Socially mediated feedback is response shaped and organized through groups, representatives, institutions, and collective action. It may remain invisible in formal return channels. A quiet comment box or favorable survey therefore cannot by itself establish how the wider social environment is responding.
- Entry typeKey concept
- CategoryTheories & Explanatory Models
- DomainOrganization & Structure
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Entry type
Key concept
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.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.