Define the term context, and discuss how it is related to the study of communication.

What will be an ideal response?


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The Daily Press prints a story quoting a public university administrator—the dean of sciences—saying that nearly all students in the university’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) are binge drinkers and come to class drunk. There are 400 SJMC students. Mary Smith, a senior in SJMC, knows that is not true about her and she wants to sue for libel. Smith could ______.

a. successfully sue for libel b. not successfully sue for libel because the Daily Press has an absolute privilege to quote the university administrator c. not successfully sue for libel because the statement contains nothing a jury could find defamatory d. not successfully sue for libel because she could not prove identification

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What are the characteristics of respectful public speaking?

What will be an ideal response?

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"How do you feel about the recent resignation of the Director of the Central Intelligence

Agency?" This type of survey question is known as a(n) _____ question. A) open B) closed C) scale D) loaded

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According to the text, recent research shows that a key reason why hostility is so

prevalent in human interactions over the Internet is because:

a. people become frustrated about not being able to hear another person’s voice. b. eye contact is missing and there is a general climate that creates an online sense of unidentifiability. c. people believe that more often than not, they are actually interacting with other machines instead of with other humans. d. all human interactions tend to be hostile—whether they take place over the Internet or in person. e. blue light from the computer screen stimulate brain hormones that tend to trigger hostility and aggression.

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