“One can look deeply for meaning or one can invent it.”

― Anne Michaels

“MEANING MAKING”

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    Symbolic Interactionism

    Concepts of self, social role and social situations develop through communication. Media content can influence the symbols that we learn and also the way we use of symbols.

    PART 1
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    Pragmatism

    The essential argument made by pragmatism is that all thought and action is necessarily focused on achieving certain practical results in the social world.

    PART 2
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    Social Constructionism

    We can exercise more conscious control over the social world if we can consciously control the communication processes that underlie our personal construction of the social world.

    PART 3
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    Frame Analysis Theory

    Framing leads us to impose arbitrary, limited meaning on events but we will experience this meaning as “real” and “true”

    PART 4