Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2112249
S. Cruz, Colin Hesse
ABSTRACT Environmental nonprofits (ENPOs) play vital roles in addressing environmental problems. To succeed, ENPOs must be adept at developing and maintaining successful partnerships with businesses, government agencies, and other NPOs. Even though evidence suggests ENPOs rely on these partnerships more than NPOs in other cause areas, however, relatively few empirical studies have focused on how they find success. This study explored what types of partnerships are common, what contributes to perceived success, and what communication tools ENPOs rely on. In addition to providing important descriptive information about the partners ENPOs value most, the results revealed that perceived success was closely linked to relational framing of conversations between partners, but not organizational features or homophily. Implications for ENPOs and future studies of NPO partnerships are discussed.
{"title":"Relational Communication as a Partnership-Building Tool for Environmental Nonprofits","authors":"S. Cruz, Colin Hesse","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2112249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2112249","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Environmental nonprofits (ENPOs) play vital roles in addressing environmental problems. To succeed, ENPOs must be adept at developing and maintaining successful partnerships with businesses, government agencies, and other NPOs. Even though evidence suggests ENPOs rely on these partnerships more than NPOs in other cause areas, however, relatively few empirical studies have focused on how they find success. This study explored what types of partnerships are common, what contributes to perceived success, and what communication tools ENPOs rely on. In addition to providing important descriptive information about the partners ENPOs value most, the results revealed that perceived success was closely linked to relational framing of conversations between partners, but not organizational features or homophily. Implications for ENPOs and future studies of NPO partnerships are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"458 - 475"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49390740","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 : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2102668
B. N. Lash
ABSTRACT Stigma can negatively impact those who are stigmatized and is created by and managed through communication. This study examines a specific stigmatized community, those with hearing loss, and a specific communication strategy, humor, that might be used to manage stigma. The results indicate that humor can be used to manage both the internal and interpersonal effects of humor. Additionally, participants reported using humor as a strategy to challenge or defend against stigma. Integrating research from communication, disability studies, and sociology, this interdisciplinary study extends work on stigma management communication as well as disability humor.
{"title":"Managing Stigma Through Laughter: Disability Stigma & Humor as a Stigma Management Communication Strategy","authors":"B. N. Lash","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2102668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2102668","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Stigma can negatively impact those who are stigmatized and is created by and managed through communication. This study examines a specific stigmatized community, those with hearing loss, and a specific communication strategy, humor, that might be used to manage stigma. The results indicate that humor can be used to manage both the internal and interpersonal effects of humor. Additionally, participants reported using humor as a strategy to challenge or defend against stigma. Integrating research from communication, disability studies, and sociology, this interdisciplinary study extends work on stigma management communication as well as disability humor.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"412 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45851702","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 : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2094982
Yifei Wang, Annabel Ngien, Saifuddin Ahmed
ABSTRACT Digital contact tracing (DCT) has become an efficient method for authorities to curb COVID-19. However, the current public opinion studies on the adoption of DCT primarily focus on Western countries and rarely explore citizen attitudes in Asian contexts where DCT is often mandatory. Moreover, the existing literature extensively explores how privacy concern negates the adoption of DCT without illuminating the solutions to such barriers. To unveil the mechanisms of DCT adoption, this study explores how Singaporeans’ privacy concern, political trust, and technology literacy can influence their attitudes toward TraceTogether (a local DCT program). An analysis of survey data suggests that privacy concern is positively associated with negative attitudes toward DCT. Those with high levels of political distrust also hold negative attitudes toward DCT. Political distrust is also found to positively mediate the relationship between privacy concerns and negative attitudes toward DCT. Finally, moderated mediation findings suggest that the indirect effects of privacy concern on negative attitudes toward DCT via political distrust increase with an increase in technological literacy. Simply put, the indirect effects are stronger for those with higher-tech literacy. We discuss the tension between privacy concerns and public health during the pandemic and propose policy suggestions.
{"title":"Nationwide Adoption of a Digital Contact Tracing App: Examining the Role of Privacy Concern, Political Trust, and Technology Literacy","authors":"Yifei Wang, Annabel Ngien, Saifuddin Ahmed","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2094982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2094982","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Digital contact tracing (DCT) has become an efficient method for authorities to curb COVID-19. However, the current public opinion studies on the adoption of DCT primarily focus on Western countries and rarely explore citizen attitudes in Asian contexts where DCT is often mandatory. Moreover, the existing literature extensively explores how privacy concern negates the adoption of DCT without illuminating the solutions to such barriers. To unveil the mechanisms of DCT adoption, this study explores how Singaporeans’ privacy concern, political trust, and technology literacy can influence their attitudes toward TraceTogether (a local DCT program). An analysis of survey data suggests that privacy concern is positively associated with negative attitudes toward DCT. Those with high levels of political distrust also hold negative attitudes toward DCT. Political distrust is also found to positively mediate the relationship between privacy concerns and negative attitudes toward DCT. Finally, moderated mediation findings suggest that the indirect effects of privacy concern on negative attitudes toward DCT via political distrust increase with an increase in technological literacy. Simply put, the indirect effects are stronger for those with higher-tech literacy. We discuss the tension between privacy concerns and public health during the pandemic and propose policy suggestions.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"364 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43655716","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 : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2094981
I. Bergenfeld, J. Sales, Tran Hung Minh, K. Yount
ABSTRACT Sexual communication improves relationship quality and the sexual and reproductive health of both partners. Much of the research on sexual communication among adolescents has been conducted in settings of the Global North and focuses narrowly on sexual health and condom use. Building on prior measures of sexual communication, we developed a set of three scales to measure sexual communication attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavior in adolescent dating relationships and administered the measures to 793 first-year male undergraduates 18–24 years in Hanoi, Vietnam. We used factor analysis to explore and confirm factor structure and assess invariance across relationship history and over time, suggesting a seven-item, two-factor attitudes scale and five-item, unidimensional scales for efficacy and behavior. Participants reported positive attitudes toward sexual communication, with low-to-moderate self-efficacy and behavior. All scales showed good convergent and discriminant validity. These related measures may be useful for identifying individual attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavior relevant to sexual violence prevention programming for adolescents.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-19DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2089190
Cheng Zeng, Diyako Rahmani, Blessing Okafor
ABSTRACT Employees often spend a significant amount of time ruminating over their daily working experiences. Such rumination triggered by work events may have profound influences on employees’ behaviors and perceptions about their organization. The current study investigates how work rumination may alter employee dissent behaviors through the mediating role of organizational trust. Results from a sample of employees recruited through Qualtrics (N = 397) indicate that both positive and negative rumination leads to increased employee dissent. In addition, organizational trust is a significant mediator in the relationship between work rumination and articulated dissent. Findings of the current study suggest organizations need to take an active role in shaping employees’ everyday working experiences. Further implications and limitations are discussed.
{"title":"An Investigation of the Mediating Role of Organizational Trust in the Relationship between Work Rumination and Organizational Dissent","authors":"Cheng Zeng, Diyako Rahmani, Blessing Okafor","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2089190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2089190","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Employees often spend a significant amount of time ruminating over their daily working experiences. Such rumination triggered by work events may have profound influences on employees’ behaviors and perceptions about their organization. The current study investigates how work rumination may alter employee dissent behaviors through the mediating role of organizational trust. Results from a sample of employees recruited through Qualtrics (N = 397) indicate that both positive and negative rumination leads to increased employee dissent. In addition, organizational trust is a significant mediator in the relationship between work rumination and articulated dissent. Findings of the current study suggest organizations need to take an active role in shaping employees’ everyday working experiences. Further implications and limitations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"441 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44193544","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 : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2084428
Jenna McNallie
ABSTRACT Using cultivation and attachment theories as the theoretical frameworks, this study examined two potential mediators in the associations between past television exposure and adult romantic attachment: romantic self-efficacy and transportability. The resulting analyses shed light on how television exposure during childhood and adolescence may have long-term impacts on adult attachment dimensions (i.e., attachment anxiety and avoidance). Findings indicate higher past overall and genre-specific television exposure directly and indirectly promotes higher attachment anxiety above the influence of parent and peer attachment; however, the direct and indirect relationships between past overall and genre-specific television exposure and attachment avoidance are more complex. These patterns of findings contribute to the body of literature on both attachment theory and cultivation analysis.
{"title":"Cultivating Attachment: The Associations Among Past Television Exposure, Transportability, Self-Efficacy, and Attachment","authors":"Jenna McNallie","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2084428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2084428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using cultivation and attachment theories as the theoretical frameworks, this study examined two potential mediators in the associations between past television exposure and adult romantic attachment: romantic self-efficacy and transportability. The resulting analyses shed light on how television exposure during childhood and adolescence may have long-term impacts on adult attachment dimensions (i.e., attachment anxiety and avoidance). Findings indicate higher past overall and genre-specific television exposure directly and indirectly promotes higher attachment anxiety above the influence of parent and peer attachment; however, the direct and indirect relationships between past overall and genre-specific television exposure and attachment avoidance are more complex. These patterns of findings contribute to the body of literature on both attachment theory and cultivation analysis.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"280 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44954398","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 : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2075414
Fanny A. Ramirez, Rockia Harris
ABSTRACT Within weeks of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, domestic violence and sexual assault incidents increased. To adhere to new health protocols, social service providers were encouraged to move outreach efforts to virtual formats. We draw on 21 in-depth interviews with Louisiana organizations working in violence against women to examine how they 1) transitioned to online outreach efforts and 2) adapted their messaging to the COVID-19 context. We found that organizations who successfully moved to virtual efforts credited their success to thinking creatively and properly matching educational activities to digital media platforms, while those who struggled pointed to obstacles such as digital media fatigue and funding limitations (RQ1). We also identified three changes to message framing (RQ2): 1) Empathy and reassurance, especially, reiterating that centers “are there” for victims 2) Addressing racial justice issues, and 3) describing COVID-19 protocols and conducting lockdown-focused education efforts.
{"title":"“We’re Essential Because You’re Essential”: How Louisiana Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Organizations Adapted Outreach Efforts and Health Messaging during COVID-19","authors":"Fanny A. Ramirez, Rockia Harris","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2075414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2075414","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Within weeks of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, domestic violence and sexual assault incidents increased. To adhere to new health protocols, social service providers were encouraged to move outreach efforts to virtual formats. We draw on 21 in-depth interviews with Louisiana organizations working in violence against women to examine how they 1) transitioned to online outreach efforts and 2) adapted their messaging to the COVID-19 context. We found that organizations who successfully moved to virtual efforts credited their success to thinking creatively and properly matching educational activities to digital media platforms, while those who struggled pointed to obstacles such as digital media fatigue and funding limitations (RQ1). We also identified three changes to message framing (RQ2): 1) Empathy and reassurance, especially, reiterating that centers “are there” for victims 2) Addressing racial justice issues, and 3) describing COVID-19 protocols and conducting lockdown-focused education efforts.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"229 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48476183","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 : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2082504
Shuhuan Zhou, Xia Zheng
ABSTRACT Social media has profoundly altered the way the public, the media, and the government set their agendas. To examine the dynamics between public, government, and media agendas, this study collected posts on Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic in China from January 2020 to July 2020. The word2vec model and Granger causality analysis were used to measure agenda networks and examine the agenda dynamics. The results show that (1) pandemic statistics were the central issue in public, media, and government agenda networks, (2) the government’s agenda influenced the media’s agenda, and (3) the public agenda affected both media and government agendas. The findings suggest that the public agenda was more influential than the media agenda and the government agenda on Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. This study contributes to the literature by examining agenda-setting dynamics in a pandemic context. It also extends existing methods by modeling implicit relationships between attributes in agenda networks.
{"title":"Agenda Dynamics on Social Media During COVID-19 Pandemic: Interactions Between Public, Media, and Government Agendas","authors":"Shuhuan Zhou, Xia Zheng","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2082504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2082504","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social media has profoundly altered the way the public, the media, and the government set their agendas. To examine the dynamics between public, government, and media agendas, this study collected posts on Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic in China from January 2020 to July 2020. The word2vec model and Granger causality analysis were used to measure agenda networks and examine the agenda dynamics. The results show that (1) pandemic statistics were the central issue in public, media, and government agenda networks, (2) the government’s agenda influenced the media’s agenda, and (3) the public agenda affected both media and government agendas. The findings suggest that the public agenda was more influential than the media agenda and the government agenda on Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. This study contributes to the literature by examining agenda-setting dynamics in a pandemic context. It also extends existing methods by modeling implicit relationships between attributes in agenda networks.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"211 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43771163","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 : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2074491
Hocheol Yang, Jihyun Kim, Stephanie Kelly, Kelly Merrill Jr.
ABSTRACT Exploring social presence could help create socially rich learning experiences in an online learning environment. To better understand social presence in online education, the present study conducted an online survey with 430 undergraduate students in the U.S. during the time of the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020. Results from an EFA (Exploratory Factor Analysis) reveal a five-dimensional measurement of social presence in the online learning context, social richness, co-presence, actor within a medium, passive interpersonal, community within a medium. When examining how each dimension plays a role in learning experiences, results from the multiple linear regression analysis of this study suggest that social richness and co-presence are positively associated with cognitive learning, and social richness and co-presence are positively associated with affective learning. Unexpectedly, the data indicate that actor within a medium is negatively associated with cognitive and affective learning experiences. Additionally, social richness and community within a medium are positively associated with motivation to learn. Overall, the study’s findings suggest the importance of studying the multidimensional aspects of social presence because each dimension could have different roles in online learning.
{"title":"Learning in the Online Classroom: Exploring the Unique Influence of Social Presence Dimensions","authors":"Hocheol Yang, Jihyun Kim, Stephanie Kelly, Kelly Merrill Jr.","doi":"10.1080/10510974.2022.2074491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2074491","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Exploring social presence could help create socially rich learning experiences in an online learning environment. To better understand social presence in online education, the present study conducted an online survey with 430 undergraduate students in the U.S. during the time of the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020. Results from an EFA (Exploratory Factor Analysis) reveal a five-dimensional measurement of social presence in the online learning context, social richness, co-presence, actor within a medium, passive interpersonal, community within a medium. When examining how each dimension plays a role in learning experiences, results from the multiple linear regression analysis of this study suggest that social richness and co-presence are positively associated with cognitive learning, and social richness and co-presence are positively associated with affective learning. Unexpectedly, the data indicate that actor within a medium is negatively associated with cognitive and affective learning experiences. Additionally, social richness and community within a medium are positively associated with motivation to learn. Overall, the study’s findings suggest the importance of studying the multidimensional aspects of social presence because each dimension could have different roles in online learning.","PeriodicalId":47080,"journal":{"name":"Communication Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"245 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46038345","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 : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2022.2084429
Mina Choi, Catalina L. Toma
ABSTRACT Self-disclosure and perceived partner responsiveness are the key ingredients in intimacy development. Using the interpersonal process model of intimacy as a theoretical framework, this article proposes that participants’ own self-disclosure affects their perceptions of partner responsiveness, even when the partner’s actual responsiveness is held constant, and that this perceived partner responsiveness increases relational intimacy. Findings from an experiment (N= 253) showed that participants’ high (vs. low) intensity self-disclosure led to higher perceived partner responsiveness, which in turn increased intimacy. The valence and channel of self-disclosure did not moderate the link between the intensity of self-disclosure and perceived partner responsiveness, but the channel of self-disclosure affected perceived partner responsiveness, with participants who interacted face-to-face reporting higher perceived partner responsiveness than those who interacted over computer-mediated communication. Theoretical and practical implications for the intimacy process are discussed.
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