COMM 1130: Exam 4 vocabulary questions with complete solutions

COMM 1130: Exam 4 vocabulary
questions with complete solutions

Culture - ANS ✔✔the established, coherent set of beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices shared
by a large group of people



Mediated communication - ANS ✔✔digital technology used to deliver message content
between sources and receivers



Mass communication - ANS ✔✔ability to send or opportunity to communicate or target content
(messages, ideas, information, or entertainment) to large numbers of people in distant places at
one time using media formats or technological outlets (books, films, etc.)



Social media - ANS ✔✔Websites and other online means of communication that are used by
large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts
(dictionary.com)



Mass communication (how it works) - ANS ✔✔communicator, distributor, effectiveness,
dependence, ability



Communicator - ANS ✔✔creates content or has a message to send



Distributor - ANS ✔✔has the pipeline to distribute the message and have it received/decoded



Effectiveness - ANS ✔✔depends on being able to receive and understand the message