An organized element of communication that includes meanings and symbols, encoding, and decoding.
What is a message?
100
An exchange of information between two or more people.
What is Interpersonal Communication?
100
3 - 12 members
What is a small group?
100
A website that displays linked user commentaries (such as Twitter), descriptions of events, or other material, such as videos online.
What is a blog?
100
religion, speech, press, assembly and petition
What are the first amendment freedoms?
200
The people involved in the communication; senders and receivers.
What are participants?
200
To use body language, but no words or sounds.
What is nonverbal communication?
200
A coordinated group of individuals organized to work together to achieve a specific, common goal.
What is a team?
200
Involves establishing a clear image for the organization through the ways the organization communicates, such as the use of organizational tag-lines (such as Nike's "Just Do It"), logos, and advertising.
What is branding?
200
Prevents putting something in the press that is a lie and passing it off as the truth
What are libel laws?
300
A process by which one person or a group presents a message to another group in a formal manner.
What is public communication?
300
The distance you feel comfortable with in relation to someone else.
What is personal space?
300
When groups agree primarily in order to avoid conflict.
What is group think?
300
The cognitive process of translating the message that we attend to into meanings that can help us understand our world and the people with whom we communicate.
What is decoding?
300
Constitutional, Administrative, Statutory, Common
What are types of media law?
400
The process of using our beliefs, thoughts, and observations to gather information about surroundings and people.
What is perception?
400
How a person says something
What is tone?
400
The tendency for people to work harder simply because there are other people present.
What is social facilitation?
400
The cognitive process by which we translate the meanings we hold into strategic messages that we send to others.
What is encoding?
400
Individuals own the right to their own image and name, neither of which can be used with out their permission.
What is appropriation?
500
A theory describing the relationship among elements of communication.
What is the Transactional Model?
500
non-verbal communication; signals, often with the hand or other parts of the body.
What are gestures?
500
Sending and receiving messages simultaneously
What is transactional communication?
500
When organizational participants focus in on key messages
What is selective attention?
500
The federal law to ensure pen documents. Requires all federal agencies to list all of their documents and to provide them for news agencies on request.