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Communication gives life meaning, it comes and ends with a person’s life. This means that communication is
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“to whom” in Lasswell’s paradigm refers to ______
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The period in time in which focus was based on the idea that mass media have corrupting influences that undermine the social order that ‘average’ people are defenceless against influence of mass media 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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In mass communication, communication is mostly one way______
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The last two press theories espoused by the developing are
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The traditional functions of mass communication include all but one_______
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A major disadvantage of the print media over the electronic media according to Okunna (1994 ) is ____________
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Communication process is an ADDITIVE process because________
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In communication process invariably controls communication
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Authoritarian system controls the media through the following means_______
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The following according to Folarin (2002) are attributes of communication except_____
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Communication theories try to what happens in communication process
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The hypodermic needle theory is also known as
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Pick the odd item from the list_______
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“Anything about the world which strikes us as odd or otherwise in need of explanation” is an example of theories solving ____________ problem
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The use of eye contact in discussion is ____________
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The media serve as watchman for societies. This media role is otherwise referred to as ______
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In which media system is the press regarded as the ‘forth estate of the realm’
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The three general categories of communication include all but one in the list ________
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Innovation decisions as a five process according to Rogers include knowledge, persuasion, decision, confirmation and
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Communication through body movement is
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory and social identity theory are good examples of theories
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An objective evaluation of identified data is
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Libertarian media theory in ______in the ______ century
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The dependency theory was originally proposed by
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The codes used to package information, the content and the treatment of such information refers to
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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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A good theory should have the following attributes except____________
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All but one in the list is not context of communication_______
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“The process of exchanging mutually understood symbols” is the definition of communication according to
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The basic assumption of the normative theories is
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The period in time in which focus was based on the idea that mass media have corrupting influences that undermine the social order that ‘average’ people are defenceless against influence of mass media is ______--
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Presupposes that television shapes concepts of social reality
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Three examples of SENSE THEORIES are Medium theory
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Democratic participant and the Development media theories were adopted by _______
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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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The basic assumption of the play theory is
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“There is nothing as practical as a good theory.” This statement is associated with
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Every communication involve all but one of these ______
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Communication is complex. This implies that communication is______
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Framing and priming theories are good examples theories
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The exponents of authoritarian theory are Hegel ,
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The social responsibility media theory is an outgrowth of libertarian tradition , which tries to reconcile media independence with to the societies
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The following are characteristics of mass communication audience except______
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Communication process is an ADDITIVE process because
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The original four press theories include all but one in the list________
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Cell phones can be classified under type of media
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