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This study offers a model of the communicated relationship among interracial communicators on television. Incorporating scholarship in interpersonal, intercultural, and media communication, the model discerns three attributes of relational messages: independent, dependent, and interdependent. Each attribute is typified by behaviors which indicate the quality and levels of involvement between interactants. The three attributes and their respective levels are presented in relation to each other on a triangular figure. An application of the IDI model indicates that the model can be usefully employed and suggests that television viewers are perhaps watching and learning communication practices and patterns which do not facilitate deep friendships, intimate relationships, and close cooperation between Blacks and Whites.
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