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General Communication
Information Theory by Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver

Intercultural Communication Theories
Anxiety Uncertainty Management by William B. Gudykunst

Communication Accommodation Theory by Howard Giles

Effective Group Decision Making by John G. Oetzel

The Coordinated Management of Meaning by W. Barnett Pearce

Face Negotiation Theory by Stella Ting-Toomey

Mass Communication Theories
Agenda Setting Theory by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw

Cultivation Theory by George Gerbner

Media System Dependency Theory by Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Melvin Defleur

Spiral of Silence Theory by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Uses and Gratifications Theory by Jay Blumler and Elihu Katz

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