comm 1010 final
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- process of attending to particular stimuli in our environment
- Selecting
- grouping of stimuli into meaningful units of wholes
- Organizing
- blend that involves internal states and external stimuli
- interpreting
- a knowledge structure that defines the most clear or representative examples of some category
- prototypes
- mental yardstick that allows us to measure people and situations along bipolar dimensions of judgment
- Personal constructs
- the assignment of meaning to peoples behavior
- attribution
- in judging other people the tendency to attribute their success to the situation and their failures to their person characteristics
- -Fundamental attribution error
- - verbal and nonverbal strategies that are used to present an individual own varying images to others and to help him maintain his own image
- faceworks
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the process in which the self develops through the messages and feedback received from others
- Symbolic interaction
- all the activity of a given participant on a given occasion that serves to influence the other participants
- Performance
- any verbal or nonverbal communication action
- text
- audience
- context
- concept stating that we are all already performers
- Everyday life performance (Goffman and Social interactionism)-
- is the certain physical and verbal behaviors based on an individual interpretation of the situation
- role
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the on going interpretation and organization of experiences used to direct
personal through an action
- self
- the enactment of a behavior which requires performance, role taking is the projection of oneself into the viewpoint of another to help understand the other persons view better
- role playing
- the process by which we observe our own attitudes, dual perspective is the consideration of others perceptive in addition to our own
- monitoring
- providing info about our personal lived experiences in social discourse
- personal narratives
- A group of individuals who belong to a non-dominant cultural group, which has unique experiences that foster distinctive patterns of communication
- co- culture
- - the socially constructed behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and values of a particular community or population
- culture
- occurs when a marginalized group attempts to fit in with the dominant culture
- assimilation
- occurs when a marginalized group manages to keep co-cultural identity, while establishing a positive relationship with the dominant culture
- accomodation
- occurs when a marginalized group relates exclusively with its own group, while minimizing the relationship with the dominant culture
- separation
- tangible objects and physical substances that have been altered by human intervention, reflect a cultures values.
- material components
- include the beliefs, values, and norms held by a culture
- non-material components
- an attempt to share meaning between individuals from distinct cultures
- intercultural communication
- holding ones culture above other cultures
- ethnocentrism
- - the belief that a culture should be judged by its context rather than measured against another culture
- cultural relativism
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the use of symbols to persuade; a discipline that explores how messages influence people
- rhetoric
- intrigued by relative truth, they taught public speaking skills for free. Truth was based on the strength of the speaker to persuade his audience
- sophists
- communication style employs a question-response strategy.
- dialectic
- proof provided in the form of physical evidence that can be brought into the courtroom setting
- inartistic
- proof created by the speaker including ethos, logos, and pathos
- artistic proofs
- a speakers goodwill or character; an aspect of source credibility
- ethos
- logical appeals that a speaker uses; proof based on reasoning
- logos
- - emotional appeals that a speaker uses; proof based on feelings or emotions
- pathos
- discovery of ideas and arguments
- invention
- - the organization of ideas
- argument
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states that heavy viewing of television leads individuals to perceive reality in ways that are consistent with the portrayals they see on television.
- cultivation theory
- the process of determining what news, info, or entertainment is carried over media channels
- gateskeeping theory
- the idea that when mass media pay attention to particular events or issues, they determine the major topics of discussion for individuals and society
- agenda setting
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)- human communication and information shared through digital communication networks
- computer mediated communication
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- the use of electronic messages to create meaning
CMC literacy- concerned with many of the same concerns as media literacy, should be critically analyzed and evaluated. It adds an important extension of the mediated communication into the interperson - mediated communication
- - important aspect of understanding the relationship between rhetoric and the media. Based upon the principal that the more we know, the more we see
- visual literacy