Interpersonal Communication
Communication between a minimum of two parties, but no more than four parties, in which meaningful exchange is intended for the purpose of accomplishing a recognized or unrecognized goal.
What is interpersonal communication?
I am a political communication researcher, and I am interested in how small groups of
individuals come together to debate political issues and, eventually, arrive at conclusions that
inform public opinion or their voting,
Who is a scholar of deliberation?
“communicated” across societies,
often through the mass media but also at shared events
What is popular culture?
CMC often leads to a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy
What is a feedback loop?
Related to a ‘sublime’ view of the natural world and often promotes feelings of awe, wonder,
and exultation in the presence of wilderness
What is a romantic aesthetic?
claims that reducing uncertainty increases liking
What is uncertainty reduction theory?
The study of statements and speeches made by Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War.
What is public address?
In the mid-20th century, this subfield involved the study of presidential speeches, election campaigns, congressional debates, and, on occasion, political advertising.
What is political communication?
Online life is about premeditation.
What is selective self-presentation?
the ability for a model to retain a more sophisticated
memory of not just previous words, but previous inputs
What is long-short-term memory?
Deliberately revealing information about oneself to others
What is self-disclosure?
Examples: Christianity, Democracy, Islam, Communism, Free-Markets, American Exceptionalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, etc.
What is ideology?
A process used by political figures or their surrogates
(including the media) to establish the values, criteria, or subjects that matter most in any political discussion. Pre-hoc
What is priming?
The internet benefits individuals with pre-existing social networks and skills.
What is the rich-get-richer hypothesis?
a mechanism constructed on data that takes in text data (Input) and uses that input to produce something (Output) based on its algorithm.
What is a large language model?
Dr. Jim Dillard, CAS professor, proposed an influential “message production” idea in the mid 1990s.
What is Goals – Plans – Actions Theory?
The actions of control and experience of domination through which individuals and groups maintain their influence and dominant position often with the acceptance or participation of those who are oppressed.
What is hegemony?
A process used by political figures or their surrogates
(including the media) to create a specific, recognizable narrative for a political issue or event, usually after the event is done. Post-hoc
What is framing?
We “fill in the gaps”
What are "idealized impressions?"
the ability to seemingly ‘write’ original content
What is content emulation?
contextual goals that act as constraints on your communication.
What is a secondary goal?
The process of revealing systems of oppression in a given situation or in moment(s) of communication.
What is negative critique?
a product of and primary producer of communicative behavior.
What is culture?
CMC can lead to deeper relationships because folks
who interact online are insulated, at least to some
degree, from threats, confrontations, or reactions.
What is the buffer effect?
Taking into account Burke’s understanding of “language as symbolic action” environmental communication has these two qualities.
What is pragmatic and constitutive?