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2 The list of contributors is included in chapterContributors on page 113. The licenses GPL, LGPL and GFDL are included in chapter Licenses onpage 121, since this book and/or parts of it may or may not be licensed under one or more of theselicenses, and thus require inclusion of these licenses. The licenses of the figures are given in the list offigures on page 117. This PDF was generated by the LATEX typesetting software. The LATEX sourcecode is included as an attachment ( ) in this PDF file. To extract the source from thePDF file, we recommend the use or clicking the paper clip attachment symbol on the lower left of your PDF Viewer, selectingSave Attachment.

3 After extracting it from the PDF file you have to rename it Touncompress the resulting archive we recommend the use The LATEX source itself was generated by a program written by Dirk H nniger, which is freely available underan open source license :Dirk_ distribution also contains a configured version of thepdflatexcompiler with all necessarypackages and fonts needed to compile the LATEX source included in this PDF What is Communication?32 Theories and Models .. 63 Uncertainty in Interpersonal Communication: Charles Berger, Richard Cal-abrese and Key Uncertainty Theorists.

4 The History of Interpersonal Communication Research: A Brief Overview . Defining Uncertainty .. Early Influences .. Uncertainty in the Modern Era .. Legacy and Influence .. Appendix A: Axioms and Theorems of Uncertainty Reduction Theory .. References .. 184 Propaganda and the Early Experiences of Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) .. Predecessors of Walter Lippmann .. The Theories of Walter Lippmann .. Public Opinion .. Phantom Public .. Other Writings .. Future Career Path.

5 Other Propaganda Theorists .. Recent Mass Communication Theorists .. Conclusion: The Importance of These Theories .. References .. Online Resources .. 335 Uses and Introduction .. Origin and History .. Needs and Gratifications .. Gratifications sought (GS) and gratifications obtained (GO) .. Media Dependency Theory .. Uses and Gratifications Research in a New Era .. Criticisms of Uses and Gratifications Research .. References .. More Information .. 47 IIIC ontents6 The Frankfurt The Frankfurt School and Communication Theory.

6 The Culture Industry .. Genesis of The Culture Industry .. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception .. Return to Germany .. One-Dimensional Man, and Suppression of The Culture Industry .. Critical Response to The Culture Industry .. References .. More Information .. 587 Semiotics and Between Intelligence and Creativity .. Influenced by Saussure and L vi-Strauss .. Barthes and mass communication .. "Lived in the plural" .. Conclusion.

7 References .. More Information .. 718 Orality and An Historical Review of Ong .. Framing the Chapter .. Ong and His Historical Studies of Rhetoric .. Visual Images and Habits of Thought .. The Word .. of Communication Media, Consciousness, Digital Media andHermeneutics .. Conclusion .. References .. More Information .. 859 Diffusion of of the diffusion paradigm.. The basic research paradigm for the diffusion of innovations .. Bryce Ryan and Neal C.

8 Gross .. The Iowa Study of Hybrid Seed Corn: The Adoption of Innovation .. Medical innovation: Diffusion of a medical drug among doctors .. Everett M. Rogers .. Overview of the diffusion of innovations .. Unit of analysis on diffusion theory .. Several diffusion research streams .. Diffusion study and Two-Step Flow study .. References .. More Information .. 9410 Sociological Social Systems .. 95 IVContents11 Network Introduction to the Network Society .. New Economy .. Main Features of New Economy.

9 Skepticism .. Legacy .. References .. 11112 Contributors113 List of Figures11713 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE .. GNU Free Documentation License .. GNU Lesser General Public License .. 12311 What is Communication?This book is an introduction to communication theory the theory of how humans share,encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each IntroductionCommunicationis deeply rooted in human behaviors and societies. It is difficult tothink of social or behavioral events from which communication is absent.

10 Indeed,communication applies to shared behaviors and properties of any collection ofthings, whether they are human or may turn to etymology1for clues: "communication" (from the Latin "communicare")literally means "to put in common", "to share". The term originally meant sharing oftangible things; food, land, goods, and property. Today, it is often applied to knowledge2and information3processed by living things or might say that communication consists of transmitting information. In fact, manyscholars of communication take this as a working definition, and use Lasswell's4maxim("who says what to whom") as a means of circumscribing the field of communication.