Pub Date : 2022-10-22DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2132530
Colter D. Ray
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Pub Date : 2022-10-22DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2132830
P. Gettings, Elizabeth Dorrance Hall
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131465
Alan K. Goodboy, San Bolkan
According to relational turbulence theory, interdependent partners exert influence in their romantic relationships through the interference and facilitation of daily routines. Programmatic scholarship consistently reveals that interference is associated positively, whereas facilitation is associated negatively, with relational turbulence in romantic relationships. However, as behavioral manifestations of interdependence that may co-occur, there is a possibility that enough facilitation from a partner might offset the effect of interference on relational turbulence. This study of romantic partners (N = 475) revealed moderated interdependence insofar as the effect of partner interference on relational turbulence was buffered by partner facilitation. This moderated effect further informed a theoretical model predicting the perceived likelihood of marriage. Thus, in relationships where daily routines are disrupted often, balancing facilitation with interference may mitigate chaotic relational states.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131462
Taylor Katz
To sustain his Southern Baptist congregation’s communal identity despite personally shifting away from their traditional marriage ideology in favor of affirming homosexuality, Reverend Danny Cortez blends elements of his congregation’s existing ideology with modifications that enable the integration of his new ideology. I analyze this sermon using Black’s second persona, arguing that Cortez paves the way for his congregation to accept both members who affirm and members who reject homosexuality as biblical by combining the theme of love amid conflict, the constitutive character of Christ, and an experiential framework for biblical interpretation into a “boundary-crossing Christian” second persona.
{"title":"The Second Persona and the Third Way: Danny Cortez’s Ideological Rhetoric","authors":"Taylor Katz","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2131462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2131462","url":null,"abstract":"To sustain his Southern Baptist congregation’s communal identity despite personally shifting away from their traditional marriage ideology in favor of affirming homosexuality, Reverend Danny Cortez blends elements of his congregation’s existing ideology with modifications that enable the integration of his new ideology. I analyze this sermon using Black’s second persona, arguing that Cortez paves the way for his congregation to accept both members who affirm and members who reject homosexuality as biblical by combining the theme of love amid conflict, the constitutive character of Christ, and an experiential framework for biblical interpretation into a “boundary-crossing Christian” second persona.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48077547","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 : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118550
Sunny Lie Owens, Maggie Boyraz, Nell C. Huang-Horowitz
This study explicates discourse surrounding organizational identity negotiation among different stakeholders during organizational change in a polytechnic university. We bridge organizational identity approach and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) and demonstrate how an organizational identity is negotiated through cultural communicative practices active among student leaders, faculty, administrators, and staff. Five themes emerged from our analysis of 24 interviews with university stakeholders: 1) polytechnic as “STEM”; 2) polytechnic prioritizes certain disciplines over others; 3) polytechnic as “learn-by-doing”; 4) polytechnic as many arts; and 5) polytechnic as symbolic of tension among colleges.
{"title":"What Does It Mean to Be a “Polytechnic” University? Cultural Discourse Analysis of Organizational Identity","authors":"Sunny Lie Owens, Maggie Boyraz, Nell C. Huang-Horowitz","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2118550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2118550","url":null,"abstract":"This study explicates discourse surrounding organizational identity negotiation among different stakeholders during organizational change in a polytechnic university. We bridge organizational identity approach and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) and demonstrate how an organizational identity is negotiated through cultural communicative practices active among student leaders, faculty, administrators, and staff. Five themes emerged from our analysis of 24 interviews with university stakeholders: 1) polytechnic as “STEM”; 2) polytechnic prioritizes certain disciplines over others; 3) polytechnic as “learn-by-doing”; 4) polytechnic as many arts; and 5) polytechnic as symbolic of tension among colleges.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46810057","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 : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2131461
Charles Athanasopoulos
This essay theorizes Fanonian slips as way of describing the misfires that may occur in rhetorical gestures aimed at soothing moments of racial tension. Fanonian slips further articulate how those misfires accidentally reveal broader processes by which various individuals mobilize “Black skin” and “white masks” as guiding posts for establishing order within the interpersonal, the political, and the internal. Accordingly, the essay analyzes an eclectic mix of artifacts including the rhetoric of Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, U.S. President Barack Obama, and two auto-ethnographic accounts, to demonstrate that these slips are pervasive within, and endemic to, Western communication.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-12DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2118552
Justine Wells
This essay examines memorial style as a rhetorical “milieu” in which geographies of race and racism are constructed. To do so, I trace W. E. B. Du Bois’s turn-of-the-century encounter with antebellum plantation ruin as an instance of historic and still ongoing Black resistance to monumental stylistics that have long dominated Western memory. Situating Du Bois’s encounter with ruin in this lineage illuminates how monumentality can undergird supremacist modes of inhabiting space and race and opens onto alternative, ecological styles of memorial dwelling enabled and called for by Black experiences of the ruinous wake of slavery.
{"title":"Monumentality, Ruination, and the Milieux of Memory: Lessons from W. E. B. Du Bois","authors":"Justine Wells","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2118552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2118552","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines memorial style as a rhetorical “milieu” in which geographies of race and racism are constructed. To do so, I trace W. E. B. Du Bois’s turn-of-the-century encounter with antebellum plantation ruin as an instance of historic and still ongoing Black resistance to monumental stylistics that have long dominated Western memory. Situating Du Bois’s encounter with ruin in this lineage illuminates how monumentality can undergird supremacist modes of inhabiting space and race and opens onto alternative, ecological styles of memorial dwelling enabled and called for by Black experiences of the ruinous wake of slavery.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41576004","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 : 2022-10-08DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2130003
M. Meier, S. V. L. Berg
{"title":"The Activist Potential of Networked Satire: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and the Struggle for Net Neutrality","authors":"M. Meier, S. V. L. Berg","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2130003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2130003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44596896","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 : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2022.2130004
Jessica A. Robinson
Despite the steadily expanding woman player population, women face many barriers to entering the video game industry and player community, including historical design and advertising practices, gendered behavioral expectations, assumed lack of skill or interest, and harassment. Offline progress in understanding gender and gender identity, combined with unique multi-user online battle arenas (MOBAs) features, may create the needed catalyst for challenging these barriers and gender stereotypes. Through 55 interviews, this study identifies gendered stereotypes familiar to League of Legends players, examines implications of those stereotypes for both men and women, and discusses insights offered to challenging stereotypes within the gaming community.
{"title":"“I Ain’t No Girl”: Exploring Gender Stereotypes in the Video Game Community","authors":"Jessica A. Robinson","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2022.2130004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2130004","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the steadily expanding woman player population, women face many barriers to entering the video game industry and player community, including historical design and advertising practices, gendered behavioral expectations, assumed lack of skill or interest, and harassment. Offline progress in understanding gender and gender identity, combined with unique multi-user online battle arenas (MOBAs) features, may create the needed catalyst for challenging these barriers and gender stereotypes. Through 55 interviews, this study identifies gendered stereotypes familiar to League of Legends players, examines implications of those stereotypes for both men and women, and discusses insights offered to challenging stereotypes within the gaming community.","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43669615","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}