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The origin of the word dissemination comes from the latin words that mean "scatter" and "seed" - correct answer True People always explicitly state and explain the models they have of communication - correct answer False "Communication' is a cultural process where we participate in patterns of coordination and cooperation" describes the ___________of communication - correct answer Ritual model One piece of evidence that communication models exist in our everyday life is when_______. - correct answer We feel like communication is going "wrong" According to the dialogue model, "Communication is a reciprocal process where we work through works, signs, or symbols toward________" - correct answer Understanding The Ritual Model of communication is a(n)__________process of communication - correct answer Cyclical A key term in Shannon and Weaver's model of communication is "information." - correct answer True The transmission model of communication is cyclical - correct answer False A good example of "dissemination" in action is a bulletin board with flyers on it. - correct answer True Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver were engineers. - correct answer True Public communication is "any form of communication where we are, or we might as well be, communicating with____________" - correct answer Strangers
At its "core" communication is about the "common." - correct answer True Which of these would NOT be an example of public communication? - correct answer Writing in a diary According to the dissemination model, "Communication is a ___________process where we indiscriminately spread words, signs, or symbols" - correct answer One-Way Communication is situational (i.e., depends on context) - correct answer True Privacy is etymologically related to the notion of privation. - correct answer True For ancient Greeks and Romans, privacy was a form of_____________. - correct answer Deprivation A challenge to talking about "public" things is that the "public" is a fluid concept that means different things to different people. - correct answer True In our reading from "Talking with Strangers," Danielle Allen identifies "old myths" and three "____________________" that she says "directly reveal the difficulties of democratic practice and citizenship." - correct answer Epiphanies The "ancient people" that Prof. O'Gorman says we got the language of private and public are Greeks and Romans. - correct answer True There is no _____________ where there is nothing shared in common. - correct answer Public The ancient Greeks called the art of public communication: - correct answer Rhetoric The res publica translates to what? - correct answer The Public Thing The "public" is generally a word that does NOT get used to describe things people interact with every day. - correct answer False
Subaltern publics are publics that are _____________ than many of the members of the mainstream public sphere. - correct answer less socio-economically powerful What makes a social group a public and not just a club? - correct answer An orientation toward the public. There is only one public sphere. - correct answer False For Habermas, the public sphere depends primarily on "behavioral requirements" and: - correct answer structural conditions Counterpublics are publics that are oriented toward ______________ the mainstream public sphere. - correct answer Opposing Why would "tribes" want to "pop the public?" - correct answer They value loyalty to identify/ tribe over autonomy The Enlightenment is a cultural project, born in Europe, that emphasizes the civilizing power of ___________ over and against what was seen as unruly fanaticism, superstition, and mythology. - correct answer Reason According to Habermas, the 'public sphere' is a realm of social life in which public opinion is reasonably formed, and directed toward addressing ____________. - correct answer issues of common concern Habermas might say that the principle of autonomy involves: - correct answer Thinking for yourself According to "Politics for Everybody," politics is fundamentally twisted and must be done away with. - correct answer False The problem with the economy/ capitalism as a totalizing alternative to politics is _____________. - correct answer it regards individuals not as citizens, but as consumers and producers
Fear is an anti-political principle. - correct answer True Anti-politics is the belief that: - correct answer the most efficient means of cooperation is through force The forth basic principle of politics is that - correct answer we are different from one another The third basic principle of politics is that there are concerns... - correct answer that become common According to "Politics for Everybody," Technology, History, the State, and the economy are all examples of: - correct answer Systems Hannah Arendt argued that when politics operated under the logics of the entertainment industry, then citizens only mattered in their role as: - correct answer Consumers According to "Politics for Everybody," there is a difference between engaging a topic politically and politicizing it. - correct answer True The first basic principle of politics is that: - correct answer we all live together on Earth According to "Politics for Everybody," much of what we learn from politics comes from the electoral- entertainment complex: - correct answer True The second basic principle of politics is that we share ____________________ - correct answer capacities for thought and action The fifth basic principle of politics is that we ___________ the difference between freedom and force. - correct answer can feel According to Arendt, the sixth basic principle of politics is that we need spaces to relate to each other politically, as well as __________. - correct answer space between each other
Media Ecology theory was developed by Neil Postman, with influence from the work of Hannah Arendt. - correct answer False Attention to the "affordances" of technology calls us to notice: - correct answer How technologies "summon" us to use them A government that uses misinformation and falsifies data to convince a public that its secret military program does not exist is guilty of: - correct answer Organized lying In "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Postman claims that "the age of typography" had been replaced by the second half of the 20th century with what? - correct answer The age of television Hannah Arendt is equally critical of all forms of lying in politics. - correct answer False Proxies are best understood as: - correct answer stand-in data Which of the following was used in lecture and discussion as an example of "proxy" data? - correct answer Standardized testing We can understand algorithms like: - correct answer if/then recipes for data Why is "the function" such a problem for modeling? - correct answer The future has no data In "Weapons of Math Destruction," Cathy O'Neil says that models are "nothing more than:" - correct answer abstract representations of a process What's the connection between highways and algorithms, as discussed this week? - correct answer They're both parts of our modern "infrastructure" A key part of Shannon & Weaver's transmission model was that the sender and receiver must be human.
This part of Shannon and Weaver's Transmission Model was highlighted in lecture this week, and relates to algorithms and data collection: - correct answer Feedback Many digital systems are predictive in nature. - correct answer True "Models" of data are like "models of communication. How? - correct answer Both are trying to make sense of large, complex ideas Models help us make large piles of data into meaningful data sets. - correct answer True According to danah boyd, in the age of social media people don't care about privacy. - correct answer False Philosopher Jean Baudrillard used this term to indicate the value of something relative to something else: - correct answer Sign value According to dana boyd, social media has made it easier to control our public image. - correct answer False Which of the following is not primarily affected by the forces of supply and demand? - correct answer Sign Value Which of the following did we discuss as a key feature of "the digital?" - correct answer Automation "Modularity" is a principle element of: - correct answer The Digital Pitchford's understanding of Algorithmic Publics considers how online publics are constituted by _____________ and humans interacting. - correct answer Machines According to dana boyd, one of the positives of social media is that it gives everyone equal access and ability to speak out in public. - correct answer False
Ethos, according to Aristotle, is a word meaning: - correct answer The perceived credibility of the speaker Our senses of time, be they chronos, kairos, or otherwise, are always separate. - correct answer False A speaker who is excellent with kairos is adept at: - correct answer Adapting to moments and opportunities Phronesis is a Greek word meaning: - correct answer Practical Wisdom In lecture Dr. O described authenticity as: - correct answer Being true to yourself From the lecture: Knowledge _________________ you as a public communicator, giving you _______________. - correct answer Authorizes, Credibility Which of the following concepts describes the kind of time that is marked on a calendar or watch? - correct answer Chronos The sense of time that describes "the opportune moment" is ____________ - correct answer Kairos Our communication competency depends in large part on how we utilize kairos. - correct answer True All public communication is: - correct answer styled Style is a _____________________ identity. - correct answer means of negotiating or regulating Style is aesthetic, relating to: - correct answer perception by the senses A "handbook style:" _____________________ rules about what is proper and improper with respect to style. - correct answer Explicit
In George Mead's theory of the "I" and "Me", the "I" describes: - correct answer The individual sense of self Both forms of style are: - correct answer built into structures of social power In class, we have discussed identity as a ______________ phenomenon. - correct answer Social According to lecture, most of style in everyday life is regulated by: - correct answer decorum Mead says that this is essential for the development of the self: - correct answer Language Power, especially political power, regulates itself via _________. - correct answer decorum Some public communication has no style (or is not styled) - correct answer False People ________________ based on our way of 'writing ourselves' into the public world. - correct answer make value judgments Identity can be defined as ______________ characteristics that make us the "same and different" from everyone else. - correct answer differential Style is a way of ____________ ourselves into the public world. - correct answer Writing Symbolic interaction understands identity as __________________ via communication. - correct answer the product of ongoing interactions between self and society Which of these three theorists thinks an individual has the MOST control over their social identity? - correct answer Goffman
Conservatives are those who seek to maintain or support institutions. - correct answer True According to "Politics for Everybody," what is the third rule of rhetoric? - correct answer Wherever possible, rule rhetorically Rhetoric is _______________. - correct answer audience centered One way Aristotle defined rhetoric is: - correct answer the ability of observing in any given situation the available means of persuasion. Pathos is persuasion through _____________ - correct answer appeal to audience emotions Danielle Allen invites us to think of rhetoric as a tool for: - correct answer Trust Production Ethos is persuasion through the construction of ___________ in the speech itself. - correct answer a sense of one's character Plato's Allegory of the Cave presents politics as a deceptive world of appearances and shadows. - correct answer True In the Allegory of the Cave, a prisoner: - correct answer escapes the cave, goes back into the cave, tells others about the "outside" According to Chapter 5 of "Politics for Everybody," what is the first rule of rhetoric? - correct answer Approach others as both equals and different As an audience in public communication, we should: - correct answer judge According to "Politics for Everybody," what is the second rule of rhetoric? - correct answer You must persuade
Dr. O'Gorman writes in "Politics for Everybody" that, for Plato, the solution to "the cave" is: - correct answer A class of enlightened escape artists Logos is persuasion through _______________. - correct answer reasoned argument For Aristotle, the goal of rhetoric is not persuasion, but... - correct answer judgement According to Chapter 5 of "Politics for Everybody," what is the main difference between factors and opinions for Arendt? - correct answer Opinions are far more flexible, changeable, and manipulable than facts
