Your answers do not have to be long. Just be concise and answer the question completely. Please label the specific letter of the question you are answering.
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You want to understand the effects of learning through Zoom and podcasts. (A) Why can’t you just rely on your everyday experience and common sense to understand this phenomenon? After reflection, you decide to run a study examining the effects of virtual schooling on academic outcomes among UCLA students. Use the concepts you have learned from “Communication Studies as a Social Science” to set up your study. (B) What is the population in this case? (C) How could you draw an appropriate sample from this population? (D) What would be your unit of analysis? (E) Cite one hypothesis that you might draw up. (F) What would be your independent and your dependent variable, and (G) how would you operationalize them? (H) Which research method would you use and why? Subsequently, you learn that in Taiwan classes are still being held in person and face-to-face! You want to conduct another study there by looking at small group communication among university students within one small study group. Before your study, you want to make sure that you understand the dynamics of small
groups. Relating the rest of this essay to this Taiwan study group… (I) What are several ways that dynamics might change as the size of a small group grows? (J) Explain how such a group can sometimes transition from a secondary to a primary group. (K) Also explain the possible types of leadership that could apply to the group and how this leadership could affect group outcomes. After delineating the key aspects of communication in small groups, you are intrigued at how one person in the group that you are studying does most of the talking and has taken on a leadership role. Nevertheless, the other group members do not always seem to listen to her very well. Luckily, having taken Comm 10, you can instruct the class members on how to improve their listening skills. (L) Discuss all the attending, following, and reflecting skills that the group members would need to master to improve group communication. Throughout your whole discussion make sure that you give specific and detailed examples for everything. Make sure that you address all the concepts thoroughly and in detail.
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Debby is a graduate student in communication who studies the mass media. She is especially interested in digital media. She is now writing a paper on the major characteristics of digital media. (A) In a seminar she is presenting the basics of her findings on ten of the most important characteristics of digital media today. Discuss her presentation on how the digital media are multi-media, ethereal, automated, available all the time on demand, pervasive, fluid, interactive, space and time saving, and cheap. Her friend and roommate Harriet is also a graduate student in communication, but she has very different interests. She is especially interested in nonverbal communication. She has recently conducted research on kinesics and used the everyday interactions between her and Debby as her subject matter. (B) Describe and illustrate five types of kinesics that Harriet has observed between her and Debby. To make ends meet Harriet also works at a local restaurant. (C) Explain and illustrate the three types of stage upon which Harriet can communicate with Debby, with the people at the restaurant, and with herself when home alone. (D) Also explain and illustrate how, in the course of their week, both Debby and Harriet use all four systems of communication, both mediated and non-mediated. Discuss andillustrate all (4×2) of these types. Throughout your whole discussion make sure that you give specific and detailed examples for everything. Make sure that you address all the concepts thoroughly and in detail. Feel free to use your imagination to develop a story of Debby and Harriet.
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