Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1974506
Lori A. Bednarchik, Mark A. Generous, Paul A. Mongeau
The current investigation explored how college students define sexual consent, and the sources from which they developed these definitions. Thematic analysis generated five categories of consent definitions: permission, agreement, willingness, wanted-ness, and contextual elements (i.e., stipulations regarding the consent process; behaviors that require sexual consent). Participants’ sources from which they learned about the definition of sexual consent included: educational experiences, friends, family, school, media, personal experiences, and unsure/common sense. Findings highlight the complex nature of sexual consent as a communicative construct and the varied sources from which college students constructed their conceptualization of consent. Implications for college health and sexual assault programming, as well as for researchers looking to further explore the multi-faceted construct of sexual consent, are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1974505
T. Feeley, Zhuohui Yang
The Matilda Effect (ME) predicts women scholars are less likely to be rewarded than men scholars with comparable accomplishments. One manifestation of the ME is bias in relation to citations to an author’s work as a function of gender. ME was tested in eight communication journals for 10 publishing years (2002–2006, 2012–2016). Mixed results were found across 3,324 articles with two journals exhibiting ME effects among the eight examined. For a subset of six journals, men were more likely to cite their own work compared to women. Findings across datasets showed three analyses were statistically significant and two were not significant. Study findings are discussed and it was suggested future research examine a greater number of journals.
{"title":"Is there a Matilda Effect in Communication Journals?","authors":"T. Feeley, Zhuohui Yang","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.1974505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1974505","url":null,"abstract":"The Matilda Effect (ME) predicts women scholars are less likely to be rewarded than men scholars with comparable accomplishments. One manifestation of the ME is bias in relation to citations to an author’s work as a function of gender. ME was tested in eight communication journals for 10 publishing years (2002–2006, 2012–2016). Mixed results were found across 3,324 articles with two journals exhibiting ME effects among the eight examined. For a subset of six journals, men were more likely to cite their own work compared to women. Findings across datasets showed three analyses were statistically significant and two were not significant. Study findings are discussed and it was suggested future research examine a greater number of journals.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48149027","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 : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1973053
C. Carr, Cameron W. Piercy
Employees may engage in some misrepresentation on employer review websites (e.g., GlassDoor, Indeed), even when reviewing an employer anonymously. This research explores how linguistic features of employee-generated reviews (N = 204) might serve as a means of detecting misrepresentation, presentations of the organization that depart from one’s personal beliefs, in employer reviews. Findings suggest language analytics may not be a fruitful means of detecting deception in online employer reviews. Results are discussed with respect to employees’ self-presentation of their employers and the linguistics of misrepresentation.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1966064
Erika J. Schneider, Courtney D. Boman, Heather Akin
Extending the situational crisis communication theory, this research evaluates how the consequences of a crisis extend to social media and how using internal and external sources influence crisis response processing. A structural equation model assessed the conceptual link between organizational reputation and the negative amplification of a message on social media using data derived from an online experiment. Findings contextualize crisis communication to suggest source and social amplification could lead to a vanguard of future SCCT research that guides researchers and professionals in optimizing a crisis response.
{"title":"The Amplified Crisis: Assessing Negative Social Amplification and Source of a Crisis Response","authors":"Erika J. Schneider, Courtney D. Boman, Heather Akin","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.1966064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1966064","url":null,"abstract":"Extending the situational crisis communication theory, this research evaluates how the consequences of a crisis extend to social media and how using internal and external sources influence crisis response processing. A structural equation model assessed the conceptual link between organizational reputation and the negative amplification of a message on social media using data derived from an online experiment. Findings contextualize crisis communication to suggest source and social amplification could lead to a vanguard of future SCCT research that guides researchers and professionals in optimizing a crisis response.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41422716","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 : 2021-07-18DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1949481
Jack Glascock
This study examined the contributions of verbally aggressive TV exposure and perceived reality to trait verbal aggression. Verbally aggressive TV exposure, categorized by genre, was assessed by respondents’ (N = 591) frequency of viewing 60 TV shows popular among college students and then coded for their verbally aggressive content. A hierarchical regression, controlling for demographic variables, overall TV viewing, and social desirability, found exposure to TV comedies and the utility and social realism dimensions of perceived reality to be significant positive predictors of participants’ trait verbal aggression. However, there were no interaction effects among the TV genre exposure indexes and the perceived reality subscales.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-20DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1931387
Brandi N. Frisby, Blanca Muñoz
This study examined instructors’ perceptions of rapport-building strategies and motives across cultures. Open-ended data from 35 faculty, representing 14 countries, indicated that regardless of cultural background instructors perceived rapport with students as important. Findings revealed rapport building strategies used across countries. Theoretically, these results revealed that building rapport is motivated by rhetorical, relational, and motivational needs of students. These results provide a foundation for understanding rapport building behaviors.
{"title":"Love Me, Love My Class”: Instructor Perceptions of Rapport Building with Students across Cultures","authors":"Brandi N. Frisby, Blanca Muñoz","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.1931387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1931387","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined instructors’ perceptions of rapport-building strategies and motives across cultures. Open-ended data from 35 faculty, representing 14 countries, indicated that regardless of cultural background instructors perceived rapport with students as important. Findings revealed rapport building strategies used across countries. Theoretically, these results revealed that building rapport is motivated by rhetorical, relational, and motivational needs of students. These results provide a foundation for understanding rapport building behaviors.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2021.1931387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46737493","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 : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1912129
C. E. Kirkpatrick, Sungkyoung Lee
This study explores the impact of source type (expert, experienced, and layperson) and message relevance (high versus low relevance) on message processing and persuasion in the context of health podcasts as a health promotion tool. Findings from a 3 (source) x 2 (message relevance) within-subjects factorial design experiment (N = 113) showed perceived source competence, perceived source trustworthiness, perceived message effectiveness, health behavior intentions, and podcast download intentions were greatest for podcasts delivered by an expert source, followed by an experienced source and a layperson source. Podcasts with higher message relevance resulted in greater health behavior intentions and podcast download intentions.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1918738
Melinda R. Aley, Lindsay S. Hahn, Ron Tamborini, Henry Goble, Lu Zhang, Sara M. Grady, Joshua Baldwin
To distinguish and systematically categorize message content emphasized by children’s educational media, we applied a coding scheme based on the model of intuitive motivation and exemplars to a sample of educational television series recommended by CommonSenseMedia.org. Results revealed a preponderance of the egoistic motivation of competence (overall and in TV series emphasizing scholastic learning) and the altruistic motivation of care (in series emphasizing social skills). By applying a scheme of comprehensive human motivations to identify the values emphasized in different types of children’s educational television, this study may help scholars more meaningfully identify, predict, and explain outcomes resulting from exposure to media content.
{"title":"What Does Television Teach Children? Examining the Altruistic and Egoistic Lessons in Children’s Educational Television","authors":"Melinda R. Aley, Lindsay S. Hahn, Ron Tamborini, Henry Goble, Lu Zhang, Sara M. Grady, Joshua Baldwin","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.1918738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1918738","url":null,"abstract":"To distinguish and systematically categorize message content emphasized by children’s educational media, we applied a coding scheme based on the model of intuitive motivation and exemplars to a sample of educational television series recommended by CommonSenseMedia.org. Results revealed a preponderance of the egoistic motivation of competence (overall and in TV series emphasizing scholastic learning) and the altruistic motivation of care (in series emphasizing social skills). By applying a scheme of comprehensive human motivations to identify the values emphasized in different types of children’s educational television, this study may help scholars more meaningfully identify, predict, and explain outcomes resulting from exposure to media content.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2021.1918738","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41582797","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 : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1918199
Kumi Ishii, Patric R. Spence, W. Hodges
This study investigated how computer-based receptionists were perceived by visitors. Considering the perceived degree of social presence in four types of receptionists, we tested perceptions in source credibility, communication competence, satisfaction with interaction, and organizational attraction. Data from 473 participants indicated that the highest social presence was perceived in a text-based check-in system when compared to (a) human receptionist on a monitor, (b) avatar, and (c) holographic receptionist. Our findings also reveal that users would treat text-based computers in the same way as human agents in terms of the cognitive and affective aspects. The challenge in the behavioral aspect suggests that communication skills would be key for successful human-computer interaction.
{"title":"Social Presence in Computer-Based Receptionists: Experimental Study Towards Organizational Automation","authors":"Kumi Ishii, Patric R. Spence, W. Hodges","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.1918199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1918199","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated how computer-based receptionists were perceived by visitors. Considering the perceived degree of social presence in four types of receptionists, we tested perceptions in source credibility, communication competence, satisfaction with interaction, and organizational attraction. Data from 473 participants indicated that the highest social presence was perceived in a text-based check-in system when compared to (a) human receptionist on a monitor, (b) avatar, and (c) holographic receptionist. Our findings also reveal that users would treat text-based computers in the same way as human agents in terms of the cognitive and affective aspects. The challenge in the behavioral aspect suggests that communication skills would be key for successful human-computer interaction.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2021.1918199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46519039","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 : 2021-04-08DOI: 10.1080/08934215.2021.1907428
Rebecca (Riva) Tukachinsky Forster, Megan A. Vendemia
Our study examines the relationship between news exposure at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, personal threat beliefs, beliefs about others’ threat perceptions, and participation in precautionary actions. A survey of 377 U.S . adults revealed a significant main effect of news exposure on various precautionary behaviors (e.g., facial mask wear, physical distancing). Personal threat beliefs and beliefs about others’ threat perceptions serve as unique mechanisms mediating the effect of news on specific CDC-recommended and less socially desirable actions. These findings can guide news sources covering health crises in a socially responsible manner.
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