-
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Caitlin Walrath
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
From Fringe to Mainstream: How Celebrity Endorsement on Social Media Contributes to the Spread of Conspiracy Theories Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Freddie J. Jennings, Ryan Neville-Shepard, Dani B. Jackson, Amanda Magusiak, Katelynn Sigrist
Celebrities have been known to endorse and amplify conspiracy theories over various forms of media. This study experimentally examines the influence of celebrity endorsement of a conspiracy theory ...
-
Affectionate Communication Mediates the Effects of Minority Stress on Mental Wellness for LGBTQIA+ Adults Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Colin Hesse, Kory Floyd
As a prosocial behavior, affectionate communication evidences a stress-buffering effect, ameliorating the deleterious effects of stressors on stress. Although much previous research has documented ...
-
Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care by Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Caroline Reed
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Parent-Child Communication About Independence in College Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Jenna R. LaFreniere, Wei Cui
One of the most formative aspects of college involves increasing independence from parents. Emerging adults may be forming ideas of what independence entails or how to discuss it, especially consid...
-
Vaccine Mavens or Health Mavens? Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Christopher J. Carpenter, Md Shahedur Rahman, Michael R. Kotowski
Although topic-focused opinion leaders have been studied for decades, it remains unclear whether they are best conceptualized based on a narrow topic (vaccines) or a broader topic (health). Two stu...
-
“Frankly, My Dear, I Just Might Give a damn:” An Experiment Investigating Preexisting Beliefs and Reasons to Watch Romantic Comedies on Reports of Beliefs, Mood, and Enjoyment Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Veronica Hefner
This multiple message, pretest-posttest control group design experiment investigated whether different motivations to view romantic comedies and preexisting romantic beliefs (e.g. love conquers all...
-
The Communication Patterns of Highly Effective Lie Detectors Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Curt Anderson, Kevin Bies, Andrew Gelderman, Alivia Moore, Kafui Sakyi-Addo, Katie Thompson, Megan Wooten, Timothy R. Levine
A prior experiment involving professional interrogators using unscripted questions produced exceptionally high (98%) deception detection accuracy. Guided by truth-default theory, videotapes of thos...
-
Regularities of Constructing the Narrative of an Interactive Documentary Film as an Infotainment Phenomenon Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Ainur Suleimenova, Asima Ishanova, Almatay Zhussupova, Altynay Aigelova, Manarbek Karekenov
This article provides a content analysis of 10 interactive Russian-language and English-language projects to isolate documentaries from them and analyze the structure to derive the principles of co...
-
Well-Being on Campus: Testing the Impact of a Web-Based Intervention for Resilience on First-Year Students Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Joshua Hendrickse, Elizabeth C. Ray, Laura Arpan, Ann Perko, Lyndi Bradley, Karen Oehme, James J. Clark
The current study evaluated the impact of an interactive website on first-year students’ self-efficacy and intentions to engage in self-help behaviors. After an initial visit to the site, students ...
-
American Psychiatry and the Interminable Exigence of Blackpain Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Davi Thornton
This essay analyzes the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s) responses to George Floyd’s death to critically illuminate the ways that reconciliatory discourses of racial healing deploy blackp...
-
Anger, Efficacy, and Message Processing: A Test of the Anger Activism Model Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Elena Bessarabova, Monique Mitchell Turner, Adam S. Richards
This study tested the anger activism model (AAM), proposing that the relationship between anger, cognitions, and behavioral intentions is moderated by the intensity of the message-induced emotional...
-
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Perceived Face Threat of Disengagement Language in Dating Relationships Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Shuting Yao
Romantic relationship dissolution and its aftermath have rarely been investigated through the lens of face threat. This research delves into the communication of relationship dissolution, and argue...
-
Pursuing Ethnographic “Closeness:” A Reflection on Race, Reality Television Audiences, and the Focus Group Encounter Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Gretta Blackwell
Using fieldnotes and headnotes from a study I conducted on African American viewers of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, this article evaluates the ethnographic potential of the focus group f...
-
Memorable Diet and Exercise Messages Recalled by Black Women Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Natasha R. Brown, LaShara A. Davis
The current project, guided by the memorable messages framework and Self -Determinism Theory, sought to uncover information regarding messages Black women encounter that may influence their health-...
-
Southern: The Hospitality Regional Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Wendy Atkins-Sayre
In this address, 2022 Southern States Communication Association President, Dr. Wendy Atkins-Sayre, argues that hospitality is a hallmark of the organization that we should embrace more passionately...
-
When Modes Collide: A Daily Diary Study of Mixed-Media Use and Conflict Behavior in Romantic Relationships Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Nicole Kashian, Liesel L. Sharabi
A 5-day diary study examined if and how conflict behavior moderates the association between mode integration and relational and conflict outcomes among individuals in romantic relationships. Partic...
-
The Rhetoric of (Re)marking at the Oscars: Performance of Place in Glory Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Celnisha L Dangerfield, Christina L Moss
Abstract The 2015 Academy Awards was the year of #OscarsSoWhite, a campaign protesting the concentration of whiteness traditionally present in the Oscars' nominations, attendance, and winners. Selma received few nominations within this context and only one Oscar for the original soundtrack of Glory by John Legend and Common. The performance of the song placed Selma, AL, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge
-
Social Support Expectations of Managers and Employees from Croatia, Thailand, and the United States Amid COVID-19: An Organizational Support Theory Perspective Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Pavica Sheldon, Mary Grace Antony
Social support can help buffer against stressors and build employees’ resilience. However, workers of different cultures may vary in their expectation of support. Drawing on organizational support ...
-
The Collective Double Voice: Mobilizing Resistance While Stifling Racial Violence in the Silent Protest Parade Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Shelby R. Crow
ABSTRACT On July 28, 1917, between 8,000 and 15,000 Black men, women, and child protesters gathered in the streets of New York City to protest the continued lynchings of Black Americans. The Silent Protest Parade enacted silence to safely mobilize a double voiced critique. Drawing on Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness, I consider how double consciousness (i.e. “double voice”) functions in protest
-
Suturing White Wounds: Racialized Therapeutic Rhetoric as a Strategy of Whiteness Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Stephanie L. Hartzell
ABSTRACT This essay advances racialized therapeutic rhetoric as a framework for analyzing how whiteness mobilizes strategically in antiracist discourse. Racialized therapeutic rhetoric functions to center and soothe reactionary white emotions and promote white self-introspection and personal transformation over collective antiracist praxis. My analysis reveals that racialized therapeutic rhetoric operates
-
(Eco)horror of Masculinity: Confronting Abject Nature in the Films of Robert Eggers Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Courtney J. Dreyer
This essay argues that Robert Egger’s films, The Witch and The Lighthouse deconstructs gender relations and their effects on the environment. I illustrate how the films construct masculinity as per...
-
Working Parents’ Struggling to Achieve the Work-Life Balance During the Pandemic: Exploring the Benefits of Relational Maintenance Beyond Relational Outcomes Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Anuraj Dhillon, Megan Lambertz-Berndt
ABSTRACT Work from home mandates during the current pandemic forced people to merge personal and professional lives, thus the current study explored how relational support from a romantic partner might have helped working parents maintain satisfying work-life balance. Guided by theory of resilience and relational load, the study proposed that individuals’ perceiving greater relational maintenance from
-
No One Ever Talked About…”:The Postpartum Counter-Narrative to Society’s Master Narrative on New Mothering Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Sarah Symonds LeBlanc, Lindsay M. Butcher, Rachel P. Mitchell, Julianna Russel, Jessi Navarro
ABSTRACT In this study, we examine narratives to discover how new mothers narrate about the postpartum period if the experiences mirror that of the master narrative, and how new mothers make sense of postpartum anxiety. We explored 22 narratives collected between October 2019 and March 2020 for insights into how new mothers’ narratives complemented or refuted the master “good” mother narrative. Data
-
Measuring Relational Entropy: Relational Maintenance Behavior Mediates the Association between Religious Similarity and Entropy in Friendships Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Lauren E. Fellers, Andrew M. Ledbetter
Entropy is the natural tendency of systems to move from a state of order to disorder, and previous theorizing has argued that close relationships are subject to entropy over time. Building from qua...
-
List of Reviewers Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-30
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Vol. 88, No. 1, 2023)
-
“Let’s Talk about Sex”: Expanding Advice Response Theory to Sexual Advice-Seeking Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Andre Fedd, Jennifer A. Samp
ABSTRACT Communicating about sex with close friends (i.e., support providers) can shape perceptions about sex and sexuality. Drawing from Advice Response Theory (ART) we considered support recipients’ dispositional traits (i.e., sexual sensation seeking) as an intervening variable on advice outcomes. Support recipients (N= 270) reported on support providers persuasive efforts, their trait sensation
-
Personalizers’ Responses to Hurt: Do Intensity and Intentionality Mediate Relational Distancing? Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Stacy L. Young, Kayla Fiori, Valerie C. Ortega
ABSTRACT Conflict can be hurtful for anyone; however, individuals who take conflict personally (personalizers) may be uniquely affected by these interactions. We anticipated that both perceived intentionality and intensity of hurt feelings would either fully or partially mediate personalizers’ relational distancing response. Results of the structural equation model (SEM) uncovered that personalizers’
-
Relational Turbulence: A Latent Model Test of Theoretical Propositions Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-12 San Bolkan, Alan K. Goodboy, Matt Shin, Karly R. Quaack
In this study we simultaneously tested theoretically specified predictions from relational turbulence theory (RTT) using a fully latent structural regression model. A total of 807 college students ...
-
The Influence of Social Media on Online Political Participation among College Students: Mediation of Political Talks Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Drina Intyaswati, Malida Tsani Fairuzza
ABSTRACT This study explores and discusses the impact of political talks as a mediator of social media use on online political participation. It uses a survey method to collect data on college students in West Java concerning the 2019 Indonesian presidential election, and a total of 1,050 students filled out the questionnaires. The results showed that online political talk served as a mediator instead
-
“I Looked in the Mirror. I Was Like, ‘Where?’”: (Re)constructing Ethnic-Racial Identity after Receiving Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Test Results Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Amy Aldridge Sanford, Rosa M. Banda, Carmen Tejeda-Delgado, Patricia Lynn Hernandez, Delaney Vampran-Foster, Angela Walker
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explains how people made sense of their co-constructed ethnic and racial identities after receiving direct-to-consumer genetic test results for the first time. Three themes surfaced (e.g., searching for deeper belonging, grappling and negotiating identity, and mitigating race and ethnicity) from journal entries and a focus group interview. The authors assert that there
-
Celebrity Capital and Social Movements: A Textual Analysis of Bollywood Celebrities’ Tweets on 2020-21 Indian Farmers’ Protest Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Ali Zain
ABSTRACT Building on the global trend of celebrity activism and concept of celebrity capital, this study qualitatively examines Twitter posts of the Bollywood celebrities. The aim of this analysis was to identify varying discourses about the 2020–21 Indian farmers’ protest as celebrities are considered significant players of discourse building and social movements. The thematic analysis showed that
-
Speaking Out, Speaking Up: Co-cultural Communication through an LGBTQ Discussion Panel Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Justin J. Rudnick, Stevie M. Munz
ABSTRACT This study engaged in ethnographic observation and qualitative interviewing research practices to examine an educational program involving self-identified LGBTQ individuals who participate on classroom panel discussions and question/answer sessions about their coming out experiences. By observing ten LGBTQ discussion panels and conducting 35 interviews with panelists and student audience members
-
The Spaces Between: Using Thick Intersectionality to Explain Identity Gaps Presented in Ginny & Georgia Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Virgil L. Hayes, Olivia Watson
ABSTRACT Ginny & Georgia, an original Netflix show released in 2021, showcases how racial identity construction cannot be separated from history, culture, language, and oppressive structural systems in society through the writing of the main character Ginny. In this paper, we explore how communication theory of identity (CTI) and thick intersectionality (TI) connect to examine the material consequences
-
The Digital Citizen(ship): Politics and Democracy in the Networked Society Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Theresa Russell-Loretz
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Ahead of Print, 2022)
-
Understanding the Relationship between Communication Competence and Social Media Use Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Pavica Sheldon, Lynn Johnson Ware
ABSTRACT In the last couple of years, a high number of employers started raising concerns about the lack of soft skills in recent college graduates. Many have pointed to social media as hurting our face-to-face communication. Following these concerns, the purpose of our study was to examine the relationship between communication competence and social media use. One hundred and eighty-nine adults, ages
-
Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Theresa Russell-Loretz
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Vol. 88, No. 1, 2023)
-
Rhetorical Altermobilities: A Framework for the Study of Discourse, Mobility, and Resistance Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Alexandra Parr Balaram
ABSTRACT Drawing on interdisciplinary mobility scholarship, I introduce rhetorical altermobilities as the discursive alteration of individual or collective (im)mobility for purposes of resistance. A rhetorical altermobilities framework encourages the analysis of the form and function of rhetorical altermobilities in order to discern possibilities for rhetorical resistance. Applying this framework,
-
Preparing for Careers: Emerging Adults’ Perceptions of Career Messages Received from Different Vocational Anticipatory Socialization Sources Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Melinda Aley, Kenneth J. Levine
ABSTRACT The six sources of vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) information communicate important career-related messages that are vital to the future success of emerging adults. Building on previous research that identified the types of messages provided to adolescents, the current study assessed the quality and usefulness of these messages. A total of 251 emerging adults (mean age = 20.74;
-
Future Time Perspective as a Moderator of the Associations between Own Age-Related Communication and Aging Efficacy Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Quinten S. Bernhold
ABSTRACT In this study, older adults’ future time perspective was examined as a moderator of the associations between their age-related communication and aging efficacy. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that aging efficacy was consistently high when older adults viewed their future as expansive, regardless of their tendency to communicate as a gloomy ager or an engaged ager. Conversely, the
-
Public Memory: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Kelly Errera, Sarah M. DeIuliis
ABSTRACT The theoretical and practical relationship between memory and forgetting are often separated as rhetorical acts of history. However, this separation may fail to account for the important interconnectedness of the two terms. Public memory and forgetting raise significant implications for philosophy of communication. The increased and “unprecedented politicization of memory” increasingly bears
-
The Burdened Burdensome Woman: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis of Discussions of The New York Times’ Homeschooling Gender (Dis)Parity Article Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Heather M. Stassen, Tennley A. Vik, Heather J. Carmack, Jocelyn M. DeGroot
ABSTRACT As the COVID-19 pandemic swept America in 2020, schools closed and families shifted to children learning online from home. This labor was dominantly covered by mothers, many of whom still had careers to maintain. A 2020 New York Times article reporting on the homeschooling shift concluded with the polarizing declaration that while women did most of the labor associated with homeschooling,
-
Defining and Exploring Frenemy Relationships Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Jenna S. Abetz, Lynsey K. Romo, Chandler Marr
ABSTRACT Despite the prevalence of frenemy references in popular culture and the significant impacts these relationships invariably can have on our lives, frenemy scholarship is limited, contradictory, and often used synonymously with ambivalent relationships. This study draws from 29 interviews to develop an empirical definition of the term frenemy. Results illustrate that study participants conceptualize
-
“Nothing More Divisive than Politics”: Colorblindness and Antiblackness in NFL Protest Discourse Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Sarah Hae-in Idzik
ABSTRACT In 2016, Colin Kaepernick began demonstrating during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, kicking off the NFL protests. This paper examines a turning point in protest discourse: statements by President Donald Trump in September 2017 that NFL owners should say to (primarily Black) protesting players, “Get that son of a bitch off the field.” In the wake of these remarks, team owner
-
Decoding the Digital Church Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Reed Van Schenck
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Vol. 88, No. 1, 2023)
-
Testing the Role of Attachment Styles in Advice Response Theory Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Irene G. Sarmiento-Lawrence, Lyn M. van Swol
ABSTRACT Previous research has made a call to study how attachment processes affect advice communication in romantic relationships. Examining participants’ perceptions of romantic partner’s advice, using Advice Response Theory and attachment theory, this study sought to determine how attachment styles moderate the associations between perceived advice message factors and implementation. Participants
-
The Mediating Role of Social Control in the Relationship between Family Communication Patterns and Emerging Adults’ Weight-Related Outcomes Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Trevor Kauer, Tricia J. Burke
ABSTRACT Emerging adults leaving home face an important transition. Despite increased independence, parent communication continues to influence weight/body perceptions. Emerging adults (N = 202) reported on a parent’s use of Family Communication Patterns (FCP) and social control to predict three outcomes: weight concern, body dissatisfaction, and weight-related communication apprehension (WRCA). Mediation
-
Veterinary Conversations about Euthanasia: A Call for Compassionate Communication Training Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Kurt Wise
ABSTRACT This study focused on communication between veterinary professionals and clients when pet owners are considering the euthanasia of a pet. Sixteen veterinarians and veterinary technicians participated in semi-structured interviews. The prevalent theme mentioned by participants about what they regarded as most important when discussing euthanasia was, to use a general term, caring. All participants
-
Associations of Adolescents’ Vocational Anticipatory Socialization: Exploring the Roles of Favorite Television Characters, Gender, and Parent-Child Communication Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Larissa Terán, Yejin Shin, Jian Jiao
ABSTRACT Three primary purposes guided the present study: to examine the role of adolescents’ favorite television character characteristics on adolescents’ wishful identification toward the characters’ job, to examine the role of television and family on adolescents’ vocational anticipatory socialization, and to explore whether the associations varied by gender. Data were collected from 330 adolescents
-
Nobody Likes Ike: The National Civic Art Society and Commemorative Containment in Washington, D.C Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Jennifer Keohane
ABSTRACT This essay explores the history of the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. as a lens on the shifting nature of U.S. public memory. The National Civic Art Society (NCAS) opposed the memorial plans in a vitriolic report. I argue that the NCAS seeks to regain control of D.C.’s memorial landscape via commemorative containment. Their rhetoric on the memorial emphasizes scarcity, suggesting
-
Modeling the Factors Associated with Topic Avoidance about Mental Health: Depressive Symptoms, Information and Relationship Assessments, and Efficacy Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Amanda M. Carpenter, Jennifer A. Theiss
ABSTRACT This study modeled associations between depressive symptoms, information and relationship assessments, and efficacy as predictors of topic avoidance about mental health. We proposed a model, drawing on previous research and the disclosure decision-making model (DD-MM). A sample of 304 individuals with a self-reported mental illness completed an online survey about their diagnosis and their
-
Comforting and Sustaining Whiteness in the ‘Post-Racial’ Era: The Help, Collective Nostalgia, and White Ignorance Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-12 John Clyde Russell
ABSTRACT By the spring of 2022 there were nearly 200 bills making their way through 40 state legislatures that explicitly prevented public schools from teaching “divisive subjects” that could make some students feel “discomfort.” Nearly all included language that banned supposed concepts of critical race theory (CRT) or the 1619 Project. The attacks on and misrepresentations of CRT illustrate whiteness’s
-
Granting Standpoint as a Strategy for Promoting Social Justice Activism: An Analysis of Dolores Huerta’s Rhetoric Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Mollie K. Murphy
ABSTRACT This article examines three texts in which Dolores Huerta, a highly influential yet understudied social justice activist, addressed privileged audiences of potential allies to the United Farm Workers movement. I argue that Huerta constructed farm workers as holding standpoint – privileged knowledge of power structures acquired through oppression – as a strategy for inciting audience action
-
Medicalization of Communication: An Examination of Communication Policies in American Medicine Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Ramona Jewel Maria Dorough
ABSTRACT Communication skills with patients and healthcare teams has continued to be one of the main topics of discussion within medical education and has intensified over the past few years. Although communication is not a disease to be named, or a specific medical problem, the innovation is continuously reconstructed and redefined regarding how to be utilized for better healthcare. This paper uses
-
Deplorable: The Worst Presidential Campaigns From Jefferson To Trump Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Divine Narkotey Aboagye
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Vol. 87, No. 5, 2022)
-
Selective Compassion: Public Memory, Persona, and “The Early Years” of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Taylor H.A. Katz
ABSTRACT Founded in 1845 to defend the appointment of slaveholders to missionary posts, the Southern Baptist Convention’s origins complicate its efforts to communicate its history to its members. Developing a public memory-based approach to persona criticism, this essay analyzes a 2006 documentary entitled “Forged by Faith: The Early Years.” By selectively narrating SBC history to construct a “legacy
-
Peril Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Saanjanaa Pattabirraman
Published in Southern Communication Journal (Vol. 87, No. 5, 2022)
-
Confession, Coming Out, and Postfeminism: Gendered Representations in Love, Simon and Alex Strangelove Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Nicholas Lepp
ABSTRACT I argue that the gay teenage coming-of-age films Love, Simon and Alex Strangelove enact two conservative gendered representations. First, both films portray a post-feminist, single-issue LGBTQ allyship which rationalizes a male-centered understanding of coming out at the expense of the girl best friend. Second, both movies display gendered spatial arrangements which reify problematic gender
-
Rules, Reciprocity, and Emojis: An Exploratory Study on Flirtatious Texting with Romantic Partners Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Thomas Wagner, Narissra Punyanunt-Carter, Elizabeth McCarthy
ABSTRACT Romantic partners expect and follow implicit rules for flirtatious texting. This mixed-methods exploratory study reviewed survey data and content analyzed flirtatious texts from 200 participants to discover specific communication rules and the level of flirtatious texting similarity. Each participant uploaded five to seven screenshots of recent flirtatious texts for analysis. Coding included
-
Instructor-Student Communication about Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Differences in Instructors’ Professional and Personal Outcomes Southern Communication Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Allie White, Sara LaBelle
ABSTRACT This study sought to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college instructors’ professional and personal well-being. Specifically, this study explored whether new communicative roles emerged in instructor-student communication about mental health. Additionally, it investigated associations among instructors’ communicative roles and their experiences of burnout, teaching