ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken many countries worldwide and forced them to take unprecedented public health restrictive measures to stop the spread of coronavirus infections. For any disease containment strategy to be successful, public willingness to comply with the restrictive measures is essential. In this paper, we report findings from a national online survey on the public perception

ABSTRACT African Americans have a disproportionately high risk of premature death caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and related risk factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity. Heeding the culture-centered approach to communication’s (CCA) call for community-based health solutions for marginalized populations, in this study African Americans living with CVDs and associated

ABSTRACT In the current experiment, U.S. parents (N = 141) of children between the ages of 3 and 6 watched one of three versions of a popular educational science television show. Each version varied how science information was portrayed. Afterward, parents generated science explanations in response to hypothetical questions from their children. Results indicated that parents exposed to science television

ABSTRACT This study explores the impacts of internal strategic communication and relationship management with employees for organizational resilience in effective internal crisis communication, thereby filling a gap in crisis communication research. Specifically, it provides empirical evidence for how organizational resilience in a crisis can be achieved through strategic internal communication and

ABSTRACT This study explores how a high-reliability team (HRT) employed an informal communication norm to facilitate access to members’ distributed expertise during forecast decisions, despite time pressures. The communication norm was documented during observations of U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) forecast team members’ naturalistic decision making (NDM) regarding forecasts. We labeled the norm

ABSTRACT Homeless young adults face a complex set of challenges as they navigate life and work. This study aims to guide scholarly and activist understandings of homelessness, communication, and employment by exploring homeless young adults’ struggles and tactics regarding work. Specifically, we argue that homeless young adults experience a ‘scaffolded city’ phenomenon, where regulated employment is

ABSTRACT The residents of Shinchimachi, Fukushima Prefecture, face ongoing struggles in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. In addition to physical damage and health risks, residents contend with the socio-psychological difficulties of facing stigma. This research used interview and survey methods to unearth nuanced perceptions of stigma and to test the effects of the perceived stigma

ABSTRACT Using national online panel survey data (N = 1,000) in South Korea, this study applied the Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model to examine how people are motivated to seek information about obesity. We added autonomous motivation and health consciousness to the RISP model to investigate their association with health information seeking behavior about obesity. We proposed that

ABSTRACT The University of North Alabama (UNA) was accused of negligence in the handling of a student’s allegation of sexual assault by a professor. The initial university response prompted backlash from students, alumni, and the community. A more conciliatory response followed, and the UNA president spoke of the case during his annual address. These three responses, prompted by stakeholder critique

ABSTRACT FoMO, the fear of missing out, is a salient and significant experience with personal and relational consequences. This study qualitatively analyzed 35 interviews with iGen emerging adult college students about their experiences with FoMO. Framed by relational dialectics theory 2.0 (Baxter, L. A. (2011). Voicing relationships: A dialogic perspective. Sage), we found two relational-level contradictions

ABSTRACT Many undocumented youths who come to the United States as children are unaware of their status until family disclosure; this likely has identity implications for youth. Through 40 semi-structured interviews with deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) college students, we explored how youth discovered their undocumented status, the type of information that was discussed during family

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ABSTRACT Planners often use the phrase ‘hard-to-reach’ to describe youth, people of color, and people with low incomes, people from whom they need information but are unsuccessful in reaching. Consideration of cultural premises for communicating can help explain why some people are ‘under-heard’ rather than ‘hard-to-reach.’ This study uses cultural discourse analysis to study under-represented community

ABSTRACT Aging adults experience a disproportionate number of health-related problems. We applied a technological capital framework to assess how participation in web-delivered interventions is influenced by resources, perceived support, technology skills, and an overall environment conducive to making a change. Specifically, we conducted an in-depth examination of the uses and attitudes regarding

ABSTRACT Warmth and competence are two fundamental dimensions of social judgments that shape stereotypes of social groups/professions. In perceiving others, people assess their intentions (warmth) and their abilities to act upon those intentions (competence). As stereotyping can influence attitudes and subsequent behaviors, pre-existing stereotypes of scientists as ‘cold’ may undermine trust in science

ABSTRACT The leadership crisis globally, and in the U.S. specifically, draws concern for educators, leadership professionals, and organizations at large. This study evaluates two ways of teaching leadership courses in higher education: a conventional approach where students learn epistemological knowledge and apply such knowledge to case studies, and an ontological, phenomenological, phronetic, transformative

ABSTRACT Workplace bullying is a pernicious workplace problem that harms employees and organizations alike. Targets suffer mental and physical consequences of repeated abuse. Organizations experience consequences such as diminished worker productivity and increased turnover. In some cases, even workplace violence. While these instances are thankfully rare, it is important to understand how workplace

ABSTRACT Planners often use the phrase ‘hard-to-reach’ to describe youth, people of color, and people with low incomes, people from whom they need information but are unsuccessful in reaching. Consideration of cultural premises for communicating can help explain why some people are ‘under-heard’ rather than ‘hard-to-reach.’ This study uses cultural discourse analysis to study under-represented community

ABSTRACT Uncertainty is a prevalent and influential experience for people managing chronic illness. People living with diabetes experience individual, relational, and illness-related uncertainty across the illness trajectory, yet scholars know little about the lived experience of diabetes uncertainty. To fill this gap, our study examined interpersonal exchanges in 22 US-based online forums geared toward

ABSTRACT LGB individuals coming out to heterosexual partners can be difficult in mixed-orientation relationships. This study examined the predictors and outcomes of LGB people’s sexual orientation disclosure and perceived partner reactions. Participants (N = 417) were LGB adults residing in the US who came out to their heterosexual romantic partners. Path analysis results showed that LGB individuals’

ABSTRACT The global teams literature has increasingly documented challenges due to demographic faultlines. While this literature tends to assume that faultlines are fixed and produce negative outcomes for teams, organizational communication scholars have long regarded team processes as dynamic and fluid. Drawing on a CCO perspective, we offer a re-conceptualization of subgroups as dynamic and discursively

ABSTRACT Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been shown to improve health and social well-being by including diverse, marginalized community voices within academic–community partnerships. Although CBPR has gained in popularity, an explicit examination and evaluation of communication processes and outcomes throughout an entire CBPR project is lacking. Here, we analyze interviews with 10

ABSTRACT Appreciative Inquiry is a theory of intentional collective action which provides a model of communication processes for recognizing existing organizational strengths, as opposed to problems, as the basis for action plans. This paper reports on a case where Appreciative Inquiry was improperly applied to an all-day workshop that was aimed at initiating a new interorganizational collaboration

ABSTRACT During the 2016 United States presidential election, social media was a popular source of political news. In the three months preceding the election day, there was an exponential increase in the propagation of fake political news stories on social media. Using propaganda theory as the situating framework, this study conducts a qualitative textual analysis of 18 of the most popular of these

ABSTRACT Online sexual harassment is important for scholars to consider because employees who are harassed by coworkers online can experience distinct consequences that may differ from face-to-face sexual harassment. Through a qualitative analysis of more than 200 survey responses, this study examines why employees who are harassed by a coworker on social media report their experiences or not. We use

ABSTRACT Capturing a unique moment within a particularly volatile political climate where various issues such as climate change, immigration, and healthcare are increasingly polarized, this survey examines the factors driving publics’ engagement in and disengagement from communication on controversial sociopolitical issues. It applies and expands the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) by

ABSTRACT Young people spend prodigious time online cultivating identities, relationships, and values, however, most research about young people's experiences online fails to consider how socioeconomic status shapes young people's engagement online. Drawing on communication theory about meaning-making, impression management, and trends toward prosumption, we examine how social class, informs young peoples'

ABSTRACT Corporate social advocacy (CSA) has become more prominent as companies continue taking stands on politically charged social issues. This study examines emotions and issue involvement as antecedents of theory of planned behavior variables (attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control) to predict CSA response behaviors. A survey (N = 373) was conducted to examine the public’s

ABSTRACT This study draws upon sensemaking theory to (a) explore the cues healthcare providers extract from their workplace environment to make sense of their advanced information technology (AIT) workarounds and (b) offer an AIT workaround sensemaking model for future research. A thematic analysis was conducted using interview data from 27 (N = 27) physicians and nurses in one hospital organization

ABSTRACT Crisis remains a pervasive phenomenon for organizations of all kinds. The ubiquitous and casual invocation of crisis cuts across organizational sectors and bodies of literature; and the popularity of crisis holds true for institutions of higher education. There is much agreement among communication scholars and practitioners that crises disrupt and derail organizational practices, threaten

ABSTRACT The Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) is a third-party certification program seeking to improve agricultural working conditions as well as food safety practices, environmental stewardship, and farm viability. The initiative uses innovative cross-functional labor-management teams to promote compliance with EFI standards and advocate for worker interests. Based on focus groups, interviews, and

ABSTRACT This study explores the organizing strategies of a nonprofit organization working to address rural food insecurity. I worked alongside Sustainable Appalachia, a nonprofit organization operating to create sustainable food systems for the people of Appalachia Ohio. Through ethnographic-based research I worked with this organization over the course of one year by volunteering as a clerk at a

ABSTRACT Do reviews on organizational review websites (e.g., Indeed.com, GlassDoor.com) speak to the employer or the employee? This study tests the structural relationship between cognitive and affective organizational attachments and three outcomes: willingness to disclose one’s workplace online, unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), and workplace reviews. Using a national sample of U.S. workers

ABSTRACT This study examined 250 posts to the Protect LDS Children website, a counter-institutional movement seeking the end of private youth interviews with male Bishops that ask sexually explicit questions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Narrative analysis suggests two theoretical considerations: first, results suggest a definition of dissent effectiveness that includes discursive

ABSTRACT Emerging adults provide support to friends experiencing sexual health uncertainties; however, the support provided varies. Because of the centrality of friendships during emerging adulthood, identifying what shapes the support friends provide one another is necessary. A survey of 424 emerging adults indicated that, at least from the support provider’s perspective, expected outcomes, efficacy

ABSTRACT The study explored how the combinations of living-with-HIV portrayals and HIV onset controllability portrayals influence HIV stigma because the two frame coexist in our communication environment. Results from an experiment with 443 college students in the United States indicated different combinations of the two frames might be helpful, ineffective, or harmful in reducing HIV stigma. The positive

ABSTRACT Genders and sexualities continue to remain underexplored in the field of communication studies and the academy in general. This essay examines possibilities for incorporating queer perspectives into communication studies. At the invitation of the Journal of Applied Communication Research editor, 9 communication scholars who use queer theory or queer perspectives in their own work responded

ABSTRACT This study proposes two complementary writing activities designed to reduce affective polarization and malevolent outgroup attributions. The strategies draw on narrative theorizing and intergroup contact theory. Our intervention is low cost and can be effectively administrated in educational settings to combat the deleterious effects of political polarization. In this four-group between-subjects

ABSTRACT This study examines the long-term recovery and resilience processes of households on the New Jersey coast after Hurricane Sandy. Based on theoretical frameworks of community ecology, communication ecology, and the Communication Theory of Resilience, we analyzed focus group interviews and timeline data to examine the sources and forms of support and barrier and provide a detailed account of

ABSTRACT Roughly one in five U.S. children live in rural areas and they are more likely than nonrural children to experience chronic illnesses, unfulfilled medical needs, and poverty – yet health literacy intervention research for rural children is lacking. Thus, this study explores a health literacy intervention in two rural public elementary schools that have very different socioeconomic levels,

ABSTRACT In the state of Colorado, people deemed a danger to themselves can be committed to a psychiatric hospital regardless of whether or not they consent to such treatment. Despite the life-saving potential of this practice, the mode through which psychiatric professionals are legally mandated to enact it - by completing the ‘M-1 form' - is deeply flawed. This document forces healthcare providers

ABSTRACT During public health crises like infectious disease outbreaks, news media and governments are responsible for informing the public about how to protect themselves. A large body of health communication research finds that persuasive narratives motivate protective behaviors, such as intentions to vaccinate. In their seminal book on crisis narratives, Seeger and Sellnow (Narratives of crisis:

ABSTRACT This study investigates how boundary communication mediates the effects of smartphone use for work after hours on work-life conflict and organizational identification. It draws upon boundary theory, work-family border theory, and a structurational view of organizational identification. The research site was a large Scandinavian company operating in the telecommunications industry, with 367

ABSTRACT This study examines how sadness, expressed through the voice of a CEO of an organization in crisis, affects the public's perceptions in times of crisis. A first experiment shows that a sad voice increases the public's empathy toward the CEO, which results in positive attitudes toward the organization. However, at the same time, that sad voice results in negative attitudes toward the organization

ABSTRACT Drawing on institutional theory, this content analysis explored firms' social reports for a ten-year period in three market economies. Specifically, this study analyzed firms' motivations for corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a proxy of the salience of stakeholder groups in social reports. First, firms' competitive motivations for CSR were significantly higher in the stated-led

ABSTRACT Awareness of persuasive intent often results in resistance to persuasion. In this study, we investigated conditions under which explicit persuasive intent may not cause resistance to persuasion in CSR message strategies. Specifically, we examined the interplay between persuasive intent and regulatory-framed CSR messages in a marketing communication context. We found that the negative effect

ABSTRACT Drs Abhijit Banergee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their remarkable series of large-scale field experiments to lessen global poverty. The main theoretical framework that they employed was the diffusion of innovations research and practice paradigm (DOI) which has had a long presence in communication research dating back to the 1940s. Here

ABSTRACT Although reports of workplace sexual harassment share various similarities, victims uniquely react and assign meaning to these events. Using Weick’s sensemaking theory coupled with Lazarus and Folkman’s model of coping, this study examines the role of organizational tolerance toward sexual harassment and its influence on victim resilience, coping, harassment fatigue, and perceived vulnerability

ABSTRACT This study examined how work–family conflict (WFC) is associated with mechanisms of relational turbulence, conflict tactics, and marital satisfaction. Six hundred and thirty-three married workers completed an online survey. Family interference with work and spouses’ work interfering with one’s family predicted greater relational uncertainty and interference from partners, whereas one’s own

ABSTRACT This research explores the competing discourses and relational tensions that emerge in intergenerational communication in immigrant families with undocumented parents through in-depth interviews with undocumented Latino/a parents and their children living in New York City. Through the articulation of three themes, we illustrate how material realities affiliated with a lack of legal status

ABSTRACT This forum brings together food, (in)security, and communication. The authors participating in this forum center communication as both process and tool for understanding, mitigating, and making meaning of food (in)security. The nine authors together discuss the role of communication in food (in)security, the central challenges for scholars and practitioners working on food (in)security, and

ABSTRACT This study operationalized Weick’s [(1988). Enacted sensemaking in crisis situations. Journal of Management Studies 25(4), 305–317 and (1993). The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38, 628–652] theory of enacted sensemaking to examine the communication processes associated with the Flint Water Crisis of 2014–2015. A content

ABSTRACT Parental alienation occurs after parents divorce and intentionally or even unintentionally persuade their children to distance themselves from or reject the other parent. Framed by the communication theory of resilience, this study explores the communicative practices that enable and constrain the targeted alienated parents’ ability to create normalcy at the individual and online community

ABSTRACT Online communities can provide social support that plays a critical role in identity reconstruction. Given a changing gendered landscape in which men's identity constructions and configurations of masculinity are disrupted and challenged, some men have begun organizing online using platforms like Reddit to support and provide strategies for reasserting and reconstructing traditional forms

ABSTRACT This study examined whether relationship maintenance buffers the stress of balancing work and family. Sixty-two dual-earning couples and their adolescents completed surveys at the beginning and end of the week, recorded their stress throughout the week, and collected saliva on two consecutive days in the middle of the week. When mothers and fathers received more maintenance from each other

ABSTRACT The community resilience needed for effective disaster response and recovery depends in part on robust cross-sector, interorganizational networks, but differences among networked stakeholders can make building community resilience difficult. Local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) may help by acting as risk communication infrastructure. LEPCs help conduct emergency chemical hazards planning

ABSTRACT Communities learn important lessons about their vulnerabilities from disasters. A crucial aspect of resilience is how communities apply past lessons to prepare for future events. We use a practice lens to examine how communities remember and forget lessons through everyday communication surrounding their preparedness activities. We analyze two cases of disaster preparedness in one community

ABSTRACT The communication theory of resilience describes five communication processes that serve to promote resilience. This research examines predictors and outcomes of the five resilience processes. This study examines pathways between communication efficacy and relational quality to dyadic communicative resilience processes and from these processes to outcomes of health management and evaluations

ABSTRACT This study applied emotion regulation theory to examine parental communication that predicts possible markers of adolescent resilience in families of harmful versus non-harmful parental alcohol use. Parent-adolescent dyads (30 with and 30 without harmful parental alcohol use) participated in video-taped interactions rated for parents' emotion coaching and emotion dismissing communication and

ABSTRACT This thematic analysis of 510 news articles – spanning the leftist-rightist ideological spectrum – examines media rhetoric surrounding President Trump’s 27 January 2017 Executive Order (EO) 13769 barring immigrants and refugees from U.S. resettlement. In this article, I examine how both liberal and conservative news media rhetoric reinforce respectability politics that create a hierarchy of