Theory Thinkers
States, "the medium is the message."
Who is Marshall McLuhan?
Learning information about another by asking a third party.
What is active strategy?
The basing of personal ties upon the number of types of media used between them.
What is Media Multiplexity?
Using words like "war on terror," an "axis of evil," or "like Hitler"?
What is using a devil term?
A director who had the creative idea to feature Marshall McLuhan as a cameo in one of his films.
Who is Woody Allen?
Asserted that language is the genesis of guilt.
Who is Kenneth Burke?
Privacy management is disrupted and trust is broken when one party shares information without permission.
What is boundary turbulence?
This theory examines the following themes: integration/separation, stability/change, expression/non-expression.
What is Relational Dialectics?
Taking a symbolic actions with sequence and meaning and using them as a lens through which to view an event.
What is using a Narrative Paradigm?
A reality show promoting the idea that morally good, poor individuals are deserving of reward.
What is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?
The originator of the Seven Traditions of the Field of Communication.
Who is Robert Craig?
Painting our self-protrait by taking the role of the other.
What is the looking glass self.
What is Communicative Constitution of Organizations?
What is articulation?
A late night television program heralded as "the most trusted source for poltical news on television" among 18-35 year olds.
A 3 name believer that our thoughts, self-concept, and the wider community we live in are created through communication.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
A symbolic explosion of lively agreement within a group in response to a member's dramatizing message.
What is a Fantasy Chain?
A study of the complexity of environments and the interplay of them within an ever-changing culture.
What is Media Ecology?
Assigning meaning or value to communicative texts; assuming that multiple meanings or truths are possible.
What is using the Interpretive approach to research?
A cartoon character in the text who mistakenly declares, "As far as I'm concerned, the ends justify the means," and ends up in a puddle of mud.
Who is Calvin?
A believer that human beings subconciously sort out responses to ideas at the instant of perception. A puzzling theorist.
The technical possiblity of connection between two people who don't currently have a relationship.
What is a Latent Tie?
A theory that would willingly incorporate counterattitudinal advocacy as part of its research.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Using communication as a system of information processing by studying processing, feedback, and control.
What is using the Cybernetic Tradition?
The image Pearce and Cronen use to picture the patterns of communication we create with others.
What is a serpent?