Public Rhetoric Grab Bag
Media & Culture Grab Bag
Media Effects Grab Bag
Organizational Communication Grab Bag
Midterm Throwbacks
100

Ethos

What is the rhetorical proof based in credibility? 

100

Marshall McLuhan

Who is the theorist behind Media Ecology?

100

George Gerbner

Who is the theorist behind cultivation theory?

100

Clifford Geertz & Michael Pacanowsky

Who are the theorists credited with the Cultural Approach to Organizations?

100

Looking-glass self

What is the mental self-image that results from taking the role of the other; the objective self; me?

200

Kenneth Burke

Who is the theorist behind Dramatism?

200

Roland Barthes

Who is the theorist behind Semiotics?

200

Intermedia

What is the concept that describes the influence exerted by media organizations on one another?

200

Cultural Performances

What are an ensemble of texts and actions by which members of a culture constitute and reveal their culture to themselves and others?

200

The extent to which a person carefully thinks about issue-relevant arguments contained in persuasive communication.

What is message elaboration? 

300

Narrative Coherence

What is the narrative criteria that asks whether a story "hangs together?"

300
Connotation

What is an alternative term for "myth" adopted by Roland Barthes?

300

Media Agenda

What are the issues selected by news organizations that influence public agendas according to Agenda Setting Theory?

300

Thick description

What is a record of intertwined layers of common meaning that underlie what a particular people say and do? 

300

Picturing communication as a transfer of meaning by a source sending a message through a channel to a receiver.

What is the transmission model (of communication)?

400

Pathos

What is the rhetorical proof based in appeals to emotions, fears, and/or values?

400

Articulation 

What is a term for speaking out about oppressing and/or linking it to forms of (media) representation?

400

Gatekeepers

What are editors and others who determine what issues appear in news coverage?

400

Stan Deetz

Who is the theorists credited with the Critical Approach to Organizations?

400

Ongoing tensions between a couple and their community

What are external dialectics?

500
Rational World Paradigm

What is the perspective on reality that views it as a set of logical puzzles to be solved with evidence and reason?

500

Signifier and Signified

What are the two elements that constitute a sign for semioticians? 

500

Vertical Media

What are media outlets that try to appeal to a broader, more diverse audience?

500

Managerialism

What is a systematic logic, set of routine practices, and ideology that values control over all other concerns?

500

The study of the origin, nature, method, and limits of knowledge.

What is epistemology? 

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