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cmn326
final exam
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Communication
Undergraduate 3
04/25/2013

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diffusion of innovations
Definition
A theory which explains how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures
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Innovation:
Definition

An idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption

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Diffusion
Definition
The process by which an innovation is communicated through channels over time
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5 stages of adoption process: Stage 1
Definition

 Knowledge: Exposure without Information

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5 stages of adoption process: Stage 2
Definition

 Persuasion: interested in, and seeks out information

 

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5 stages of adoption process: Stage 3
Definition

 

  Decision: weigh advantages/ disadvantages to using innovation

Result: adopt or reject

 

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5 stages of adoption process :stage 4
Definition

 

  Implementation: begins to use innovation, determines usefulness of innovation

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5 stages of adoption process: Stage 5
Definition

 

  Confirmation:

-finalize decision to keep using innovation

-may use the innovation at its useful potential

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rate of adoption s curve
Definition

Yellow line:Line that indicates the market share of particular technology such as tv overtime

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Critical mass:
Definition
when the momentum adoption becomes self-sustaining
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 rate of adoption (S curve:

blue line

Definition

 

adoption           

First ppl to adopt is the innovators themselves

 

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 rate of adoption (S curve:

Innovators: 

Definition

risk takers, tend to be some of the youngest in age, and finically stable highest SES, most disposable income

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 rate of adoption (S curve: 

Early adopter

Definition
:young and wealthy, functions as opinion leaders, opinion makers
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rate of adoption (S curve: 

Early majority: 

Definition

opinion followers slighty above average SES, but not opinion leaders, have contact with the opinion leaders but not themselves are opinion leaders

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 rate of adoption (S curve

Late majority:

Definition

adopt after the average person have adopted, includes people who see technology with an critical eye skeptical about benefits, low Ses, 

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 rate of adoption (S curve

Laggards:

Definition
 have aversion to change innovation, older than most, low SES
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Critical mass:
Definition

when the momentum adoption becomes self-sustaining

adoption of new technology, when momentum become self -sustaining

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the audience as “adopters,” : 

Definition

Audience are adopters

Audience is seen as a market

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revisiting MOCIAAM: how technology moves from allocutive pattern
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being supplemented or replaced by 2 other patterns

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consulative pattern
Definition

when reciever seek out what they want and when they want

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gatekeepers of new technology: 

Definition
we become our own gatekeepers(select info. and keep track/ edited it for us)
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  the paradox of choice,: 
Definition
“By creating all these options, they had done a favor for customers with varied tastes. However, by vastly expanding the range of choices, they had also created a new problem that needed to be solved
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state taste for monopoly:

Network effects: 

 

 

Definition
as more people use it the more useful it become/ more powerful
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state taste for monopoly:

 

 

2.Economy of scale: 

Definition

 added cost it would take to make a new customer a client

 
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state taste for monopoly:

 

 took control of all levels (fb bought instagram)

 

 

 

Definition

 took control of all levels (fb bought instagram)

 

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state taste for monopoly:

 

5. State taste for monppoly: 

 

Definition

government/state has taste for the monopolies

 

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models of fragmentation (unitary model,

Definition

zero fragmentation none what so ever

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models of fragmentation 

 pluralism model:

Definition

common cultural core but attracted to different part to that core (3channels: ppl who watch in day/ ppl who watch at night)same messages but diff. times of the day

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 core-periphery model,

 

Definition

We still have core mainstream but all

More indivualized things we go after

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breakup model: 

Definition

everyone tends to their own needs

 

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