COMM 201 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
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COMM 201 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
What is meant by a President going public? - Answer-The president has mass media and can directly affect public opinion. The idea of circumnavigate congress go around different branches, directly appeal to the public. Depending how t...
COMM 201 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED
What is meant by a President going public? - Answer-The president has mass media
and can directly affect public opinion. The idea of circumnavigate congress go around
different branches, directly appeal to the public. Depending how the president chooses
to frame an issue, social reality-how we are going to talk about something, whats not
important to talk about. Presidential office has a bigger influence on public opinion
What is the presidential power of definition? - Answer--Association
-Dissociation
Breaking into parts
-Identify with condensation symbols
-Frame shifting
-Takes a lot of power from the congress and legal system.
Why are public depictions of sexuality an important case study for analyzing the public
sphere? - Answer--It is important b/c it applies to all ideas, it is a long standing social
practice a lot of history and social rules of regulation, we choose to govern our
expression of sexuality. Foucault- a lot of feminist movement against pornography.
-Changing technologies and social norms- very important technology gave us greater
access, changed our relationship with pornography.
How do current definitions of obscenity rely on norms of the public sphere? - Answer--
Based on the average person applying contemporary community standards would find
that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.
-Thinking about why this is a great case study, people always disagreeing.
What is the challenge in defining the dominant frame for the Meese Commission
Report? - Answer--Focus on law enforcement testimony: Pornography is associated
with crime.
-Difficulty of establishing effects: Lack of effort defining the relationship between
pornography & violence
-Women's voices missing:Staff summaries of testimony. Focus on men who use
pornography
, How is technology changing the nature of the public sphere with regard to public
expressions of sexuality? - Answer--Porn the "most concerning thing to psychological
health that I know of existing today."
-The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused
and have role models for these behaviors .... To have drug pumped into your house
24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it --
it's a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts
who will never have the drug out of their mind."
What is consilience? - Answer--Process of consilience - synthesis of knowledge from
different specialized fields of human endeavor
What is bio-humanism? - Answer-Goal to create a universal set of laws for all human
action.
End product of:
Science
The creative arts (literature, drama, music, dance)
What are Condit‟s concerns with traditional cause and effect models - Answer-OCOE-
much more complicated than these, she is suggesting that is more realistic to have
multiple interacting causes, one effect.
What is genetic determinism? - Answer-Nature vs. Nurture
Why is an understanding the role of signs and symbols important to the rhetoric of
science? - Answer--Signs and symbols- symbols using animal and sign using animal,
scientific method- we tend to think of cause and effect as we all know there are multiple
causes that lead to an event. Ex.) drug ads- Condit's whole point is that we need to
think life more complex about that.
-Signs vs. symbols difference between signs- being things that have a direct
relationship, symbols have a context around them. Language gets really complicated,
different connotation. When we apply this to science, Dr. Stables functions of
amplication and circulation systems, rhetorical techniques as ways to understand
science wholistically.
How can rhetorical techniques influence our understanding of science? - Answer--
Function of amplification
As technique of collective symbolizing
To enhance/accelerate biologic programs
-Circulation systems
Run which 'program' at which time
(foraging, sleeping, etc.)
Routines and structures
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