User talk:Dk802

Hi Dur! This is a messageJk1618 (talk) 16:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for all your help in this class Lbm53gu (talk) 15:53, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments on uncertainty reduction

Hey Dk802. I'm providing online support for your communications theory course and I had a few comments on your improvements to the article so far. I have a few suggestions and/or picky comments but overall I think the changes you've made are great.

• "In most societies there are behavior norms, that people tend to abide by..." This may be a bit particular, but I think the role of self-enforced norms extends well beyond reducing behavioral uncertainty. Even though it is minor, I think this paragraph could be refactored a bit to suggest that uncertainty is one motivation behind adoption of norms without external prodding (c.f. Foucault for others :) ).
• "The contents of the exchanges are often demographic and transactional" you want to remember that your ideal audience for an article like this is someone educated and interested but not necessary steeped in the details of the topic. As a standalone sentence (or in context with the paragraph) this would be hard to parse for a reader who didn't know what a transactional conversation was (much less demographic).
• In the section on job interviews, it might be worth your while to add a "hatnote" pointing to Matching theory (economics), which is partially about uncertainty reduction in the hiring process. It's minor, but I like linking two somewhat related bits of high theory.
• "A new strategy for reducing uncertainty was suggested in 2002 by Ramirez, Walther, Burgoon, and Sunnafrank that complements..." Should the paragraph starting with this sentence be where it is now or in the section on Computer-Mediated Communication that you created?
• Names of section headings should not be title cased, so where you have "Stages of Relational Development" it should be "Stages of relational development" (proper nouns are still capitalized)
• There's another angle to uncertainty issues in online dating: the accuracy of representation. See here and here for a few sources on the subject. Also, uncertainty may be higher for certain people, e.g. LGBT users of online dating sites.

Please let me know if I can offer any more help or if you have any questions, either here or on my talk page. Thanks for your work so far! Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:42, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Ramirez, Walther, Burgoon, and Sunnafrank

I think your proposal is completely reasonable. Good job with the improvements so far. Let me know if you need any more help. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:24, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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