Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2202717
Limin Liang, Yi-Hui Christine Huang
ABSTRACT Western crisis communication theories focusing on individual attribution and stable underlying norms fail to account for crises embedded in larger social problems that lead to regulatory changes. By analysing three cases that Chinese crisis managers initially identified as “commission”, “control” and “agreement” situations (Bradford & Garrett, 1995) but ended up as crises involving “absent standards”, “bad standards” and “overrated standards”, in which the first two resulted in normative changes, we highlight the deliberative potential of crisis communication embodied in the “standards situation”. When neither journalistic narratives portraying the accused as a “villain” nor organizational accounts foregrounding a “victim/scapegoat” self-perception can contain attribution at individual levels, the society enters a deliberative mode that interrogates actors’ collective guilt complicit in a crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2203740
G. Asante
ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on interview discourses with 22 Sassoi – same-gender-loving men in Ghana – to examine how they discursively deploy “straight,” “gay,” and “bisexual” identifications in specific contexts. Drawing on the work of postcolonial studies and queer intercultural communication scholarship, I show how Sassoi infuse gay, bisexual and straight identifications with alternative meanings to resist the exclusionary discourses of Ghanaian sexual citizenship and Western understandings of same-sex sexuality. In the end, I argue that in contrast to narratives of reconciliation where queer subjects resolve multiple aspects of themselves, such as being gay and religious, queer African subjects draw on a politics of complementarity – where polar identities such as gay and straight are not always perceived as oppositional..
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2206472
Sarah Devos, Kathrin Karsay, S. Eggermont, Laura Vandenbosch
ABSTRACT The current 14-day diary study among 186 adolescents (56.1% boys; M age = 15.62 years) examined how daily exposure to positive social media content (i.e., portrayals of individuals’ best possible selves) relates to their daily well-being. The results suggest that exposure to uncommon positive content (i.e., vacations and relationships) positively relates to adolescents’ beliefs about their potential to have a similar, successful lifestyle (i.e., “can self”). Such beliefs seem to turn into pressure to improve on days when adolescents feel that they are not as successful as they believe they should be (i.e., feelings of discrepancy). In conclusion, confident adolescents remain positive when they perceive such content as within reach, yet experience pressure when they perceive themselves as falling behind.
{"title":"“Whatever you do, I can do too”: Disentangling the daily relations between exposure to positive social media content, can self, and pressure","authors":"Sarah Devos, Kathrin Karsay, S. Eggermont, Laura Vandenbosch","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2206472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2206472","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current 14-day diary study among 186 adolescents (56.1% boys; M age = 15.62 years) examined how daily exposure to positive social media content (i.e., portrayals of individuals’ best possible selves) relates to their daily well-being. The results suggest that exposure to uncommon positive content (i.e., vacations and relationships) positively relates to adolescents’ beliefs about their potential to have a similar, successful lifestyle (i.e., “can self”). Such beliefs seem to turn into pressure to improve on days when adolescents feel that they are not as successful as they believe they should be (i.e., feelings of discrepancy). In conclusion, confident adolescents remain positive when they perceive such content as within reach, yet experience pressure when they perceive themselves as falling behind.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43651793","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 : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2202710
Sonia R. Ivancic, D. Dooling
ABSTRACT In the United States, individuals in precarious circumstances navigate numerous programs to supplement their food access. These programs operate in relation to stigmatizing discourses about poverty and food insecurity. This paper explores the sociomaterial meanings of food assistance, including SNAP, food pantries, and nonprofit food distribution. Using qualitative methods, we introduce the notion of entangled shame. This concept describes how discourses about poverty, material agencies, and (in)visibility collide to produce shame. Last, we identify methods of challenging and alleviating entangled shame. Results illuminate possibilities for centering dignity in food assistance programs.
{"title":"Navigating entangled shame: Examining the sociomaterialities of food assistance programs","authors":"Sonia R. Ivancic, D. Dooling","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2202710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2202710","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the United States, individuals in precarious circumstances navigate numerous programs to supplement their food access. These programs operate in relation to stigmatizing discourses about poverty and food insecurity. This paper explores the sociomaterial meanings of food assistance, including SNAP, food pantries, and nonprofit food distribution. Using qualitative methods, we introduce the notion of entangled shame. This concept describes how discourses about poverty, material agencies, and (in)visibility collide to produce shame. Last, we identify methods of challenging and alleviating entangled shame. Results illuminate possibilities for centering dignity in food assistance programs.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":"90 1","pages":"293 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49433289","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 : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2202728
Suhwoo Ahn, D. Bergan, Siyuan Ma, Dustin Carnahan
ABSTRACT Prior work has found that early corrections are often more effective than corrections encountered sometime after exposure to misinformation. However, these studies have generally considered only brief delays between misinformation exposure and correction, and do not explore processing style as a potential moderator of correction timing. We conducted a two-wave online experiment randomly assigning participants to receive corrections either shortly after exposure or approximately one week later. We find that both immediate and delayed corrections influenced belief accuracy and policy support, but immediate corrections were no more influential than delayed corrections, contrary to earlier findings. In addition, processing style had no moderating effect on the influence of correction timing.
{"title":"Estimating the impact of immediate versus delayed corrections on belief accuracy","authors":"Suhwoo Ahn, D. Bergan, Siyuan Ma, Dustin Carnahan","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2202728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2202728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prior work has found that early corrections are often more effective than corrections encountered sometime after exposure to misinformation. However, these studies have generally considered only brief delays between misinformation exposure and correction, and do not explore processing style as a potential moderator of correction timing. We conducted a two-wave online experiment randomly assigning participants to receive corrections either shortly after exposure or approximately one week later. We find that both immediate and delayed corrections influenced belief accuracy and policy support, but immediate corrections were no more influential than delayed corrections, contrary to earlier findings. In addition, processing style had no moderating effect on the influence of correction timing.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":"90 1","pages":"372 - 392"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42783051","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 : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2202749
Jessica Gasiorek, Marko Dragojevic
ABSTRACT Participants read English-based online texts from fictional organizations that either included no code-mixing, Hawaiian words without glosses (i.e., parenthetical translations), or Hawaiian words with English glosses. Relative to no code-mixing, code-mixing without glosses disrupted processing fluency, leading participants to feel less welcome in the organization. Code-mixing with glosses did not disrupt fluency for participants from Hawai‘i, where this practice is common, but did for people from elsewhere. No differences in feeling welcome emerged between code-mixing with glosses and no code-mixing conditions. These results suggest that code-mixing in written organizational materials can have both costs (i.e., disrupted fluency) and benefits (i.e., cueing inclusiveness), and that these effects depend on audiences’ familiarity with code-mixing as a practice, and the format of code-mixing.
{"title":"Effects of written code-mixing on processing fluency and perceptions of organizational inclusiveness","authors":"Jessica Gasiorek, Marko Dragojevic","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2202749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2202749","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Participants read English-based online texts from fictional organizations that either included no code-mixing, Hawaiian words without glosses (i.e., parenthetical translations), or Hawaiian words with English glosses. Relative to no code-mixing, code-mixing without glosses disrupted processing fluency, leading participants to feel less welcome in the organization. Code-mixing with glosses did not disrupt fluency for participants from Hawai‘i, where this practice is common, but did for people from elsewhere. No differences in feeling welcome emerged between code-mixing with glosses and no code-mixing conditions. These results suggest that code-mixing in written organizational materials can have both costs (i.e., disrupted fluency) and benefits (i.e., cueing inclusiveness), and that these effects depend on audiences’ familiarity with code-mixing as a practice, and the format of code-mixing.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":"90 1","pages":"393 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44536658","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 : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2202722
Rachel L. Bailey, Harry Yaojun Yan, Glenna L. Read
ABSTRACT Body-worn camera and citizen device videos capturing police use-of-force are shared and commented upon widely within social media. This study investigated how point-of-view (POV: onlooker vs. officer perspective) and citizen skin color (dark skin vs. light skin), interacted to affect emotional responses, likelihood to comment and share, and comment on content. A predominantly White sample watched police use-of-force videos in which citizen skin color and camera POV varied. Body-worn camera (BWC) videos in which light-skinned citizens were harmed elicited the most likelihood to comment and share. Further, experienced negative emotion fully mediated this relationship. BWC videos in which dark-skinned citizens were harmed elicited the least negative emotion, the least likelihood to comment, and less normative commentary about officer behaviors.
{"title":"Camera perspective and skin color: Biased reactions to viral body worn camera videos of police violence","authors":"Rachel L. Bailey, Harry Yaojun Yan, Glenna L. Read","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2202722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2202722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Body-worn camera and citizen device videos capturing police use-of-force are shared and commented upon widely within social media. This study investigated how point-of-view (POV: onlooker vs. officer perspective) and citizen skin color (dark skin vs. light skin), interacted to affect emotional responses, likelihood to comment and share, and comment on content. A predominantly White sample watched police use-of-force videos in which citizen skin color and camera POV varied. Body-worn camera (BWC) videos in which light-skinned citizens were harmed elicited the most likelihood to comment and share. Further, experienced negative emotion fully mediated this relationship. BWC videos in which dark-skinned citizens were harmed elicited the least negative emotion, the least likelihood to comment, and less normative commentary about officer behaviors.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":"90 1","pages":"350 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48060355","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}
ABSTRACT Prejudice and discrimination toward Black individuals in the U.S. serves to maintain White privilege. This research integrated the tenets of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1977) and White racial identity theory (Helms, 1990) to examine intraindividual associations (i.e., within a single person) and interindividual associations (i.e., between family members) among parents’ and adult children’s critical consciousness of their White privilege, (anti)racist attitudes, and intergroup anxiety. We also tested a series of mediation paths from parents’ White privilege critical consciousness to children’s outcomes to explore potential mechanisms by which racial attitudes and behaviors are associated among family members. This study highlights the intricate nature of White privilege in White families, and their links to both progressive and harmful race-related attitudes and behaviors.
{"title":"White privilege critical consciousness, racial attitudes, and intergroup anxiety among parents and adult children in White families","authors":"Timothy Curran, Analisa Arroyo, Jessica Fabbricatore, Jian Jiao","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2202712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2202712","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prejudice and discrimination toward Black individuals in the U.S. serves to maintain White privilege. This research integrated the tenets of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1977) and White racial identity theory (Helms, 1990) to examine intraindividual associations (i.e., within a single person) and interindividual associations (i.e., between family members) among parents’ and adult children’s critical consciousness of their White privilege, (anti)racist attitudes, and intergroup anxiety. We also tested a series of mediation paths from parents’ White privilege critical consciousness to children’s outcomes to explore potential mechanisms by which racial attitudes and behaviors are associated among family members. This study highlights the intricate nature of White privilege in White families, and their links to both progressive and harmful race-related attitudes and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":"90 1","pages":"246 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44129629","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 : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2175881
Jennifer A. Kam, S. Hopfer, M. Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo, Daniela Juarez
ABSTRACT Although undocumented students face numerous stressors that can lead to mental health strain, they often underutilize their campus mental health services. To identify the barriers and motivations for talking to a campus mental health professional (MHP) and to extend the Health Belief Model (HBM), we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 Latina/o/x undocumented college students. Family communication revealed views that undermined talking to an MHP, but that were deeply rooted in culture and immigration; having to prioritize basic needs; and growing up in an environment where mental health services were unavailable. Our findings reveal important communication, cultural, and structural elements that should be emphasized in the HBM when explicating Latina/o/x undocumented students' beliefs and behaviors about talking to an MHP.
{"title":"Latina/o/x undocumented college students’ perceived barriers and motivations for talking to a campus mental health professional: A focus on communication, culture, and structural barriers","authors":"Jennifer A. Kam, S. Hopfer, M. Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo, Daniela Juarez","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2023.2175881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2023.2175881","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although undocumented students face numerous stressors that can lead to mental health strain, they often underutilize their campus mental health services. To identify the barriers and motivations for talking to a campus mental health professional (MHP) and to extend the Health Belief Model (HBM), we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 Latina/o/x undocumented college students. Family communication revealed views that undermined talking to an MHP, but that were deeply rooted in culture and immigration; having to prioritize basic needs; and growing up in an environment where mental health services were unavailable. Our findings reveal important communication, cultural, and structural elements that should be emphasized in the HBM when explicating Latina/o/x undocumented students' beliefs and behaviors about talking to an MHP.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":"90 1","pages":"271 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43425067","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 : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2023.2171081
J. P. Crowley, A. Denes, A. Bleakley, Katrina T. Webber, Devon Geary, M. DelGreco, Joseph Whitt, C. Guest, Emily K. Hamlin
ABSTRACT LBGTQ+ individuals (N = 50) engaged in a 10-minute discussion with a close network member about an experience they had with hate speech that was targeted at their sexual orientation. The relative effects of two predominant social support theoretical frameworks, verbal person centeredness and autonomy support, were compared. Discussions were rated by trained raters for the presence of each type of support. Results support both theoretical frameworks as predicting decreases in stress across the discussion as well as increases in reported general well-being over one month. Theoretical implications and methodological comparison are discussed.
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