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Contents 1.          entree         3 2.          universe finis         5 3.          universal communication and weighing         10 4.         Basic structures of mankind backwardness         14 4.1         The social organization of public awkwardness         15 4.1.1         Legal and political frameworks         15 4.1.2         Organizations, markets, communication carry and technologies         16 4.1.3         Differentiation of the public         22 4.1.4         Communication roles and categories of participants         27 4.1.5          mildew and stratification         31 4.2         Symbolic structures of public deliberation         35 4.2.1         Symbolic boundari es of deliberation         35 4.2.2         Types of argument, symbolic frameworks         37 4.2.3         Levels of abstract entity or oecumenicity, genres of public deliberation         39 5.         Public Culture, processes and structures of public deliberation: some interrelations         42 5.1         The Reproduction of public culture in public deliberation - some general observations         42 5.2         Some further questions and conjectures         45         Literature         50 1.         Introduction In 1955 appeargond one of the path-breaking studies on public communication: individual(prenominal) Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communication, by Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld. In his foreword, Elmo Roper gave an interesting, though somewhat silly desc ription of the American public. In Ropers pi! cture, the public can be stratified in six groups, whose relationships he describes as six concentric rotarys.

In the center are the Great Thinkers, who have developed thoroughgoing theories or philosophies. Around them is a somewhat larger plenty of Great Disciples, who work out or advocate those theories or philosophies. Next are - in increasing sizes - the circles of Great Disseminators, stretch larger publics, and of Lesser Disseminators, with somewhat smaller audiences. Then conjure up the Participating Citizens and finally the Politically sloppy. Roper adds that these groups are not mutually exclusive. A Great Disseminator in one field may be Politically sloughy in another. .. (Roper 1955, xv-xviii). What is wrong with this picture, or what is missing? Some questions and objections pull away to mind: What are the philosophies or theories which are produced and disseminated in this breast? Is the production and dissemination... If you want to get a full essay, organise it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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