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  2. Category:Mass media theorists - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Mass media theorists" The following 192 pages are in this category, out of 192 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Tariq Ali;

  3. Category:Mass media theories - Wikipedia

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    Media theory of composition; Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies) Multi-step flow theory; O. ... Toronto school of communication theory; Two-step flow of ...

  4. Media richness theory - Wikipedia

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    Media richness theory states that all communication media vary in their ability to enable users to communicate and to change understanding. [5] The degree of this ability is known as a medium's "richness." MRT places all communication media on a continuous scale based on their ability to adequately communicate a complex message. [6]

  5. Agenda-setting theory - Wikipedia

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    Agenda-setting theory was formally developed by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Lewis Shaw in a study on the 1968 presidential election deemed "the Chapel Hill study". McCombs and Shaw demonstrated a strong correlation between one hundred Chapel Hill residents' thought on what was the most important election issue and what the local news media reported was the most important issue.

  6. Communication theory - Wikipedia

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    Theory can be seen as a way to map the world and make it navigable; communication theory gives us tools to answer empirical, conceptual, or practical communication questions. [1] Communication is defined in both commonsense and specialized ways. Communication theory emphasizes its symbolic and social process aspects as seen from two ...

  7. Harold Innis's communications theories - Wikipedia

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    He argued, for example, that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC. [3] But he warned that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful, advertising-driven media obsessed by "present-mindedness" and the "continuous, systematic, ruthless ...

  8. Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies) - Wikipedia

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    Many thinkers [a] are now considering how Marxist theory affects the way we think of media and vice versa, at the same time that new media are becoming a major form of communication. Contemporary media theorists often use elements of Marxist theory, such as mediation, to look at how new media affect social relations and lifestyles through their ...

  9. Audience theory - Wikipedia

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    Audience theory offers explanations of how people encounter media, how they use it, and how it affects them. Although the concept of an audience predates modern media, [1] most audience theory is concerned with people’s relationship to various forms of media. There is no single theory of audience, but a range of explanatory frameworks.