COMM 1370 Lecture 1: COMM 1370 Section 1
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: makes you a better communicator and critical thinker. : helps you make sense of everyday life. Communication as a foundation: anchors personal life and identity. Symbols: arbitrary and ambiguous representations of other things. Interactive: bidirectional; feedback becomes part of the loop research education. Rhetoric: born in mid 400s b. c. in syracuse out of revolution and upheaval. First theorists of rhetoric: corax and tisais. Group and team communication: small group dynamics. Interpersonal communication: creation and maintenance of relationships rhetorical criticism. Mass media: media and society interaction and relationships. Mediated communication (social media/technology): technology channels of communication. Sterotype: a predictive generalization based on categories. Self-serving bias: success is because of what we control and failure is because of things we have no control over. Selection: what we pay attention to/are interested in/are motivated by. Interpretation: creating explanations for what we observe and experience stability specificity responsibility. Responsibility: reactions within a person"s control or factors outside their control.
