CMN 3109 Midterm with Professor Conway
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is Investigative Theory? an explanation of what communication is—by
testing explanations and refining them.Learn by
designing and implementing a project with a
partner from the community.
What is Theory? Three approaches 1. Kyle Conway's patented Three Axioms of
Theory™
2. James Carey's paradox: the question that
presupposes its own answer
3. Robert Craig's pragmatic compromise
Kyle Conway's patented Three Theory: Three axioms
Axioms of Theory™ 1. Theory is an attempt to explain our experience of
the world.
2. If the explanation theory offers doesn't match
our experience, it's bad theory.
(2a. In the end, it's all bad theory.)
3. We must refine our explanation to replace bad
theory with better theory.
Questions to ask An explanation of our experience of the world.
What does he mean by theory?
How does his notion of theory shape It leaves open a range of possible definitions.
what he means by communication?
2. James Carey's paradox: the question that presupposes its own answer
, Transmission model The transmission view of communication is the
commonest in our culture— perhaps in all industrial
cultures—and dominates contemporary dictionary
entries under the term. It is defined by terms such
as 'imparting,' 'sending,' 'transmitting,' or 'giving
information to others.' [It treats communication as]
a process whereby messages are transmitted and
distributed in space for the control of distance and
people." (p. 12-13)
Ritual model The ritual view of communication, though a minor
thread in our national thought, is by far the older of
those views—old enough in fact for dictionaries to
list it under 'Archaic.' In a ritual definition,
communication is linked to terms such as 'sharing,'
'participation,' 'association,' 'fellowship,' and 'the
possession of a common faith.' ... A ritual view of
communication is directed not toward the
extension of messages in space but toward the
maintenance of society in time; not the act of
imparting information but the representation of
shared beliefs." (p. 15)
In a ritual model, what is "[C]ommunication is a symbolic process whereby
communication? reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and
transformed." (p. 19)
What does Carey mean by theory? Theory is a model (both of and for).
How does his (Carey's) notion of Theory prompts us to see certain things about
theory shape what he means by communication but not others.
communication?
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is Investigative Theory? an explanation of what communication is—by
testing explanations and refining them.Learn by
designing and implementing a project with a
partner from the community.
What is Theory? Three approaches 1. Kyle Conway's patented Three Axioms of
Theory™
2. James Carey's paradox: the question that
presupposes its own answer
3. Robert Craig's pragmatic compromise
Kyle Conway's patented Three Theory: Three axioms
Axioms of Theory™ 1. Theory is an attempt to explain our experience of
the world.
2. If the explanation theory offers doesn't match
our experience, it's bad theory.
(2a. In the end, it's all bad theory.)
3. We must refine our explanation to replace bad
theory with better theory.
Questions to ask An explanation of our experience of the world.
What does he mean by theory?
How does his notion of theory shape It leaves open a range of possible definitions.
what he means by communication?
2. James Carey's paradox: the question that presupposes its own answer
, Transmission model The transmission view of communication is the
commonest in our culture— perhaps in all industrial
cultures—and dominates contemporary dictionary
entries under the term. It is defined by terms such
as 'imparting,' 'sending,' 'transmitting,' or 'giving
information to others.' [It treats communication as]
a process whereby messages are transmitted and
distributed in space for the control of distance and
people." (p. 12-13)
Ritual model The ritual view of communication, though a minor
thread in our national thought, is by far the older of
those views—old enough in fact for dictionaries to
list it under 'Archaic.' In a ritual definition,
communication is linked to terms such as 'sharing,'
'participation,' 'association,' 'fellowship,' and 'the
possession of a common faith.' ... A ritual view of
communication is directed not toward the
extension of messages in space but toward the
maintenance of society in time; not the act of
imparting information but the representation of
shared beliefs." (p. 15)
In a ritual model, what is "[C]ommunication is a symbolic process whereby
communication? reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and
transformed." (p. 19)
What does Carey mean by theory? Theory is a model (both of and for).
How does his (Carey's) notion of Theory prompts us to see certain things about
theory shape what he means by communication but not others.
communication?
