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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A rumor or rumour (see spelling differences), is often viewed as "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern" (33) However, a review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across sociology, psychology, and communication studies had widely varying definitions of rumor. Thus, rumor is a concept that lacks a particular definition in the social sciences. But most theories agree that rumor involves some kind of a statement whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed. In addition, some scholars have identified rumor as a subset of propaganda, the latter another notoriously difficult concept to define. A pioneer of propaganda studies, Harold Lasswell defined propaganda in 1927 as referring "solely to the control of opinion by significant symbols, or, to speak more concretely and less accurately, by stories, rumors, reports, pictures, and other forms of social communication" (1927:9). Rumors are also often discussed with regard to "misinformation" and "disinformation" (the former often seen as simply false and the latter seen as deliberately false, though usually from a government source given to the media or a foreign government). Rumors thus have often been viewed as particular forms of other communication concepts. Psychology of Rumor (1902)French and German social science research on rumor locates the modern scholarly definition of it the pioneering work of the German Louis William Stern in 1902. Stern experimented on rumor involving a "chain of subjects" who passed a story from "mouth to ear" without the right to repeat or explain it. He found that the story was shortened and changed by the time it reached the end of the chain. His student was another pioneer in the field, Gordon Allport. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License What is the strangest rumor you ever heard or received by email? Q. Hi ... What is the strangest rumor you ever heard or received by email? and do you check any story you receive? or you just pass it over to others? thanks and best regards. Asked by mkaatr - Sun Jul 26 20:12:14 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. well there was a rumor once in my highschool about this girl who called her ex one day and she was talking really dirty to him and told him that she was thinking about him and that she was having her dog lick peanut butter off her vagina. little did she know he was with his friends and put her on speaker phone so they all heard.. she had to switch schools because everyone heard about it. Seriously..who does that?! Answered by Beth - Sun Jul 26 20:18:21 2009 What if some is spreading a rumor about you? Q. This is happening to me and the person who is spreading it, hates me cause i stole their best friend friend which i didn't cause i knew the person since grade 2 and that person hates the person spreading the rumor. The person spreading the rumor is doing it with my best freind from grade 5, it's not a true rumor. Would it be smart to tell the principle? Asked by Bubblez iz mi namo - Thu Feb 4 19:08:15 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments Is the Rumor by LG a good cell phone to get?
Q. I wnt to get the Rumor by LG for christmas, but i don't know if it is a good cell phone to get becasue some people say taht its great and some say it's bad. Please give me some advise! I have Sprint and I think its time for a new cell fone! My cell fone that I have now has no camera..and not a lot of everything. So I've been looking threw ads and goin on the sprint website to see what kinds of fones that they have. I then saw the Rumor. It's in every single sprint ad and i cherish it like no other: even tho i dont have have fone. My question is: Should I get the Rumor? I have my heart set on it. And I would like to know all of the details to the fone. So if anyone has it please share ur knowalge! Asked by basketballstar~LKK13 - Fri Nov 30 20:00:37 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. The Rumor isn't too bad of a phone. It has a 1.3 mega pixel camera which is pretty good for a phone and it's on sprint. What else can i say, besides get it. Answered by Dan Man - Fri Nov 30 20:05:53 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "rumor" See also:
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