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Introduction to themed issue on dissent and communication Review of Communication Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Stephen M. Croucher
Published in Review of Communication (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Crossroads on the Silk Road: accounts of a U.S.-American faculty member’s culture shock and adaptation in Uzbekistan Review of Communication Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Tina A. Coffelt
The knowledge of and experience with culture shock and intercultural communication come under analysis in this autoethnography of a U.S.-American faculty member’s Fulbright teaching experience in U...
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Cultural adaptation experiences of people in New Zealand Review of Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Lenis Aislinn C. Separa
The rich history of migration of people to New Zealand paved the way for the multicultural environment that it has today. As individuals from different countries with various cultures move to a new...
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Introduction to the themed issue on presence Review of Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Stephanie Kelly
The following is a brief introduction to the themed issue on presence. This issue includes four articles representing a variety of methodologies. Each piece in this issue explores a norm or assumpt...
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A little help from my friends: the moderating role of neurodiversity traits on perceptions of presence Review of Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Brenda Lynn Rourke, Kylie Wilson, Sara Taylor
Researchers have investigated the impact of social presence and avatars across various contexts. While many studies highlight the positive outcomes associated with increased social presence for stu...
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Prophetic dissent in dark times: the new Poor People’s Campaign and the rhetoric of national redemption Review of Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Stephen E. Rahko, Byron B Craig
In this paper, we offer an analysis of an important social movement challenging the fantasy of Christian nationalism: the new Poor People’s Campaign, and specifically the rhetoric of the Bishop Dr....
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Adaptation of second-generation Turkish Americans in the U.S.A.: extending differential adaptation theory to the offspring of immigrants Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ahmet Aksoy
Contributing to the attempts to explore communication and adaptation, this study centers on the lived experiences of second-generation Turkish Americans as they navigate a space that is shared amon...
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Traditional origins of populist political discourse in Türkiye: a visual discourse analysis on Erdoğan’s Instagram posts Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Ömer Faruk Zararsız, Ahmet Selman Seyhan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is recognized as one of the world’s populist politicians who are steadily increasing in number around the world. During Erdoğan’s 22 years in power, Türkiye f...
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Rethinking citations: proposing a new model for analyzing stance and rhetorical functions of citations in interdisciplinary discourse Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Fahad Aljabr
The current study investigates citation practices in publications published in the journal Global Environmental Change. Twenty papers were selected to cover the period from 1990 to 2010. The model ...
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Globalizing dissent: the Soviet response to the Truman doctrine at the United Nations and the (Re)making of global governance at the end of ideology Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Zornitsa Keremidchieva
This article considers the role of dissent in the making and remaking of contemporary international relations. The immediate aftermath of World War II was a period of interregnum. Prior security pa...
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The Upward Ethical Dissent Scale: development and validation Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Justin Mahutga, Ryan S. Bisel, Da Bi
Ethical problems in organizations tend to be some of the most public and devastating for members, organizations, and society. Meanwhile, upward dissent is a key mechanism through which wrongdoing c...
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“It gave everybody a voice”: dissent expression through COVID-19 and the Great Resignation Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Meghan R. Cosgrove, Elizabeth A. Williams, Jennifer Linvill, Autumn Buzzetta, Emeline Ojeda-Hecht, Abby Konkel
Since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, the U.S. has seen nearly 100 million people leave their organizations.1 Such record-breaking transformations call for an i...
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A journey through communication research on transportation: the future of narrative transportation on emerging forms of media Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Judy Watts
This essay discusses how storytelling conventions and entertainment delivery methods have evolved with the advent of new technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality. This paper aims to expl...
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Introduction to themed issue on pandemic communication Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Stephen M. Croucher
ABSTRACT The following is a brief introduction to the themed issue on pandemic communication. In this issue, various pieces are presented. Each piece in this issue explores the notion of how communication relates to the pandemic in different ways.
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Introduction to the interdisciplinary nature of communication Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Stephen M. Croucher
Published in Review of Communication (Vol. 23, No. 2, 2023)
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Reimagining tenure and promotion for creative faculty: the Creative Scholarship Pathways Framework Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Serena Miller
ABSTRACT Faculty members interested in creating creative scholarship face advancement obstacles due to few known tenure and promotion standards. This study involved qualitative semistructured interviews with U.S. communication and media creative faculty members producing scholarship spanning multiple mediums. Interviewed scholars primarily expressed their scholarship's contributions involved local
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An interdisciplinary inquiry in the communicator: implications of relational social paradigm, practice theory, and biological science Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Yongjun Shin
ABSTRACT Communication research is interdisciplinary in nature. Many communication scholars have addressed the interdisciplinary nature of communication from diverse perspectives. While communication scholars have discussed the communicator, I propose introducing a sociological approach to the communication field, particularly drawing on relational sociology and practice/embodiment theory. And I discuss
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What communication brings to the study of gaslighting: metatheory toward interdisciplinarity Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Clint G. Graves, Leland G. Spencer
ABSTRACT Communication scholars are uniquely positioned to engage in complex, interdisciplinary research that integrates insights from different fields alongside a key expertise in the role of human symbol use. Viewing symbolizing as one of many central elements in complex social problems, we argue that communication scholars benefit when they begin from an interdisciplinary posture in conducting their
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Sociomateriality as flesh Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Johan Bodaski
ABSTRACT An important contribution to the field of communication is François Cooren's critique of the assumption that the social and the material are entangled because this assumption reproduces the divide it claims to reject. Rather, Cooren proposes that the social and the material are properties, or (im-)properties, of one another because their relational differences bring organizations into existence
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Government communication strategy and its reflection on media construction of pandemic: A structured analysis of COVID-19 in India Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Priyam BasuThakur, Sangita De
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 outbreak led to challenges in framing communication strategy on the part of the government among various stakeholders and especially to the common people. The government communication approach should focus on the meaningful participation of people in vulnerable conditions to achieve the best-possible result. The study examines various factors concerning the inclusivity in communication
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Pandemic, politics, and the safety of journalists: downward spiral of press freedom in India Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Sanviti Iyer, Mochish KS
ABSTRACT According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index rankings by the RSF, India ranks 161 out of 180 countries. One of the important indicators that the index bases the ranking on is the level of violence against the journalists and their overall safety. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government cracked down on the press by reprimanding any form of dissent regarding their policies. This
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COVID-19 infodemic on Facebook: a social network analysis in Thai context Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Abhibhu Kitikamdhorn, P. Ramasoota
ABSTRACT Many studies on the COVID-19 infodemic cover a fairly short period and focus on the West. This research aims at filling this knowledge gap by examining the infodemic on Facebook in the context of Thailand, covering a more extended period (19 months). The objectives are to gain insights into how COVID-19 information pollution is propagated and how well the counternarratives penetrate the users
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Foregrounding digital realities at the locked down raced margins: a culture-centered case study in Aotearoa Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Phoebe Elers, Pooja Jayan, Mohan J. Dutta
ABSTRACT COVID-19 lockdowns compelled an increased use of information and communication technologies within the home, allowing users to remotely retrieve information and socially connect with one another. However, there was the inherent risk that lockdowns could amplify digital inequalities, especially among low-income ethnic minorities who had higher hesitancy to adopt COVID-19 interventions and poorer
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Social media information and its association with the adoption of COVID-19 preventive measures in four Latin American countries Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga, Christian Arturo Cruz Melendez, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Brandon Brown, Maha El Tantawi, Nourhan M. Aly, Giuliana Florencia Abeldaño, Kessketlen Alves Miranda, Eshrat Ara, Passent Ellakany, Nuraldeen Maher Al-Khanati, Abeedha Tu-Allah Khan, Folake Barakat Lawal, Joanne Lusher, Ntombifuthi P. Nzimande, Bamidele Olubukola Popoola, Jorma I. Virtanen, Nicaise Ndembi,
ABSTRACT The study aimed to assess the association between adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures and access to media information related to COVID-19. A multicountry, cross-sectional study using an online survey was conducted from June to December 2020. The sample included 1,457 participants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. The outcome variable was self-reported adherence to preventive
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Immediacy and presence: reflections on an interdisciplinary and rhetorical approach to teaching and learning in the online environment Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Janice G. Thorpe, Sherwyn P. Morreale
The coronavirus pandemic mandated unexpected “instant transitions” to remote learning and accelerated student demand for online courses. As a result, U.S. colleges and universities across the natio...
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A little 😀 goes a long way: examining the limits of immediacy cues on students’ perceptions of instructor credibility, immediacy, liking, and clarity Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Kyle R. Vareberg, David Westerman
This paper examines how textisms, defined as cues that facilitate interaction in text-dominant communication (e.g., emojis), as a type of immediacy cue, may increase perceived immediacy in instruct...
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Institutional and network social support during COVID-19: A case study of one university’s students and their support-seeking behaviors Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Ashley J. George, V. N. Johnson, E. M. Emmons, M. Wellum, E. Rhea
ABSTRACT This case study of one university’s students and their support-seeking behaviors offers an initial explanation of what types of social support students sought during the pandemic and if their needs were met. This study fills a gap in the literature, as it addresses where students actually sought support during this time of crisis, and based on this analysis, we offer applications for how universities
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The COVID-19 storytelling narratives of Nigerian social media users Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Nwachukwu Egbunike
ABSTRACT Studies on the storytelling narratives of social media users have understandably emphasized the typology, interpersonal dynamics, trust, and disinformation that emanate from these virtual communities. This study extends this scholarly conversation by investigating both the storytelling and the narratives generated by Nigerian social media communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Communication
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Introducing the anti-method paradigm [or, when reviewer #2 says your interdisciplinary work is vague, messy, and unrecognizable] Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Desirée D. Rowe, Michaela Frischherz
ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary work no longer sits on the fringes of the communication studies discipline. In this manuscript, we invite a consideration of the anti-method paradigm as a framework for disturbing the paradigms of knowledge production that dominate research methods within our discipline. While these paradigms might push interdisciplinary work to the boundaries, the anti- method paradigm invites
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“There was a lot of that [coercion and manipulation] happening and well, that’s not very trustworthy”: a qualitative study on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Canada Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Melissa MacKay, Abhinand Thaivalappil, Jennifer E. McWhirter, Daniel Gillis, Andrew Papadopoulos
ABSTRACT Although a large proportion of the Canadian population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, millions of eligible individuals remain unvaccinated. Trust in public health and government impacts the effectiveness of crisis communication and the public’s willingness to follow health recommendations. This qualitative study involved semistructured interviews with 12 COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant adults
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Introduction to themed issue on big data in communication Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Stephen M. Croucher
Published in Review of Communication (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2023)
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Communicating dataism Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Christopher Lee Adamczyk
ABSTRACT The ideology of dataism has been highly influential during the first two decades of the 21st century, impacting emergent Big Data analytic technologies’ practical application and how the public receives them. In this article, I draw upon William R. Brown's Rhetoric of Social Intervention to interpret the dataism ideology as a communication process. I argue dataism comprises constituent discourses
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“The great chain of being sure about things”: blockchain, truth, and a trustless network Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-03 E. Johanna Hartelius
ABSTRACT Often associated with the volatile cryptocurrency Bitcoin, a blockchain is a distributed ledger, an additive record of digitally networked transactions. On the assumption that technologies are cultural practices as much as they are instrumental, this essay contributes to the special issue on big data in communication by examining texts that constitute blockchain in a shared political imaginary
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From corpus creation to formative discovery: the power of big-data-rhetoric teams and methods Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Sarah E. Ryan, Lingzi Hong, Mohotarema Rashid
ABSTRACT Rhetoric has been slow to adopt big-data techniques, but that is changing. In this article, we describe the formative work of our rhetoric-data science team on an ideographic analysis of state veteran laws. Our interdisciplinary approach enabled us to build a corpus of more than 7,000 files, segment that corpus into likely public and private laws, and develop dictionaries for discerning individual
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Critical computation: mixed-methods approaches to big language data analysis Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Josephine Lukito, Meredith L. Pruden
ABSTRACT In this theoretical piece, we discuss the limitations of using purely computational techniques to study big language data produced by people online. Instead, we advocate for mixed-method approaches that are able to more critically evaluate and consider the individual and social impact of this data. We propose one approach that combines qualitative, traditional quantitative, and computational
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Communication studies research and big data: always already queer Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-04-03 D. Travers Scott, Joshua Casmir Catalano, Christa A. Smith
ABSTRACT “Big data” is neither unified nor stable, but instead offers opportunities for further exploration of queer methods. Communication studies scholars are particularly well suited to engage in this developing area. The potentials are illustrated in this article's description of an in-progress collaborative research project using artificial intelligence to examine public engagement with campus
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Interlude II Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Michael A. Lechuga, John M. Ackerman
ABSTRACT In this interlude, we would like to reflect briefly on the first two essays in the issue by commenting on the settler present. We make a brief comment on the fungibility of trauma and the relationship between it and memory. We build on these concepts to join the other authors in this issue who describe how they have begun a process of dissettling the institutions of public learning to prepare
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Prelude Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Michael A. Lechuga, John M. Ackerman
ABSTRACT This small prelude to our themed issue offers some guidance for readers on how to read the essays and contributions alongside one another. Our hope is that readers will engage with this issue on their terms.
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Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Pavithra Prasad, Angela Labador, Ana Isabel Terminel Iberri, Drew Finney, Marco Dehnert, Lore/tta LeMaster
ABSTRACT Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible, is a mediated live performance presented synchronously on Zoom and in person. In this devised ensemble piece, the performers offer a performative response to recent scholarship on the settler colonial university and its significance in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The work weaves together theories of fugitivity, spectrality, and
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Interlude I: fugitive bodies in fungible places Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 John M. Ackerman, Michael A. Lechuga
ABSTRACT Inspired by “Phantasms in the Halls,” we return to the original call and the violent chaos of the present to extend fugitivity to where it has always been, the university and city, and to consider the settler colonial present. The colonist, the enslaver, the manager, the police have settled into the banalities of work and life such that it may be easy for some to claim innocence when in practice
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Intersectional mobilities: acts of dissettlement Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Nathan R. Johnson, Meredith A. Johnson
ABSTRACT This article narrates a mobility history spanning from 16th-century colonization to present-day policing practices to better understand acts of dissettlement. We identify major technological developments enabling new forms of mobility along with their material-semiotic figures that concomitantly shift race relations. Our approach extends inquiry into how rhetoric is performed through technological
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Rhetorical spaces of transnational bordering, border artivism, and resistance Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Eda Özyeşilpınar
ABSTRACT This essay forms a relational connection between two artivist projects of transnational border intervention—the Aylan project, and the Border Tuner project. These projects created spatio-temporal disruptions and ruptures in the normative discourses about borders and im/migration by harnessing the rhetorical power of victim images. These artivist interventions offer ways to make visible the
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Pubic scarves and earthworm sex: storying Indigenous eroticisms for sovereign relations and futures Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 B. Liahnna Stanley
ABSTRACT For Indigenous peoples, being in good relations with land is crucial for our survival, sovereignty, and decolonization. Our relations are our medicine. This essay suggests that through Indigenous eroticisms, we can better maintain our relations with the complex, life-giving and sustaining ecological and cosmological worlds and our accountability to these worlds, such as the lives and humanity
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Without permission: guerrilla gardening, contested places, spatial justice Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Donnie Johnson Sackey
ABSTRACT This article examines the guerilla garden as a contested space of knowledge and a means of (re)composing urban landscapes. Guerilla gardening is the radical transformation of public property for illicit cultivation. As a practice, it involves individuals or groups of people transforming public and private spaces of neglect through the planting of crops or decorative plants. The purpose is
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Review of Communication Guest Reviewers, Volume 22 Review of Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-30
Published in Review of Communication (Vol. 22, No. 4, 2022)
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Transnational dimensions in digital activism and protest Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Giuliana Sorce, Delia Dumitrica
ABSTRACT This themed issue provides an international perspective on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows, this themed issue foregrounds the interplay between the global and local in networked public spheres. Recent transnational movements such as
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Digital media, diasporic groups, and the transnational dimension of anti-regime movements: the case of Hirak in Algeria Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Alice Mattoni, Ester Sigillò
ABSTRACT Drawing on the case of the Hirak movement born in Algeria in 2019, this article casts light on the mechanisms of transformation of the anti-regime movement when it comes to the transnational dimension. Based on a qualitative case-study research design, the article first unpacks the transformative dynamics of the movement when it bypasses the context of origins regarding the framing, organizational
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Negotiating the challenge of #ChallengeAccepted: transnational digital flows, networked feminism, and the case of femicide in Turkey Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Kristin Comeforo, Berna Görgülü
ABSTRACT In summer 2020, social media feeds were flooded with black-and-white selfies of women, shared under the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted. While the images quickly became ubiquitous, the reason for them did not. This case study analyzes #ChallengeAccepted from the perspective of feminists in Turkey, who began posting the hashtag/selfie sequence on July 26, 2020. We performed a thematic analysis on
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From local to global: networked activism against multinational extractivism Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Anis Rahman, Mohammad Hasan
ABSTRACT This essay analyzes a locally networked resistance movement against the Phulbari Coal Project, an immense open-pit coal mine excavation project initiated by the multinational corporation Asia Energy (U.K.) in Bangladesh. The project was violently brought upon the rural and Indigenous peoples in 2006 but met with a formidable resistance that forced the company to halt the project and leave
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The carceral apocalypse: Intimacy, Community, and Embodied Abolition in Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown's How to Survive the End of the World Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-01 AK Wright
ABSTRACT This article examines embodied abolition as the affective practices of liberation that helps one to survive the carceral apocalypse, the ongoing apocalyptic conditions of carcerality that will necessitate an end of the carceral state. By conducting an ethnographic study of Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown's podcast How to Survive the End of the World, I explore how podcast(ing), as a
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Conceptualizing “the end” of COVID-19: temporality and linear mobilization toward health Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Hannah Tabrizi, Marina Levina
ABSTRACT COVID-19 has crystalized how Western sociopolitical, cultural, and biomedical understandings of health advance the spaciotemporal logic of “the end.” This logic defines health in terms of linear accessibility to cures while ignoring the intersectional mechanisms of systemic inequality. Such logics stress an individual’s ability to mobilize along the timeline of health, ignoring the stoppages
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History at the end of the world: decolonial revisionism in Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman
ABSTRACT From 19th-century novels to contemporary computer-animated adventure films, popular media culture provides no shortage of representations that subserve colonialist attitudes and perspectives. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) provides a rare decolonial fantasy, which is especially surprising given that it does so through the veneer of the big-budget superhero film. Registering a deep concern with public
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“Making something new”: rethinking genre in the end times Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Bailey Flynn
ABSTRACT Rhetorical Genre Studies has been a productive subfield of communication studies since the 1980s, with the conceptualization of “apocalyptic” as a genre being one influential outcome. Literature on the topic has explored apocalypse as a genre arising to make sense of destabilizing events that fit within no pre-existing symbolic framework. I join this conversation with a slight shift in focus
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Interrogating “the end,” becoming “the end” Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Lore/tta LeMaster
ABSTRACT For those of us for whom end times are marked by our arrivals, rhetorical threats of “the end” serve as discursive grounds out of which material experiences are animated. In our current hellscape, queer and trans folks are marked as cultural monstrosities across public and political discourses. Moved by the essays constituting this themed issue, I proffer a response by turning to the ways
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African communication studies: applications and interventions Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Jenna N. Hanchey, Godfried A. Asante
ABSTRACT In this introductory essay to the second of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we examine the possibilities created by applying African perspectives in communication studies. We first overview the trajectories initiated by previous African communication scholarship before turning to the applications and interventions highlighted within this
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Bilchiinsi philosophy: decolonizing methodologies in media studies Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
ABSTRACT Despite recent calls for decolonization in academia as a whole and the fields of communication studies and media studies in particular—with a focus on narratives such as #CommunicationSoWhite and #RhetoricSoWhite—there remains a lacuna of research on the topic within the African academy. Drawing on what I call an African feminist autoethnography framework grounded in a decolonial philosophy
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Toward an ubuntu-centered approach to health communication theory and practice Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Prisca S. Ngondo, Anna Klyueva
ABSTRACT This article explores shared African philosophical values and cultural assumptions that could inform the continent's health communication campaigns and interventions. It reintroduces the overlooked and uniquely African concept of ubuntu, and invites further discussions of culture-centered perspectives on health communication theory, research, and practice. In ubuntu, the community is ontologically
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Toward a fluid, shape-shifting methodology in organizational communication inquiry: African feminist organizational communication historiography Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Nancy Maingi Ngwu
ABSTRACT Since W. Charles Redding’s call to maintain a sense of history in the subfield of organizational communication, our approach has largely been focused on institutionalizing and legitimizing organizational communication through static development narratives of the subfield’s emergence in the 1940s and 1950s, and key developments in topical interests in subsequent decades. While this is not unique
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In the midnight hour: anticolonial rhetoric and postcolonial statecraft in Ghana Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Erik Johnson
ABSTRACT When Ghana gained its independence from colonial rule in March 1957, there was a midnight ceremony, and the new Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah, delivered a speech. Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech is an act of rhetorical invention adapted to postcolonial political foundation and, with Ghana as the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, an available model of transfigurative politics
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(Re)visiting African communication scholarship: critical perspectives on research and theory Review of Communication Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Eddah M. Mutua, Bala A. Musa, Charles Okigbo
ABSTRACT The study of communication in Africa, much like the continent, has been the subject of controversy and consternation, with widely changing fortunes that wax and wane at different times. Africa’s colonial experience and the imposition of Western communication constructs inform the theoretical and methodological approaches to African communication scholarship. This essay examines the accomplishments