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Carl Hovland's "message learning approach" assumed that, since attitudes are learned, they can be changed through a learning process.   Wilbur Schramm was one of the first communications scholars to take an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the work of social scientists in other disciplines who studied communication.   Harold Lasswell's classic analysis of World War I…

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Humanistic scholars view humans as choice-making beings who experience individual realities, which must be understood through interpretation. In contrast, social scientists assume there is one enduring reality, or universal truth of human experience, which can be discovered by systematically observing sensory data. Social scientists view human behavior not as a matter of free will but…

More notes from Boxing Plato’s Shadow

Kant, Leibniz, and Dilthey. These thinkers pointed out that, although "truth" may exist in a general objective sense, the realities with which people actually live are "meanings." Meanings are perceived, interpreted "truths," and these are always assigned by individuals and cultures, and they are always influenced by context. The idea that people do not experience…

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