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Chapter 2 vocab
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- 1Asynchronous CommunicationCommunication that occurs when there's a time gap between when a message is sent and when it is received
- 2Cocultureperception of membership in a group that is part of an encompassing culture
- 3Collectivistic culturea culture where members focus on the welfare of the group as a whole, rather than a concern by individuals for their own success.
- 4Culturethe language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn
- 5disinhibitionthe tendency to transmit messages w/o considering their consequences
- 6ethnocentrismattitude that one's own culture is superior to other's
- 7Flamingsending angry and/or insulting e-mails, text messages, and website postings
- 8High-Context Culturea culture that relies heavily on subtle, often nonverbal cues to maintain social harmony
- 9In-GroupsGroups with which we identify
- 10Individualistic Cultureculture where members focus on the value and welfare of individual members, as opposed to a concern for the group as a whole
- 11Intergroup Communicationinteraction between members of different cocultures
- 12Low-context Cultureculture that uses language primarily to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas as directly as possible
- 13Out-Groupsgroups of people that we view as different from us
- 14Power Distancedegree to which members of a group are willing to accept difference in power and status
- 15Prejudicean unfairly biased intolerant attitude toward others who belong to an out-group
- 16Richnessterm used to describe the abundance of non-verbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message
- 17Saliencehow much weight we attach to a particular person or phenomenon
- 18Social Mediadigital communication channels used primarily for personal reasons, often to reach small groups of receivers
- 19Stereotypingthe perpetual process of applying exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system
- 20Synchronous communicationcommunication that occurs in real time
- 21Uncertainty avoidancecultural tendency to seek stability and honor tradition instead of welcoming risk, uncertainty and change
- 22Web 2.0a term used to describe how the Internet has evolved from a one-way medium into a "masspersonal" phenomenon
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