User:Dwfelice/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Communication Privacy Management Theory


 * Article Evaluation
 * This Wiki page is not rated and provides are as that can be improved and expanded. It seems to mainly be a student-contributed page. There are a number of places where citations are needed. An area that can be expanded on this page is the close association between this theory and the Social Exchange Theory.


 * Sources
 * Petronio, S., & Child, J. (2019, Aug 22). Conceptualization and Operationalization: Utility of Communication Privacy Management Theory. Current Opinion in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.009 Tennley, V. & Bates, B. (2016). Disclosure without Boundaries: Examining Communication Privacy Management theory in a Counterfactual World Journal of the Communication, Speech & Theater Association of North Dakota, (28) 48-62.   Cropanzano, R., & Mitchell, M., (2005, Dec 1). Social Exchange Theory: An Interdisciplinary Review. Journal of Management, 31 (6), 874-900. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206305279602  Emerson, R. (1976). Social Exchange Theory. Annual Review of Sociology, (2) 335-362. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.02.080176.002003

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Defensive Communication
 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a very recent Wiki page that has a "C" rating. The page only has one contributor as a part of a class assignment. Therefore, there is much room for improvement here and a good place to contribute to the knowledge of this area. There are a few peer reviews with suggestions for improvement, but no improvement has been made.
 * This is a very recent Wiki page that has a "C" rating. The page only has one contributor as a part of a class assignment. Therefore, there is much room for improvement here and a good place to contribute to the knowledge of this area. There are a few peer reviews with suggestions for improvement, but no improvement has been made.


 * Sources
 * Baker, W.H. (1980). Defensiveness in Communication: Its Causes, Effects, and Cures. Journal of Business Communication, 17(3), 33-43. https://doi-org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/10.1177/002194368001700304

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Interpersonal Deception Theory
 * Article Evaluation
 * This Wiki article is in the "Start" class, so there is plenty of room for improvement to this page. There are citations needed and comments on how writing and grammar need to be improved.
 * This Wiki article is in the "Start" class, so there is plenty of room for improvement to this page. There are citations needed and comments on how writing and grammar need to be improved.


 * Sources
 * Burgoon, J. K. (2005, July). Rejoinder to Levine, Clare et al.'s Comparison of the Park-Levine Probability Model Versus Interpersonal Deception Theory: Application to Deception Detection. Human Communication Research. (41), 3, 327-349. DOI: 10.1111/hcre.12065. Wise, M. & Rodriguez, D. (2013, Oct). Detecting Deceptive Communication Through Computer-Mediated Technology: Applying Interpersonal Deception Theory to Texting Behavior. Communication Research Reports, (30), 4, 342-346.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Social Presence Theory
 * Article Evaluation
 * This Wiki page seems to have been a class project with notation that it needs cleanup in formatting and cohesion to meet Wiki's standards. Therefore, it is not classified. This may be a good article to help move forward in the Relational Communication space on Wikipedia.
 * This Wiki page seems to have been a class project with notation that it needs cleanup in formatting and cohesion to meet Wiki's standards. Therefore, it is not classified. This may be a good article to help move forward in the Relational Communication space on Wikipedia.


 * Sources
 * Short, J. A., Williams, E., & Christie, B. (1976). The social psychology of telecommunications. London: Wiley.
 * Tu, C. H., & McIssac, M.. (2002). The relationship of Social Presence and interaction in online classes. The American journal of distance education, 16(3), 131-150.
 * Rice, R. E. (1993). Media appropriateness: Using Social Presence theory to compare traditional and new organization media. Human Communication Research, 19(4), 451-484.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Uncertainty Reduction Theory


 * Article Evaluation
 * This Wiki article has a C rating and seems to have been a class project. There were a number of peer reviews with suggestions on improvements (subheaders and expansion of the types of "uncertainty," but nothing has been done to this page in quite some time. This is surprising, since this theory is well known. Tehre are areas in which this articel could be improved in its writing and grammar in addition to expansion of examples of theory applications.


 * Sources
 * Berger, C. R., & Bradac, J. (1982) Language and social knowledge: Uncertainty in interpersonal relations. E. Arnold, 1982., pg. 7
 * Berger, C. R. (1995). "Inscrutable goals, uncertain plans, and the production of communicative action." Communication and social influence processes. 1-28.
 * Berger, C. R. (1986). Uncertain Outcome Values in Predicted Relationships: Uncertainty Reduction Theory Then and Now. Human Communication Research, 13, 34-38