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COM 200 Questions and Correct
Answers (100% Pass)
Julia Wood


✓ communication is a systemic process in which individuals interact with

and through symbols to create and interpret meanings.




Balchtin


✓ Already Spokens- everything that has been said before




Features of theories


✓ - maps of realities, lenses

✓ -can have several theories of same phenomenon

✓ -need to be tested and retested

✓ -usually associated with particular academics

✓ -truth seeking and strategic

✓ -may be objective or interpretive

✓ -answer the question why

✓ -research methods can be quantitative, qualitiative or both




Objective Theories
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✓ -scientific

✓ -quantitative methodologies

✓ -truth is singular

✓ -cause and effect

✓ -deterministic(behavior that happens is influenced by things out of

control)

✓ -generalizibility

✓ -predictability and control

✓ -methodologies designed to be value free (axiology)




Interpretive Theories




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✓ -rhetorical or humanistic

✓ -concerned with meaning

✓ -assume imposibility of separating knower from known

✓ -voluntaristic (behavior is often the product of conscious choice)

✓ -reification- we make real what we think is real

✓ -relies on social constructionism (all of our social reality is created

through communicative interactionism and language)

✓ -value-laden

✓ -emancipation (flipping social hierarchy)

✓ -making sense of unique events

✓ -qualitiative methodologies

✓ -guides for interpretation of communication behavior

✓ -focus on epistemology (nature of knowledge)




7 Traditions in the field of communication theory


✓ Socio-Psychological, Cybernetic, Rhetorical, Semiotic, Socio-Cultural,

Critical, and Phenomenological




Robert Craig




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✓ 1991, "Communication as a Field"; before that, it wasn't thought of as a

field. All communication theories are relevant to practical life world.

Broke down into seven traditions




Carl Hovland and Yale Team


✓ Socio Psychological Tradition

✓ -scientific perspective

✓ -source and content of persuasive messages

✓ -source credibility rests on expertness and character

✓ -Sleeper Effect: impact of credibility doesn't last




Wiener


✓ Cybernetic Tradition

✓ -field of Artificial intelligence

✓ -introduced concept of feedback

✓ -Claude Shannon established the idea of communication as

information processing

✓ -goal= maximize line capacity with minimum distortion

✓ -reduce uncertainty through redundancy

✓ -tricolon- thinking in three's



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