Final Exam Study Guide Spring 2014

This study guide is intended as a tool to help you focus your study for the final exam. The test will include objective methods of testing: multiple choice, true/false, matching and word banks. The test will primarily focus on material covered in class, but will also include information from book chapters on culture, relational communication, groups, and media.

Be able to distinguish between hi-context culture communication and low-context culture communication

Be able to define and distinguish between all of the major terms an concepts in the chapters on GROUPS, CULTURE, MEDIA, and RELATIONSHIPS.

Understand the ways that genres can be divided & the way that genres lead to ideology.  What does it mean for a particular media text to PUSH a genre or SERVE a genre?

How does Burke's Pentad help us understand the meanings and motives of stories.

What is a media conglomerates and how do they affect media?

Understand the idea that there are multiple stories being told in any media text; and what it means to find them. Understand the relationship between the main story, the genre story, the money story, the audience story and the medium story.

Understand the idea of a "mythic" story behind the story in a media text.

Know and be able to distinguish between all the steps of the standard agenda.

Be able to identify and explain each of the dialectic tensions from the relational communication class.

Be able to identify and understand the three different meanings of "Performance" in communication.

Be able to identify each of the six aspects of performances from Aristotelian thinking about performance.

Know the difference between media and mass media.

Be able to apply the five elements of cultural performances to an example from class.