Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2079916
Yagnya Valkya Misra
ABSTRACT Covid-19-induced curbs on movement and social distancing, imposed by governments around the world brought transportation and the economy to a standstill in many nations. In India, with its billion-plus population, it severely exposed the problems of the poor, especially millions of internal migrant workers working primarily in unorganised sectors as daily wagers (Umanath, 2020) with little or no culture of savings. When the Indian government announced its first lockdown on March 24, 2020 – factories, construction sites, offices, institutions, organisations and the sort immediately suspended all activities indefinitely, nullifying the migrant labour force’s ability to earn a living and pay bills as they were forced indoors. Then began India’s biggest migration since partition (Ellis-Petersen & Chaurasia, 2020), when millions of these migrant workers based in India’s big cities began their march home to distant villages. This manuscript reflects on this sudden reverse labour migration, demystifying the reasons for this exodus .
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Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2121172
M. Cornejo, Cecilia Ayón, Laura E. Enriquez
ABSTRACT Undocumented youth engage in advocacy efforts to improve their social conditions. Deploying an expanded definition of advocacy communication, this study (a) examined the heterogeneity of undocumented collegestudents' advocacy communication by identifying profiles of undocumented college students based on their participation in various advocacy communication strategies and (b) examined how these advocacy profiles are associated with health (i.e. anxiety, depression, and self-rated health). Latent profile analysis of 1277 California undocumented, mostly Latina/o/x, college students identified four profiles. Frequent advocators had lower levels of self-rated health and higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Media advocators reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Finally, organizational advocators reported lower levels of anxiety than media advocators and frequent advocators. Our study advances research on the relationship between advocacy communication and health. We provide suggestions that university staff and programs can take to support undocumented students' advocacy efforts and health.
{"title":"A latent profile analysis of U.S. undocumented college students’ advocacy communication strategies and its relationship with health","authors":"M. Cornejo, Cecilia Ayón, Laura E. Enriquez","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2121172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2121172","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Undocumented youth engage in advocacy efforts to improve their social conditions. Deploying an expanded definition of advocacy communication, this study (a) examined the heterogeneity of undocumented collegestudents' advocacy communication by identifying profiles of undocumented college students based on their participation in various advocacy communication strategies and (b) examined how these advocacy profiles are associated with health (i.e. anxiety, depression, and self-rated health). Latent profile analysis of 1277 California undocumented, mostly Latina/o/x, college students identified four profiles. Frequent advocators had lower levels of self-rated health and higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Media advocators reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Finally, organizational advocators reported lower levels of anxiety than media advocators and frequent advocators. Our study advances research on the relationship between advocacy communication and health. We provide suggestions that university staff and programs can take to support undocumented students' advocacy efforts and health.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"54 1","pages":"262 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84460605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2118547
Michael Ault, Ben Brandley
ABSTRACT High-reliability organization (HRO) research has nearly always presented HRO theory positively, causing a skewed perspective that favors implementation of these principles without adequate understanding of the costs to HRO members of chronic mindfulness. This paper presents some of the costs to workers of implementing HRO theory. Without proper management, mindfulness can be exhausted when workers experience protective distortion. A phronetic iterative approach identified five consequences of protective distortion: compulsive hypervigilance, complexity avoidance, mental fatigue, jadedness, and a pathological assumption of responsibility. Contrary to unequivocal calls from HRO researchers for all organizations to implement these principles, organizational leaders should exercise mindfulness regarding how they implement mindfulness-promoting practices. We also identified four coping strategies employed by participants: avoiding, reframing, seeking professional therapy, and cathartic expressing. Those officers who were best able to avoid the costs identified above, were those who had means of testing their sensemaking through open communication with trusted others.
{"title":"The human cost of chronic mindfulness in U.S. law enforcement: toward a more nuanced understanding of HRO theory","authors":"Michael Ault, Ben Brandley","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2118547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2118547","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT High-reliability organization (HRO) research has nearly always presented HRO theory positively, causing a skewed perspective that favors implementation of these principles without adequate understanding of the costs to HRO members of chronic mindfulness. This paper presents some of the costs to workers of implementing HRO theory. Without proper management, mindfulness can be exhausted when workers experience protective distortion. A phronetic iterative approach identified five consequences of protective distortion: compulsive hypervigilance, complexity avoidance, mental fatigue, jadedness, and a pathological assumption of responsibility. Contrary to unequivocal calls from HRO researchers for all organizations to implement these principles, organizational leaders should exercise mindfulness regarding how they implement mindfulness-promoting practices. We also identified four coping strategies employed by participants: avoiding, reframing, seeking professional therapy, and cathartic expressing. Those officers who were best able to avoid the costs identified above, were those who had means of testing their sensemaking through open communication with trusted others.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"18 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75963361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2123250
P. Sanjatmiko, Sofiatul Hardiah
ABSTRACT As COVID-19 has spread globally, so too has public knowledge about the virus, through social media. In multispecies ethnography and health communication, this open and free flow of information has led to a phenomenon called the Tragedy of the Open Society. Located in the Kampung Laut community, this study collected data through in-depth online interviews to explore this interaction between multispecies ethnography and health communication perspectives in analyzing socio-cultural and health phenomena in a dynamic global ecological system. Information circulating among the Kampung Laut community is a valuable resource that is used by some actors to gain profit even though it harms others. As fear, prejudice, and discrimination circulate in the community, the Kampung Laut community fight on the basis of a contextual and flexible multispecies ecological system to survive. This paper raises awareness of the interdependence of humans and nature within the same ecological system.
{"title":"The tragedy of the open society and COVID-19 pandemic: local community resistance to neoliberal hegemony (A multispecies ethnography)","authors":"P. Sanjatmiko, Sofiatul Hardiah","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2123250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2123250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As COVID-19 has spread globally, so too has public knowledge about the virus, through social media. In multispecies ethnography and health communication, this open and free flow of information has led to a phenomenon called the Tragedy of the Open Society. Located in the Kampung Laut community, this study collected data through in-depth online interviews to explore this interaction between multispecies ethnography and health communication perspectives in analyzing socio-cultural and health phenomena in a dynamic global ecological system. Information circulating among the Kampung Laut community is a valuable resource that is used by some actors to gain profit even though it harms others. As fear, prejudice, and discrimination circulate in the community, the Kampung Laut community fight on the basis of a contextual and flexible multispecies ecological system to survive. This paper raises awareness of the interdependence of humans and nature within the same ecological system.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"6 1","pages":"459 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79671440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2128620
Victoria McDermott, Amy May, Leandra H. Hernández, Max Erdemandi, Nick Mararac, Hamilton Bean, William T. Howe, Kurt Braddock, Stevie Munz, Precious Yamaguchi, Alexa DiCamillo
ABSTRACT The spread and acceptance of extremism and White nationalism throughout United States institutions poses some of today’s most difficult challenges to national (in)security. This forum brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to center communication in an effort to investigate, disrupt, and mitigate extremism and White nationalism within the United States military (USM). Ultimately, we challenge future scholars to continue this invaluable line of research so that we may continue to support the needs of a diverse combat force and mission success of the USM.
{"title":"Stand down: a journal of applied communication research forum on extremism and White nationalism in the United States military","authors":"Victoria McDermott, Amy May, Leandra H. Hernández, Max Erdemandi, Nick Mararac, Hamilton Bean, William T. Howe, Kurt Braddock, Stevie Munz, Precious Yamaguchi, Alexa DiCamillo","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2128620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2128620","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The spread and acceptance of extremism and White nationalism throughout United States institutions poses some of today’s most difficult challenges to national (in)security. This forum brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to center communication in an effort to investigate, disrupt, and mitigate extremism and White nationalism within the United States military (USM). Ultimately, we challenge future scholars to continue this invaluable line of research so that we may continue to support the needs of a diverse combat force and mission success of the USM.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"572 - 591"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89190987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2120367
Sean J. Upshaw, O. Davis
ABSTRACT Black newspapers historically procure, tailor, and disseminate information for Black Americans and the communities in which they live. Examining the relationship between Black newspapers and Black communities reveals the role of cultural knowledge when faced with the prevalence of COVID-19. This qualitative content analysis explores COVID-19 news coverage from three purposely selected Black newspapers, paying particular attention to descriptions of the cultural importance and psychosocial implications of COVID-19 and the promotion of mitigation strategies for navigating the pandemic. The study reveals the selected newspapers described Black Americans’ health and racial disparities related to the pandemic and demonstrated various ways each newspaper centered vaccination and testing as a form of community resilience to COVID-19. The results further indicate that Black newspapers should be considered crucial information resources in disseminating culturally tailored information among Black Americans.
{"title":"Centering survival as cultural strategy: Black newspapers’ cultural descriptions of the Coronavirus pandemic","authors":"Sean J. Upshaw, O. Davis","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2120367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2120367","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Black newspapers historically procure, tailor, and disseminate information for Black Americans and the communities in which they live. Examining the relationship between Black newspapers and Black communities reveals the role of cultural knowledge when faced with the prevalence of COVID-19. This qualitative content analysis explores COVID-19 news coverage from three purposely selected Black newspapers, paying particular attention to descriptions of the cultural importance and psychosocial implications of COVID-19 and the promotion of mitigation strategies for navigating the pandemic. The study reveals the selected newspapers described Black Americans’ health and racial disparities related to the pandemic and demonstrated various ways each newspaper centered vaccination and testing as a form of community resilience to COVID-19. The results further indicate that Black newspapers should be considered crucial information resources in disseminating culturally tailored information among Black Americans.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"131 1","pages":"478 - 496"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85433705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-28DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2114294
Sifan Xu, C. Yue
ABSTRACT Individuals’ information seeking and the role of emotions are important to crisis communication research. A survey was conducted (N = 1100) to examine the chain effects of crisis factors on college young adults’ discrete emotions and perceived channel significance. Key findings suggest that crisis factors affect channel significance both directly and indirectly. Crisis factors overall elicit more fear and anxiety (attribution-independent emotions) than anger and sympathy (attribution-dependent emotions). Uncertainty does not affect perceived channel significance, while urgency prompts individuals to seek out non-traditional media and severity affects information seeking on all channels. Attribution-independent emotions such as fear and sadness have positive mediating effects, and attribution-dependent emotions such as anger and sympathy have negative mediating effects. Finally, media richness per se may not be a prominent concern during emergencies.
{"title":"Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies","authors":"Sifan Xu, C. Yue","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2114294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2114294","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Individuals’ information seeking and the role of emotions are important to crisis communication research. A survey was conducted (N = 1100) to examine the chain effects of crisis factors on college young adults’ discrete emotions and perceived channel significance. Key findings suggest that crisis factors affect channel significance both directly and indirectly. Crisis factors overall elicit more fear and anxiety (attribution-independent emotions) than anger and sympathy (attribution-dependent emotions). Uncertainty does not affect perceived channel significance, while urgency prompts individuals to seek out non-traditional media and severity affects information seeking on all channels. Attribution-independent emotions such as fear and sadness have positive mediating effects, and attribution-dependent emotions such as anger and sympathy have negative mediating effects. Finally, media richness per se may not be a prominent concern during emergencies.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"204 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78876589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-15DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2106791
K. Leach, Gerald W. C. Driskill, Rebecca A. Glazier
ABSTRACT The African American church (AAC) is an anchor institution in disinvested communities. Retrenchment of government support has increased the need for AAC collaborative activity. Given this need, we interviewed 10 African American pastors (AAP) in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city with a long history of racial division. This purposeful sample is embedded in a longitudinal community-engaged research project that began in 2012 in order to understand and improve collaboration across congregations. This goal of this analysis was to understand the power dynamics of AAP communication in collaborative contexts. Using a critical race approach to dialectical tensions, we identified four tension framing practices: (a) dependency-independency through selection and paradox; (b) spiritual-physical through authoritative texts; (c) collaboration–non-collaboration through inclusion-exclusion; and (d) the past-present through Civil Rights icons. These findings extend theory and research by illustrating how race and faith shape collaborative processes that contribute and constrain community development praxis.
{"title":"Faith and race: how African American pastors navigate dialectical tensions in collaboration","authors":"K. Leach, Gerald W. C. Driskill, Rebecca A. Glazier","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2106791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2106791","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The African American church (AAC) is an anchor institution in disinvested communities. Retrenchment of government support has increased the need for AAC collaborative activity. Given this need, we interviewed 10 African American pastors (AAP) in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city with a long history of racial division. This purposeful sample is embedded in a longitudinal community-engaged research project that began in 2012 in order to understand and improve collaboration across congregations. This goal of this analysis was to understand the power dynamics of AAP communication in collaborative contexts. Using a critical race approach to dialectical tensions, we identified four tension framing practices: (a) dependency-independency through selection and paradox; (b) spiritual-physical through authoritative texts; (c) collaboration–non-collaboration through inclusion-exclusion; and (d) the past-present through Civil Rights icons. These findings extend theory and research by illustrating how race and faith shape collaborative processes that contribute and constrain community development praxis.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"243 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90526828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2107401
Mackensie Minniear, A. Atkins
ABSTRACT Guided by Multiracial critical theory and actor-network theory, this study examines how the United States Census options for ethnicity and race reinforced monocentric norms (the assumption that everyone should fit into a distinct racial-ethnic category) and White Supremacy for Multiracial individuals. Five hundred and thirty-nine Multiracial young adults answered open-ended questions about the 2020 United States Census, including why they chose specific ethnic-racial categories and how they felt about the choices provided. Overall, we found that the U.S. Census stabilized monocentric norms and White Supremacy by (1) stabilizing monoracial assumptions, (2) stabilizing the exclusion of racialized groups, and (3) stabilizing Asian American stereotypes. However, Multiracial participants could challenge and destabilize these norms by filling out the Census strategically. Finally, we discuss policy implications and how social scientists, researchers, and data collection agencies can measure race and ethnicity more compassionately and comprehensively to reduce Multiracial stigma.
{"title":"Exploring Multiracial identity, demographics, and the first period identity crisis: the role of the 2020 United States Census in promoting monocentric norms","authors":"Mackensie Minniear, A. Atkins","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2107401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2107401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Guided by Multiracial critical theory and actor-network theory, this study examines how the United States Census options for ethnicity and race reinforced monocentric norms (the assumption that everyone should fit into a distinct racial-ethnic category) and White Supremacy for Multiracial individuals. Five hundred and thirty-nine Multiracial young adults answered open-ended questions about the 2020 United States Census, including why they chose specific ethnic-racial categories and how they felt about the choices provided. Overall, we found that the U.S. Census stabilized monocentric norms and White Supremacy by (1) stabilizing monoracial assumptions, (2) stabilizing the exclusion of racialized groups, and (3) stabilizing Asian American stereotypes. However, Multiracial participants could challenge and destabilize these norms by filling out the Census strategically. Finally, we discuss policy implications and how social scientists, researchers, and data collection agencies can measure race and ethnicity more compassionately and comprehensively to reduce Multiracial stigma.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"37 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86508037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2022.2106579
Heather M. Zoller, R. Strochlic, C. Getz
ABSTRACT Critical scholars have critiqued workplace health promotion (WHP) discourses for extending managerial influence on workers’ lives, shifting health responsibilities to workers, and disregarding occupational health and safety (OHS) and other structural issues. This essay promotes a worker-centered framework for workplace health, featuring (1) the holistic integration of WHP, OHS, and wellness as well as economic, environmental, and consumer health, (2) substantive worker voice, and (3) structural mechanisms to support worker interests. A case study of five Equitable Food Initiative (EFI)-certified farms demonstrates how these features can be enacted in practice. EFI is a multi-stakeholder, third-party verification and consumer labeling initiative aimed at improving farm working conditions, promoting food safety and environmental stewardship, and boosting business outcomes. Although EFI was not designed as a traditional OHS or WHP initiative, the certified farms in this study model an integrated and participatory approach to employee well-being that also encompasses fenceline communities and consumers.
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