Pub Date : 2022-12-18DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2154828
Virgil L. Hayes, Olivia Watson
ABSTRACT Ginny & Georgia, an original Netflix show released in 2021, showcases how racial identity construction cannot be separated from history, culture, language, and oppressive structural systems in society through the writing of the main character Ginny. In this paper, we explore how communication theory of identity (CTI) and thick intersectionality (TI) connect to examine the material consequences of the ideologies that undergird Ginny’s identity formation. Findings illuminated identity gaps formed at the personal-enacted and personal-relational locations through Ginny’s on-screen performance, which highlight the complexity of and tensions within expressing and performing multiraciality. We argue these identity gaps accentuate the interlocking systems of oppression that lead to expectations of group membership performances. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-11DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153383
Theresa Russell-Loretz
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Pub Date : 2022-12-04DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153382
Pavica Sheldon, Lynn Johnson Ware
ABSTRACT In the last couple of years, a high number of employers started raising concerns about the lack of soft skills in recent college graduates. Many have pointed to social media as hurting our face-to-face communication. Following these concerns, the purpose of our study was to examine the relationship between communication competence and social media use. One hundred and eighty-nine adults, ages 18 to 73, completed a survey rating their social media use and self-perceived communication competence. We measured communication competence using McCroskey and McCroskey scale, which measures communication competence in a variety of settings. The results showed that Instagram and Facebook were used for social compensation purposes, especially among participants who perceive themselves to have low communication competence skills. Generation-wise, older individuals were more competent when communicating in a variety of settings.
{"title":"Understanding the Relationship between Communication Competence and Social Media Use","authors":"Pavica Sheldon, Lynn Johnson Ware","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153382","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the last couple of years, a high number of employers started raising concerns about the lack of soft skills in recent college graduates. Many have pointed to social media as hurting our face-to-face communication. Following these concerns, the purpose of our study was to examine the relationship between communication competence and social media use. One hundred and eighty-nine adults, ages 18 to 73, completed a survey rating their social media use and self-perceived communication competence. We measured communication competence using McCroskey and McCroskey scale, which measures communication competence in a variety of settings. The results showed that Instagram and Facebook were used for social compensation purposes, especially among participants who perceive themselves to have low communication competence skills. Generation-wise, older individuals were more competent when communicating in a variety of settings.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"229 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81516400","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 : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2147212
Alexandra Parr Balaram
ABSTRACT Drawing on interdisciplinary mobility scholarship, I introduce rhetorical altermobilities as the discursive alteration of individual or collective (im)mobility for purposes of resistance. A rhetorical altermobilities framework encourages the analysis of the form and function of rhetorical altermobilities in order to discern possibilities for rhetorical resistance. Applying this framework, I argue that in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. leverages rhetorical altermobilities by reconstructing the meaning of both his own mobility and the mobility of the larger Civil Rights movement. This illustrates both the utility of this framework in beginning to elucidate the complex and nuanced relationship between discourse, mobility, and resistance, and the potential for its use in gleaning still new information from oft- and well-studied artifacts.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2139407
Kelly Errera, S. DeIuliis
ABSTRACT The theoretical and practical relationship between memory and forgetting are often separated as rhetorical acts of history. However, this separation may fail to account for the important interconnectedness of the two terms. Public memory and forgetting raise significant implications for philosophy of communication. The increased and “unprecedented politicization of memory” increasingly bears witness to a “complex” interaction and “public engagement with memory”. Understanding the human role in public memory, this project seeks to review scholarly work that frames remembering and forgetting as a dialogue situated in the public sphere.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2141307
Melinda R. Aley, K. Levine
ABSTRACT The six sources of vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) information communicate important career-related messages that are vital to the future success of emerging adults. Building on previous research that identified the types of messages provided to adolescents, the current study assessed the quality and usefulness of these messages. A total of 251 emerging adults (mean age = 20.74; SD = 3.2) discussed their use of VAS sources, including parents, schools, peers, part-time jobs, traditional media, and the Internet. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on participants’ open-ended responses to the types of VAS sources they use and the reasons for utilizing these sources. Results indicate that emerging adults go to the Internet more than any other VAS source. The current study shows that the Internet is increasing as a popular source of VAS information, while emerging adults seek and receive different types of VAS information from different VAS sources.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2141306
Quinten S. Bernhold
ABSTRACT In this study, older adults’ future time perspective was examined as a moderator of the associations between their age-related communication and aging efficacy. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that aging efficacy was consistently high when older adults viewed their future as expansive, regardless of their tendency to communicate as a gloomy ager or an engaged ager. Conversely, the tendency to communicate as a gloomy ager was negatively associated with aging efficacy for older adults who viewed their future as restricted. The tendency to communicate as an engaged ager was positively associated with aging efficacy for older adults who viewed their future as restricted. Age-related communication may increase in potency when people perceive their life as nearing an end.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2022.2137573
Heather M. Stassen, Tennley A. Vik, H. Carmack, Jocelyn M. DeGroot
ABSTRACT As the COVID-19 pandemic swept America in 2020, schools closed and families shifted to children learning online from home. This labor was dominantly covered by mothers, many of whom still had careers to maintain. A 2020 New York Times article reporting on the homeschooling shift concluded with the polarizing declaration that while women did most of the labor associated with homeschooling, men did not perceive the gender imbalance. Guided by a critical feminist lens, the authors examined the comments posted in the article’s comment section to unpack the discourse. Western society places pressure on women to flawlessly perform motherhood and other tasks simultaneously; as such, the COVID-19 pandemic provided a context rich for further subjugation and subordination of pink-collar work.
随着2020年COVID-19大流行席卷美国，学校关闭，家庭转向孩子在家在线学习。这些劳动主要由母亲承担，她们中的许多人仍然有事业要维持。2020年，《纽约时报》(New York Times)一篇报道在家上学转变的文章得出了两极分化的结论:尽管女性承担了在家上学相关的大部分劳动，但男性并没有意识到性别失衡。在批判女权主义视角的指导下，作者检查了文章评论部分发布的评论，以解开话语。西方社会给女性施加压力，要求她们同时完美地完成母性和其他任务;因此，2019冠状病毒病大流行为粉领工作的进一步征服和从属地位提供了丰富的背景。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/1041794x.2022.2131895
Sarah Hae-in Idzik
ABSTRACT In 2016, Colin Kaepernick began demonstrating during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, kicking off the NFL protests. This paper examines a turning point in protest discourse: statements by President Donald Trump in September 2017 that NFL owners should say to (primarily Black) protesting players, “Get that son of a bitch off the field.” In the wake of these remarks, team owner responses that came to their players’ defense emphasized the need for “unity” over “divisiveness,” using tropes of liberal colorblindness to privilege the status quo over directly addressing anti-Black racism in the league and in American life. These responses represent a rhetorical strategy of containment, more effective at suppressing the radical potential of the protests than previous “All lives matter” counterarguments. By framing all political discourse in the NFL as anti-unity, team statements contributed to the containment of Black activism and the perpetuation of racism inside and outside of the league.
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