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Module 9 Week 9 Reading Response Post

July 11, 2015

How Cell Phones are Empowering Women in the Developing World The article brings forward the knowledge gap between men and women in many of these countries and cultures. Before reading, …

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Module 9 Week 9 Lecture Discussion Post

Choose 2-3 of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions from slide 3 in the lecture and relate it to digital communication use in your own culture. Feel free to use personal examples where …

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Module 8 Week 8 Reading Response Post

July 5, 2015

Media Dissociation, Internet Use, and Antiwar Political Participation: A Case Study of Political Dissent and Action Against the War in Iraq “Structural equation modeling revealed that the more the individuals …

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Module 8 Week 8 Lecture Discussion Post

Does cultivation theory expand beyond television and violence? Choose 2-3 websites, digital platforms, digital technologies or media, etc. Then, using concepts from Cultivation theory, explain how these platforms do or …

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Module 7 Week 7 Reading Response Post

June 28, 2015

The Priming Effects of Virtual Environments on Interpersonal Perceptions and Behaviors Interesting idea that the imagery and items associated within a virtual world prime the user to specific behaviors both …

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Module 7 Week 7 Lecture Discussion Post

June 27, 2015

Question #1: Think about the concept of gatekeeping, the media, and the internet. How do you use the internet to bypass mass mediated forms of news and information? What do …

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Module 6 Week 6 Reading Response Post

June 20, 2015

Kindly App Helps You Find Someone to Listen When Times Are Tough Definitely an interesting concept for an App, and likely can touch all smartphone users at some point in …

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Module 6 Week 6 Lecture Discussion Post

Module 6 LDP: Isolation and Addiction Question #1: Given what we’ve learned today about social theories of mass communication, how do you perceive the media? Social? Isolationist? Offer debate points …

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Module 5 Week 5 Reading Response Post

June 13, 2015

Intimacy in Social Media Unpredicated tweets – love this concept. Interesting perspective that “social media is a low-bandwidth form of communication.” “When we lose these social cues, we also lose …

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Module 5 Week 5 Lecture Discussion Post

June 12, 2015

Module 5 LDP: Persuasion and Conversational Maxims Using what you’ve learned about persuasion models and conversational maxims, choose a company or organization and assign yourself the title of PR Executive. …

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