exam 3 Flashcards
Cosmopolitan Comm
competent in managing mutual responding with members of a collective other than those in which you are an insider
bridge builder boundary spanner
cosmopolitan communicator
cosmopolitan comm characteristics
cognitive complexity
mindfulness
rhetorical flexibility
cognitive competence
takes for granted more than one explanation or interpretation for a phenomenon or event
develops interpretive schemes that match tasks assigned or circumstances encountered
cognitive competence
can make sophisticated distinctions necessary for composing person-centered messages/comfortable with ambiguity
cognitive competence
mindfulness
alert, lively awareness, attentive to moment, “right now”, recognizes what is yet unknown
cores skill of intellectual curiousity
mindfulness
rhetorical flexibilty
balances personal interests and values with those of the audiences
can adjust approach to shaping ideas to ppl and ppl to ideas
rhetorical flexibility
favor tentativeness over rigidity when making suggestions
rhetorical flexibility
public communication
managing mutual responding in polis
speech, class discussion, blog, radio, newspaper
public comm
oikos
private sphere, the choices and actions we choose in polis
polis
public sphere, great impact on life of of others
3 social functions of public comm
- testing ideas and shaping knowledge
- discovering fact/persuading others
- building community/distributing power
testing ideas and shaping knowledge
“pushing back”, constructing agreement as to what we think we know
discovering fact/persuading others
making arguments, advocating propositions, de-mystifying info
building community and distributing power
banding together in a shared message/ giving voice to silent or isolated, reducing unearned privelege
intercultural communication
values visible in comm practices when insiders ratify
ideas only ratified when they reflect
cultural value
culturally competent
same as competent communicator
practices can shape values
vice versa
low context culture
spell out messages explicitly
high context culture
dont need explicit messages to understand
cultural identity
sense of yourself as someone who competently performs comm. practices ratified by a collective’s insiders (muslim, atheist)
communication competence
cultural competence
to perform communication practices
insiders associate with a specific cultural identity, “do being” that identity
competent
effectively do being
organizational communication
process by which 8+ ppl communicate and balance creativity and constraint, in process of pursuing individual and collective goals