Week 1-2
Scholar who said, "the heart and final guarantee of democracy is in free gatherings of neighbors on the street corner to discuss back and forth what is read in uncensored news of the day..."
Who is John Dewey
Scholar who proposed 5 elements of community building including physical proximity, economic relations, and community service.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
a term used to describe behavior we use in front of others and behavior we use when we are in private.
What is "Front Stage & Back Stage"?
a theory of communication that analyzes how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations.
What is the Expectation Violation Theory?
is associated with the idea of a centralized power system, a single voice speaking the only truth that can exist, without challenge or interplay
What is Monologue?
a one-way, linear process in which a sender encodes a message and transmits it through a channel to a receiver who decodes it
What is the "Transmission Model of Communication"
This theory focuses on how social interactions and people assign meanings to things around them based on interpretation of their interactions with others.
What is "Symbolic Interactionism"?
A theory that describes the process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them
What is "The Looking-Glass Self"?
The theory suggests that human beings are uncomfortable with the unknown and seek the means to predict the trajectory of social interactions.
What is the Uncertainty Reduction Theory
a theory that attempts to explain why and how people have different reactions and responses toward the same information or issue.
What is the Social Judgement Theory?
The experience of having a common understanding of the world with others
What is "Shared Reality"
Scholar who said, "The importance of what we term "communication" lies in the fact that it provides a form of behavior in which the organism or the individual may become an object to themself."
Who is Mead?
a theory that describes the process of bonding that moves a relationship from superficial to more intimate
What is "The Social Penetration Theory"?
Active, asking a third party for information; Passive, observing others in informal situations; Interactive, talking face-to-face with the other person and asking specific questions; and Extractive, searching for information online, some of them.
What are "Strategies to reduce uncertainty"?
attempts to explain how people process stimuli through central and peripheral processing predicting action or change in behavior.
What is The Elaboration Likelihood Theory?
proposes communication between two or more people occurs in an ongoing exchange of messages, where both the sender and receiver influence what is communicated. Feedback, Noise, and field's of experience are included
What is the "Transactional Model of Communication"
a reflexive process, whereby an individual becomes both subject and object.
What is the "Self"?
Used in The Social Penetration Theory to describe how personal or sensitive the information is, and the varying range of topics discussed.
What is "Depth and Breadth"?
a theory of the meaning-making between relationship parties that emerges from the interplay of competing discourses
What is the "Relational Dialectics Theory"?
theory postulates that an underlying psychological tension is created when an individual's behavior is inconsistent with his or her thoughts and beliefs
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
describes the feeling that you have more than one social identity, which makes it difficult to develop a sense of self, especially under circumstances of oppression by a dominant group.
What is "Double Consciousness"
the sum total of actions we take — both consciously and unconsciously — to influence how others perceive us
What is "impression management"?
Part of the Social Information Processing Theory and occurs when partners integrate or layer a variety of communication channels into relational communication.
What is "Modality Weaving"?
They comprise streams of talk that cohere around a given object of meaning and overtime, constructs a social boundary that defines what statements can be said about a topic.
What are "Discourses"?
stories used to construct a rhetorical vision or to dramatize messages embraced by the whole group. They are the means through which interpretation is accomplished through communication.
What are Fantasy themes in the Symbolic Convergence Theory?