CRJU 20423 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Interpersonal Communication, Community Service, Highbeam Research
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Chapter 5: engagement in stories contribute to social constructionism/help diffuse false perceptions. Talking about crime: talking about crime similar to mass media, difference between mass media and interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication crime stories are about people we tend to know or people we could know; tend to believe it. 9/11 is going to happen soon: wedge-driving rumor made out of aggression/hatred/prejudice; undermine someone; mean by nature/damaging to a person. Words and the details they provide become fewer: sharpened, some details fall by the wayside, but very specific points because the more important parts and focus of the rumor, assimilation. Individual"s own cultural context comes into play/pick pieces out and base rumor off who you are: rumors through extensive media coverage = believed to be fact (ex. Halloween candy: fueled by real life events (ex. The hook story: technological innovations/rumor transmission, rumors of war, major social implications.
