CST 190 test 3 exam

• What is the first step to the critical process of textual analysis?

  Describe-What do you see/hear? Characters? Features? Describe what they are like.
• What is the second step to the critical process of textual analysis?

  Analyze What patterns or categories emerge in the description?
• What is the third step to the critical process of textual analysis?

  
  

  Interpret-What do the categories mean?
• What is the fourth in the critical process of textual analysis?

  
  

  Evaluate to make judgements based on interpretations.
• What is selective exposure?

  
  

  The process through which people consciously choose to get the news from information sources that have view points compatible with their own.
• What is political economy?

  
  

  The ways in which media institutions produce texts in a capitalist system and the legal and regulatory frameworks that shape their options for doing so.
• What is agenda-setting?

  
  

  Determining which public-policy questions will be debated or considered.
• What are Interactive media?

  
  

  mediated communication technologies that are digital and converging and tend to be mobile.
• What are social media?

  Social media are the online means of communication, conveyance, collaboration, and cultivation among interconnected and interdependent networks of people, communities, and organizations enhanced by technological capabilities and mobility.
• What are two major areas of concern for scholars of interactive media?

  Characteristics of these media and their consequences

  Social (communicative) processes facilitated by these media, and their meaning/significance
• What does the social presence theory say?

  How close do people feel when communicating through various mediums?

  Face-to-face allows for high social presence; media vary in social presence
• What does the media richness theory say?

  How much information can a communication medium carry?

  -Face-to-face is richest; text-based is least rich
• Nonverbal communication and interactive media

  What nonverbals are permitted (or not) by a given medium?

  How does this impact message and meaning creation?
• Self-presentation with and through interactive media

  How we construct our identity and image, and work to control the impressions others have of us (via mediated communication).
• Self-disclosure with and through interactive media

  How we reveal information about ourselves, to others (via mediated communication).
• What does context collapse mean?

  Otherwise unrelated social contexts blend together.
• What is small group communication

  
  

  Communication among a small number of people [3 or more] who share a common purpose, who feel connected to one another, and coordinate their behavior
• What are the necessary components of a small group?

  
  

  Thus, groups are comprised of individuals who:

  -are interdependent

  -have a goal

  -interact according to shared rules
• What are group roles?

  
  

  Shared expectations of group members that are regarding individuals' communication behavior in the group.
• What are relational roles?

  
  

  Establish and maintain a group's social atmosphere.

  e.g.: encourager, compromiser, gatekeeper, expediter
• What is group leadership?

  
  

  An individual who is responsible for managing and directing a team of individuals towards achieving specific goals and objectives.
• Dewey's problem solving sequence (5 different stages)

  1. Define and delineate the problem

  2. Analyze the problem

  3. Identify alternative solutions

  4. Evaluate proposed solutions

  5. Choose the best solution
• What are organizations, from a communication studies perspective?

  
  

  Set of interactions that members of purposeful groups use to accomplish their individual and common goals.
• What is organizational culture?

  
  

  Pattern of shared beliefs, values, and behaviors that construct the reality of an organization.
• What components make up organizational culture?

  
  

  Language

  Ceremonies

  Habits

  Artifacts

  Beliefs and values
• What is organizational climate?

  
  

  How people feel about, or experience, the organizational culture.
• What is assimilation?

  
  

  Communicative processes that influence individuals to join, identify with, become integrated into, and occasionally exit org.
• What is organizational identification?

  
  

  Occurs when a members values overlap with org values.
• What is semantic-information distance?

  
  

  Is a gap in information and understanding between supervisors and subordinates.
• What is upward distortion?

  
  

  Happens when subordinates present information to supervisors in amore positive way than is warranted.
• What is trait leadership theory?

  
  

  A theory that assumes leaders are born and not made.
• What is Functional/situational theory?

  
  

  A theory that assumes that leadership behaviors can be learned.
• What is style theory?

  A theory that assumes that a leader's manner or style determines their success.
• What isTransformational leadership theory?

  
  

  A leadership style that empowers group members to work independently from the leader by encouraging group cohesion.
• What is servant leadership theory?

  
  

  A leadership style that seeks to ensure that other people's highest-priority needs are being served to increase teamwork and personal involvement.