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MAC211
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The original four press theories include all but one in the list________
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The use of eye contact in discussion is ____________
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Communication theorists try to ______ what happens in communication process
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A breakdown in communication as a result of message not being adapted to its receiver is ______
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‘The medium is the message’ is the postulation of McLuhan (1964). It is now associated with and is an underlying principle of theory
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Sydney Head (1976) suggest that the term mass communication must imply all but one in the list_____
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In the democratic participant media system individuals and minorities have right of to the media
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Theory presupposes that audience members actively seek out the mass media to satisfy individual needs
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The Hypodermic Needle theory states that mass media
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____ theory of the media views that individual audience as capable of either to accept or reject mass media messages or information
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Presupposes that television shapes concepts of social reality
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The codes used to package information, the content and the treatment of such information refers to
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The long-term effect of communication on the audience is ____________
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The following according to Folarin (2002) are attributes of communication except_____
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In mass communication, communication is mostly one way. TRUE OR FALSE
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______ model of communication finds relevance in the believe that the mass media have the capacity to influence people’s thought, behaviour and action
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Communication through body movement is
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A good theory should be able to generate new hypotheses which will expand the horizon of knowledge explains attribute of theory
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The basic assumption of the play theory is
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Communication is complex. This implies that communication is______
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Nigeria media system operates ______ type of normative theory of the press
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President Buhari yesterday received a letter from US president-elect, Donald Trump pledging support of America to Nigeria. Their exchange of letters typifies ______
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Communication between National Open University of Nigeria and ministry of education can be classified under ______
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The media serve as watchman for societies. This media role is otherwise referred to as ______
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The basic assumption of the normative theories is
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The definition of mass communication as the spreading of a message to an extended mass audience through rapid means of reproduction and distribution at a relatively inexpensive cost to the customer is associated with ______-
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Osgood’s communication model has how many elements_______
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“There is nothing as practical as a good theory.” This statement is associated with
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Anything that interferes the process of communication or distorts the original meaning of communication intent is called
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The decoder of message in communication process sometimes perform the same role as the ______
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President Buhari yesterday received a letter from US president-elect, Donald Trump pledging support of America to Nigeria. Their exchange of letters exemplifies
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The type of communication in which information flows from UPPER level of management to the LOWER level is known as
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Framing and priming theories are good examples theories
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Anonymity of the mass media audience means ______
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McLuhan views every new form of ‘media innovation’ to be an extension of some
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“ Says what” in Lasswell’s paradigm refers to
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The first proponents of the media richness theory were made by in
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In communication process ______ invariably controls communication
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The codes used to package information, the content and the treatment of such information refers to ______
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Communication process is an ADDITIVE process because
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The definition of mass communication as the spreading of a message to an extended mass audience through rapid means of reproduction and distribution at a relatively inexpensive cost to the customer is associated with
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“There is nothing as practical as a good theory.” This statement is credited to and which year
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According to Schiller (1976), the second weave of modernization theory is a part of critical theory that was popular in the ______ and ______
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The mass information society was based on all the following assumptions except_______
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The decoder of message in communication process sometimes perform the same role as the
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In communication process invariably controls communication
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theory views the mass media as the ‘mirror’ of the society
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“The process of exchanging mutually understood symbols” is the definition of communication according to
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Communication is complex. This implies that communication is
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Three examples of SENSE THEORIES are Medium theory
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