Information Theory and Mass Communication

Schramm, Wilbur

doi:10.1177/107769905503200201

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“…Whereas the linear model focuses on the acts of delivering and receiving messages (Lasswell, 1948), the interactive (Schramm, 1955), transactional and ecological models (Altheide, 1994) The interdependence suggests that a change in any portion of the process is likely to influence another portion'. These distinguishing features of the 'ecology of communication' (Altheide, 1994, p. 667).…”

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Exploring Communication between Social Workers, Children and Young People

Winter

Cree

Hallett

et al. 2016

The British Journal of Social Work

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A key issue for the social work profession concerns the nature, quality and content of communicative encounters with children and families. This article introduces some findings from a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that took place across the United Kingdom between 2013 and 2015, which explored how social workers communicate with children in their everyday practice.The Talking and Listening to Children (TLC) project had three phases: the first was ethnographic, involving observations of social workers in their workplace and during visits; the second used video-stimulated recall with a small number of children and their social workers; and the third developed online materials to support social workers. This paper discusses findings from the first phase. It highlights a diverse picture regarding the context and content of communicative processes; it is argued that attention to contextual issues is as important as focusing on individual practitioners' behaviours and outlines a model for so doing.

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Exploring Communication between Social Workers, Children and Young People

Winter

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Hallett

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The British Journal of Social Work

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“…An interesting development is the endeavor to use information theory in explaining communications behavior. The applicability of information theory to mass communications was explored by Schramm (77). Cherry (16) and Miller (58) wrote works widely used by mass media theorists in an attempt to build theory.…”

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Chapter VIII: The Mass Media: Journalism, Broadcasting

Kumata¹,

Deutschmann²

1958

Review of Educational Research

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“…For example, social and communication scientists, such as Hiltz and Turoff (1978), Schramm (1955) or Bailey (1990) have applied entropy theory and its attendant methodologies to specific social scientific problems, such as small group structuring, system theory, media landscape organization, diversity of media production, and so on. Economists, environmental scientists, or human geographers have also used entropy to characterize the social structure and diversity of industries, occupations, species, or populations (Bailey, 1990;.…”

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Transparency in Social Media

Matei¹,

Russell²,

Bertino³

2015

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A series of authored and edited monographs that utilize quantitative and computational methods to model, analyze and interpret large-scale social phenomena. Titles within the series contain methods and practices that test and develop theories of complex social processes through bottom-up modeling of social interactions. Of particular interest is the study of the co-evolution of modern communication technology and social behavior and norms, in connection with emerging issues such as trust, risk, security and privacy in novel socio-technical environments.Computational Social Sciences is explicitly transdisciplinary: quantitative methods from fields such as dynamical systems, artificial intelligence, network theory, agentbased modeling, and statistical mechanics are invoked and combined with state-ofthe-art mining and analysis of large data sets to help us understand social agents, their interactions on and offline, and the effect of these interactions at the macro level. Topics include, but are not limited to social networks and media, dynamics of opinions, cultures and conflicts, socio-technical co-evolution and social psychology. Computational Social Sciences will also publish monographs and selected edited contributions from specialized conferences and workshops specifically aimed at communicating new findings to a large transdisciplinary audience. A fundamental goal of the series is to provide a single forum within which commonalities and differences in the workings of this field may be discerned, hence leading to deeper insight and understanding. Series EditorsMore information about this series at

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Information Theory and Mass Communication

Abstract: University of Illinois discusses the nature of information theory and some of its possible applications to research on mass com-munications. There is an appendix on formulas, how to compute them, and suggested readings.

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Exploring Communication between Social Workers, Children and Young People

Chapter VIII: The Mass Media: Journalism, Broadcasting

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