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“An Opportunity to Reclaim a Place”: A Critical Analysis of Media, Memory, and BLM Plaza DC Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Loren Saxton Coleman
In June 2020, protestors in Washington, D.C. gathered peacefully outside the White House fences to protest George Floyd’s murder. Instead of acknowledging George Floyd’s murder or the racist polici...
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(Re)Animating “Comfort Women” Memories: Fantastical Abstractions and Metaphorical Violence Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Christine Choi
This project explores the intersection of public memory, violence, and the relationship between new media representations and the viewer in the context of Sujin Kim’s (2021) animated short film, Un...
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Let the Light Shine: Reclaiming Public Space Through Digital Projection Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Katherine D. Lind
Amid the racial uprisings of 2017 and 2020, digital projections emerged as a mode of protest contributing to the calls for removal of Confederate monuments. These digital projections, I argue, crea...
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Protest Anthems as Songs of Mourning: Feminist Activism Through Collective Expressions of Grief Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Valentina Proust
This article explores the multifaceted role of protest anthems in social movements, emphasizing their dual function as powerful expressions and integral components of socio-political activism withi...
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Black Women’s Commemorative Recovery: Strategic Ambiguity as a Rhetorical Resource in The Embrace Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Patricia Davis
When The Embrace, a monument to Martin and Coretta King, was unveiled in Boston in 2023, it drew mixed reactions from various quarters of the public. Some observers praised the statue for its repre...
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How Political Identification and Individual Differences Influence Black Lives Matter Message Reactions Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Adrienne F. Muldrow, Sachiyo M. Shearman
Consistency theory, positing that individuals process information based on preexisting attitudes, is particularly relevant in today’s polarized political climate. This study investigates the impact...
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The Impact of Stigma on Sexual and Gender Minority Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Monica L. Ponder, Bryan M. Jenkins, Wei Sun
The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in life-altering changes for millions of people. Historically, marginalized groups prove to be among the most vulnerable populations during times of crisis...
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“Not Just Made for My Pure Entertainment”: Social Justice Movies as Tools for Fueling Consciousness, Conversations, Change Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Sharifa Simon-Roberts, Owen Eagan
Social justice movies can offer nuanced depictions of causes affecting a society. Following the murder of George Floyd, issues surrounding racial inequality once again rose to the fore and captured...
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Facebook Framing of the First Female U.S. Vice President: An Intersectional Approach to Analyzing Memes Depicting Kamala Harris Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Dorothy M. Bland, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Gheni Platenburg, Mira Lowe, Lawrence Mosley
Kamala Harris made political history in 2020 when she was elected vice president of the United States. Our study employs intersectionality to shed light on how people framed Harris in Facebook meme...
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Decolonizing Communication Theories Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kehbuma Langmia
Published in Howard Journal of Communications (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Legitimizing Violence in Religious Propagation?: Linguistic Metaphors as Stance Acts in Boko Haram Pre-Violence Sermons Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Chuka F. Ononye, Ja’afar A. Wakili, Tochukwu J. Chukwuike
Much linguistic effort has been made to analyze Boko Haram’s (BH) threat texts or newspaper reports on its activities using various discourse analytical and pragmatic tools. However, the group’s ea...
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From Critical Pedagogy to Communication Activism Pedagogy in a Large Lecture Classroom: Increasing Awareness, Knowledge, and a Desire for Change Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kelli S. Boling
Using pre- and post-semester surveys in a large lecture classroom focusing on social justice, human rights, and the media, this study measures the change in students’ beliefs regarding the importan...
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Pragmatic Analysis of News Reports on Coronavirus from Selected National and International Newspapers Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Jane Chinelo Obasi
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic led to various scholarly studies both from scientific and linguistic repertoires. This study is a pragmatic analysis of news reports on Coronavirus from select...
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Personalization as a Strategic Political Tool on Social Media: The Curious Case of VP Kamala Harris on Twitter Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour
Social media have reinvigorated the shift of focus from a party-centered politics to a personality-based one. This has made how politicians personalize on social media, especially in government, co...
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Constitutive Community, the Social Gospel, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “A Time to Break Silence” Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Richard W. Leeman
Highly controversial at the time that it was delivered, lay and scholarly critics have treated Martin Luther King, Jr.’s April 4, 1967 “Speech at Riverside Church,” (“A Time to Break Silence”) as r...
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Exploring Transcultural Communication via Perceived Social Distance and Intergroup Acceptance toward K-Pop and Asian Culture Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Carolyn A. Lin, Suji Park, Xiaowen Xu, Yukyung Yang
Well-known K-pop (Korean popular music) bands have gained the status of pop music icons, owing to their widespread popularity around the world. This study explored the interrelations between a set ...
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COVID-19 Frames the News: An Examination of Race and Pandemic Frames in Newspaper Coverage Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Monica L. Ponder, Salima Kasymova, Loren Saxton Coleman, Jasmin M. Goodman, Christin Smith
During public health crises, newspapers play the significant role of disseminating health information, shaping the public response to public health messaging, and encouraging efficacious risk-reduc...
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Facilitated Contact: Building the Container for Interracial Conversations about Race Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Devon Geary, Valerie Manusov
The contact hypothesis purports that intergroup interactions under particular conversational conditions are more likely to lead to positive outcomes, including a decrease in prejudice. Extending th...
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Men Sharea El Haram: The Ethics of Masculinity and its Vernacular discourse in Kuwaiti Television Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra
This paper provides a cultural analysis of the popular Kuwaiti TV series Men Sharea El Haram (translated as From Haram Street). Combining religion, class, race, nationality, and patriarchy, Haram S...
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Til Death Do Us Part: Kendrick Lamar, “The Heart Part 5,” and Black Male Vulnerability Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Damariyé L. Smith, Nicholas B. Lacy
Hip-Hop continues to be one of the most influential music genres in the modern era. Such impact necessitates scholars to engage in Hip-Hop discourses to comprehend its power in shaping and understa...
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Creating a Place in Middle America: How Spanish-Language Local News Serves the Hispanic Community Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Margarita H. Tapia, Chris Anderson, Jill A. Edy
A fraction of Hispanic people in the U.S. uses Spanish-language news because a language barrier prevents them using English-language news. Functional theory suggests ethnic media serve ethnic commu...
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Using Cultural Variance Framework to Promote Vaccine Confidence among African Americans: A Qualitative Content Analysis of “We Can Do This” COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Sean J. Upshaw, Olga Idriss Davis, Brad Love, Shoaa Almalki
The study examines ways the cultural variance framework (CVF) enhances vaccine confidence messaging among African American healthcare consumers concerning coronavirus. The main emphasis lies in the...
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Toward an African Media Typology: Preliminary Reflections Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Levi Obonyo
Africans’ voices and contributions to communication scholarship are of interest to many Africanists. Some discourses have explored reasons for this interest. This article continues this conversatio...
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Exploring and Navigating the Chasm: The Incompatibility of Western Gatekeeping Theory with Akwa-Cross Akata Indigenous Media Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Unwana Samuel Akpan
The global practice of journalism which is a Western conception stipulates that any media content meant for public consumption must go through the process of ‘Gatekeeping’ by ‘Gatekeepers’ before i...
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Health Belief Model Review: Suggestions to Consider in Extending the Model for Application in the African Context Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Jeremiah M. Nganda, Kinya Mwithia
While scholars use many theories and models in health communication, only a handful of them are commonly used in studies focusing on behavior change and prediction. One of these is the Health Belie...
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On Intersections of Power and Vulnerability: A Critique of Nollywood, Heteropatriarchy, and Ideologies of Motherhood Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Tomide Oloruntobi
This article explores the representational politics of motherhood in Nollywood. It argues that a latent hetero-normative/patriarchal ideology shapes the construction of motherhood in Nollywood. Thr...
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Social Determinants of Self-rated Health: Patient-provider Communication, Social Support, Socioeconomics, and Demographics among Different Ethnic Groups in the U.S. Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Zhiwen Xiao, Jae Lee, Allen Wu
Grounded in the theory of social determinants of health, this study clarifies the relationship between social factors and health disparities in the United States. Health disparities as observed in ...
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“And That’s Why We’re Feelin’ the Blues:” Examining Associations among Internalized Racism, Watching TV, and Depression among African Americans Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Cynthia M. Frisby
The current study shows how internalized racism, time spent watching television, and exposure to depictions of Blacks/African Americans viewed on television might influence self-reported depression...
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Media Use and the Motivational Factors for Preventing Communicable Diseases among African Immigrants in the United States Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Nancy Muturi, Barikisu Issaka
African immigrants in the United States have contributed to a culturally and linguistically diverse US population. This also implies an increase in health disparities as minority populations experi...
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Examining the Double Bind of anti-Racism in (U.S.-Based) Communication Programs’ Statements against Racism Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Anjana Mudambi, Brandi Lawless, Yea-Wen Chen, Godfried A. Asante
In this study, we critically analyze statements published by doctoral degree-granting Communication programs throughout 2020 and 2021 in response to racism against Black Americans and Asian America...
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“Monstrous Adventurers”: The Racecraft of the Dungeons and Dragons Imaginary Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Benjamin J. J. Carpenter
This paper examines the use of racial categories within the tabletop roleplaying game ‘Dungeon’s and Dragons’ through the lens of racecraft as outlined by Karen and Barbara Fields. Examining D&D as...
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Journalistic Verification Practices From the BBC World News and Al Jazeera English Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Normahfuzah Ahmad
News media organizations are a part of the institution of public knowledge. Through journalism, news media organizations inform and educate the public on matters of public concern. However, the dig...
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“La Piedra Rosetta” Content Analysis of Health-Specific Stories on Genetic Testing From Spanish-Language News Outlets Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Avery Holton, Alexis Vega, Ginger Zamora, Kimberly A. Kaphingst
Genetic testing (GT) for health purposes has grown exponentially in the past decade, with the ability to prescribe precision medicine regiments as well as preventative and preparatory actions. Whit...
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The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Ethnoracial Attitudes toward Organ and Tissue Donation Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Donyale R. Griffin Padgett, Lindsay Toman, Annisa M. P. Rochadiat, Vinita Parekh
The need for transplantable organs and tissues among ethnoracial minorities surpasses the number of available donors. Scholars have continued to document factors corresponding to the low consent ra...
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What Does Morality Have to Do with It? What Haidt and Moral Foundation Theory Reveals about White Evangelical Christian Women Who Advocate for Politician Donald J. Trump Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Gayle Jansen Brisbane
This qualitative research offers an explanatory framework to identify potential moral motives evangelical Christian women demonstrate when championing Donald J. Trump, who defies biblical morality....
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“Virus Jihad”: The (Mis)Representation of Muslims during Covid 19 Outbreak in Indian Media Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Anilesh Kumar
This study examined the media representations of Muslims during the first wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in India. The study conducted a thematic discourse analysis on TV debates in the af...
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Representation of Power Relations in Twitter Feud between the US and Iranian Politicians after the Killing of Qasem Soleimani Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jane Chinelo Obasi, Victoria Eberechukwu Etike
This study is a linguistic analysis of power relations in selected tweets between the US and Iranian politicians after the killing of the former Iranian leader, Qasem Soleimani. A sample of 33 twee...
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Oy Vey, the Shtick: Exploring the Relationship between Audience Consumption of Jewish Television Characters and Attitudes toward Jewish Populations Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Lyric Mandell, David L. Stamps
The current set of studies adopts cultivation theory and mediated contact to explore the relationship between viewers’ consumption of Jewish television characters, endorsement of negative Jewish st...
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Lebanon’s 2019 Uprising: A Feminist Uprising or Feminized Media Sensationalism? Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Sally Farhat, Jad Melki
Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising brought to the forefront women’s rights, to the extent that various groups and media called it a women’s uprising. This study questions the accuracy of media’s portr...
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Saving Face: How the University of Georgia Communicated During its 1961 Racial Integration Crisis and Maintained its Image through Stakeholder Management Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-04-13 LaShonda L. Eaddy
Abstract Few studies have explored higher education desegregation in the nation’s first state to charter a state-supported university, Georgia. The present study is the first to document the University’s racial integration communication with various stakeholder groups as well as the University’s public relations response and strategy. The study examines the University’s public relations function and
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Pelosi, Pointing, and Power: Assumptions about Dominance, Emotionality, and Gender within Media Discourse Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Valerie Manusov, Benjamin L. Compton
Abstract This study examines 59 online articles written about a photograph of Nancy Pelosi standing up in the White House cabinet room and pointing her finger toward Donald Trump. Trump released the photo and tweeted his own interpretation of it; online articles followed discussing descriptions and/or interpretations of the image and the surrounding events. This paper focuses on how the media discourse
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“I'm So Sick of This Race Talk. Boo Hoo”: Perceptions of Race on 2021–22 CBS Survivor Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Christina S. Walker
Abstract Historically, reality TV casts have lacked diversity while producers have been known to create narratives based on stereotypical characterizations, perpetuating stigmas and reinforcing racial bias. But what is the role of reality TV anyway and do audiences even desire or care to include these conversations in entertainment discussions? In response to the most diverse cast of CBS’ Survivor
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“Just One More Thing on Our Plate that Makes it Undesirable to be around”: African Americans’ Experiences during COVID-19 Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Monica L. Ponder Ph.D., Tanya E. Gardner Ph.D., Wei Sun
Abstract As a historically marginalized group, African Americans experience social stigma resulting from the legacies of slavery and discrimination. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents unique challenges for African Americans in coping with pandemic-related stigma, specifically with implications for disease testing, treatment, and spread. This research focused on African Americans’ experiences
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Interactive within Structures: Understanding Ethnicity, Esports Uses and Effects Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Tang Tang, Roger Cooper, Enrico Gandolfi
Abstract As esports aims to be an equal playing field for all, it is important to understand how and why Caucasians and minorities play and watch esports. This study represents one of the first empirical efforts to examine the role of ethnicity in esports uses and effects by conducting an online survey with 526 esports consumers in the United States. Using existing scales, this study measured dependent
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Decade of Race Publications: Meta content Analysis of Race in Communication Scholarship from 2010–2020 Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Anna Valiavska, Angela N. Gist-Mackey, Madison Holloway
Abstract The #CommSoWhite movement gained momentum in 2020, pointing to a heightened need for communication scholarship to reckon with race and racism. This content analysis provides a systematic review of a decade of race scholarship in communication studies. Manuscripts that address race in all of journals published by the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association
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“Dream Now, Travel Tomorrow”: Communicating the Nation Branding of Indonesia through Tourism-Based Social Media Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Desideria Cempaka Wijaya Murti, Ina Nur Ratriyana, Immanuel Dwi Asmoro
Abstract This study examines the use of tourism-based social media to communicate the idea of nation branding. By using Indonesia as a case study, this research aims to provide research contexts of demographic, historical, and contemporary challenges of social media and nation branding. The research project aims to answer three important objectives. Those are to investigate the pattern of tourism-based
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Health Messaging and the Black Community: Analysis of Rhetoric in Michelle Obama’s Social Media’s Posts Announcing Her COVID-19 Vaccination Status Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Sharifa Simon-Roberts, Deion. S. Hawkins
Abstract COVID-19 data reveal that the pandemic caused chaos for all, but the Black community repeatedly saw elevated rates of infection and high mortality rates. After COVID-19 vaccines were developed, dissemination and uptake within the Black community lacked. It was abundantly clear that the Black community’s large distrust of the medical establishment was a barrier to successfully rolling out COVID-19
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#JoeandtheHoe: Exploring Gender and Racial Stereotypes Used to Discredit Kamala Harris in the 2020 Presidential Election Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Rebecca Coates Nee
Abstract Social media has increasingly become the source of political information and discussion during campaigns, as well as a platform where stereotypical frames and disinformation are spread about candidates. This study explores the gender and racial stereotypes used to negatively frame Kamala Harris on Twitter. Results show that gender frames previously used against other female candidates were
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Folk and Fantasy: Colonial Imaginations of Caribbean Culture in Mid-Century Calypso Album Cover Art Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Nickesia S. Gordon, Jonathan Schroeder, Janet Borgerson
Abstract This article explores the reflections of Caribbean culture found in mid-century calypso album cover art. Calypso cover art offers important documentations of Caribbean folk life and cultural identity pre-independence, but at the same time, facilitate the exportation of colonial fantasies about local life to attract tourists. The images examined invariably construct Caribbean islands as “places
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Black Women as Genres of Skin: A Necropolitical Analysis of US Open Representational Texts of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Mphatso Moses Kaufulu
Abstract This paper draws from necropolitics to apply an intertextual analysis of representational texts in order to foreground the constitutive role of race and gender in the construction of media texts. This construction is referred to in this paper as a meta-text which obtains from socio-cultural classifications which mark some groups as ‘people’ and others as ‘unpeople’, and thus, some groups as
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The Marathon Continues: Living in the Wake of Nipsey Hussle through Hip-Hop Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Corey J. Miles
Abstract To live in the wake of slavery is to be vulnerable to violence known and unknown to ourselves and to always have those violent possibilities legally and scientifically justified. This research asks in what ways do Black people communicate care for each other while living in structures of racial oppression? I look to the Black performative arena, specifically hip-hop, to explore the ways Black
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“You Can Watch a Documentary”: Representation and Intersectionality of Immigrants to the United States in Documentary Film Genre Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Tawfiq Ola Abdullah
Abstract Immigration and immigrants’ stories have been fictionalized, reported in the news without necessary contextualization, and reported in research, most often regarding media images ascribing to signs decodable for meanings and interpretations of the outside world. This study uses documentary reports as alternative angles of immigrants’ stories in the U.S., covering the period between 2016 and
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Correction Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-09-15
Published in Howard Journal of Communications (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023)
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Twitter and the Faces of Whiteness: Investigating Official Responses to the Death of George Floyd Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Megan Lambertz-Berndt, Bethany Anne Conway, Erica R. Goynes
Abstract Republican politicians unabashedly condemn the use of critical race theory (CRT) as a pedagogical framework for educators. While most Democrats have quickly come to the defense of CRT, even they are socialized through White supremacist practices. Connecting CRT to the theory of impression management, this paper reveals how Minnesota politicians (both Republicans and Democrats) and government
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Counterpublics and Hegemonic Ideology: Responses to Donald Trump’s Post-Hurricane Imperial Condescension toward Puerto Rico on Twitter Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Eduard Fabregat, Farooq A. Kperogi
Abstract In April 2019, Trump criticized Puerto Rican politicians on Twitter for receiving $91 billion in aid from Washington and said Puerto Rico was taking money from the U.S. Even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, their political status is the result of a series of colonial policies that ensured an important degree of U.S. political control over their island. Combining topic modeling and network
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Mythologizing Madiba: Myth, Resistance, and the Globalized Post-Presidency in Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Lecture Series Address Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Christopher J. Wernecke
Abstract In his first major post-presidential public address, President Barack Obama spoke at the 2018 Nelson Mandela Lecture Series in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this address, Obama lent the weight of the rhetorical post-presidency to further mythologize the late South African leader, helping to transform him into the mythic “Madiba,” the embodiment of resistance, progress, and perseverance for
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“Learning English is the Single Most Important Thing”: A Qualitative Analysis of the Linguistic Acquisition of Latino Minor League Baseball Players Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Patrick C. Gentile
Abstract This article seeks to understand how Latino Minor League Baseball (MiLB) players acculturate linguistically to life in the United States (US) while playing in the US South. To better understand how they acquire a knowledge of English, 24 current Latino MiLB players and one coach, who was also a former player, were interviewed. Questions were asked about their understanding of English, when
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Campus Integration and Campus Climate at a Predominantly White Institution in the South Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Sachiyo M. Shearman, Aysel Morin, Adrienne F. Muldrow
Abstract Decades after Brown v. Board of Education, the tide has reversed back to school resegregation. Given the racial tensions, reports of racial microaggressions, and a resurgence of hate crimes on campus, the current study investigated the college students’ perception of campus climate and racial integration. In a predominantly White institution (PWI) in the Southern United States, we examined
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A Comparative Analysis of Hillary Clinton and John Mahama’s Concession Speeches in the 2016 US and Ghanaian Presidential Elections Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Godwin Etse Sikanku, Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour, Eric Opoku Mensah, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo
Abstract Comparative research contributes to knowledge by providing a better understanding of how a phenomenon manifests in different socio-cultural contexts. In this present study, we examined the concession speeches of Hillary Clinton (United States, Democratic Party) and John Mahama (Ghana, National Democratic Congress, NDC) in the aftermath of their 2016 electoral defeats. Findings indicated that
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Perpetual and Pleasurable Marginality: White Masculine Victimhood Appropriation and Black Masculine Sacrifice in Marvel’s Netflix Series The Punisher Howard Journal of Communications Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Linsay M. Cramer, Gabriel A. Cruz, Andrew R. Donofrio
Abstract Using Casey Ryan Kelly’s theorization of White masculine victimhood and Claire Sisco King’s conceptualization of abject hegemony, this manuscript rhetorically examines the 2017–2019 Netflix series, Marvel’s The Punisher, and its surrounding discourse. The analysis reveals an emotional-moral framework of White masculinity that thrives on and finds pleasure in an unending, inhumane, and cruel