Comm Theory Exam 1
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- 3 Theories of Symbolic Activity
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- George Herbert Mead, Mind-Self-I&Me-Role Taking
- Mind
- Ability to use symbols - common social meaning - deleveoped through interaction
- T/F - I and Me keep each other in check?
- True
- Symbolic Interactionism - I
- Acting Subject, Impulsive, Unburdened, - source of creative/criminal genius
- Symbolic Interactionism - Me
- Socially concious - reflects actions/impulses of the I - analytical, aware of rules
- Role Taking
- Viewing things from another POV
- Dramatism
- Burke
- 3 parts of Dramatism
- Identification, Guilt, Dramastic Pentad (Hexad)
- Indentification (Dramatism)
- Substance, Consubstatiality
- Substance
- What makes us unique - Dramatism-Identification
- Consubstatiality
- Overlap of substance from acting together - Dramatism-Indentification
- Guilt
- Dramatism
- Dramatistic Pentad (Hexad)
- Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, Purpose, Attitude
- Act
- Realist
- Scene
- Materialist
- Agent
- Idealist
- Agency
- Pragmatisc
- Purpose
- Mysticism
- Attidude
- Overall motivation
- Narrative Theory
- Fisher - Humans are storytelling creatures
- Narrative Theory 3 key concepts
- Narrative Paradigm, Good Reasons, Narrative Rationality
- Fisher's Def of Narrative Theory
- Symbolic actions works and/or deeds that have sequence/meaning for those who live, create, interpret them
- Rational world paradigm
- Narrative Theory - evidence, facts, pure logic
- Narrative rationality
- Narrative Theory - good reasons, culture, history, character
- Dramaturgical Theory
- Burke, Goffman - your performance in life seen as a stage
- Model of Social Interaction (3 parts)
- Stage, Actors, Audience
- Stage
- Setting, context, interaction
- actors
- those who act
- audience
- those who watch/listen
- Frames
- Dramaturgical Theory - Models we rely on to make sense of experience - wedding, first date, etc
- Impression Management
- Process of managing setting, words, nonverbal comm, etc
- Front Stage
- What is visible to an audience
- /Back Stage
- Behind the scenes - not visible to audience
- Performance Ethnography
- study of diversity and unity of cultural performance
- Author - Performance Ethnography
- Dwight Conquergood
- Thick Description
- Performance Ethnography - represents culture practices from POV of those native to culture
- Thin description
- shallow description of activities
- Performance Ethnography - participation
- get outside of your culture into another
- Being involved in the life of the group in body and mind
- Performance Ethnography
- Hermeneutic Circle
- Harold Garfinkel - Near/Distance experience meanings - how ethnographers gain understanding of cultures
- Near experience meanings
- Hermeneutic Circle - significant to memebers of a culture
- Distance experience meanings
- Hermeneutic Circle - significant to those outside a culture
- Personal Narrative
- Who we are, what we've done, what we stand for
- Personal Testimony
- Personal Narrative - persuade others to see us a certain way - Imrpession management
- "...sees performances as a weapon for liberation."
- Augusto Boal
- Theater of the Oppressed
- Augusto Boal
- Technological Determinism
- Marshall McLuhan
- 4 Epocs of Technolgical Determinism
- Tribal, Literate, Print, Electronic
- Tribal Epoc
- heavy reliance on spoken word
- Literate Epoc
- writing systems
- Print Epoch
- produce mass quantities of text - Gutenburg press
- Electronic Epoc
- telegraph started it - electronic communication
- Medium is the message
- Marshall McLuhan
- Hot Media
- Media with fairly complete sensory data - no input needed
- Cold Media
- Incomplete Media - requires much input from user (crossword)
- Cultivation Theory (tv)
- George Gerbner - TV cultivates (promotes) view of society that is not true
- Synthetic Reality
- Cultivation Theory - Gerbner - Child's world view established by media at age 6
- Mainstreaming
- TV's ability to establish views of society
- Resonance
- Those actually involved with violence more likely to believe more of exaggerated TV violence
- 6 assumptions of cultivation theory in TV
- 1. TV is Unique 2. TV forms Mainstream 3. TV forms assumptions 4. TV is conservative 5. small observable effects 6. New tech extend TV's Influence
- 3 Critical Comm Theories
- 1. Feminist 2. Muted Group
- Feminist inclusion stage
- scholars attempt to increase awareness of women in society