Category: Communications Theories
Coordinated Management of Meaning
This post examines the central facet of the the theory CMM: People co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create.
Expectancy Violations Theory
Expectancy Violations Theory attempts to explain people’s reactions to unexpected behavior.
Cultural Identity and Stereotyping
In recent times, and partly as a result of the increasing importance of the media in constructing people’s identities, people seem to have developed a much more fragmented and fluid sense of their own identities.
Politeness Theory
Politeness theory is the theory that accounts for the redressing of the affronts to face posed by face-threatening acts to addressees.
Speech Codes
Speech Code Theory explores the manner in which groups communicate based on societal, cultural, gender, occupational or other factors.
Semiotics and Roland Barthes
The study of the relationship between images and what they signify is called semiotics.
What is Communication?
What is Communication anyways? How does it occur? How do theorists explain communication and life?
Social Information Processing
Contrary to the Media Richness Theory, Social Information Processing believes that people are intelligent and can adapt to different communication medias.
Agenda Setting Theory
The Agenda-Setting Theory says that news are quite successful at telling us what to think about.
Gerbner and Cultivation Theory
Gerbner’s cultivation theory says that television has become the main source of storytelling in today’s society.
