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Quest day presentations in Communication:

8:45am-10:15am Lanigan 104

Papers in Communication Studies and History

• EmergentRoleComplexityInMedia

10:00am-??? Lanigan 103

Sex and Violence in Video Games

12:30pm-1:45pm Lanigan 104

Papers in Journalism

12:30pm-2:45pm Lanigan 104

Papers in Political Science and Communication Studies

12:30pm-1:30pm Lanigan 106a

Ethical Responsibilities and the Roles in Media (PanelOnEthicalResponsibilitiesAndTheRolesInMedia)

1:45pm-3:00pm Lanigan 106a

Communities as Media-Use Ecologies (PanelOfCommunitiesAndMediaUse)

Davis Foulger (Communication Studies) Emergent Role Complexity In Media : Communication is made possible by role players who enable the transmission of messages within a medium. This study explores 18 generic roles across 167 media. Three principle generic role patterns are identified. These patterns, content selection, directed control, and role intensive production, appear to emerge in response to three distinct forms of complexity - serial complexity, contention, and parallel complexity - and intermix systematically in seven clusters of media. This presentation overviews these emergent solutions to role complexity in media. It also considers the possibility that the three forms of complexity, and their associated solutions, usefully extend Simon s (1969) "Architecture of Complexity".

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