Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2232808
Gretta Blackwell
ABSTRACT Using fieldnotes and headnotes from a study I conducted on African American viewers of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, this article evaluates the ethnographic potential of the focus group for audience studies researchers. In particular, I argue the focus group is a method that allows researchers to pursue “closeness”—a value ethnographers have long celebrated as essential for cultivating emic understandings of people and the lives they live. The article outlines two key strategies for achieving ethnographic “closeness” in focus group encounters – the construction of the focus group as a field site and recognition of the focus group as a point of access to the contexts audiences use to make sense of media texts. If properly executed, I conclude focus groups have the potential to effectively function as “safe spaces,” allowing participants to push back against damaging media representations and define themselves.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/1041794x.2023.2229280
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Abstract In this address, 2022 Southern States Communication Association President, Dr. Wendy Atkins-Sayre, argues that hospitality is a hallmark of the organization that we should embrace more passionately. Acknowledging the complicated history of hospitality in the Southern region, Dr. Atkins-Sayre encourages SSCA members to help reclaim, redefine, and reform the concept, putting hospitality into practice in our classrooms, research, service, and the organization itself. She concludes that genuine acts of hospitality can create a supportive environment; caring for others, offering help and support, creating a friendly and inviting atmosphere, giving generously to strangers and friends alike, opens doors for others, potentially changing lives and building a stronger region at the same time.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2228756
Natasha R. Brown, L. Davis
ABSTRACT The current project, guided by the memorable messages framework and Self -Determinism Theory, sought to uncover information regarding messages Black women encounter that may influence their health-related behavior. More specifically, the project focused on learning more about the diet and exercise related messages these individuals have received. Participants completed an online survey. Analysis of 122 participant responses from Black women (M = 37.04; SD = 9.10), primarily living in the United States, revealed many generic messages as well as communication specifically focused on diet and exercise practices. Messages focusing on the bodily appearance of the message recipient were also identified. Results indicate future research should investigate the influence of message source, content, and valence on the diet and exercise habits of Black women.
{"title":"Memorable Diet and Exercise Messages Recalled by Black Women","authors":"Natasha R. Brown, L. Davis","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2023.2228756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2023.2228756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current project, guided by the memorable messages framework and Self -Determinism Theory, sought to uncover information regarding messages Black women encounter that may influence their health-related behavior. More specifically, the project focused on learning more about the diet and exercise related messages these individuals have received. Participants completed an online survey. Analysis of 122 participant responses from Black women (M = 37.04; SD = 9.10), primarily living in the United States, revealed many generic messages as well as communication specifically focused on diet and exercise practices. Messages focusing on the bodily appearance of the message recipient were also identified. Results indicate future research should investigate the influence of message source, content, and valence on the diet and exercise habits of Black women.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"428 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86996639","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 : 2023-05-20DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2215218
Nicole Kashian, L. Sharabi
ABSTRACT A 5-day diary study examined if and how conflict behavior moderates the association between mode integration and relational and conflict outcomes among individuals in romantic relationships. Participants recorded daily conflict, conflict behavior, mode integration, relational satisfaction, and conflict resolution. In line with the communication interdependence perspective, the more mode integration individuals reported in constructive conflict, the more relational satisfaction they experienced. The data also revealed that the less mode integration individuals reported in low destructive conflict, the more conflict resolution they experienced. The results highlight the importance of examining conflict behavior and media use in tandem when studying romantic conflict.
{"title":"When Modes Collide: A Daily Diary Study of Mixed-Media Use and Conflict Behavior in Romantic Relationships","authors":"Nicole Kashian, L. Sharabi","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2023.2215218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2023.2215218","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A 5-day diary study examined if and how conflict behavior moderates the association between mode integration and relational and conflict outcomes among individuals in romantic relationships. Participants recorded daily conflict, conflict behavior, mode integration, relational satisfaction, and conflict resolution. In line with the communication interdependence perspective, the more mode integration individuals reported in constructive conflict, the more relational satisfaction they experienced. The data also revealed that the less mode integration individuals reported in low destructive conflict, the more conflict resolution they experienced. The results highlight the importance of examining conflict behavior and media use in tandem when studying romantic conflict.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"2015 1","pages":"466 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87093963","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 : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2213496
Celnisha L. Dangerfield, Christina L. Moss
Abstract The 2015 Academy Awards was the year of #OscarsSoWhite, a campaign protesting the concentration of whiteness traditionally present in the Oscars' nominations, attendance, and winners. Selma received few nominations within this context and only one Oscar for the original soundtrack of Glory by John Legend and Common. The performance of the song placed Selma, AL, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the Oscar stage by replicating the material and visual images of the actual site where the 1965 violent beating of 600 protesters occurred. Using an Afrocentric lens to analyze the performance's words, sounds, and visuals, this essay argues that the performance offered characteristics of witnessing, awareness, and temporality to create an opportunity for transformation. The analysis shows the need for further transformation and the limitations such performances provide.
{"title":"The Rhetoric of (Re)marking at the Oscars: Performance of Place in Glory","authors":"Celnisha L. Dangerfield, Christina L. Moss","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2023.2213496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2023.2213496","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The 2015 Academy Awards was the year of #OscarsSoWhite, a campaign protesting the concentration of whiteness traditionally present in the Oscars' nominations, attendance, and winners. Selma received few nominations within this context and only one Oscar for the original soundtrack of Glory by John Legend and Common. The performance of the song placed Selma, AL, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the Oscar stage by replicating the material and visual images of the actual site where the 1965 violent beating of 600 protesters occurred. Using an Afrocentric lens to analyze the performance's words, sounds, and visuals, this essay argues that the performance offered characteristics of witnessing, awareness, and temporality to create an opportunity for transformation. The analysis shows the need for further transformation and the limitations such performances provide.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"74 1","pages":"298 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76574556","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 : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2214114
Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Pavica Sheldon, M. Antony
ABSTRACT Social support can help buffer against stressors and build employees’ resilience. However, workers of different cultures may vary in their expectation of support. Drawing on organizational support theory (OST), this qualitative study explored the types of support managers and employees (n = 668) from Croatia, Thailand, and the United States expected from each other amid COVID-19. A cluster analysis showed US workers expected more understanding and transparent communication from their supervisors while Thai workers desired stronger leadership and more protective gear. US supervisors expected employees to proactively ask for help while Thai supervisors encouraged their employees to adapt to change. Both Croatian supervisors and employees expected each other to maintain business as usual. Overall, the results resonate with previous OST research that expectations of support vary by cultures and highlight how leaders across countries can enhance the efficacy of social support and promote both supervisors’ and subordinates’ well-being during future crises.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2211965
Shelby R. Crow
ABSTRACT On July 28, 1917, between 8,000 and 15,000 Black men, women, and child protesters gathered in the streets of New York City to protest the continued lynchings of Black Americans. The Silent Protest Parade enacted silence to safely mobilize a double voiced critique. Drawing on Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness, I consider how double consciousness (i.e. “double voice”) functions in protest as a rhetorical device through the lens of “collective rhetoric.” I argue that protesters’ doubled rhetoric enacted a collective resistance while stifling the possibility of racialized violence. This essay illustrates a collective double voice as a rhetorical strategy in protest and underscores the importance of reexamining historical events often silenced by forces of white supremacy.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-04DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2199713
Stephanie L. Hartzell
ABSTRACT This essay advances racialized therapeutic rhetoric as a framework for analyzing how whiteness mobilizes strategically in antiracist discourse. Racialized therapeutic rhetoric functions to center and soothe reactionary white emotions and promote white self-introspection and personal transformation over collective antiracist praxis. My analysis reveals that racialized therapeutic rhetoric operates through intertwined modalities of discursive suturing and temporality. Suturing works to ameliorate the emotional wounds of fragile white people as temporality bolsters white linear progress narratives. Together, suturing and temporality construct the present as an emergent moment of white racial awakening, absolve white people of guilt for the racist past, rationalize ongoing white inaction, and promote a (re)turn to post-racial humanness as a progressive solution for the future.
{"title":"Suturing White Wounds: Racialized Therapeutic Rhetoric as a Strategy of Whiteness","authors":"Stephanie L. Hartzell","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2023.2199713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2023.2199713","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay advances racialized therapeutic rhetoric as a framework for analyzing how whiteness mobilizes strategically in antiracist discourse. Racialized therapeutic rhetoric functions to center and soothe reactionary white emotions and promote white self-introspection and personal transformation over collective antiracist praxis. My analysis reveals that racialized therapeutic rhetoric operates through intertwined modalities of discursive suturing and temporality. Suturing works to ameliorate the emotional wounds of fragile white people as temporality bolsters white linear progress narratives. Together, suturing and temporality construct the present as an emergent moment of white racial awakening, absolve white people of guilt for the racist past, rationalize ongoing white inaction, and promote a (re)turn to post-racial humanness as a progressive solution for the future.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":"283 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73089747","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 : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2190605
Courtney J. Dreyer
ABSTRACT This essay argues that Robert Egger’s films, The Witch and The Lighthouse deconstructs gender relations and their effects on the environment. I illustrate how the films construct masculinity as perpetually in crisis and as a struggle for more accumulation, while the feminine is perceived as monstrous and abject. Both films, I argue, provide a visceral encounter with human’s own connections to nature and the damage that occurs when we deny that dependence. My analysis takes on an intersectional ecofeminist perspective informed by the concepts of the abject and monstrous-feminine, suggesting that these terms can be useful in illustrating and interpreting an affective confrontation with oppressive dualisms.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2187074
Anuraj Dhillon, Megan M. Lambertz-Berndt
ABSTRACT Work from home mandates during the current pandemic forced people to merge personal and professional lives, thus the current study explored how relational support from a romantic partner might have helped working parents maintain satisfying work-life balance. Guided by theory of resilience and relational load, the study proposed that individuals’ perceiving greater relational maintenance from partners would report higher satisfaction balancing work-life, further associate with greater relationship and job satisfaction. 271 working parents responded to an online survey in August 2020, when work from home mandates were still in place. Results revealed that for working parents, satisfaction from work-life balance mediated the associations between receiving relational maintenance strategies and relationship/job satisfaction. The study also exposed sex differences, indicating that women carried greater burdens during the pandemic. Findings illuminate the need to cultivate supportive personal relationships and institute policies to mitigate gender inequities.
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