Pub Date : 2022-06-27DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2093354
Sadettin Demirel, Elif Kahraman, Uğur Gündüz
{"title":"A text mining analysis of the change in status of the Hagia Sophia on Twitter: the political discourse and its reflections on the public opinion","authors":"Sadettin Demirel, Elif Kahraman, Uğur Gündüz","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2093354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2093354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84573330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2083137
J. Lancaster
{"title":"Daring to discuss: analyzing engagement and equality in high school discussions","authors":"J. Lancaster","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2083137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2083137","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86819169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-03DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2081328
Alexis J. Karolin
ABSTRACT This work explores the affective or felt experiences of trauma that artwork creates for audiences. The author analyzed 63 oil paintings from the Japanese American National Museum Hisako Hibi Oil Painting Collection to uncover themes of coping mechanisms within the collective race-based trauma of internment. The author concluded that the paintings evoke feelings of dissociation, aversion, and maternal disruption/continuity for viewers. The trauma conveyed and the emotions elicited from the paintings speak to the collective experience of Japanese American internees, Isseis (first-generation immigrants), and mothers, as well as the individual story of artist Hisako Hibi.
{"title":"“A painter, A very poor talker”: Affective experiences of trauma and coping mechanisms in Hisako Hibi’s internment artwork","authors":"Alexis J. Karolin","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2081328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2081328","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work explores the affective or felt experiences of trauma that artwork creates for audiences. The author analyzed 63 oil paintings from the Japanese American National Museum Hisako Hibi Oil Painting Collection to uncover themes of coping mechanisms within the collective race-based trauma of internment. The author concluded that the paintings evoke feelings of dissociation, aversion, and maternal disruption/continuity for viewers. The trauma conveyed and the emotions elicited from the paintings speak to the collective experience of Japanese American internees, Isseis (first-generation immigrants), and mothers, as well as the individual story of artist Hisako Hibi.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90801427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2083136
Jasmine T. Austin, N. Wong, Andronica C. Owens
ABSTRACT Since the advent of the #MeToo hashtag, there have been both praises and criticisms of its use as part of the #MeToo movement. The present study uses expectancy violation theory (EVT) as a guiding framework to examine response expectations among posters of the #MeToo hashtag on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and the extent to which these expectations were confirmed or violated by observers of the #MeToo hashtag postings online. This investigation is the first of its kind to provide an initial assessment of the effectiveness of the social media component for the #MeToo campaign (i.e., use of the #MeToo hashtag). We analyzed the survey responses for 193 participants (26 posters; 167 observers), asking posters what they expected and received as responses to their #MeToo hashtag posts, and observers about their expected and actual responses to the #MeToo postings of others in their social network. A thematic analysis was performed, and results offered some insights into response expectations for both posters and observers, as well as extent to which expectations were met, and what that means for the #MeToo campaign.
{"title":"The hashtag heard around the world: social media users’ perceptions and responses to the #MeToo hashtag","authors":"Jasmine T. Austin, N. Wong, Andronica C. Owens","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2083136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2083136","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the advent of the #MeToo hashtag, there have been both praises and criticisms of its use as part of the #MeToo movement. The present study uses expectancy violation theory (EVT) as a guiding framework to examine response expectations among posters of the #MeToo hashtag on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and the extent to which these expectations were confirmed or violated by observers of the #MeToo hashtag postings online. This investigation is the first of its kind to provide an initial assessment of the effectiveness of the social media component for the #MeToo campaign (i.e., use of the #MeToo hashtag). We analyzed the survey responses for 193 participants (26 posters; 167 observers), asking posters what they expected and received as responses to their #MeToo hashtag posts, and observers about their expected and actual responses to the #MeToo postings of others in their social network. A thematic analysis was performed, and results offered some insights into response expectations for both posters and observers, as well as extent to which expectations were met, and what that means for the #MeToo campaign.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85932668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2081691
Xiaoxia Cao
ABSTRACT Young American adults are most negatively affected by the American opioid crisis and often resistant to the influence of public health campaigns. Using an online experiment, this study tested the impacts of the reference focus of anti-prescription opioid campaigns on young American adults’ attitudes and behavioral intentions. It found that the other- versus self-referencing campaign message increased negative attitudes toward prescription opioids and intentions to avoid (mis)using them; the impacts were completely explained by anticipated guilt and by a sequential path of increased anticipated guilt and reduced psychological reactance. The findings contribute to our understanding of the impacts of the reference focus of public health campaigns and provide guidance in the design of effective anti-prescription opioid campaigns targeting young Americans.
{"title":"The impacts of the reference focus of anti-prescription opioid campaigns on young Americans: The roles of anticipated guilt and psychological reactance","authors":"Xiaoxia Cao","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2081691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2081691","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Young American adults are most negatively affected by the American opioid crisis and often resistant to the influence of public health campaigns. Using an online experiment, this study tested the impacts of the reference focus of anti-prescription opioid campaigns on young American adults’ attitudes and behavioral intentions. It found that the other- versus self-referencing campaign message increased negative attitudes toward prescription opioids and intentions to avoid (mis)using them; the impacts were completely explained by anticipated guilt and by a sequential path of increased anticipated guilt and reduced psychological reactance. The findings contribute to our understanding of the impacts of the reference focus of public health campaigns and provide guidance in the design of effective anti-prescription opioid campaigns targeting young Americans.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87735023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2076856
Mohammad Ali, Abdulaziz Altawil
ABSTRACT This article examines the factors that predict affective polarization and political engagement in the United States. Using an original survey dataset (N = 1,100) of a fairly representative national sample, this study explored some factors (e.g., age, gender, political ideology, and partisan news media and social media) to see how they predict affective polarization and political engagement. The results could be helpful to further study widening affective polarization, which is reportedly affecting democracy itself, in this current political and public opinion atmosphere “Trumpfied” in the last couple of years. The insights found in this research could also help devise political and social campaign strategies that minimize polarization gaps. The results might enable corporate entities to better classify their consumers based on relevant issues associated with polarization and political engagement. Future research is encouraged to combine survey data and social media data for a more refined outcome.
{"title":"Affective polarization and political engagement in the United States: what factors matter?","authors":"Mohammad Ali, Abdulaziz Altawil","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2076856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2076856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the factors that predict affective polarization and political engagement in the United States. Using an original survey dataset (N = 1,100) of a fairly representative national sample, this study explored some factors (e.g., age, gender, political ideology, and partisan news media and social media) to see how they predict affective polarization and political engagement. The results could be helpful to further study widening affective polarization, which is reportedly affecting democracy itself, in this current political and public opinion atmosphere “Trumpfied” in the last couple of years. The insights found in this research could also help devise political and social campaign strategies that minimize polarization gaps. The results might enable corporate entities to better classify their consumers based on relevant issues associated with polarization and political engagement. Future research is encouraged to combine survey data and social media data for a more refined outcome.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78050386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-17DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2063865
Andrea L. Meluch, S. LeBlanc, M. Hannah, Shawn C. Starcher
ABSTRACT This study investigates student disclosures of academic struggles to their instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey was administered to U.S. college students (N = 458) who were enrolled in classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students’ breadth, depth, and frequency of disclosures of academic struggles were examined in conjunction with students’ perceptions of instructor characteristics, such as instructor supportiveness and flexibility, contextual criteria for disclosure, and risk of disclosure. The study findings indicate that instructor supportiveness and instructor flexibility were significant predictors of the breadth of student disclosures. Students’ depth and frequency of disclosures also were significantly predicted by instructor supportiveness. Further, students’ perceptions of the risk of disclosure were significantly related to both instructor supportiveness and instructor flexibility. Finally, students’ disclosure of academic struggles to their instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic were significantly predicted by the contextual criteria important reason and conversational appropriateness. Analysis of open-ended survey responses indicated that students are willing to disclose their academic struggles to instructors who are open-minded and willing to self-disclose their own struggles. The implications of the present study results on instructor-student communication in times of crisis and post-COVID-19 are discussed.
{"title":"Student-instructor communication during a crisis: college students’ disclosures about academic struggles and perceived instructor supportiveness and flexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Andrea L. Meluch, S. LeBlanc, M. Hannah, Shawn C. Starcher","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2063865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2063865","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates student disclosures of academic struggles to their instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey was administered to U.S. college students (N = 458) who were enrolled in classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students’ breadth, depth, and frequency of disclosures of academic struggles were examined in conjunction with students’ perceptions of instructor characteristics, such as instructor supportiveness and flexibility, contextual criteria for disclosure, and risk of disclosure. The study findings indicate that instructor supportiveness and instructor flexibility were significant predictors of the breadth of student disclosures. Students’ depth and frequency of disclosures also were significantly predicted by instructor supportiveness. Further, students’ perceptions of the risk of disclosure were significantly related to both instructor supportiveness and instructor flexibility. Finally, students’ disclosure of academic struggles to their instructors during the COVID-19 pandemic were significantly predicted by the contextual criteria important reason and conversational appropriateness. Analysis of open-ended survey responses indicated that students are willing to disclose their academic struggles to instructors who are open-minded and willing to self-disclose their own struggles. The implications of the present study results on instructor-student communication in times of crisis and post-COVID-19 are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82490787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-06DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2061712
Hyuksoo Kim, Jungsun Ahn
ABSTRACT The growing use of social media has resonated with scholars to examine the role of social media in society. Given that sports are an integral part of American society, it is imperative to ask how the use of social media for sports is associated with individuals’ lives. In an attempt to answer this question, the current study employs the concept of social identification and social capital as a theoretical framework. Using survey data collected in the domain of college sports, the path analysis demonstrates the interlinked relationships between the use of social media, social capital, identification, and life satisfaction. Particularly, it is noteworthy that the use of social media is positively related to the production of social capital and life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through identification. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
{"title":"The effect of social media on social capital and life-satisfaction in the case of college sports","authors":"Hyuksoo Kim, Jungsun Ahn","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2061712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2061712","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The growing use of social media has resonated with scholars to examine the role of social media in society. Given that sports are an integral part of American society, it is imperative to ask how the use of social media for sports is associated with individuals’ lives. In an attempt to answer this question, the current study employs the concept of social identification and social capital as a theoretical framework. Using survey data collected in the domain of college sports, the path analysis demonstrates the interlinked relationships between the use of social media, social capital, identification, and life satisfaction. Particularly, it is noteworthy that the use of social media is positively related to the production of social capital and life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through identification. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78949549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2049794
Umberto Famulari, L. Major
ABSTRACT The study employed a quantitative content analysis of stories (N = 1200) and photographs (N = 1200) to examine how U.S. digital-native and traditional news websites of different political orientations (right-leaning vs left-leaning) represented immigration in frames, topics and visual frames. Social media engagement was also analyzed to understand how people react to news content. Both in stories and images, left-leaning news websites focused more often on victimization, while right-leaning outlets emphasized threat. This trend was even more pronounced among digital-native news websites. Traditional left-leaning news sites generated the highest number of social media interactions.
{"title":"News stories and images of immigration online: A quantitative analysis of digital-native and traditional news websites of different political orientations and social media engagement","authors":"Umberto Famulari, L. Major","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2022.2049794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2022.2049794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study employed a quantitative content analysis of stories (N = 1200) and photographs (N = 1200) to examine how U.S. digital-native and traditional news websites of different political orientations (right-leaning vs left-leaning) represented immigration in frames, topics and visual frames. Social media engagement was also analyzed to understand how people react to news content. Both in stories and images, left-leaning news websites focused more often on victimization, while right-leaning outlets emphasized threat. This trend was even more pronounced among digital-native news websites. Traditional left-leaning news sites generated the highest number of social media interactions.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75297629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2022.2052071
J. Reed, Josh C. Bramlett
ABSTRACT Multiple terror attacks rocked London in 2017. These attacks brought to the forefront of public consciousness London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s unique identity as a Muslim leader confronting Islamic terrorism in a Western city. Through theoretical lenses of restorative rhetoric and the Disaster Communication Intervention Framework, this rhetorical criticism analyzes how Khan situated himself as a rhetorical symbol against terrorism while crafting a vision of unity and resilience rooted in diversity. By analyzing Khan’s anti-terrorism rhetoric in 2017 and the years prior, we explore how Khan used personal identity in his calls for collective response to disaster. The study contributes to scholarly understanding of how political leaders respond to disasters and offers practical guidelines for leaders working to foster post-disaster resilience in diverse communities.
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