For the final exam, you will be analyzing your overall group interactions. You will be writing an essay or bullet pointed analysis offering specific examples to support your analyses.
You will analyze your group interactions using the following criteria and terminology:
1. Label the type of group (formal, advisory, etc.)
2. Define the stages of development (forming, storming etc.) and progression (orientation, conflict etc.)
3. Define the group features (interdependence, commitment etc.)
4. Discuss how the group is communicatively constructed
5. Define the group norms (status, values, sanctions etc.)
6. Identify particular member roles and process of determination
7. Identify type of leadership and process of determination
8. Define how you used communication in decision making
Each of the above are worth 10 points and there will be 10 points for organization and 10 points for proper citations
The grand total will be 100 points.
This essay is due via blackboard mail by Dec. 15th at midnight.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
For next week 11/16
Please brainstorm ideas for group projects that you can present to your groups. I would like each person to come up with at least 3 ideas and bring them to class written out.
THanks,
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THanks,
BR
Friday, November 4, 2011
Group Speech intro
Group Speech
For the group speech, you will be constructing a presentation that will last 20- 25 minutes in length. I would like you to create a variety show. That is the theme and now it is up to you. I would like you to include and explain at least 5 items related to your collective fields. It is up to you how you incorporate these ideals. However, make sure to inform the audience on the meanings of your concepts. In addition, I will be looking for the themes we discussed in class from chapters 8 and 9 as well.
Finally, the speech is worth 100 points. This is the breakdown:
50 points development
- Variety theme (10)
- Equal participation in preparation (20)
- Group cohesion (10)
- 5 concepts (10)
50 points delivery
- Equal participation in delivery (25)
- Creativity and Follow through (10)
- Enthusiasm, Vocal variety, Movement (15)
Themes must be proposed:
Themes, Roles, and Goals
For the group speech, you will be constructing a presentation that will last 20- 25 minutes in length. I would like you to create a variety show. That is the theme and now it is up to you. I would like you to include and explain at least 5 items related to your collective fields. It is up to you how you incorporate these ideals. However, make sure to inform the audience on the meanings of your concepts. In addition, I will be looking for the themes we discussed in class from chapters 8 and 9 as well.
Finally, the speech is worth 100 points. This is the breakdown:
50 points development
- Variety theme (10)
- Equal participation in preparation (20)
- Group cohesion (10)
- 5 concepts (10)
50 points delivery
- Equal participation in delivery (25)
- Creativity and Follow through (10)
- Enthusiasm, Vocal variety, Movement (15)
Themes must be proposed:
Themes, Roles, and Goals
Chapter 7 revisited
Chapter 7 revisited
Defining a Group:
-Common purpose
-Types: formal, advisory, creative, support, networking
-Stages of development: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning
-Progression: orientation, conflict, emergence, reinforcement
-Communicatively constructed: groups are built on the relationships and communication between members
-Features: interdependence (reliance on eachother), commitment (shared common goals and pursuit), cohesion (teamwork- working in unison and shared understanding), expectations (particular behavior assumed)
-Group norms: status relationships, values, and sanctions
-Norms: negative: using negativity for larger purpose, enforcing: sanctions or punishments
-Member roles: titles and purposes/ Informal roles: patterns of behavior
-Roles and traits: personal traits determine optimal roles
-Group culture: how we talk to one another
-Leadership styles: task focused, socioemotional: well being of group and members
-Types of Leadership power: formal (systematic)/ informal (liking based and relationship based)
More types: legitimate-rank, status, expert- specialized knowledge, referent- allegiance to a group (celebrity), reward- benefit driven, coercive- power to punish
-Leadership transacted: interpersonal process
-Communication: promotive (toward solution), disruptive (away from solution), counteractive (back on track)
-Group decisions: history (common origin/ collectivity), culture( relationship between group members), future (sense of future connections), norms (ways of behaving to set a standard), cohesiveness (how members treat each other and regard the group), conformity (going along when you disagree), groupthink (want consensus – conformity)
-Group decisions: Making and Persuasion, Influences
Defining a Group:
-Common purpose
-Types: formal, advisory, creative, support, networking
-Stages of development: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning
-Progression: orientation, conflict, emergence, reinforcement
-Communicatively constructed: groups are built on the relationships and communication between members
-Features: interdependence (reliance on eachother), commitment (shared common goals and pursuit), cohesion (teamwork- working in unison and shared understanding), expectations (particular behavior assumed)
-Group norms: status relationships, values, and sanctions
-Norms: negative: using negativity for larger purpose, enforcing: sanctions or punishments
-Member roles: titles and purposes/ Informal roles: patterns of behavior
-Roles and traits: personal traits determine optimal roles
-Group culture: how we talk to one another
-Leadership styles: task focused, socioemotional: well being of group and members
-Types of Leadership power: formal (systematic)/ informal (liking based and relationship based)
More types: legitimate-rank, status, expert- specialized knowledge, referent- allegiance to a group (celebrity), reward- benefit driven, coercive- power to punish
-Leadership transacted: interpersonal process
-Communication: promotive (toward solution), disruptive (away from solution), counteractive (back on track)
-Group decisions: history (common origin/ collectivity), culture( relationship between group members), future (sense of future connections), norms (ways of behaving to set a standard), cohesiveness (how members treat each other and regard the group), conformity (going along when you disagree), groupthink (want consensus – conformity)
-Group decisions: Making and Persuasion, Influences
Chapter 8 and 10 study guides
Chapter 8
Culture: Structure and Transaction
2 Common misconceptions:
Ethnocentric bias: Your cultural is seemingly superior to others
Control: Culture is a possession or something we distinctly belong to…
We transact and perform culture: we construct and interact to form culture
2 Approaches:
Structure: we discuss culture in terms of context, individualism/collectivism, time, and conflict
Context: emphasis on environment, situation, and relationships
High context: great deal of emphasis on total environment where communication takes place rather than what is being expressed
Low context: the message is everything, structure and meaning is key
Collectivism/ Individualism: Group benefit versus individual achievements
Time: time is money and opportunity (other factors: punctuality and leisure)
Monochronic: one activity at a time, multitask to reach specific goals (US, UK, Germany)
Polychronic: relaxed attitude toward time (Mediterranean, Arab countries)
Conflict: opportunity vs. destructive
4 Assumptions: Conflict as opportunity (normal, subject to change, confrontation welcome, and necessary for growth)
4 Assumptions: Conflict as destructive (disturbance of peace, system should not meet needs of members, confrontation is destructive, disputants should be penalized)
Managing Conflict:
Dominating (forcing), integrating (open discussion), compromising (everyone gives a bit), obliging (give to satisfy), avoiding (avoid issue)
Transaction: relational perspective based on the connection between culture and communication
Culture is embedded in communication and how cultural membership is enacted or denied through communication
Culture extends beyond physical limits
Cultural groups are created through communication
Co-cultures: smaller groups within larger cultural mass
Speech communities: speech determines membership (speaking patterns and styles)
Speech communication codes: culture’s verbalization of meaning and symbols
Cultural persuadables: taken for granted assumptions such as topics and ideas that are universally agreed upon. (Teamsterville: working class Chicago: action over words) (Nacirema: emphasizes relationships and work that create membership)
Structural: focus on values, beliefs, goals and preferred action and behavior.
Cross- cultural communication: compares communication styles and patterns across different nations around the world
Intercultural communication: examining the communication between different cultural perspectives co-existing in one nation
Limitations and beliefs:
-Multiple cultures exist in one nation
-Multiple social communities coexist in a single culture and membership is apparent (gangs, bikers, mechanics, teachers, doctors)
- All of these cultures do exist within an even larger social structure
Transaction: Communication is maintained within relationships, identities, meanings, and realities
Cultural ways of communicating beliefs and values are established and imposed in everyday communication. Cultural groups are labeled and recognized based on shared relational behavior, symbolism and ultimately communication.
Coded system of meaning: set of beliefs, heritage, and way of being that is transacted in communication. System of rituals, norms, beliefs and shared meaning are also transacted.
Chapter 9
Technology
Views of technology:
Academic: new media -- relational technologies
Concerns over emerging technology
Technology is relational: they impact society
Relational Technology: technology that rely on relational functions and their prominent use in social groups and relationships
Media generations: generations are defined by the media presence
Technology and Social networks: social networks influence media consumption and use
Technology Products and Service Providers: Identities are created through specific products and services, relational technologies can be considered the way in which identities are constructed
(ringtones, screen names)
Content creation: social networking pages, blogs, personal info such as pics, videos, comments etc.
Social networking sites: profiling sites, activities, and disclosures
Relational technology and Personal relationships: online communication, constant communication- availability, shared experiences, social coordination- microcoordination (social planning via cell phones) (midcourse-change plans, iterative- progressive refining plans, softening- adjusting plans)
Online Communication: richness (verbal and nonverbal cues that attempt to reach face to face communication: emoticons, quality
Synchronous (face to face- real time) vs. Asynchronous communication (time lapsed)
Social Networks and Personal relationships: create and maintain relationships/ networks online
Media Equation: interactions with technology is equal to interactions with actual people
Personalized technology: computers, cell phones etc.
Personality: computer
Flattery: computers
Politeness: computers
Culture: Structure and Transaction
2 Common misconceptions:
Ethnocentric bias: Your cultural is seemingly superior to others
Control: Culture is a possession or something we distinctly belong to…
We transact and perform culture: we construct and interact to form culture
2 Approaches:
Structure: we discuss culture in terms of context, individualism/collectivism, time, and conflict
Context: emphasis on environment, situation, and relationships
High context: great deal of emphasis on total environment where communication takes place rather than what is being expressed
Low context: the message is everything, structure and meaning is key
Collectivism/ Individualism: Group benefit versus individual achievements
Time: time is money and opportunity (other factors: punctuality and leisure)
Monochronic: one activity at a time, multitask to reach specific goals (US, UK, Germany)
Polychronic: relaxed attitude toward time (Mediterranean, Arab countries)
Conflict: opportunity vs. destructive
4 Assumptions: Conflict as opportunity (normal, subject to change, confrontation welcome, and necessary for growth)
4 Assumptions: Conflict as destructive (disturbance of peace, system should not meet needs of members, confrontation is destructive, disputants should be penalized)
Managing Conflict:
Dominating (forcing), integrating (open discussion), compromising (everyone gives a bit), obliging (give to satisfy), avoiding (avoid issue)
Transaction: relational perspective based on the connection between culture and communication
Culture is embedded in communication and how cultural membership is enacted or denied through communication
Culture extends beyond physical limits
Cultural groups are created through communication
Co-cultures: smaller groups within larger cultural mass
Speech communities: speech determines membership (speaking patterns and styles)
Speech communication codes: culture’s verbalization of meaning and symbols
Cultural persuadables: taken for granted assumptions such as topics and ideas that are universally agreed upon. (Teamsterville: working class Chicago: action over words) (Nacirema: emphasizes relationships and work that create membership)
Structural: focus on values, beliefs, goals and preferred action and behavior.
Cross- cultural communication: compares communication styles and patterns across different nations around the world
Intercultural communication: examining the communication between different cultural perspectives co-existing in one nation
Limitations and beliefs:
-Multiple cultures exist in one nation
-Multiple social communities coexist in a single culture and membership is apparent (gangs, bikers, mechanics, teachers, doctors)
- All of these cultures do exist within an even larger social structure
Transaction: Communication is maintained within relationships, identities, meanings, and realities
Cultural ways of communicating beliefs and values are established and imposed in everyday communication. Cultural groups are labeled and recognized based on shared relational behavior, symbolism and ultimately communication.
Coded system of meaning: set of beliefs, heritage, and way of being that is transacted in communication. System of rituals, norms, beliefs and shared meaning are also transacted.
Chapter 9
Technology
Views of technology:
Academic: new media -- relational technologies
Concerns over emerging technology
Technology is relational: they impact society
Relational Technology: technology that rely on relational functions and their prominent use in social groups and relationships
Media generations: generations are defined by the media presence
Technology and Social networks: social networks influence media consumption and use
Technology Products and Service Providers: Identities are created through specific products and services, relational technologies can be considered the way in which identities are constructed
(ringtones, screen names)
Content creation: social networking pages, blogs, personal info such as pics, videos, comments etc.
Social networking sites: profiling sites, activities, and disclosures
Relational technology and Personal relationships: online communication, constant communication- availability, shared experiences, social coordination- microcoordination (social planning via cell phones) (midcourse-change plans, iterative- progressive refining plans, softening- adjusting plans)
Online Communication: richness (verbal and nonverbal cues that attempt to reach face to face communication: emoticons, quality
Synchronous (face to face- real time) vs. Asynchronous communication (time lapsed)
Social Networks and Personal relationships: create and maintain relationships/ networks online
Media Equation: interactions with technology is equal to interactions with actual people
Personalized technology: computers, cell phones etc.
Personality: computer
Flattery: computers
Politeness: computers
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