What is groupthink?
What will be an ideal response?
It is the willingness to conform to what the group thinks at the moment rather
than to critically think about the issue and potentially come to a better conclusion.
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The book industry objected to the Patriot Act because it
A) allowed wiretaps of just about everyone. B) required government review and approval of new books on terrorism. C) allowed federal agents to go into bookstores and libraries and look at customers' records. D) put authors and their political beliefs in a national registry.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Group communication involves an unequal number of senders and receivers. 2. Mass communication and the mass media are really the same thing. 3. The SMCR model is also known as the transmission model. 4. According to media scholar James Potter, media messages have consistent meanings to all receivers. 5. Different media channels can give messages different meanings.
In order to present a speech that is appropriate for your intended listeners, what should you look for when analyzing the information that you have gathered about your audience?
What will be an ideal response?
Scholars use the term polysemy to describe ______.
A. the time it takes to create meaningful media content B. the notion that multiple meanings can coexist in media content C. the notion that there is only one true meaning in media content D. the amount of people it takes to create meaningful media content