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| Occurs when a person learns, adapts to, and adopts the appropriate behaviors and rules of a host culture. |
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| A culture within a culture |
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| A cultural mindset that emphasizes the group norms, values and beliefs over the self. |
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| The common understandings among people who are committed coexisting. |
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| Context Orientation Theory |
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| The theory that meaning is derived from either the setting of the message or the words of a message and that cultures can vary to the extent which message meaning is made explicit or implicit. |
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| The learned ability to accurately understand the experiences of people from diverse cultures and to convey that understanding responsibly. |
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| The process whereby individuals, companies and/or the media impose their way of thinking and behaving upon another culture. |
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| The ability to avoid judging or condemning any practice in which any other culture engages. |
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| Cultural Variability Theory |
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| A theory that describes the four value dimensions (individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity/femininity) that offer information regarding the value differences in a particular culture |
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| The shared, personal, and learned life experiences of a group of individuals who have a common set of norms, values and traditions. |
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| A conflict over cultural expectations and experiences. |
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| Occurs when a person either consciously or unconsciously learns to identify with a particular culture and a cultures thinking, way of relating and world view. |
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| The process of judging another culture using the standards of our own culture. |
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| A culture that emphasizes the characteristics stereotypically associated with feminine people, such as sexual equality, nurturance, quality of life, supportiveness, affection and a compassion for the less fortunate. |
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| The concept that all societies, regardless of their size, are connected in some way. The term also can be used to describe how communication technology ties the world into one political, economical, social and cultural system. |
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| A culture in which there is a high degree of similarities among members and in which the meaning of a message is drawn primarily from its context, such as one's surroundings, rather than from words. |
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| A group to which a person feels he or she belongs. |
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| A cultural mindset that emphasizes self-concept and personal achievement and that prefers competition over cooperation, the individual over the group and the private over the public. |
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| Intercultural Communication |
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| Communication between and among individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds. |
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| A culture in which there is a high degree difference among members and in which the meaning of a message must be explicitly related, usually in words |
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| A culture that emphasizes characteristics stereotypically associated with masculine people, such as achievement, competitiveness, strength and material success. |
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| A group to which a person feels he or she does not belong |
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| A practice in which a nation sends work and workers to a different country because doing so is cost efficient. |
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| How a cultures perceives and distributes power. |
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| A cultural mindset that indicates how tolerant (or intolerant) a culture is of uncertainty or change |
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| A particular form of conflict in which the abuse is consistent and the person being bullied finds it very difficult to defend himself or herself |
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| Disqualifying the emotional aspects of a conflict (the context) and focusing on the rational aspects |
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| The point in the conflict process when the differences between individuals become a problem and one or both people begin to address the issue |
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| A conflict that revolves around an issue. Aslo called the substantive conflict. |
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| Direct and Virtual Use of Power |
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| Communication of the potential use of a direct application of power. |
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| Direct Application of Power |
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| In a conflict situation, the use of any resource at our disposal to compel another to comply regardless of that person's desires |
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| The background that frames a specific conflict |
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| The residue of having engaged in conflicts and the feelings that both participants have about their interactions |
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| Disqualifying the subject of a conflict by distracting both people in the conflict with behaviors such as laughing, crying or changing the subject |
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| Helping to actualize our own or another person's power. |
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| A type of power in which a person in a relationship suppresses or avoids decisions in the interest of one of the parties. Also called unobtrusive party |
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| A conflict with another about one's sense of oneself. |
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| Indirect Application of Power |
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| Employing power without making its employment explicit |
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| A necessary condition for conflict, given that conflicts are created and sustained through verbal and nonverbal communication |
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| A necessary condition for conflict, given that people involved in conflict rely one each other, need each other and are in a relationship with each other |
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| The interaction of interdependent people who perceive incompatible goals and interference from each other in achieving those goals. |
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| A conflict about the way a conflict is conducted |
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| Negative Interaction Ratio |
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| An interpersonal encounter in which the participants say more negative things to each other than positive things. |
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| An issue related to a relationship that can cause a content conflict. |
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| Being passive or ignoring our own needs in a conflict |
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| Positive Interaction Ratio |
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| An interpersonal encounter in which the participants say more positive things to each other than negative. |
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| Responding in an aggressive manner without acknowledging the needs of another person in a conflict |
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| In an interpersonal relationship, the ability to control the ability of another |
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| The rules emotions and beliefs involved in a conflict |
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| THe immediate results after a conflict interation |
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| An issue outside of the relationship that can cause a content conflict |
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| In a conflict, a pattern of one party pressing for discussion about a conflictual topic while the other withdraws |
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| A conflict that focuses on issues concerning the relationship between two people |
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| A message the defines a relationship and implicitly states that the sender has the power to define the relationship |
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| Conflicts that recur overtime in people's everyday lives, without a resolution |
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| In a conflict, each party choosing to increase the intensity of the conflict |
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| In a conflict, each party mirroring the other's negotiation behaviors |
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| In a conflict, neither party being willing to confront the other |
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| A conflict in which the content is specifically about a question of right and wrong |
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| In a conflict, a pattern in which one party withdrawals, which causes the other party to pursue. |
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| Shorthand used for efficient communication in online relationships |
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| A graphic image used in an electronic message that can be downloaded from a website or compiled of keyboard characters. An articon may or may not be used to show emotion |
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| Asynchronous Communication |
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| Communication that doesn't require a sender and a receiver to have an exchange at the same time, as in online communication |
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| A digital fictional and fantasy representation of a user in a virtual world |
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| Computer-mediated Communication |
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| The use of various technologies to facilitate communication with others |
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| The integration of various technologies, such as online radios or cell phones with cameras |
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| An online overture that briefly responds to a sender's message in order to clarify the senders intended message |
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| An exchange of malicious, hostile or insulting comments over the internet |
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| The concept that technology ties the world into one political, economic, social and cultural system |
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| Extremely offensive language that is directed towards a particular group of people |
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| The highly accelerated development of an online relationship |
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| An electronic extension that communicates a person's identity, such as a screen name or personal web page |
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| Streaming bulletins that announce the activities of a Facebook user's friends |
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| On a social networking website, an electronic invitation to another person to communicate with you |
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| Postcyberdisclosure Panic |
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| A situation in which we disclose personal information in an email, only to experience significant anxiety later because we begin to think about the number of people who could have access to that message |
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| A theory that proposes that people have qualities they wish to present to others |
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| Linking individuals and communities who share interests, activities and ideas through such online websites as Myspace and Facebook |
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| Synchronous Communication |
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| Communication between a sender and receiver that takes place at the same time, as in face to face communication |
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| Technological Determinism |
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| A theory that states that technology is irreversible, inevitable and inescapable. |
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| The earliest incarnation of the World Wide Web, which was used primary as a storehouse for online information and tools that could be accessed to achieve an end, such as finding a website, emailing a friend or purchasing a product |
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| The latest incarnation of the World Wide Web, which is increasingly used as a means of interactivity and personal expression; establishing online communities, sharing files and blogging exemplify Web 2.0 |
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| The process of collecting online data from different and multiple sources to suit a particular need, such a populating a search engine or preparing digital slides for a presentation |
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