A college student's worst nightmare: GROUPS | Who run the world? ORGANIZATIONS! | It's Twitter! It's Facebook! No... It's MASS COMMUNICATION | It's my MEDIA and I want it now! |
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True
A team is always a group, but a group isn't always a team. True or False?
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Organizational Rites & Rituals
A performance review or holiday bonus is an example of what?
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Sharing information with a large audience
What is mass communication?
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Computer-mediated-communication
What does CMC stand for?
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Allow each member to present ideas
Play devil's advocate Critically assess all decisions Understand symptoms of group think
Name one way that we can we avoid group think.
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Actions
Practices Language Artifacts
What is one aspect of organizational culture?
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Mass Medium
A channel that carries massages to many receivers
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-Control obscene images
-No false claims about products -Limited access to personal information (crime scene or courtroom)
What is one way that media is regulated?
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Social
Which type of norm guides relationships within a group?
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The Organizational Rules & Policies
The standards by which organizational members make decisions (specifically for hiring and firing) is known as what?
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Media Convergence
When "New-Media" sources join and replace old technology
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Gatekeeping
The process of determining what is newsworthy and important enough to reach an audience
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Problem-solving group
This type of group focuses on a problem that is external to the group
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Interdependence & Synergy
(need both for points)
This is the idea that everything depends on each other and at the same time need to work together in an organizational system.
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Hegemony
Control or dominating influence by one person or group especially is called what?
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The "watchdog" function
The idea that media is supposed to act as guardians of public interests by reporting on government activity, important persons and business activity, etc.
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Ego (power)
What type of conflict is where the people are so stuck on "winning" that the actual issue becomes lost in the fight?
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Motivation
-Money, time-off, promotion (need both answers for full points)
_______ is defined as your personal commitment to the effort of accomplishing a goal.
Give one example of this: ________ |
The social construction (or cultivation) theory
This suggests that what the media portray is one of the more important elements of the construction and interpretation of our culture.
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(FTC) Federal Trad Commission
What government agency regulates commercial advertising?
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