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Media Choice

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Media choice is the decision about which channel to use for a message. It is shaped by task, affordances, norms, and what the choice itself signals, and it differs from media use, which concerns how a chosen channel is actually employed.

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Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.

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