Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.2021910
LaKesha N. Anderson, Jasmyne J. Womack, C. Ledford
ABSTRACT As misinformation is linked to poor health outcomes for pregnant women, and mobile apps provide free and unregulated access to information, it is important to understand the role of credibility in mobile health. The purpose of this study was to develop and assess a reliable scale for measuring mobile health (mHealth) credibility. Based on a previous measure for assessing web credibility, we also sought to identify source credibility dimensions for mobile apps. The mHealth credibility scale included seven items. Three scale dimensions were identified: concern, character, and competence. Both referent source for mobile apps and app developer were significantly associated with perceived mHealth credibility. This study is a first attempt to both design and test a measure of credibility for mobile health apps. This mHealth credibility scale can be used to guide future app development, communication, and medical research.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-30DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.2017939
Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch
ABSTRACT High-profile examples of the Senate women’s cross-party collaboration, such as the 2013 government shutdown, contribute to the perception that women policymakers are bipartisan. Print, digital, and broadcast journalism serve as units of observation for understanding how the women senators cultivated a shared political image imbued with conventionally-defined “feminine” leadership qualities that linked to bipartisanship. Drawing on their mediated perspectives, I argue that the women of the 113th Senate’s portrayal of feminine leadership traits contributed to the conventional wisdom that women are bipartisan. My analysis indicates that, during a time of rancorous partisanship, the women senators’ public discussion of a sisterhood, a supper club, and communication norms advanced the appearance of being a united force while seeking policy goals in a partisan chamber. By analyzing mediated texts that featured the women in the 113th Senate, I demonstrate how women policymakers collectively depict a legislative style that can become a tool for harnessing power in numbers and maximizing political influence as women while navigating a gendered and partisan space. The contributing factors discussed serve as an entry point for critical inquiry into bipartisan image construction.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.2014841
Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Xizhu Xiao, Porismita Borah
ABSTRACT As privacy concern is proven to be a pivotal thought that determines online self-disclosure, the current study examined the simultaneous influence of the antecedents of privacy concern. Specifically, this study focused on the nature of information (i.e., personal involvement) and the diversity of recipients (i.e., audience representation) in influencing individuals’ cognitive processes pertinent to privacy concerns on Facebook. We conducted an experiment and a total of 241 young adults participated in the study. The results suggested that information that was highly involved with oneself would trigger extended thought elaboration related to privacy. However, surprisingly, influence from audience representation in the network was revealed to be minimal. The study underscores the self-serving purpose of privacy concern online, such that users would primarily focus on considerations surrounding themselves. The results of the current study highlight the importance of self-concerns when users are making sense of their decisions pertinent to self-disclosure on SNSs. Future directions are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-12DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.2009481
A. G. Speno, Danielle Halliwell
ABSTRACT We investigated how parents discuss sexting issues with their adolescent children, with a focus on parental mediation strategies used and barriers encountered. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 parents who had at least one child aged 12–17. Our analysis revealed that parents employed discursive, investigative, and gatekeeping mediation strategies when discussing sexting with their children, and that trusting their child knew better, lacking resources, and feeling uncomfortable were the main barriers to sexting conversations. This research may help parents to have more productive sexting-related conversations with their children, which could reduce risky sexting behaviors and promote a healthy sexuality among adolescents.
{"title":"“It’s not just talking about the birds and the bees anymore”: Parent-child communication about sexting","authors":"A. G. Speno, Danielle Halliwell","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2021.2009481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2021.2009481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We investigated how parents discuss sexting issues with their adolescent children, with a focus on parental mediation strategies used and barriers encountered. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 parents who had at least one child aged 12–17. Our analysis revealed that parents employed discursive, investigative, and gatekeeping mediation strategies when discussing sexting with their children, and that trusting their child knew better, lacking resources, and feeling uncomfortable were the main barriers to sexting conversations. This research may help parents to have more productive sexting-related conversations with their children, which could reduce risky sexting behaviors and promote a healthy sexuality among adolescents.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":"26 1","pages":"14 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77930720","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 : 2021-12-03DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1999242
B. Goss
ABSTRACT This investigation introduces a concept that bookends Herman and Chomsky’s seminal theorization of flak. While both Kevlar and flak are deployed on contentious grounds, flak goes on the attack against ideological opponents whereas discursive Kevlar assumes a posture of defense. Kevlar is also distinct from media management strategies that coopt news media and create a Teflon coating around an administration. A case study of National Review’s coverage of the first Trump impeachment maps out Kevlar tendencies. The investigation analyzes the array of Trump-affirming defenses that National Review marshaled during the impeachment. Despite its rarefied reputation, National Review’s discourses were saturated with punditry that refused considered analysis; exceptions to the rule of Kevlar on behalf of Trump are also discussed. National Review’s Kevlar campaign included pervasive attempts to delegitimize the Democratic Party, beginning with vagueness that glossed over the proximal cause of impeachment: Trump’s extortive shakedown of Ukraine’s government over congressionally-certified funds in an effort to seed news narratives favorable to Trump’s 2020 campaign. National Review constructed further Kevlar defenses through “whataboutism” toward Democrats while the publication’s misgivings about Trump were tempered by “confirming criticisms.” One implication is that Trump’s illiberal political project has been immeasurably assisted by elite (“tree-tops”) rightwing platforms.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-10DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1998057
D. Levasseur, Elizabeth Remland, Martin S. Munz
ABSTRACT Speech delivery pedagogy has both changed dramatically over the last several centuries and remained remarkably fixed over the last 100 years. In the early 1900s, this pedagogy underwent a dramatic shift from an “elocutionist approach” to a “natural approach” to speech delivery. Since that time, speech delivery pedagogy has remained in an essentially petrified state while our understanding of nonverbal behaviors – the very behaviors at the heart of speech delivery – has grown exponentially. In this essay, we draw upon the expansive nonverbal communication literature to argue for a new approach to teaching speech delivery – an approach we refer to as the interconnected approach. This interconnected approach re-emphasizes the importance of speech delivery, structures the topic of speech delivery around coherent nonverbal clusters, and acknowledges the unnatural pathway to developing a natural speech delivery.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-21DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1992769
Michael D. Prazak
ABSTRACT Despite offering the potential for increased connection, intimacy, and positive outcomes, online social interaction also holds the potential to become problematic and create negative outcomes. The present study sought to address the question of the role of attachment style in affecting online behavior, as well as to better understand the way in which specific dimensions of online interaction may correspond to specific attachment styles. The study explored attachment style, particularly anxious and avoidant attachment, in predicting problematic internet use, online intimate self-disclosure, and positive and negative attitudes toward technology in a sample of young adults aged 18–25. A quantitative approach employing correlations, regressions, and ANOVAs was used. It was found that both anxious and avoidant attachments were positively related to and both predicted problematic internet use. Although neither anxious or avoidant attachment style predicted online intimate disclosure, preoccupied individuals were found to disclose significantly more online than fearful individuals. Both anxiety and avoidance positively related to negative attitudes toward technology, with avoidant attachment style significantly predicting it, while only anxious attachment predicted positive attitudes toward technology.
{"title":"Dimensions of compulsive internet use as a function of attachment style","authors":"Michael D. Prazak","doi":"10.1080/15456870.2021.1992769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2021.1992769","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite offering the potential for increased connection, intimacy, and positive outcomes, online social interaction also holds the potential to become problematic and create negative outcomes. The present study sought to address the question of the role of attachment style in affecting online behavior, as well as to better understand the way in which specific dimensions of online interaction may correspond to specific attachment styles. The study explored attachment style, particularly anxious and avoidant attachment, in predicting problematic internet use, online intimate self-disclosure, and positive and negative attitudes toward technology in a sample of young adults aged 18–25. A quantitative approach employing correlations, regressions, and ANOVAs was used. It was found that both anxious and avoidant attachments were positively related to and both predicted problematic internet use. Although neither anxious or avoidant attachment style predicted online intimate disclosure, preoccupied individuals were found to disclose significantly more online than fearful individuals. Both anxiety and avoidance positively related to negative attitudes toward technology, with avoidant attachment style significantly predicting it, while only anxious attachment predicted positive attitudes toward technology.","PeriodicalId":45354,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Journal of Communication","volume":"4 1","pages":"130 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81282175","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 : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1991349
Jayson L. Dibble, John Banas, M. Drouin
ABSTRACT Back burners are prospective romantic and/or sexual partners with whom one communicates, often using digital communication channels, for purposes of potentially developing a sexual and/or romantic relationship. The current study explores the consequences of back burner communication on relationship commitment and personal stress. Moreover, early back burner studies relied primarily on college student samples; it is unknown whether these findings generalize to older adults. We examined the relationships among digital communication with back burners, relationship commitment, and stress, using a sample of non-collegiate adults (N = 263). Consistent with earlier research, the majority reported having at least one back burner. Also, number of back burners correlated negatively with commitment. However, only number of back burners predicted commitment when considered alongside frequency of sexual communication and frequency of stating one’s future intentions. Social media infidelity-related behaviors mediated the relationship between number of back burners and stress. Findings have implications for relational and personal well-being.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1981330
Saud A. Alsulaiman, Terry L. Rentner
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted educational institutions around the world. Public health authorities have been at the forefront of the crisis launching public health campaigns to convey health messages and educate the public about the virus. This study used simple random sampling (N = 1,773) to examine information-seeking behaviors and the credibility of COVID-19 information among college students. The study further examined the association between the Health Belief Model (HBM), perceived threat, and the credibility of COVID-19 information. Results revealed the most and least likely communication channels students used to access COVID-19 information and the credibility of each channel. Students first went to public health authorities’ communication channels and sources for information. Traditional media channels ranked low in usage. Public health authorities ranked high in credibility, and the credibility of sources predicted a slight increase in the HBM and the perceived threat mean scores. Findings should help college administrators better communicate critical health information to students during a health crisis.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-06DOI: 10.1080/15456870.2021.1981329
Kathryn E. Anthony, B. Bagley, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Candace Forbes Bright
ABSTRACT Just nine months after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 a global pandemic, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna vaccines in December 2020, followed by EUA for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in February 2021. Although achieving herd immunity through vaccinations is the greatest hope for ending the pandemic, the COVID-19 vaccination effort has been plagued by misinformation and mistrust. Given the urgency to vaccinate the population, public health officials must construct messages that encourage individuals to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine. The current study examines the impact of linguistic assignment of agency on an individual’s desire to get vaccinated. Guided by the EPPM, participants (N= 296) were randomly assigned to receive either a virus agentic message or a human agentic message. The researchers discovered that the virus agentic message resulted in a greater intention to obtain the vaccine. Further, participants who received the virus agentic message reported a stronger sense of perceived self-efficacy and perceived susceptibility. Additionally, participants who perceived the societal reaction to the pandemic to be appropriate, as well as those who knew at least one person who had died from the virus, were more likely to express an intention to get vaccinated.
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