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“The rubber band is already broken”: An extended case study of UNDP transformative resilience framework in the context of Palestine Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rana Elhendi, Patrice M. Buzzanell
We critically explore the resilience discourse of the website for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the lead agency for resilience in the Palestinian context, through engagement with...
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On being nice: Conceptualizing the communication of niceness through relational prioritization, care, and adaptability Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Elizabeth S. Parks
In this article, I offer a metatheoretical conceptualization of U.S. American niceness as facework and identity performance comprised of prioritization, care, and adaptability. I integrate a theore...
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Hostile knowledge performances Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jared T. Jensen, Shelbey R. Call, Joshua B. Barbour
Struggles over meaning are inherent to knowledge performances – the communicative accomplishment of knowledge. This study analyzes an interdisciplinary team’s communication as they designed a novel...
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News bias perceptions as impacted by source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jennifer Hoewe, Jessie Barton
Using three experimental studies, this research considers whether exposure to source cues, content cues, and media bias ratings impacts perceptions of ideological bias in news stories. As a possibl...
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Building resilience in response to identity-based discrimination through in person and online communication Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Brooke H. Wolfe, Valerie Manusov, Kristina M. Scharp
This study investigates resilience processes in the context of identity-based discrimination through the lens of the communication theory of resilience (CTR). Participants enacted all CTR processes...
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What people do matters during intergroup communication: Immediate and delayed effects of intergroup contact via cognitive, affective, and behavioral mediators Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Hyeonchang Gim, Jake Harwood
Positive intergroup communication reduces outgroup prejudice. Attempting to decompose the effect of intergroup contact more precisely, we argue that engaging in different activities during intergro...
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Meanings and dilemmas of consent communication for sexual minorities Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Allison Worsdale, Kami A. Kosenko
Research on consent communication focused on the experiences and perspectives of heterosexual individuals, leaving sexual minority individuals potentially vulnerable in their communication with par...
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“It was amazing and magical, but it was not a vacation at all.”: Examining U.S. maternity leave through a relational dialectics theory analysis Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 China Billotte Verhoff, Patrice M. Buzzanell
Using contrapuntal analysis to explore interviews with 25 women in the U.S., we contribute to understandings of maternity leave as an ideologically laden and contested experience through multilevel...
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Patterns of disruptions: Complexities of discursive-embodied triggers and resilience responses of individuals with autoimmune diseases Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Bianca Siegenthaler, Jared V. Worwood, Willow Craine
Individuals with autoimmune diseases face a multiplicity of adverse disruptions throughout their lives that can span physical, emotional, social, and financial contexts. We employed the communicati...
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Ego-centered network analysis of ethnic-racial socialization in families Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Mackensie Minniear, Hannah Smith, Jordan Soliz
Ethnic-racial socialization refers to the implicit and explicit ways individuals learn about race and ethnicity from family, media, community, and peers (Hughes et al., 2016). Ethnic-racial sociali...
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A goals-plans-action model analysis of messages encouraging hesitant family members in the United States to get vaccinated for COVID-19 Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Steven R. Wilson, Dennis P. DeBeck, Jared V. Worwood, Joshua M. Scacco, Andrew Anderson, Melissa McCormick, Spencer Margulies
Drawing on the goals-plans-action (GPA) model, we explore how individuals encourage hesitant family members to get vaccinated for COVID-19. We test models analyzing how multiple goals mediate assoc...
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Examining the dynamics of interpersonal communication networks for disaster coping among a multiethnic community Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Xinyan Zhao, Wenlin Liu
Interpersonal communication networks serve as a critical source of disaster support, yet their dynamic role in disaster coping remains less explored. Drawing from the literature on resilience organ...
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How gay and bisexual men respond to mpox messages through risk- versus identity-based mechanisms: An integrated model Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Rong Ma, Xinyan Zhao
To reduce the risk of transmission in the mpox outbreak, it is crucial to provide accurate, tailored, and culturally sensitive risk communication. In an online experiment (N = 372), we tested a the...
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Multidimensional Internet Connectedness and local civic engagement in the context of post-disaster Fukushima, Japan Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Joo-Young Jung, Allison Kwesell, Lisi Mai
This study examines Internet Connectedness and civic engagement in post-disaster Fukushima, Japan. Internet Connectedness encompasses the post-access digital divide, conceptualized through intensit...
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Communication work about chronic pain: A mixed methods application and extension of the integrative theory of communication work Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Elizabeth A. Hintz, Jiyoun Suk
Guided by the integrative theory of communication work, we present a computational and qualitative analysis of Reddit comments authored by patient-users living with chronic overlapping pain conditi...
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From Weinstein to Kavanaugh: Shifting coverage of sexual violence and the #MeToo movement across U.S. news media Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Min-Hsin Su, Jiyoun Suk, Porismita Borah, Shreenita Ghosh, Christine Garlough, Dhavan Shah
This study explores the framing strategies and language features of U.S. news coverage surrounding sexual violence and gender issues across the ideological media spectrum at two pivotal phases of t...
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Oh my God, that pool party: Shrill and fat femininity in a postfeminist media culture Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Holly Willson Holladay
The Hulu original comedy Shrill is a communicative text for understanding fat women’s subjectivity in line with discourses of neoliberalism and postfeminism. Based on interviews with twenty-five wo...
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“She made a mean beef stroganoff”: Gendered portrayals of women in STEM in newspaper articles and their effects Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Gili Freedman, Isabella Moutoux, Isobel Hermans, Melanie C. Green
Media articles about women in STEM often emphasize gender in ways that may reinforce stereotypes. In an archival study examining 172 articles from four major US and UK newspapers on women, Nobel la...
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When they support us: Expectations for social support from outgroup members Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Shelby N. Carter, Jake Harwood, Stephen A. Rains
Our research examines perceptions of emotional support messages characterized by high verbal person-centeredness (VPC) when sent from an outgroup versus an ingroup member. We conducted two experime...
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Testing advocacy communication theory among undocumented college students using latent profile analysis Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Monica Cornejo, Jennifer A. Kam, Dina Arch, Karen Nylund-Gibson
Undocumented college students face systemic oppression, which they challenge through advocacy. Often, research focuses on one type of advocacy, but Advocacy Communication Theory (ACT) conceptualize...
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Billy goats crossing the cyber-bridge: Interviews exploring the experiences, coping techniques, and intervention desires of in-game trolling targets Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Christine L. Cook, Simon Yun-Chung Tang, Jih-Hsuan Tammy Lin
ABSTRACT Research into online trolling has been continuously expanding in the past decade. However, much of this research has focused on either the person of the trolls themselves, or on specific minority groups. Although all of this research is important, we still know little about how the average person deals with trolling experiences in their everyday. The present study aims to fill that gap by
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Using emotional flow in patient testimonials to debias affective forecasting in health decision-making Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Kerstin Hundal, Christopher M. Dobmeier, Nathan Walter, Robin Nabi, Courtney L. Scherr
ABSTRACT People often overestimate the duration and intensity of emotional impact for future health events, leading to sub-optimal decision-making. Previous attempts to mitigate these affective forecasting errors have had only limited success. Across two experiments with different emotional appeals (fear and disgust), health contexts (genetic testing and colonoscopy), and samples (women and African
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The secret to successful evocative messages: Anger takes the lead in information sharing over anxiety Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Jiyoung Han, Seung Eon Lee, Meeyoung Cha
We conducted two studies to compare how anxiety and anger influence the online spread of information. Study 1 found that tweets expressing anger reached more people and had deeper retweet chains th...
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“You unconsciously walk across the street if you see someone”: an affective containment framework for implicit bias sensemaking Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Astrid M. Villamil, Madeline Pringle
ABSTRACT This study explored the role of affect in U.S. potential white jurors’ experiences with implicit bias and how affect manifests in their sensemaking of jury instructions. Using interviews with 30 potential jurors from a Midwestern state, we found that implicit bias operates as a linguistic alibi that allows people to talk about racism while evading the accountability and intensity of the term
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When a journalist and politician engage in deception detection: Effects of demeanor, refutation, and partisanship in combative media interviews Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 David E. Clementson, Wenqing Zhao
ABSTRACT When journalists accuse politicians of deception and politicians return fire, how do voters decide what to believe? Grounded on truth-default theory and visual primacy theory, this paper reports experiments with stimuli of interviews in which a journalist accuses a politician of deceptive evasion. In Study 1, we manipulate whether the journalist’s allegation is accurate. Voters seem unable
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Managing disruption(s) at work: A longitudinal study of communicative resilience and high-reliability organizing Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Arden C. Roeder, Ryan S. Bisel
ABSTRACT This paper used communication theory of resilience (CTR) and high-reliability organization (HRO) theory to investigate the influence of resilience processes on disruption management outcomes (DMOs) at both the individual and team levels and at two points in time. Perceptions of individual and team stress, efficacy, and performance were examined longitudinally in surveys with working adults
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Moment-by-moment tracking of audience brain responses to an engaging public speech: Replicating the reverse-message engineering approach Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Ralf Schmälzle, Hanjie Liu, Faith A. Delle, Kaitlin M. Lewin, Nolan T. Jahn, Yidi Zhang, Hyungro Yoon, Jiawei Long
ABSTRACT Public speaking engages and entertains audiences. Through neuroimaging, we can examine responses to speeches in real time. Replicating an earlier study, this study carries out two kinds of analyses – forward and reverse correlations. First, we examine how the soundwave carrying the speech relates to brain responses, finding that bilateral auditory cortex responses track with the speech signal’s
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The importance of relationship maintenance in marriage at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Allison P. Mazur, Tamara D. Afifi, Walid A. Afifi, Chantel N. Haughton
The theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) was used to understand the disparate impact of COVID-19 on married individuals. We hypothesized that women and people of color would experience g...
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“Do you need a green card or something?” Romantic relationships, citizenship, and stigmatizing communication Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Amnee Elkhalid, Ethan Morrow, Trisha Leong
Citizen/Non-citizen (CN) romantic relationships are common in American society and media. However, few studies have explored the experiences of individuals in such relationships. This study examine...
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How moral adaptability relates to communication and friendship with morally dissimilar others Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Nicholas L. Matthews, Joseph B. Bayer, Daniel Sude, Walter J. Sowden
Moral differences hinder communication and relationship formation. However, perceptions and reactions to moral dissimilarity varies. Accordingly, we explored how moral adaptiveness (a flexible appl...
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Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to interability communication styles in the workplace: Perspectives of people with disabilities Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Gabrielle A. Byrd, Yan Bing Zhang
This experimental study, extending the communication accommodation theory and the Communication Predicament of Disability Model, examined people with disabilities’ perceptions of four manipulated c...
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“You can be gay and straight at the same time:” Contextually contingent negotiations of gay and bisexual identifications among same-gender-loving men in Ghana Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Godfried Asante
In this essay, I draw on interview discourses with 22 Sassoi – same-gender-loving men in Ghana – to examine how they discursively deploy “straight,” “gay,” and “bisexual” identifications in specifi...
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“Whatever you do, I can do too”: Disentangling the daily relations between exposure to positive social media content, can self, and pressure Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Sarah Devos, Kathrin Karsay, Steven Eggermont, Laura Vandenbosch
The current 14-day diary study among 186 adolescents (56.1% boys; Mage = 15.62 years) examined how daily exposure to positive social media content (i.e., portrayals of individuals’ best possible se...
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Navigating entangled shame: Examining the sociomaterialities of food assistance programs Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sonia Ivancic, David Dooling
ABSTRACT In the United States, individuals in precarious circumstances navigate numerous programs to supplement their food access. These programs operate in relation to stigmatizing discourses about poverty and food insecurity. This paper explores the sociomaterial meanings of food assistance, including SNAP, food pantries, and nonprofit food distribution. Using qualitative methods, we introduce the
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White privilege critical consciousness, racial attitudes, and intergroup anxiety among parents and adult children in White families Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Timothy Curran, Analisa Arroyo, Jessica Fabbricatore, Jian Jiao
ABSTRACT Prejudice and discrimination toward Black individuals in the U.S. serves to maintain White privilege. This research integrated the tenets of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1977) and White racial identity theory (Helms, 1990) to examine intraindividual associations (i.e., within a single person) and interindividual associations (i.e., between family members) among parents’ and adult children’s
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Estimating the impact of immediate versus delayed corrections on belief accuracy Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Suhwoo Ahn, Daniel E. Bergan, Siyuan Ma, Dustin Carnahan
ABSTRACT Prior work has found that early corrections are often more effective than corrections encountered sometime after exposure to misinformation. However, these studies have generally considered only brief delays between misinformation exposure and correction, and do not explore processing style as a potential moderator of correction timing. We conducted a two-wave online experiment randomly assigning
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Effects of written code-mixing on processing fluency and perceptions of organizational inclusiveness Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Jessica Gasiorek, Marko Dragojevic
ABSTRACT Participants read English-based online texts from fictional organizations that either included no code-mixing, Hawaiian words without glosses (i.e., parenthetical translations), or Hawaiian words with English glosses. Relative to no code-mixing, code-mixing without glosses disrupted processing fluency, leading participants to feel less welcome in the organization. Code-mixing with glosses
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Camera perspective and skin color: Biased reactions to viral body worn camera videos of police violence Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Rachel L. Bailey, Harry Yaojun Yan, Glenna L. Read
ABSTRACT Body-worn camera and citizen device videos capturing police use-of-force are shared and commented upon widely within social media. This study investigated how point-of-view (POV: onlooker vs. officer perspective) and citizen skin color (dark skin vs. light skin), interacted to affect emotional responses, likelihood to comment and share, and comment on content. A predominantly White sample
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The longitudinal influence of supportive messages on stress reactivity and general well-being for LGBTQ+ recipients of hate speech: Comparing the relative effects of verbal person-centered and autonomy support Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 John P. Crowley, Amanda Denes, Amy Bleakley, Katrina T. Webber, Devon Geary, Maria DelGreco, Joseph Whitt, Chelsea Guest, Emily Hamlin
ABSTRACT LBGTQ+ individuals (N = 50) engaged in a 10-minute discussion with a close network member about an experience they had with hate speech that was targeted at their sexual orientation. The relative effects of two predominant social support theoretical frameworks, verbal person centeredness and autonomy support, were compared. Discussions were rated by trained raters for the presence of each
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Latina/o/x undocumented college students’ perceived barriers and motivations for talking to a campus mental health professional: A focus on communication, culture, and structural barriers Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Jennifer A. Kam, Suellen Hopfer, Monica Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo, Daniela Juarez
ABSTRACT Although undocumented students face numerous stressors that can lead to mental health strain, they often underutilize their campus mental health services. To identify the barriers and motivations for talking to a campus mental health professional (MHP) and to extend the Health Belief Model (HBM), we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 Latina/o/x undocumented college students. Family
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Theorizing COVID-19 information retrieving from a culture-centered lens: Communication infrastructures for challenging disinformation Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Phoebe Elers, Mohan J. Dutta
ABSTRACT Underpinned by the notion that communication equality is crucial in developing communication infrastructures for health and well-being, this study explores experiences of COVID-19 information retrieving in a low-income suburban area in Aotearoa from a culture-centered lens. Drawing from in-depth interviews with ethnic minority residents, we reveal two polarizing experiences: at one end, residents
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Rethinking polarization: Discursive opening and the possibility for sustaining dialogue Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Lydia Reinig, Renee Guarriello Heath, Jennifer L. Borda
ABSTRACT Increased polarization and divisive political speech threaten meaningful civic discussion. This study examines a campus public dialogue to understand how dialogic commitments sustained discursive openings for talking across polarizing positions. Specifically, our analysis identifies three patterns of interaction that constituted sustained openings: conceptual expansion, deliberation of meaning
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The world around us and the picture(s) in our heads: The effects of news media use on belief organization Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Isabella Glogger, Adam Shehata, David Nicolas Hopmann, Sanne Kruikemeier
ABSTRACT Since Converse [1964. The nature of belief systems in mass publics. Critical Review, 18(1-3), 1 – 74 https://doi.org/10.1080/08913810608443650] asked “What goes with what?”, research tries to answer this question. How individuals perceive the world around them depending on media use has been an endeavor of studying societal beliefs of societal issues separately. Building upon literature on
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Mental illness disclosure from confidants’ perspective within romantic relationships: Validation and extension of the disclosure quality model Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Emiko Taniguchi-Dorios, Heather L. Voorhees, Erin Donovan
ABSTRACT This study aimed to validate and extend the disclosure quality model (DQM) in the context of mental illness disclosure in romantic relationships. Participants (N = 217) were individuals who received a disclosure of mental illness from their romantic partner within the past year. The results provided validation of the DQM: greater openness (access to information and candor) in mental illness
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A mixed methodological examination of older adults’ psychological reactance toward caregiving messages from their adult children Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Hannah Ball, Keith Weber, Alan K. Goodboy, Christine E. Kunkle, Christa L. Lilly, Scott A. Myers
ABSTRACT This study extends psychological reactance theory (PRT) to family caregiving by exploring autonomy-threatening messages adult child caregivers use to gain compliance from older adult parents. Results of focus groups and interviews with older adult care recipients (Study One) and caregivers (Study Two) corroborated three types of autonomy-threatening messages, which were used to test PRT (Study
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Indirect effects of video chat on outcomes of receiving support: Uniting theorizing about supportive communication and computer-mediated communication Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Emily M. Buehler, Andrew C. High
ABSTRACT This study integrates theorizing about supportive communication and computer-mediated communication to investigate how features of the interactional context, social presence, and evaluations of supportive messages shape recipients’ emotional improvement. Participants (N = 139) reported to the lab with a friend, where they were randomly assigned to experimental conditions that varied the lighting
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Fighting lies with facts or humor: Comparing the effectiveness of satirical and regular fact-checks in response to misinformation and disinformation Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Mark Boukes, Michael Hameleers
ABSTRACT This study tested the effectiveness of fact-check format (regular vs. satirical) to refute different types of false information. Specifically, we conducted a pre-registered online survey experiment (N = 849) that compared the effects of regular fact-checkers and satirist refutations in response to mis- and disinformation about crime rates. The findings illustrated that both fact-checking formats
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Interorganizational homophily and social capital network positions in Malaysian civil society Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Erich J. Sommerfeldt, Andrew Pilny, Adam J. Saffer
ABSTRACT The interorganizational relationship communication literature has identified homophily – the tendency for actors to form ties with similar others – as a mechanism predictive of tie formation among organizations in civil society networks. This study examined the connection between homophily and network structures equated with different types of social capital and perceptions of influence. Using
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Public responses to COVID-19 mask mandates: examining pro and anti-Mask anger in tweets before and after state-level mandates Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Stephen A. Rains, Philip Harber, Echo L. Warner, Gondy Leroy
ABSTRACT Governmental mandates requiring mask wearing in public spaces to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus have been controversial in the United States. We test theory related to anger and anger expression in the context of posts about masks appearing on Twitter during a 12-week period in which mask mandates were adopted in 18 states. The results were consistent with an appraisal of mandates as
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A dynamic network perspective on the evolution of the use of multiple mobile instant messaging apps Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-03-06 Yu Xu
ABSTRACT Mobile instant messaging (MIM) services have emerged as digital platforms for closed and private modes of communication. The present study adopts a dynamic network approach to understanding how MIM apps are used in combination with each other. The changing patterns of cross-platform MIM use are reflected in the structural dynamics of the audience overlap network among 58 MIM apps over March
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Identifying moments of peak audience engagement from brain responses during story listening Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Ralf Schmälzle, Shelby Wilcox, Nolan T. Jahn
ABSTRACT Stories in general, and peak moments within a single story in particular, can evoke strong responses across recipients. Between the content of a story and these shared audience responses lies an explanatory gap that neuroimaging can help close. Accordingly, this study examined how the brains of an audience responded during a story. We performed two types of analyses: First, we correlated the
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What makes people willing to comment on social media posts? The roles of interactivity and perceived contingency in online corporate social responsibility communication Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Zijian Lew, Cynthia Stohl
ABSTRACT Interactivity is an important concept in the study of online social processes. Two experiments tested how interactivity influenced people’s willingness to comment on social media and their perceptions of a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. Across two operationalizations of interactivity (presence/absence of replies, high/low degree of reference to earlier messages),
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Extending the communicative ecology model of successful aging using talk about careers and retirement Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Patricia E. Gettings, Kai Kuang
ABSTRACT Given the emphasis on work in American lives, this study extended the communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) by testing two new domains of communication about aging: career meaning and preparing for retirement (N = 340 older adults). Findings supported many of the proposed paths including negative environmental chatter to negative affect, uncertainty, and both domains of communication
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A longitudinal investigation of information and support seeking processes that alter the uncertainty experiences of mental illness Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-01-09 Kai Kuang, Ningxin Wang
ABSTRACT Individuals living with mental illness commonly experience higher- or lower-than-desired uncertainty (i.e., uncertainty discrepancy) related to their medical conditions, personal identities, and social relationships. An uncertainty discrepancy can trigger negative emotions and motivate communication behaviors such as information seeking and social support seeking, which, in turn, may alter
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Communication and difference in urban neighborhoods: A communication infrastructure theory perspective Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Yong-Chan Kim, Yeran Kim, Young-Gil Chae
ABSTRACT Based on communication infrastructure theory (CIT), this study developed and assessed communication concepts to understand the various ways in which residents in a metropolitan city experience and manage differences through their neighborhood communicative actions. We investigated three urban communities in Seoul with in-depth interviews (n = 30) and 12 focus group interview meetings (n = 120)
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Discriminated against but engaged: The role of communicative actions of racial minority employees Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Yeunjae Lee, Jo-Yun Li
ABSTRACT Grounded in the situational theory of problem-solving (STOPS), two survey studies investigated how racial minority employees in the U.S. perceive and communicate about discriminatory situations within their organizations and how they are related to their engagement levels. Results of Study 1 suggested that experiences of discriminatory acts at work are negatively associated with racial minority
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Social change, cultural resistance: a meta-analysis of the influence of television viewing on gender role attitudes Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Erik Hermann, Michael Morgan, James Shanahan
ABSTRACT In the last decades, there have been substantial changes in public attitudes toward gender roles and in television’s landscape and messages. Our meta-analysis of nearly 50 years of studies of television’s contribution to gender role attitudes is based on 485 effect sizes from 69 independent samples (N = 57,542) and reveals an overall effect size of .102. While we found no evidence of any decline
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The role of prior attitudes in narrative persuasion: Evidence from a cross-national study in Germany and the United States Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Corinna Oschatz, Jeff Niederdeppe, Jiawei Liu
ABSTRACT Narrative messages are assumed to be more effective in changing recipients' attitudes than non-narrative messages. However, empirical evidence to support this assumption is sparse. We incorporated theoretical assumptions about the mechanisms of narrative persuasion into the two-step model of defensive processing to test whether narratives were more effective in changing recipients' attitudes
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A valence-based account of group interaction and decision making Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Joseph A. Bonito, Joann Keyton
ABSTRACT Group participants often develop a range of problem solutions before discussion. We addressed whether, and at what level of analysis, initial opinions influence discussion and perceptions of decision outcomes. The Group Valence Model (GVM) presents a dual-process approach to interaction and decision making as a function of the distribution of supportive and oppositional comments. GVM predicts
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Deciding what’s (sharable) news: Social movement organizations as curating actors in the political information system Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Thomas J Billard
ABSTRACT News is often sourced not directly from journalistic outlets, but from various actors that “curate” content into individuals' information networks. Although these curating actors impact the news individuals receive, little is known about their behind-the-scenes curatorial decision-making. Addressing this gap, I isolated one kind of curating actor in the flow of political information: social