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Using Self-Schema Matching to Recruit Superdiffusers for a Potential Vaccine Word-of-Mouth Promotion Campaign Communication Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Christopher J. Carpenter, Michael R. Kotowski
The Boster et al. (2012) superdiffuser model predicts that a health behavior change can be diffused through a social network by recruiting superdiffusers, a type of opinion leader who possesses 3 k...
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“I don’t Understand What you’re saying!”: My (In)capability to Perform the Standardized English Language Communication Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Soham Sen
In this critical postcolonial autoethnography, I share my lived experiences growing up as a subordinate middle-class Indian who was (un)able to perform the language of English despite his exposure ...
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International Graduate Student Parenthood: Engaging in Closeting Labor to Constitute Productive Work-Family Negotiation During Transitions to Parenthood Communication Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Ziyu Long, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Abigail S. King
Guided by the Intersectional Theory of Closeting (ITC), our study analyzed in-depth interviews of how international graduate student-parents (IGSPs) negotiate their new parental identity, which was...
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Expressing Uncertainty and Risk About the Mpox Outbreak: A Textual Analysis of Twitter Messaging Communication Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Christopher J. McKinley, Jin-A Choi, Yi Luo
This exploratory study investigates the prevalence and nature of mpox themes on Twitter during summer 2022, focusing specifically on uncertainty and risk-related posts. Within this analysis, we exa...
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Testing the Social Media Produsage Hypothesis Communication Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Norman P. Lewis, Eisa Al Nashmi, T. Franklin Waddell
Despite frequent assertions that produsage is manifest in social media, its underlying proposition – that production and consumption are correlated – has yet to be empirically measured. A represent...
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Communication Competency and Positive Communication Among Women in Bihar, India: A Case Study of Heifer International’s Community Development Efforts Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Julien C. Mirivel, R. P. Fuller, A. Thombre, T. Ten Bensel, K. A. Leach
Nonprofit humanitarian organizations work to alleviate poverty and are evaluated in part on their effectiveness in doing so. One such organization is Heifer International, a global humanitarian non...
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Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Academia: Modeling the Roles of Perceived Contextual Norms and Motivation to Collaborate Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Brian Manata, Jessica Bozeman, Karen Boynton, Zachary Neal
In academia, interdisciplinary collaborations allow individuals with different areas of expertise and resources to accomplish shared goals. Nevertheless, because interdisciplinary scholars often ha...
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The Impact of Effort Attributions on the Quality of Esteem Support Messages Produced Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Reed M. Reynolds, Amanda J. Holmstrom, Samantha J. Shebib, David D. Clare, Ashley A. H. Edwards, Allison P. Mazur, Travis L. Poland, Morgan E. Summers, Haley R. Royer, Lu Zhang
Research indicates that receiving esteem support has multiple benefits, however, less is known about the factors that influence the production of esteem support messages of varying quality. We exam...
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Digital Flourishing in the U.S.: Validation of the Digital Flourishing Scale (DFS) and Demographic Exploration Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Sophie Janicke-Bowles
An increasing number of research studies have focused on exploring both the negative and positive effects of computer-mediated communication on individuals’ mental health and well-being. However, t...
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The Relative Frequency of True and False Confessions and Denials in an Experimental Paradigm Designed to Investigate Deception Detection Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Timothy R. Levine
Truth-default theory (TDT) proposes that deception is infrequent relative to honesty and that deception requires a motive. TDT further lists confessed deception as a viable method of improving dece...
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Examining the Links Between Information Sufficiency, News Preferences, and Protective Behavior During Hurricane Ian Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Kenneth A. Lachlan, James DiCairano, Christine Gilbert
Natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes are global occurrences affecting countries, counties, and communities. These extreme weather events can cause feelings of uncertainty and produce a r...
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”Um, Diversity Definition…that’s Hard:” Student Communication About Diversity in the Classroom and Beyond Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Amanda Arp, Stacy Tye-Williams, Philip B. Gallagher
After the civil rights movement, affirmative action drove discussions of diversity on college campuses in the United States. Stakeholders of affirmative action saw that diversity for diversity’s sa...
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‘I’m Just a Big Teddy Bear’: An Analysis of Men’s Professional Identity Narratives in Caring Occupations Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Britney N. Gilmore
Professionals in gender atypical occupations can face challenges throughout their careers. This qualitative study applies narrative theory to investigate how men in caring professions made sense of...
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Examining the Attributional Links Between Message Quality and Outcomes of Emotional Support Received on Facebook Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Emily M. Buehler, Andrew C. High, Rachael E. Bishop, Joshua D. Johnson, Daniel A. Lee, Amanda E. Lilly, Kelly Sweeney
Facebook users can receive high quality emotional support in response to their posts, but not all emotional support is of the same quality nor does it all benefit support receivers. Receivers’ perc...
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“We’re Dirtbags and Proud of It”: Discursively Constructing Identity as an Adventure Worker Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Kari J. Pink, Michael C. Coker, Emily A. Godager
How we talk about things familiar to us shapes who we are, and discourses influence how we present ourselves to the world. Through sensemaking, individuals draw on discourses to construct their pre...
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Effects of Affect and Message Framing on Responses to Charity Advertising: A Construal Level and Regulatory Focus Perspective Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-13 George Anghelcev, Sela Sar, Yan Huang
Charitable donation appeals can be framed to highlight the attainment of desirable outcomes (promotion framing) or the avoidance of undesirable situations (prevention framing). Drawing from regulat...
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Is This Us? Perceived Realism and Learning Outcomes of Entertainment Media Portrayals of Transracial Adoption Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Chelsea E. Moss, T. Franklin Waddell
Despite the increase in media portrayals of transracial adoption, little is understood about how viewers perceive these portrayals. Therefore, 36 interviews were conducted (20 with transracially ad...
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Provider-Patient Strategic Communication Among Women Pregnant During the COVID-19 Pandemic Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Deborah Sellnow-Richmond, Sagarika Shrestha
When COVID-19 spread rapidly across the globe, it sparked a great deal of uncertainty. This was particularly true for expectant parents, who were already navigating increased uncertainty. Extant re...
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Coming Full Circle and Spiralling: Fissures Through Essentialism, English, and Empire Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Angela Labador
In this performative autoethnography, I broadly question the communication discipline’s investments in empire. Specifically, by tracing how my body – as a Pinay – has not fit within the united stat...
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Designing Instructional Crisis Messages for College Emergency Notification Systems: A Test of the IDEA Model Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Cailin M. Kuchenbecker, Sara LaBelle
The internalization, distribution, explanation, and action (IDEA) model aids message designers in crafting effective instructional risk and crisis messages. This study applies the IDEA model to a n...
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Effects of All-Gender Workplace Facilities Signage on Adults’ Attitudes Toward Transgender and Nonbinary People and Policies Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Traci K. Gillig, Leila Bighash, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh
Signage for gender-segregated and all-gender facilities (e.g. restrooms, locker rooms) represents gender through imagery and language. Adults regularly encounter the visual cues of facilities signa...
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“That Stuff Can Be Ugly:” Black Women in Sport, Stigma, and Public Mental Health Disclosures Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Shanice Jones Cameron, Daniel A. Grano
This research investigates Black women athletes’ long-form public mental health disclosures (LFPMHDs). We conducted a phenomenological thematic analysis and drew from Orbe’s co-cultural theory to i...
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Does Tone of Comments Matter?: Exploring the Role of Uncivil Comments and Political Orientation on Weakening Belief in Fake News and Eliciting Anger Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Seo Yoon Lee, Youngji Seo
Although fake news has become a serious social issue and the detrimental effects of fake news have become more salient in online environments, scholars have not extensively studied the role of unci...
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Will Audiences’ Categorization of the Targets of Celebrity’s Transgression Influence Parasocial Relationships and Emotional Reactions? Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Mu Hu, Bingqing Zhang, Nan Jia
The present study investigates how audiences’ categorization (in-group or out-group) of the targets of a celebrity’s verbal aggression influences their parasocial relationships (PSRs) with the cele...
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Engaging with Distant Suffering Amid a Domestic Crisis: Exposure to Messages About COVID-19 Infections in the Global South Can Trigger Pro-Social Responses in the Global North Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-02 David Schieferdecker
Transnational solidarity is essential during global crises, particularly for resource-deprived countries. This study investigated whether messages about rising COVID−19 infections in the Global Sou...
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Intergroup Bias in Political Decision Making Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Darby Gilliland, Benjamin R. Warner, Astrid Villamil, Fred J. Jennings
ABSTRACT Partisanship is a driving factor of vote choice; however, the mechanism of influence is nuanced. Political parties operate as social identities that motivate elaboration about a candidate and bias image perceptions. In other words, partisanship influences the way in which individuals process information and form political opinions. This influence stems from the processes of ingroup favoritism
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“Happy Women are the Most Beautiful, but…”: The Use of Weight Stigmatization and Social Comparison to Analyze Media Images Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Anna R. Antos, Alexa Paleka, Bailey Bushman
This study offers a valuable interpretivist approach in understanding how beauty standards and social comparison influence viewing of a fat or thin media image. Participants (N = 135) viewed either...
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Using Message Strategies to Attenuate the Effects of Disinformation on Credibility Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Erika J. Schneider, Courtney D. Boman
ABSTRACT In the growth of online news, the industry faces increased threats on a polarized landscape, such as online-targeted disinformation, that threaten the legitimacy of news sources. This research contributes to the theoretical advancement of crisis communication and social psychology theories and provides guidance for professionals navigating emerging forms of paracrises. Results from this experimental
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Communicating Stigma About Invisible Illness: U.S. Military Veterans’ Descriptions of Stigma Communication About Posttraumatic Stress Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Rikki A. Roscoe
ABSTRACT Due to mental illness stigma, veterans experiencing posttraumatic stress (PTS) may attempt to cope without seeking professional treatment. This can lead to detrimental consequences, including substance abuse, depression, and suicide. In an attempt to learn more about the stigma surrounding military-related PTS, this study used interviews to explore how veterans with PTS describe stigma communication
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“Count the Days by the Good Outcomes”: Family Farm Member Experiences with Stress and Coping Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Emily A. Paskewitz, Laura E. Miller, Victoria Bertram
ABSTRACT Over the last 50 years, the number of farms in the United States has declined by 33%, with family farms, which make up 96% of total farms, especially at risk. Despite dwindling numbers, the passion and heart of family farm members remain strong as they continue to farm. This study utilized stress and coping theory to explore family farm member experiences with stress and how they communicatively
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Liberty as a Cloak for Vice: Orientation and Order in the Southern Baptist Convention Sexual Abuse Scandal Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Mike Milford
ABSTRACT In 2019 a series of articles detailing decades of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches. Reports revealed that the convention and its congregants downplayed rather than confront the abuses by relying on two doctrinal components, congregational autonomy and scriptural inerrancy, to excuse inaction and silence survivors. Kenneth Burke argues that orientations such as the Southern Baptist
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That’s a ‘Sign’!: How Placards Communicated Disapproval of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in India Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Keya Saxena
ABSTRACT India witnessed massive rallies and protest marches in response to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a controversial 2019–2020 legislation that grants citizenship to all migrants except Muslims coming illegally from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. As people turned to creative means of voicing their opinions, placards became important tools of questioning the government and the bill
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A Phronetic Iterative Analysis of Decisions to Disclose Negative Feelings About Others’ (Non)compliance with Recommended COVID Precaution Behaviors Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Rudy C. Pett, Abigail Dalgleish Hazlett, Chelsea Brass-Rosenfield
ABSTRACT The current study analyzed 212 college students’ decisions to express or suppress negative feelings about the extent to which others enact recommended COVID-19 precaution behaviors. Using a phronetic iterative analysis, participant experiences were examined in terms of (a) choices to express or suppress their negative feelings and (b) the reasons underlying their disclosure decisions. Significant
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Individual and Relational Outcomes Associated with Dispositional Forgiveness: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust, Affectionate Communication, and Verbal Aggression Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Lindsey S. Aloia
ABSTRACT Dispositional forgiveness is defined as the ability to reframe a perceived transgression from negative to neutral or positive, such that the outcome of the transgression is no longer perceived as adverse. The utility of dispositional forgiveness for individuals and relationships is clear; however, the specific factors that encourage favorable outcomes associated with dispositional forgiveness
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Gaslighting LGBTQ+ Individuals: Correlates of Gaslighting Experiences, Gaslighters’ Characteristics, and Gaslighting Techniques Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Yachao Li, Jennifer A. Samp
ABSTRACT LGBTQ+ individuals have been victims of gaslighting, a form of psychological manipulation and emotional abuse that causes minority people to question their sense of self, doubt the validity of their identities, and internalize heteronormativity. This study explores personal and relational correlates of LGBTQ+ people’s gaslighting experiences, examines demographic and relational characteristics
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You Are Here: Narrative Construction of Identity and Community Resilience in Newfoundland during and after 9/11 Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Laine Zizka, Amorette Hinderaker
ABSTRACT This study seeks to expand the use of quantum storytelling lens in qualitative research. Guided by this approach, we analyzed interviews with 32 individuals connected with the events of 9/11 in Newfoundland in three groups examining long-term narrative construction of resilience after a disrupting event and the idea that communication and construction of a resilience narrative can function
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Check Crisis Information on Twitter: Information Flow and Crisis Communication Patterns of Hurricane Ida Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Xianlin Jin, Patric R. Spence
ABSTRACT This study maps the online information flow of crisis communication during Hurricane Ida and identifies the top 20 Twitter influencers based on their betweenness centrality. Inspired by media dependency theory, this study explores major crisis information resources by analyzing the top 10 domains in the information network of Hurricane Ida. The findings suggest that news media remain the major
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Women Journalists’ Contact Quality with Male Coworkers, Affective Attitudes Toward Men and Intention to Quit: Intergroup Anxiety in Saudi Arabia Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Yan Bing Zhang, Ahmed Muyidi, Angela Gist-Mackey
ABSTRACT Along with Saudi women’s increased presence and participation in mixed-gender workforces and the current government’s reform initiative, Saudi Vision 2030, their communication opportunities with male coworkers have also increased. Guided by intergroup contact theory, the current online survey tested the influences of Saudi female journalists’ (N = 198) report of communication quantity and
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Bridging the Gaps: Advancing the Communication Theory of Identity Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Kimberly Kuiper
ABSTRACT Extending the focus and scope of the communication theory of identity (CTI), this paper introduces a new theoretical construct within CTI’s interpenetration of frames – identity bridging. Theoretical extensions of CTI have established identity gaps, which are inconsistencies between individuals’ personal, enacted, relational, communal, and material identities. Identity bridges represent individuals’
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Fake News in the Family: How Family Communication Patterns and Conflict History Affect the Intent to Correct Misinformation Among Family Members Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-09 T. Franklin Waddell, Chelsea Moss
ABSTRACT Do family communication patterns or family conflict history affect the intention to correct misinformation shared by family members? A pre-registered online survey with a U.S. sample (N = 595) was conducted to answer this question. Results revealed that conversation orientation and conformity orientation positively predicted the intention to correct misinformation shared by a family member
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Enthymemes, Doxa, and the Problem of Elided Syllogism Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Ammar Safaa Hussein
ABSTRACT The concept of enthymeme has been discussed by rhetoricians and communication scholars. However, researchers have not been able to come to a clear understanding about its meaning, function, and how it works within the rhetorical, persuasive processes. This article identifies the meaning of the concept and explain how enthymemes work. The article also distinguishes the enthymeme from its logical
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Playing Robinhood: Jamming Wall Street with Dumb Money in the Great Short Squeeze Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Nicholas S. Paliewicz
ABSTRACT This essay analyzes the rhetorics of social and economic protest surrounding the 2021 short squeeze where swarms of gamers-made-investors used the popular trading app Robinhood to create artificial demands for shorted stocks such as GameStop and AMC. Fueled by populist rhetoric on subreddit forum, r/WallStreetBets, the movement created a short-lived bubble that cost hedge funds billions. I
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Podcasts, Mental Health, and Stigma: Exploring Motivations, Behaviors, and Attitudes Among Listeners Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Elise R. Carrotte, Michelle Blanchard, Christopher Groot, Fincina Hopgood, Lisa Phillips
ABSTRACT Podcasts are increasingly utilized in mental health contexts, such as communicating advice around improving wellbeing, guided meditations, psychoeducation, and translating research findings. This study aimed to explore demographics, motivations, behaviors, and attitudes of podcast listeners regarding podcasts dealing with content and themes related to mental health. Adult Australian podcast
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Vicarious Consubstantiality: How Mike Pence Helped Save Donald Trump from Electoral Defeat Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Daniel K. Merwin
Abstract This essay is a close analysis of then Vice-Presidential nominee Mike Pence’s October 2016 speech in Charlotte, NC, where he aimed to rescue Donald Trump’s presidential campaign from the damaging impact of the Access Hollywood Tape. In his speech, I argue that Pence enacted what I call a vicarious consubstantiality, a form of consubstantiality taken from Kenneth Burke’s theories on identification
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Variability in Media Content of Public Health Outbreak Coverage: A Crisis Communication Approach Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Khairul Islam, Najma Akhther, Matthew W. Seeger
ABSTRACT This study investigated the stage-specific nature of media coverage of a large-scale dengue outbreak in Bangladesh. We employed the three-stage model of crisis communication and the extended parallel process model as an integrated theoretical framework. A content analysis of two years (2019–2020) of media coverage (N = 615) showed that the number of dengue-related threat messages was significantly
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Polyamory and Christianity: Navigating Identity Gaps and Hegemonic Discourses Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Jesse T. Reese
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to understand the identity negotiation of Christians who practice polyamory. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eighteen polyamorous Christians. The data was then qualitatively analyzed using the communication theory of identity. The findings indicated that identity gaps in the personal, relational, and communal frames were produced by mononormative
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Have You Come a Long Way, Baby, Since 2008?: One Major Step Forward with Missteps Along the Way Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Kelly L. Winfrey, Diana B. Carlin
ABSTRACT The 2020 American election saw a record-breaking number of women vying for the Democratic presidential nomination and ended with Kamala Harris shattering the second-highest, hardest glass ceiling—the vice presidency. This significant event should not be taken for granted, but it is a mistake to assume sexism is no longer prevalent in American politics. This essay furthers our 2009 analysis
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Journalists’ Views and Management of Dark Participation Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Ahmed Al-Rawi, Taeyoung Kim
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Canadian journalists view dark participation and respond to it. Based on interviews with 15 journalists, it explores their concern about dark participation practices especially in relation to the issues of hate speech, dis/misinformation, and trolling. Combined with the ripple effects of social media in delivering news content, the respondents indicated that there
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Student Discourses of Community in an Intercultural Conflict and Community Course: A Critical Assessment Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Cleophas Taurai Muneri, Anjana Mudambi, Mary Jane Collier
ABSTRACT This study is based on an undergraduate course on intercultural conflict and community building, which was grounded in critical intercultural communication pedagogy (CICP) and included a two-day, over-night, off-campus retreat. Three themes were critically analyzed and problematized in student retreat reflection paper discourse: celebrating difference and plurality, emphasizing similarity
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Examining U.S. Newspapers’ Partisan Bias in COVID-19 News Using Computational Methods Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Zhan Xu
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has become a partisan political issue instead of purely a public health issue in the U.S. Partisan media bias leads to conflicting messages and drastic differences in preventive behaviors and risk perceptions between Democrats and Republicans. Guided by partisan media bias literature and framing theory, this study examined partisan media bias in the U.S. national and
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“They Can’t See Me Smile”: Communication and Relationship Challenges of Providing Home Care During a Pandemic Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Muriel Scott, Peggy Kendall
ABSTRACT Providing home care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities can be challenging in the best of times. Communication and relationships, which are both critical to the care provided by Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), were impacted significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using interpretive research methods with DSPs at a Midwestern agency, this study identifies
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Beyond the Screen: Exploring Vaporwave Musicians’ Communicative Identity Work Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Connor D. Wilcox, Cristin A. Compton
ABSTRACT While vaporwave musicians create surreal soundscapes from under the cover of anonymity, they also engage in complex and humanizing identity work processes. We applied a communication theory of identity (CTI) lens to semi-structured interviews conducted with 18 self-identified vaporwave musicians. Grounded in the experiences of vaporwave musicians, our iterative qualitative analysis revealed
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Owning the Libs: Symbolic Negation of #mybodymychoice as a Conservative Rhetorical Strategy Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Alaina Walberg
ABSTRACT The anti-vaccine movement’s appropriation of the reproductive rights mantra #MyBodyMyChoice has been remarkably successful despite overwhelming evidence in favor of vaccines and the historical precedent for vaccine requirements. I argue that this appropriation of #MyBodyMyChoice constitutes a symbolic negation which is indicative of a new conservative rhetorical strategy of Owning the Libs
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The Health Equity Discourse of Immigrant Public Health Leaders: A Critical Application of the IDEA Model Communication Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Alberto González, Eun Young Lee, SangHee Park, Sung-Yeon Park
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, health experts emerged to deliver crisis messaging to a public that needed information to understand the nature of the mega-crisis and to know how to mitigate the risk of infection. Some of the public health experts were immigrants who drew attention to healthcare disparities in the U.S. and called for systemic reform of healthcare delivery. This study critically
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A Scene from the Borderlands of Translation, Transcendence, and Communicability Communication Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Noah Franken, Nancy Garcia
ABSTRACT This article presents an autoethnographic account of a scene that unfolds at the airport. In the scene, a practical problem is solved despite limitations in communication, and the scene plays out in front of a waiting area full of travelers. It centers around an elderly couple who are confused and disoriented in the midst of a predicament, and who are not fluent in English. A gate agent and
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Videoconferencing and Work-Family Conflict: Exploring the Role of Videoconference Fatigue Communication Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Benjamin J. Li, Shruti Malviya, Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
ABSTRACT Videoconferencing has become an essential communication tool for employees to engage in virtual meetings with their colleagues and complete work tasks remotely. However, there have been reports of a phenomenon termed videoconference fatigue. Concurrently, there has been an increase in work-family conflict among individuals working from home, due to an imbalance from role demands and expectations
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(Un)wanted and (Un)sought Services: Exploring the Funeral Industry Positivity and Rural Funeral Directors’ Destigmatization Communication Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Da Bi, Nicole A. Ploeger-Lyons
ABSTRACT This study explores the positive nature of the funeral industry in rural communities and examines how rural funeral directors perform community services to destigmatize their profession. Analysis of interviews (n = 27) with rural funeral directors revealed that the funeral industry, although it is associated with death and dying, was needed and accepted in the community – a phenomenon the
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Relational Maintenance and Relational Entropy Predict Each Other Over a Year: A Test of the Theory of Relational Entropy in Friendships During COVID-19 Communication Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Andrew M. Ledbetter, Lauren E. Fellers
ABSTRACT To evaluate the foundational propositions of a nascent theory of relational entropy, this manuscript reports a longitudinal investigation of friendship across the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included 165 members of Greek-letter organizations (both current students and alumni), with data collected in Spring 2020 and again in Spring 2021. Results indicated that relationships
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Researching the Malleability Narrative on Professional Ideals: The Role of Internal Attribution in the Relations Between Media and Adolescents’ Well-Being Communication Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Orpha de Lenne, Steven Eggermont, Laura Vandenbosch
ABSTRACT Research has rarely looked into links between adolescents’ media use, internal attribution of professional success, and well-being. The current study among 940 late adolescents (M = 17.21 years old, SD = .94; 60.9% girls) found that exposure to malleable professional ideals in traditional as well as social media was positively related to internal attribution of professional success, which
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Extending the Spiral of Silence: Theorizing a Typology of Political Self-Silencing Communication Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Gina M. Masullo, Marley Duchovnay
ABSTRACT Drawing on in-depth interview data from 56 Americans who live in politically divided communities, this study extends the spiral of silence by theorizing a typology of political self-silencing that articulates differing types of silencing with varying motivations and implementations. Using theoretical support from the concept of networked silence, we theorize three types of self-silencing: