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  2. Smurfette - Wikipedia

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    Smurfette became the popular example of a trope that was soon baptized with her name by Katha Pollitt. Smurfette, like many female characters in TV and movies, is the only female in an otherwise all-male cast, thus this is called "The Smurfette Principle". Other such characters include Miss Piggy of the Muppets or Princess Leia in Star Wars ...

  3. The Smurfs - Wikipedia

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    "Smurfette" was the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series. The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps , which came to represent freedom during the modern era. The word "smurf" is the original Dutch translation of the French "schtroumpf", which, according to Peyo, is a word he invented during a meal with fellow cartoonist André Franquin when he ...

  4. Models of communication - Wikipedia

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    Many models of communication include the idea that a sender encodes a message and uses a channel to transmit it to a receiver. Noise may distort the message along the way. The receiver then decodes the message and gives some form of feedback. [1] Models of communication simplify or represent the process of communication.

  5. Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication

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    The SMCR model influenced the development of later models, often in the form of extensions to it. Marshall McLuhan extended the SMCR model by including interpretation as one of the steps of the receiver. [4] Gerhard Maletzke applied the SMCR model to mass communication in his 1978 book The Psychology of Mass Communication.

  6. List of The Smurfs characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of The Smurfs characters appearing in the original comics, the 1980s cartoon and the 2011 movie (as well as its sequels), and the 2021 reboot. [1]The Smurfs were also sold as collectible toys, and many of these characters were ideal from manufacturing and marketing points of view in that they had the same basic body plan but could be differentiated by one or two distinguishing ...

  7. Communication theory - Wikipedia

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    Communication theory is a proposed description of communication phenomena, the relationships among them, a storyline describing these relationships, and an argument for these three elements. Communication theory provides a way of talking about and analyzing key events, processes, and commitments that together form communication.

  8. Book excerpt: "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates - AOL

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    In his new autobiography, the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his origins, and about how, in eighth grade, he discovered BASIC, which introduced him to the elegance and exacting ...

  9. Smurfette principle - Wikipedia

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    The Smurfette principle is the practice in media, such as film and television, to include only one woman in an otherwise entirely male ensemble. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It establishes a male-dominated narrative, where the woman is the exception and exists only in reference to the men.