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Application
One aspect of the chapter that made me think about a real life example was the
section on Research and Publication. This piece reminded me of the film The Theory
of Everything. As I was reading the multiple steps of how theories go from the
drawing board all the way to a published journal article or monograph I couldnt
stop thinking about the movie. In the movie, the initial phases of ones research are
clearly portrayed in the movie especially those times when a Stephen Hawking
discusses with his peers his idea and receives feedback and then later on presents it
to his professor and scholars of the field. In addition he also gets invited to present
his work at different conventions which is another phase in creating the thesis. From
the movie, I was also able to draw the comparison with the different growth periods
of theses. In the movie Hawkins has his original thesis but then goes back and
changes it completely and so I made the connection that what he was doing was
developmental growth and a small revolution.
Questions
Question 1: Does a lack of empirical data take away from the validity of a thesis
compared to a more data driven thesis? Why or why not?
Question 2: Can you think of a modern day example of a subfield of communication
that is going through incremental, developmental, and canonical growth and a
revolution?
Application
Reading the chapter and more specifically the section on hermeneutic theory I was
struck by how it relates to today where most people make generalizations based on
one interaction or comment and become completely close minded about a subject.
An example of this is after 9/11 the stereotyping and racial profiling towards Middle
Easterners because people though that they were all terrorists. Rather than trying
to understand more about them, the public decided to treat these people as if they
were terrorists without knowing anything about them besides their physical
appearance.
Question
Question: Due to the increase in technology, are mass audiences shrinking and are
mass communicators tailoring their content to accommodate a smaller and similar
audience?