04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thomas Kuhn, Health Care Reform, Radiative Transfer Equation And Diffusion Theory For Photon Transport In Biological Tissue

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: All

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2 6 14: roadmap, 1. review (all very simple review from last class, 2. Thinking about paradigms and models of comm: 3. Our experiences with requests and people we know. Paradigms a broad framework (or worldview) that guides the work of scholars over a long period of time as they conduct research and develop specific theories (thomas kuhn) Like your underwear foundation you put everything else on top of: batman utility belt native & scholarly theories are tools that go on utility belt. An inconsistency or discrepant observation that challenges the paradigm: paradigms in science and business. Ex 1) paradigms in science: newtonian physics there is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. Info transmission s > m> r = e: s sender, m message, r receiver, e effect, one way transfer of info. Comm anomalies: message sent doesn"t equal message received. Political speeches in ancient greece (sparta: comm as a way of participating in democracy (persuasion)