments of communication quite different from physical environments composed of atoms.  

What are bits?

1000

As a function of self-defense, this response activates the hormonal and muscular systems, readying the animal for maximum physical output.

What is Stress or Fight-or-Flight Response?

1000

The intersubjective process of reconciling our meanings with those of others.

What is Negotiation?

1000

This concept helps explain the difference between the components of the communication process that we listed based on Marcia & Donny’s conversation (“Stalled”), and the components included in the models in the textbook?

What is a paradigm?

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