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Chapter 5—Symbolic Interactionism
Theorist biography
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mead/
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism
https://sites.google.com/site/sssinteraction/
ARTICLE: Mead on self and social control
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/4111/Readings/MeadSelf.pdf
VIDEO: Overview of symbolic interactionism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFQIIM8IRZU
Chapter 6—Coordinated Management of Meaning
Theorist home page (Cronen)
http://uncw.edu/com/about/cronen.html
Theorist obituary (Pearce)
http://ncdd.org/6247
CMM Institute home page
http://www.cmminstitute.net/
Pearce Associates consulting, training, and research home page
http://www.pearceassociates.com/
ARTICLE: Extending CMM
http://www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be/Documents_electroniques/MET/MET-COM/ELE%20MET-COM%20A-8192.pdf
VIDEO: Interview with Cronen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llxvA7fj5wI
VIDEO: In memory of Pearce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVkyXqd3p3o
Chapter 7—Expectancy Violations Theory
Theorist home page
https://mis.eller.arizona.edu/people/judee-burgoon
ARTICLE: Chronemic violations in online communication
http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf/KalmanRafaeliChronemics2011.pdf
CHAPTER: Intercultural applications of EVT and IAT
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judee_Burgoon/publication/290990677_Cross-cultural_and_intercultural_applications_of_expectancy_violations_theory_and_interaction_adaptation_theory/links/573c7d8408ae298602e58714.pdf
Infographic on the theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2013/10/expectancy-violations-theory_23.html
VIDEO: Interview with Burgoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpQ67P9_Pg
Chapter 8—Social Penetration Theory
Theorist home page (Altman)
http://altman.socialpsychology.org/
ARTICLE: Social penetration and blogging
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353741/
VIDEO: Intro to social exchange theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHi1R--_CTI
VIDEO: Social exchange and The Big Bang Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhHTdDqoBc
Chapter 9—Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Theorist home page
http://communication.ucdavis.edu/people/fzberger
ARTICLE: Uncertainty reduction in online dating
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Ellison/publication/228622661_First_Comes_Love_Then_Comes_Google_An_Investigation_of_Uncertainty_Reduction_Strategies_and_Self-Disclosure_in_Online_Dating/links/02e7e5314aba4e4fda000000.pdf
ARTICLE: Comparing uncertainty reduction and predicted outcome value theories
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a767/7f121ff7efb2ac74b05ad1390e20e348e89e.pdf
Infographic on the relational turbulence model
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2013/11/relational-turbulence-model.html
VIDEO: Interview with Berger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnuODTOt-0
VIDEO: Lecture by Berger on responses to threatening news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cMiWz_6M2A
Chapter 10—Social Information Processing Theory
Theorist home page
http://cmcresearch.org/walther/
VIDEO: Interview with Walther on online dating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvWfDBPc74
VIDEO: Social information processing theory song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFklivHv6E
Infographic on social information processing theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2015/01/social-information-processing-theory.html
ARTICLE: Foundational report on hyperpersonal communication
http://goo.gl/KF57dL
Chapter 11—Relational Dialectics THeory
Theorist home page (Baxter)
http://clas.uiowa.edu/commstudies/people/leslie-baxter
The Bakhtin Centre at The University of Sheffield
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bakhtin
ARTICLE: Relational dialectics and the death of a child
http://personal.tcu.edu/pwitt/character/Compassion/Toller%20on%20bereaved%20parents.pdf
VIDEO: Example of relational dialectics on Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY9wkrgtGX0
VIDEO: Song about relational dialectics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8mi-hbyMlo
Chapter 12—Communication Privacy Management Theory
Theorist home page
http://petronio.faculty.iupui.edu/bio.html
ARTICLE: Privacy and friending coworkers online
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/31357304/fc2013.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1532471080&Signature=FrPf1Re97%2BSsB740HCSVZ5bRHfU%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DFriend_or_not_to_Friend_Coworker_Face
Infographic on the theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2013/11/communication-privacy-management-theory.html
VIDEO: Interview with Petronio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQo4PwJNXnY
Communication Privacy Management Center
Housed at IUPUI, this website is a storehouse of information about CPM theory and application.
https://cpmcenter.iupui.edu/index.php/home
Chapter 13—Media Multiplexity Theory
Theorist home page
https://haythorn.wordpress.com/
ARTICLE: Extension of media multiplexity theory
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.855.6129&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Infographic on the theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2014/06/media-multiplexity-theory.html
CARTOON: Dilbert and adding a communication channel
http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-05-31
VIDEO: The strength of weak ties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rFqZhRLYo
Chapter 14—Social Judgment Theory
Theorist bio and obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/27/obituaries/muzafer-sherif-82-psychologist-who-studied-hostility-of-groups.html
ARTICLE: Social judgment and messages about drinking
http://www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be/Documents_electroniques/MET/MET-COM/ELE%20MET-COM%20A-8202.pdf
VIDEO: Explanation and example of the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkn-cUe6ziA
Chapter 15—Elaboration Likelihood Model
Theorist home page (Cacioppo)
http://www.johncacioppo.com/
Theorist home page (Petty)
http://faculty.psy.ohio-state.edu/petty/
ARTICLE: Elaboration on entertainment in education
http://goo.gl/qGJSzI
VIDEO: Introduction to the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlqUPJ_LCrs
Chapter 16—Cognitive Dissonance
Theorist bio and obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/12/obituaries/leon-festinger-69-new-school-professor.html
ARTICLE: Selective exposure and partisan news
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/faculty/flanagin/CV/Metzgeretal2015(CR).pdf
VIDEO: $1/$20 experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kmVy1QPXn0
Chapter 17—Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making
Theorist home page (Hirokawa)
http://hilo.hawaii.edu/faculty/randyhirokawa/
Theorist home page (Gouran)
http://lser.la.psu.edu/directory/g8v
ARTICLE: Meta-analysis of research on the theory
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.913.3272&rep=rep1&type=pdf
VIDEO: Groupthink
From Khan Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds3-ljxTRvo
Chapter 18—Symbolic Convergence Theory
Theorist home page
http://www.vayne.com/bormann.us
ARTICLE: Symbolic convergence and the future of nuclear power
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Sovacool/publication/273339859_Back_to_the_Future_Small_Modular_Reactors_Nuclear_Fantasies_and_Symbolic_Convergence/links/551ba3600cf251c35b509fc8.pdf
VIDEO: Inspiring locker room speech as an example of symbolic convergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs
Chapter 19—Cultural Approach to Organizations
Theorist home page (Pacanowsky)
http://michaelpacanowsky.com/
Theorist bio and obituary (Geertz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/obituaries/01geertz.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
VIDEO: Interview with Clifford Geertz, part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQDx3axrDs
VIDEO: Interview with Clifford Geertz, part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FftV-XGV0
VIDEO: Corporate story of Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9No-FiEInLA
Chapter 20—Communicative Constitutions of Organizations
Theorist home page
https://humancommunication.clas.asu.edu/content/robert-mcphee
ARTICLE: Communicative constitution of clandestine organizations
http://goo.gl/XfH6oo
VIDEO: What is organizational communication?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oXygLGMuY
Chapter 21—Critical Theory of Communication in Organizations
Theorist bio
https://www.solonline.org/stanley-deetz/
ARTICLE: Laying a foundation for a critical approach to organizations
http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/critical_interpretive_research_in_organizational_communication.pdf
VIDEO: Deetz summarizing his theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpUWW2J7hUE
Chapter 22—The Rhetoric
Theorist bio and encyclopedia entry
http://www.iep.utm.edu/aristotl/
Complete English-translation text of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html
VIDEO: Logos, pathos, and ethos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FB-ZsEaM8I
VIDEO: Biography of Aristotle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeJJpbDrVRM
Chapter 23—Dramatism
Theorist bio and obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/obituaries/kenneth-burke-philosopher-96-and-new-criticism-founder-dies.html
Kenneth Burke Society and Journal
http://www.kbjournal.org/
ARTICLE: Questions and answers about the pentad
http://dhawhee.blogs.com/files/questions-and-answers-about-the-pentad.pdf
AUDIO: Lecture on Burke and The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sofR0h3I_3Q
VIDEO: Lecture on the dramatistic pentad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsJf6dPiUo
Chapter 24—Narrative Paradigm
Theorist home page
http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/FisherW.aspx
ARTICLE: Extension of the theory and artificial intelligence
https://www.bc.edu/res/gssw-research-home/funding/proposal-development/_jcr_content/content/download_46/file.res/Opt,%20'Continuity%20and%20Change%20in%20Storytelling%20About%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Extending%20the%20Narrative%20Paradigm'.pdf
VIDEO: Lecture on the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erhrvHZjVRQ
VIDEO: Narrative paradigm rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kf6jE9xKuw
Chapter 25—Media Ecology
Theorist home page
http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/
ARTICLE: Overview of media ecology
http://cscc.scu.edu/trends/v23/v23_2.pdf
ARTICLE: McLuhan's famous interview published in Playboy
https://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-marshall-mcluhan/
VIDEO: Interview with McLuhan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw&list=PLFbWQIi1AnkzOgqhTLaT-MVtACS2raOsc&feature=c4-overview-vl
VIDEO: McLuhan on the global village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic
VIDEO: Explanation of "the medium is the message"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6J9v1C9zE&feature=youtu.be
VIDEO: Brief summary of the general idea of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
Chapter 26—Semiotics
Theorist background
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/04/roland-barthes-myths-we-dont-outgrow.html
ARTICLE: Semiotics and urban environments
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/barthes_2.pdf
VIDEO: Barthes on the Eiffel Tower as a sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhvFLrS3rA
VIDEO: Barthes and reading the news as a text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeF6O6E9RQ8
VIDEO: Summary and application of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCzq8we-bI
Chapter 27—Cultural Studies
Theorist obituary
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall
ARTICLE: Analysis of four decades of British politics
http://www.mas.org.uk/uploads/100flowers/The%20neo-liberal%20revolution%20by%20Stuart%20Hall.pdf
VIDEO: Lecture by Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY
VIDEO: Summary of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP_N_FoW-I
Chapter 28—Uses and Gratifications
Theorist home page
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/elihu_katz
ARTICLE: Uses and gratifications of social media
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer_Bonds-Raacke/publication/5431122_MySpace_and_Facebook_Applying_the_Uses_and_Gratifications_Theory_to_Exploring_Friend-Networking_Sites/links/554e7a0308ae93634ec7033d.pdf
VIDEO: Interview with Katz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6eF0qJCHFc
VIDEO: Summary of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopqPs7rb_Q
Chapter 29—Cultivation Theory
George Gerbner Archive
http://web.asc.upenn.edu/gerbner/archive.aspx
ARTICLE: Cultivation theory analysis of those who do not own TVs
http://cultivationanalysisrtvf173.pbworks.com/f/Cultivat1.pdf
ARTICLE: Cultivation theory and online games
http://www.dmitriwilliams.com/JOCCultivation.pdf
VIDEO: Gerbner on media as storytellers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhqasb1chI
VIDEO: Gerbner on mean world syndrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfu8YCCc8Q
Chapter 30—Agenda-Setting Theory
Theorist home page (McCombs)
http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/max-mccombs
ARTICLE: Review of early agenda-setting research
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxwell_Mccombs/publication/228007598_The_Evolution_of_AgendaSetting_Research_TwentyFive_Years_in_the_Marketplace_of_Ideas/links/541750030cf203f155ad5549.pdf
VIDEO: McCombs on the 45th anniversary of the first agenda-setting study
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xguw8jI0E
VIDEO: McCombs on whether the media tell us what to think about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MER-i7tIT3w
Chapter 31—Genderlect Styles
Theorist home page
http://www.deborahtannen.com/
ARTICLE: Genderlect in the workplace
http://freepdfhosting.com/b36568d076.pdf
VIDEO: Interview with Deborah Tannen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fw0UBGRzk&list=PL780BEB822EF9FBC4
VIDEO: “It’s Not About the Nail” (example of report and rapport talk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
Chapter 32—Standpoint Theory
Theorist home page (Harding)
http://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/sandra-harding/
Theorist home page (Wood)
http://comm.unc.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/julia-t-wood/
ARTICLE: Feminist standpoint theory revisited
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/Hekman.pdf
VIDEO: Patricia Hill Collins on race and education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TehsXcsMXQ
AUDIO: 2012 lecture on the theory at the American Philosophical Association
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNNm6kwKvOY
VIDEO: Interview with Sandra Harding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAMc12PqmI
Chapter 33—Muted Group Theory
Theorist home page
http://pages.uoregon.edu/cheris/
ARTICLE: Muting and college rape
http://blogs.longwood.edu/genderedviolence/files/2014/04/communicating_muting_date_rape-libre.pdf
VIDEO: Bechdel test for female presence in movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF6sAAMb4s
Chapter 34—Communication Accommodation Theory
Theorist home page
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/howard-giles
ARTICLE: Communication accommodation and law enforcement
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/52d406tv#page-1
VIDEO: Interview with Giles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbYbwG8hok
VIDEO: The Harry Potter cast attempting to speak with American accents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xle3UpK5bq8
Chapter 35—Face-Negotiation Theory
Theorist home page
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/stingtoomey/
ARTICLE: Empirical test of the theory
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Oetzel/publication/249683207_Face_Concerns_in_Interpersonal_ConflictA_Cross-Cultural_Empirical_Test_of_the_Face_Negotiation_Theory/links/54d08e220cf29ca81101c067.pdf
VIDEO: Explanation of individualism and collectivism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7aWKXB5J4
VIDEO: A couple's observations of cultural differences between Japan and the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmJzL3PKmY
Chapter 36—Co-Cultural Theory
Theorist home page
https://wmich.edu/communication/directory/orbe
ARTICLE: Theorist's description of the theory
https://search.proquest.com/docview/198819607?pq-origsite=gscholar
ARTICLE: Co-cultural theoretical analysis of black male students at a predominantly white college
http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/C_Glenn_What_2012.pdf
VIDEO: Assertive assimilation in The Imitation Game
In this scene, the only female candidate for the top secret enigma program overperforms in order for the male gatekeepers to take her seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5n9vRu6LU4
VIDEO: Mark Orbe speaks at Diversity Lock-In at Western Michigan University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHiy-YGya48
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Chapter 5—Symbolic Interactionism
Theorist biography
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mead/
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism
https://sites.google.com/site/sssinteraction/
ARTICLE: Mead on self and social control
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/4111/Readings/MeadSelf.pdf
VIDEO: Overview of symbolic interactionism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFQIIM8IRZU
Chapter 6—Coordinated Management of Meaning
Theorist home page (Cronen)
http://uncw.edu/com/about/cronen.html
Theorist obituary (Pearce)
http://ncdd.org/6247
CMM Institute home page
http://www.cmminstitute.net/
Pearce Associates consulting, training, and research home page
http://www.pearceassociates.com/
ARTICLE: Extending CMM
http://www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be/Documents_electroniques/MET/MET-COM/ELE%20MET-COM%20A-8192.pdf
VIDEO: Interview with Cronen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llxvA7fj5wI
VIDEO: In memory of Pearce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVkyXqd3p3o
Chapter 7—Expectancy Violations Theory
Theorist home page
https://mis.eller.arizona.edu/people/judee-burgoon
ARTICLE: Chronemic violations in online communication
http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf/KalmanRafaeliChronemics2011.pdf
CHAPTER: Intercultural applications of EVT and IAT
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judee_Burgoon/publication/290990677_Cross-cultural_and_intercultural_applications_of_expectancy_violations_theory_and_interaction_adaptation_theory/links/573c7d8408ae298602e58714.pdf
Infographic on the theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2013/10/expectancy-violations-theory_23.html
VIDEO: Interview with Burgoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpQ67P9_Pg
Chapter 8—Social Penetration Theory
Theorist home page (Altman)
http://altman.socialpsychology.org/
ARTICLE: Social penetration and blogging
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353741/
VIDEO: Intro to social exchange theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHi1R--_CTI
VIDEO: Social exchange and The Big Bang Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhHTdDqoBc
Chapter 9—Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Theorist home page
http://communication.ucdavis.edu/people/fzberger
ARTICLE: Uncertainty reduction in online dating
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Ellison/publication/228622661_First_Comes_Love_Then_Comes_Google_An_Investigation_of_Uncertainty_Reduction_Strategies_and_Self-Disclosure_in_Online_Dating/links/02e7e5314aba4e4fda000000.pdf
ARTICLE: Comparing uncertainty reduction and predicted outcome value theories
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a767/7f121ff7efb2ac74b05ad1390e20e348e89e.pdf
Infographic on the relational turbulence model
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2013/11/relational-turbulence-model.html
VIDEO: Interview with Berger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SnuODTOt-0
VIDEO: Lecture by Berger on responses to threatening news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cMiWz_6M2A
Chapter 10—Social Information Processing Theory
Theorist home page
http://cmcresearch.org/walther/
VIDEO: Interview with Walther on online dating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvWfDBPc74
VIDEO: Social information processing theory song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFklivHv6E
Infographic on social information processing theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2015/01/social-information-processing-theory.html
ARTICLE: Foundational report on hyperpersonal communication
http://goo.gl/KF57dL
Chapter 11—Relational Dialectics THeory
Theorist home page (Baxter)
http://clas.uiowa.edu/commstudies/people/leslie-baxter
The Bakhtin Centre at The University of Sheffield
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/bakhtin
ARTICLE: Relational dialectics and the death of a child
http://personal.tcu.edu/pwitt/character/Compassion/Toller%20on%20bereaved%20parents.pdf
VIDEO: Example of relational dialectics on Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY9wkrgtGX0
VIDEO: Song about relational dialectics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8mi-hbyMlo
Chapter 12—Communication Privacy Management Theory
Theorist home page
http://petronio.faculty.iupui.edu/bio.html
ARTICLE: Privacy and friending coworkers online
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/31357304/fc2013.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1532471080&Signature=FrPf1Re97%2BSsB740HCSVZ5bRHfU%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DFriend_or_not_to_Friend_Coworker_Face
Infographic on the theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2013/11/communication-privacy-management-theory.html
VIDEO: Interview with Petronio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQo4PwJNXnY
Communication Privacy Management Center
Housed at IUPUI, this website is a storehouse of information about CPM theory and application.
https://cpmcenter.iupui.edu/index.php/home
Chapter 13—Media Multiplexity Theory
Theorist home page
https://haythorn.wordpress.com/
ARTICLE: Extension of media multiplexity theory
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.855.6129&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Infographic on the theory
http://basiccommtheory.blogspot.com/2014/06/media-multiplexity-theory.html
CARTOON: Dilbert and adding a communication channel
http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-05-31
VIDEO: The strength of weak ties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8rFqZhRLYo
Chapter 14—Social Judgment Theory
Theorist bio and obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/27/obituaries/muzafer-sherif-82-psychologist-who-studied-hostility-of-groups.html
ARTICLE: Social judgment and messages about drinking
http://www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be/Documents_electroniques/MET/MET-COM/ELE%20MET-COM%20A-8202.pdf
VIDEO: Explanation and example of the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkn-cUe6ziA
Chapter 15—Elaboration Likelihood Model
Theorist home page (Cacioppo)
http://www.johncacioppo.com/
Theorist home page (Petty)
http://faculty.psy.ohio-state.edu/petty/
ARTICLE: Elaboration on entertainment in education
http://goo.gl/qGJSzI
VIDEO: Introduction to the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlqUPJ_LCrs
Chapter 16—Cognitive Dissonance
Theorist bio and obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/12/obituaries/leon-festinger-69-new-school-professor.html
ARTICLE: Selective exposure and partisan news
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/faculty/flanagin/CV/Metzgeretal2015(CR).pdf
VIDEO: $1/$20 experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kmVy1QPXn0
Chapter 17—Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making
Theorist home page (Hirokawa)
http://hilo.hawaii.edu/faculty/randyhirokawa/
Theorist home page (Gouran)
http://lser.la.psu.edu/directory/g8v
ARTICLE: Meta-analysis of research on the theory
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.913.3272&rep=rep1&type=pdf
VIDEO: Groupthink
From Khan Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds3-ljxTRvo
Chapter 18—Symbolic Convergence Theory
Theorist home page
http://www.vayne.com/bormann.us
ARTICLE: Symbolic convergence and the future of nuclear power
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Sovacool/publication/273339859_Back_to_the_Future_Small_Modular_Reactors_Nuclear_Fantasies_and_Symbolic_Convergence/links/551ba3600cf251c35b509fc8.pdf
VIDEO: Inspiring locker room speech as an example of symbolic convergence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs
Chapter 19—Cultural Approach to Organizations
Theorist home page (Pacanowsky)
http://michaelpacanowsky.com/
Theorist bio and obituary (Geertz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/obituaries/01geertz.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
VIDEO: Interview with Clifford Geertz, part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQDx3axrDs
VIDEO: Interview with Clifford Geertz, part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FftV-XGV0
VIDEO: Corporate story of Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9No-FiEInLA
Chapter 20—Communicative Constitutions of Organizations
Theorist home page
https://humancommunication.clas.asu.edu/content/robert-mcphee
ARTICLE: Communicative constitution of clandestine organizations
http://goo.gl/XfH6oo
VIDEO: What is organizational communication?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oXygLGMuY
Chapter 21—Critical Theory of Communication in Organizations
Theorist bio
https://www.solonline.org/stanley-deetz/
ARTICLE: Laying a foundation for a critical approach to organizations
http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/critical_interpretive_research_in_organizational_communication.pdf
VIDEO: Deetz summarizing his theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpUWW2J7hUE
Chapter 22—The Rhetoric
Theorist bio and encyclopedia entry
http://www.iep.utm.edu/aristotl/
Complete English-translation text of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html
VIDEO: Logos, pathos, and ethos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FB-ZsEaM8I
VIDEO: Biography of Aristotle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeJJpbDrVRM
Chapter 23—Dramatism
Theorist bio and obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/obituaries/kenneth-burke-philosopher-96-and-new-criticism-founder-dies.html
Kenneth Burke Society and Journal
http://www.kbjournal.org/
ARTICLE: Questions and answers about the pentad
http://dhawhee.blogs.com/files/questions-and-answers-about-the-pentad.pdf
AUDIO: Lecture on Burke and The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sofR0h3I_3Q
VIDEO: Lecture on the dramatistic pentad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsJf6dPiUo
Chapter 24—Narrative Paradigm
Theorist home page
http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/FisherW.aspx
ARTICLE: Extension of the theory and artificial intelligence
https://www.bc.edu/res/gssw-research-home/funding/proposal-development/_jcr_content/content/download_46/file.res/Opt,%20'Continuity%20and%20Change%20in%20Storytelling%20About%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Extending%20the%20Narrative%20Paradigm'.pdf
VIDEO: Lecture on the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erhrvHZjVRQ
VIDEO: Narrative paradigm rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kf6jE9xKuw
Chapter 25—Media Ecology
Theorist home page
http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/
ARTICLE: Overview of media ecology
http://cscc.scu.edu/trends/v23/v23_2.pdf
ARTICLE: McLuhan's famous interview published in Playboy
https://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-marshall-mcluhan/
VIDEO: Interview with McLuhan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw&list=PLFbWQIi1AnkzOgqhTLaT-MVtACS2raOsc&feature=c4-overview-vl
VIDEO: McLuhan on the global village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDnPP6ntic
VIDEO: Explanation of "the medium is the message"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6J9v1C9zE&feature=youtu.be
VIDEO: Brief summary of the general idea of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
Chapter 26—Semiotics
Theorist background
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/04/roland-barthes-myths-we-dont-outgrow.html
ARTICLE: Semiotics and urban environments
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/barthes_2.pdf
VIDEO: Barthes on the Eiffel Tower as a sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhvFLrS3rA
VIDEO: Barthes and reading the news as a text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeF6O6E9RQ8
VIDEO: Summary and application of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCzq8we-bI
Chapter 27—Cultural Studies
Theorist obituary
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/10/stuart-hall
ARTICLE: Analysis of four decades of British politics
http://www.mas.org.uk/uploads/100flowers/The%20neo-liberal%20revolution%20by%20Stuart%20Hall.pdf
VIDEO: Lecture by Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY
VIDEO: Summary of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP_N_FoW-I
Chapter 28—Uses and Gratifications
Theorist home page
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/elihu_katz
ARTICLE: Uses and gratifications of social media
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer_Bonds-Raacke/publication/5431122_MySpace_and_Facebook_Applying_the_Uses_and_Gratifications_Theory_to_Exploring_Friend-Networking_Sites/links/554e7a0308ae93634ec7033d.pdf
VIDEO: Interview with Katz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6eF0qJCHFc
VIDEO: Summary of the theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopqPs7rb_Q
Chapter 29—Cultivation Theory
George Gerbner Archive
http://web.asc.upenn.edu/gerbner/archive.aspx
ARTICLE: Cultivation theory analysis of those who do not own TVs
http://cultivationanalysisrtvf173.pbworks.com/f/Cultivat1.pdf
ARTICLE: Cultivation theory and online games
http://www.dmitriwilliams.com/JOCCultivation.pdf
VIDEO: Gerbner on media as storytellers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhqasb1chI
VIDEO: Gerbner on mean world syndrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfu8YCCc8Q
Chapter 30—Agenda-Setting Theory
Theorist home page (McCombs)
http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/max-mccombs
ARTICLE: Review of early agenda-setting research
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxwell_Mccombs/publication/228007598_The_Evolution_of_AgendaSetting_Research_TwentyFive_Years_in_the_Marketplace_of_Ideas/links/541750030cf203f155ad5549.pdf
VIDEO: McCombs on the 45th anniversary of the first agenda-setting study
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87xguw8jI0E
VIDEO: McCombs on whether the media tell us what to think about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MER-i7tIT3w
Chapter 31—Genderlect Styles
Theorist home page
http://www.deborahtannen.com/
ARTICLE: Genderlect in the workplace
http://freepdfhosting.com/b36568d076.pdf
VIDEO: Interview with Deborah Tannen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fw0UBGRzk&list=PL780BEB822EF9FBC4
VIDEO: “It’s Not About the Nail” (example of report and rapport talk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
Chapter 32—Standpoint Theory
Theorist home page (Harding)
http://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/sandra-harding/
Theorist home page (Wood)
http://comm.unc.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/julia-t-wood/
ARTICLE: Feminist standpoint theory revisited
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/Hekman.pdf
VIDEO: Patricia Hill Collins on race and education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TehsXcsMXQ
AUDIO: 2012 lecture on the theory at the American Philosophical Association
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNNm6kwKvOY
VIDEO: Interview with Sandra Harding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAMc12PqmI
Chapter 33—Muted Group Theory
Theorist home page
http://pages.uoregon.edu/cheris/
ARTICLE: Muting and college rape
http://blogs.longwood.edu/genderedviolence/files/2014/04/communicating_muting_date_rape-libre.pdf
VIDEO: Bechdel test for female presence in movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF6sAAMb4s
Chapter 34—Communication Accommodation Theory
Theorist home page
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/howard-giles
ARTICLE: Communication accommodation and law enforcement
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/52d406tv#page-1
VIDEO: Interview with Giles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbYbwG8hok
VIDEO: The Harry Potter cast attempting to speak with American accents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xle3UpK5bq8
Chapter 35—Face-Negotiation Theory
Theorist home page
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/stingtoomey/
ARTICLE: Empirical test of the theory
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Oetzel/publication/249683207_Face_Concerns_in_Interpersonal_ConflictA_Cross-Cultural_Empirical_Test_of_the_Face_Negotiation_Theory/links/54d08e220cf29ca81101c067.pdf
VIDEO: Explanation of individualism and collectivism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7aWKXB5J4
VIDEO: A couple's observations of cultural differences between Japan and the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmJzL3PKmY
Chapter 36—Co-Cultural Theory
Theorist home page
https://wmich.edu/communication/directory/orbe
ARTICLE: Theorist's description of the theory
https://search.proquest.com/docview/198819607?pq-origsite=gscholar
ARTICLE: Co-cultural theoretical analysis of black male students at a predominantly white college
http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/C_Glenn_What_2012.pdf
VIDEO: Assertive assimilation in The Imitation Game
In this scene, the only female candidate for the top secret enigma program overperforms in order for the male gatekeepers to take her seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5n9vRu6LU4
VIDEO: Mark Orbe speaks at Diversity Lock-In at Western Michigan University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHiy-YGya48
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