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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: COMMUNICATION THEORY, SPRING 1999

The following are key concepts to consider for the final exam (this is merely a guide, not an exhaustive list)

*Uncertainty reduction theory (assumptions, predictions, strategies)

*Predicted Outcome Value (assumptions)

*Dialectic Theory (assumptions, tensions, and model)

*Interpersonal Motivation (assumptions, motives)

*Early Mass Communication theories (assumptions)

*Parasocial Interaction (research findings and assumptions)

*uses and gratifications theory (define, motivations)

*Mediated Communication (defined)

*Ideology and hegemony (defined and assumptions)

*Text (narrative theory, intertextuality)

*Context (subject positions, Marxist theory, Feminist Theory, Afrocentrism, Postmoderism)

*Reception (Reading positions, Polysemy)

*Cultivation theory (define, assumptions)

*The Truman Show class discussion

*Computer-mediated communication and Goffman's dramaturgical perspective

*Culture (definitions, micro, macro)

*Pennigton's model (assumptions)

*the perception process (3 steps)

*Ethnocentrism and prejudice

*Applied Communication (defined)

*Applied Communication and the systems approach (assumptions)

*Evaluating good theory and the criteria of good theory