CMST 1150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dramatism, Nonverbal Communication, Sextet

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7 basic assumptions of performance studies: performance studies examines behavior as an object of study, performance studies involves doing performance, participant observation, frequently involved in social practices in advocacy ethnography (study of people) Ideology- a system of beliefs more frequent than other academic study. More frequent than other academic study: performance should be seen as a broad spectrum or a continuum of behaviors (all related to each other, performance studies views culture groups in 2 ways: Cultural groups have distinct identities: we live in a world of multiple literacies which are preferences. Electronic literacies : two histories of performance studies, two narrative lines of the discipline: Nyu line- 1st called performance studies in 1980, emerged from theater. Laws-based explanations- argue that anytime x happens, y will follow, or that x and y are usually related. Rules-based explanations- do not claim to offer any universal laws about human communication.

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