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Introducing Communication Theory Analysis And Application 7th Edition Richard West, Lynn Turner - Solutions
If you outlined the stages of a past romantic relationship of yours, would it follow the sequencing that Altman and Taylor suggest? What similarities are there to the social penetration process? What differences are there? Provide examples.
Discuss the (possible) interplay of SPT with Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Other than an onion, what additional analogies or metaphors can you think of that would apply to SPT?
Corrina and Marcus have begun to establish their relationship online after just a few conversations. Do you believe that their experiences reflect what others experience when going online in the same manner as Corrina? Do any demographic issues (e.g., age, biological sex, cultural background) make
Think of other situations in which a “cues filtered-out” approach exists. Use examples in your response.
Compare and contrast the coming together of a relationship online and one that is FtF.
Envision that you are a social media expert who is embarking upon an online relationship with someone who is not tech-savvy. Discuss the similarities and differences in this online relationship development.
React, with examples, to the concerns and cautions expressed by Delia (in the Student Voices box). Do you believe her views are appropriate? Why or why not?
Walther’s followers are beginning to examine what happens when online communicators meet for the first time. What experiences have you had (or have you heard about) related to meeting in this manner?
Provide an example for each component of the hyperpersonal perspective and determine whether or not the approach merits modification.
Recall a time when you were involved in a group similar to the Bayside City Tire Company—a time when a decision had to be made. What were some of the rules that influenced the process of decision making?Were the rules changed as a result of the decision that was reached or the process that was
One of the assumptions of this theory is that power structures are present in groups and guide the decision-making process by providing us with information on how to best accomplish our goals. Discuss the potential positive and negative implications of power as an element of structuration.
Giddens proposes that structure (rules and resources) should not be viewed as a barrier to interaction, but as a necessary part of the creation of the interaction. Do you agree or disagree with this position?Defend your answer.
Identify elements of other communication theories that are evident in the Structuration approach to groups, teams, and organizations.
Structuration Theory proposes that structures themselves should be viewed as being nontemporal and nonspatial. Discuss the significance of this idea. Provide an example from your own experience of the influence of time and space in a group or organization.
How would you explain your family using any of the principles of Structuration Theory?
Structuration theorists state that the theory has the potential to provide real-world applications. Discuss your reaction to this claim.
Based on your understanding of the concepts of Organizational Information Theory, what additional avenues could Dominique engage in to facilitate a solution to the FedReg project in BankNG? Respond using at least two concepts discussed in the chapter.
Recall an organization in which you are or were a member. Can you remember an incident when you or the organization received ambiguous information? If so, what rules did you or the organization use in dealing with this equivocality?
Weick describes the process of enactment, selection, and retention to understand how organizations deal with information inputs. Provide an example of how your school has employed these strategies in making sense of information on your campus.
Do you think that highly equivocal information requires more complex communication processes in order to make sense of the input? Defend your answer.
Discover if your college or university solicits feedback from students regarding its promotion of the school. Discuss the methods that your school uses.
Discuss how organizational rules function in OIT.
Apply equivocality to an organization with which you are familiar.
Does Sally’s situation, from our chapter opening scenario, ring true for you? Are the topics that she hears about through media actually charting an agenda for her to think about? Have you ever had an the experience like Sally’s, where you realize that there are a lot of important issues in the
Why do you think it’s important to know the history of Agenda Setting Theory? (How) does it help you to understand and/or apply the theory to know about its evolution over time?
Pick a recent news event and discuss how the second level of agenda setting might have been at work during the reporting of it. For instance, how did the media cover the 2019–2020 Democratic primary nominees’ debates or the Congress’ impeachment and trial of President Donald J. Trump in
Do you agree that framing is a part of Agenda Setting Theory or do you think that it is a competing theory that suggests Agenda Setting is no longer useful?
Discuss a news event that has gone through the three-stage process suggested by Agenda Setting Theory: first it is placed on the media agenda, then the public’s agenda, and finally it reaches the policymakers’ agenda where actual policy is made that relates to the news event.
Do you agree that Agenda Setting is a limited effects model? As the chapter notes the theory’s originator, Maxwell McCombs, has alternated in how he has framed the type of effects claimed by Agenda Setting. What do you think? Explain your answer.
Who do you think sets the agenda for the media? Do you agree with the material in the chapter about how the media agenda gets established? Explain your answer.
Carol Fahey feels embarrassed about offering her opinions to a group that does not share her beliefs.Consider a similar time in your life. Did you speak out, or did you decide to remain quiet? What motivated your decision?
Discuss the times that you have been part of the hard-core minority. How did you behave? How did your confidence and self-esteem influence your behavior?
Does it make a difference to you to learn that Noelle-Neumann was once a newspaper journalist for Nazi publications? Why or why not?
Do you believe that given all the different mediated sources available today, the U.S. media are ubiquitous, consonant, or cumulative? Exemplify your responses.
Noelle-Neumann believes that the media help to influence minority views. Based on your observations of the media over the past several years, do you agree or disagree with this claim? What examples can you provide to defend your position?
Comment on the influence of the Internet on public opinion.
What do you suppose influences the “last-minute swings” of people?
Are there choices other than those identified for Ryan Grant to consider in his decision to do something on Friday night? How do these alternatives relate to UGT? Use examples in your response.
How active a media consumer are you? Are you always thoughtful in your choice of media content? Do you bring different levels of activeness to different media—newspapers versus radio, for example?
UGT has been criticized for failing to consider when media are dysfunctional. Do you agree with this critique? If you do agree, how do you think the theory can adapt to this problem? Is it a fatal flaw in the theory? Explain your answer. If you do not agree, explain why not.
UGT assumes that media present content and consumers choose when and how to consume it. How does the Internet threaten to disrupt this model? How might UGT adapt to allow for the transformation of traditional media consumers into online media users and producers?
What’s your position on the effects of the media on media consumers? Do you agree with limited effects or do you think the media’s effects are greater than what UGT and other limited effects models suggest?Explain your answer with examples.
What difference does genre make to UGT? If Ryan wanted to see an action/adventure film or a quirky romantic comedy, how would that affect his choice between Netflix and the local movie multiplex? How does UGT account for media genre and content?
Are there other uses and gratifications that people may get from media that the chapter doesn’t discuss?Explain your answer.
If he had to do it over again, what communication strategies would you recommend for Kevin Bruner in his conflict with Professor Yang? How might he save his own face and the face of his professor?
Have you been to one of the countries categorized here as collectivistic? If so, what communication differences did you notice between that culture and U.S. culture?
Do you believe that Face-Negotiation Theory relies on people being reasonable agents who are capable of handling conflict? How can conflict become unreasonable? Explain with examples.
Interpret the following statement by Ting-Toomey through description and example: “Collectivists need to work on their ethnocentric biases as much as the individualists need to work out their sense of egocentric superiority.” Do you agree or disagree with her view?
What evidence do you have that face maintenance is a critical part of U.S. society? Use examples in your response.
Consider the rapid changes of conflict both in your life and surrounding you. What elements of FNT are most applicable and why?
Apply any concept or feature of FNT to a job interview.
Discuss Roger Thomas’s initial reactions to his new job in Houston. How do they specifically relate to his sense of self?
Do you believe Mead’s argument that one cannot have a self without social interaction? Would a person raised in relative isolation, for example, have little to no sense of self? Explain your answer.
Has there been a time in your life when your sense of self changed dramatically? If so, what contributed to the change? Did it have anything to do with others in your life?
Do you agree with the emphasis that Mead places on language as a shared symbol system? Is it possible to interact with someone who speaks a completely different language? Explain your position.
One of the criticisms of SI is that it puts too much emphasis on individual action and not enough emphasis on the constraints on individuals put upon them by society and their social position. What do you think about this criticism? Give examples to support your position.
Explain the difference between the self-fulfilling prophecy and the Pygmalion effect. How are they similar? How are they different?
Do you agree that Mead’s theory is too broad in scope to really be considered a theory? Explain your answer.
Identify the different types of coordination will our chapter opener’s Taylor--Murphy family experience as they begin a life together? Try to identify stages that the family may experience and specific episodes of coordination.
How might coordination be influenced by differing cultural backgrounds of communicators, including race, age, sexual identity, and geographical location, among others?
Discuss enmeshment and its relationship to conversations in your family. Be sure to define the term before applying it.
Chess and poker are games requiring coordination. Discuss some of life’s “games” and how they require coordination. Be creative and give specific examples.
Identify and explain a strange loop that exists in popular culture or in your interpersonal relationships.
Describe an episode in your life where telling a story enhanced the meaning between you and another person. What was the story about?
Apply CPM Theory to Lisa Sanders’s case. How might the theory help Lisa to understand her situation?
Within the past 10 years there has been an increase in the number of studies using CPM, which seems to indicate it’s standing the test of time. Do you agree that CPM will stand the test of time? Why or why not?
What approach to theory building does Petronio take in CPM Theory (laws, rules, systems, or some combination)? Explain your answer.
What topics that interest you would you use CPM Theory to investigate? Generate some questions that you could research using CPM.
Do you agree with Petronio’s defense of CPM against the critique that it uses the concept of dialectics but really takes a dualistic approach to privacy management? Explain your reasoning.
Explain how you create privacy boundaries and disclosure rules. Do the axioms of CPM hold true in your personal experience? If they do, explain how you use core and catalyst criteria in making decisions about private information. If you don’t think the components and axioms are useful in
Provide an example of how privacy turbulence affects CPM processes.
What advice would you give the Melton Publishing board of directors before they meet to discuss their financial situation? Frame your advice with Groupthink concepts in mind.
Janis and ‘t Hart have proposed a number of ways to prevent Groupthink. Their suggestions, however, were made years ago. Are there recommendations that you find either unreasonable or inappropriate today? Explain.
Have you ever been in a small group/team with too much cohesiveness? If so, did Groupthink develop? If so, how did you know? If not, what prevented it from occurring?
In his book, Groupthink, Janis asks if a little knowledge of groupthink is a dangerous thing. Why do you think Janis asks this question, and what are the consequences of knowing about Groupthink?Incorporate examples into your response.
Think about how groupthink functions on social media. What specific real or hypothetical examples can you identify?
Apply principles of Groupthink to recent domestic and foreign-policy decisions made by the United States.
Discuss the delicate balance between sufficient group cohesion and exceedingly high amounts of group cohesion. Illustrate your response with examples from your own group experiences.
How can employees like Amelia Callahan ease into a new and different organizational culture? What advice would you give her as she begins her new job with Jewelry Plus?
Consider some of the organizations to which you belong. Identify the cultural performances that you have either observed or shared. How could you use these performances in your work?
Geertz has compared culture to a spider web. What other metaphors can you think of that could represent organizational cultures?
Discuss your preferences and experiences with various organizational cultures (including schools). What differences and similarities exist? Which type of culture did you prefer?
Imagine that you’re an ethnographer who has been assigned to study your school’s culture. How might you go about studying it? What sort of cultural artifacts or rituals would you find?
Based on your job experiences, explain the frequency of the various cultural performances identified by Pacanowsky and O’Donnell-Trujillo.
How would you apply principles of OCT to your family?
In the chapter-opening scene, Camille Ramirez relied on Aristotle’s view of public speaking. Do you believe that she could have been more effective? In what way? Use examples in your response.
Aristotle’s critics have focused on the fact that his theory is simply a collection of lecture notes that are contradictory, vague, and often narrow. Does this make a difference to you? Why or why not?
Employ syllogistic reasoning for and against each of the following topics: physician-assisted suicide, marriage equality, and medicinal marijuana use.
Discuss what canon of rhetoric is most important when politicians speak to their constituents. Use examples to defend your view.
If Aristotle were alive today and you were his student, what additional suggestions would you offer him for a new edition of the Rhetoric? Why do you believe your suggestions are important to address in public speaking? Incorporate examples in your response.
Aristotle spent a great deal of time discussing the role of the audience. If you were giving a speech on safety to a group of convenience store employees, what sort of audience analysis would you undertake?
Explain how principles from the Rhetoric relate to job interviews.
How could Karl talk about Eric Spellman’s situation in a less polarized fashion? What are the linguistic barriers to such a discussion? Does a feminist critique of Burke’s theory enable you to think of less polarized language? Explain your answer.
Use the pentad to analyze a public figure and the discourse surrounding some current controversy involving this figure.
How do you understand the use of the pentad as a method relative to Dramatism as a theory? Do all theories have specific methods that are used only with them? Why or why not?
Do you agree with Burke that guilt is the primary human motive? If not, what do you think is the primary human motive?
Burke believes that symbols, and language in particular, are critical in life. When he says that language acts as a terministic screen, what do you think he means? Provide some examples of how language does this.
Do you agree with Condit that Burke’s theory is culture specific rather than universal? Explain your answer.
Apply any element of Dramatism to your life. For instance, have you experienced identification with a public figure? If so, what strategies did they employ that allowed you to feel this way?
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