Symbolic Convergence Theory follows how shared dramatizations chain, recur, and form rhetorical visions. Social uptake and reuse provide evidence beyond a story’s vividness. Bormann’s theory connects groups with wider publics while requiring separate assessment of narrative truth, consequences, exclusion, and the interpretive methods used to reconstruct it.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
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.