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Chapter 4: Mediated Communication Flashcards

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Mediated Communication

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-process of communication separated by technological device

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Types of Mediated Communication

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  • mass media
  • social media
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Mass Media

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  • sending messages from content creators to huge, relatively anonymous audiences
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Social Media

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  • directly send and receive messages to manage personal and professional relationships
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Functions of Mediated Communication

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  • instrumental, relationship, and self-presentational goals
  • participating in professional and public communities
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Instrumental Goals

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  • practical objectives: find information, coordinate schedules
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Relationship Goals

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  • how you build, maintain, terminate bonds
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Self- Presentational Goals

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  • how you want others to see you
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Hastag Activism

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  • using social media to herighten publc awarness
  • alleviating boredom through social media
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Characteristics of Mediated Communication

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  • synchronous and asynchronous communication
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Synchronous Communication

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  • exchange of messages in real time
    -for difficult or complicated messages
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Asynchronous Communication

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-exchange of messages with time lapses
-non-urgent, quick, simple messages

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Restrictions of Nonverbal Information

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  • cues-filtered out model, social information processing theory, message life span
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Cues- Filtered- Out Model

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  • cues for understanding messages not available
  • more difficult to understand than face-to-face
    -acronyms, emoticons (emoji) used to convey intent
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Social Information Processing Theory

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  • people on social media choose words carefully
  • compensates for lack of cues
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Message Life Span

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  • no take-back or do-overs
  • long life span
  • easily searchable, retrievable, and replicable
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Self- Presentaion and Mediated Communication

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  • social network profile determines online face
    -online face is important for self-presentation
    -requires careful planning, management
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Creating Online Face

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  • posted content
  • conveys who we are how er wish to be seen
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Selfie

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  • positive photo or video oneself taken by oneself
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Warranting Vaule

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  • degree that others support your information
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Usernames

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  • names used for email addresses and online profiles tell others how we want to be perceived
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Friends and Professional Connections

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  • give impressions about our social status, political ideology, and other interests
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Three Ps of Mediated Communication

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  • powerful, public, permanent
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Powerful

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  • shapes other’s impression of you
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Public

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  • viewed by a larger audience than intended
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Permanent

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  • saved, stored, retrievable
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Mediated Communication Challenges

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  • perceived social isolation, online disinhibition, empathy deficit, online aggression, trolling, cyberbullying, digital deception
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Perceived Social Isolation

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  • clear link between social media consumed and experiencing loneliness, feelings of social isolation, and depression
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Online Disinhibition

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-feeling free to say anything, whether good or bad, online
-would never say it face-to-face
-makes people detached from the consequences of their messages

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Empathy Deficit

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-reduction in ability to experience others’ feelings

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Online Aggression

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-malicious and hateful posts and messages
-sharing of intimate and private content
-threats
-cyberstalking

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Trolling

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-posting aggressive messages to start fights
-motivated by enjoyment or boredom

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Cyberbullying

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-persistent online harassment pattern
-used to exert power over another

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If you think you are being cyberbullyed, you should

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  • firmly tell bully to stop
  • keep record of offending messages
  • report to police if concerned about physical safety
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Digital Deception

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  • intentionally misleading messages
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Identity-based digital deception

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  • falsely misrepresenting identity or gender

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