Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1896024
Marquese L. McFerguson
ABSTRACT Narrated through a layered account, Unveiling Our Scars weaves back and forth between reflections about the past and present, exploring Black masculine identity through the lens of intimate relationships. Situating my lived experiences within broader conversations about Black masculinity and cultural stereotypes, this narrative short film autoethnographically analyzes how my performance of self, within the context of intimate relationships, supports and challenges the canonical and contemporary hegemonic scripting of Black men as bodies that lack the capability to be emotionally vulnerable and possess a limited range of emotions. Undergirded by a Black masculine theoretical framework, this film complicates the narrow scripting of Black masculine performance and advocates for what communication scholar and Black masculine theorist Ronald L. Jackson II describes as the adoption of a model of Black masculinity that embraces a spectrum of performative possibilities.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1892172
Sophie A Jones, Shinsuke Eguchi
ABSTRACT Grounded in queer/quare autoethnography, this essay examines the value of sound that points to the social, the cultural, the political, and the historical through the subjectivities of the coauthors. By foregrounding each author’s sensory experiences of queerness, this essay highlights the ways that meanings of nonverbal communication are always already grounded in cultural contexts. In so doing, the overall goal of this essay is to disrupt communication research on the politics of identity that often privileges the written word over other sensory experiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1905870
Robin M. Boylorn
ABSTRACT This themed issue speaks to the political significance and power of stories and epistemological privileges, and the impact and influence of identity, technology, and culture in our storied communication. The digital focus of the last 20 years continually impacts how we tell and disseminate stories, how we make and record observations (research), and how we teach and reach audiences (publication). Featured essays foreground the ways we can use our voices, stories, histories, and scholarship to make sense of contexts, moments, and experiences that are sometimes unspeakable, but other times ineffable, as well as ways narrative and ethnography can be joined with other methods to amplify the personal and generalizable. Contributors approach the study of communication through emergent media including virtual reality, game studies, digital storytelling, podcasts, photovoice, film, and the study of sound.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1892173
R. Leach, Marco Dehnert
ABSTRACT Although the popular choose-your-own-adventure video game Detroit: Become Human is fictional and set in a futuristic time involving humanoid androids, its characters face issues of race, gender, and sexuality that exist today. With unique game mechanics and storytelling choices that enable the formation of parasocial relationships and identification with marginalized game characters, Detroit: Become Human creates an immersive experience for players. We argue that it serves as a promising example of how video games and the parasocial relationships therein can become a means of exploring the social locations and experiences of marginalized others. Our analysis focuses on how race, gender, and sexuality are constructed and complicated in Detroit: Become Human. More specifically, we focus on the following: constructions of racial identities, the meaning of a strong female protagonist, and the problematic objectification and hypersexualization of female characters. Ultimately, we call for future scholarship to further investigate what it means to “try on” marginalized identities in video games.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1895292
Phoebe Elers, S. Elers, M. Dutta, R. Torres
ABSTRACT Visual and digital storytelling methods can reposition research participants as coproducers of knowledge, foster engagement and collaboration with marginalized peoples, and offer greater depth of self-expression. However, these methods are constituted in complex terrains of power. Without continual attenuation to power imbalances, the methods will contribute to the silencing and erasure of marginalized communities. This study outlines how reflexivity as a methodological tool and part of the Cultured-Centered Approach can enable the interrogation of terrains of power, allowing for the continual opening of democratic possibilities and community ownership of visual and digital storytelling infrastructures. Excerpts from the “Poverty Is Not Our Future” campaign illustrate the argument. The campaign's cocreated audio-visual advertisements communicate everyday stories of poverty among residents living in a poor suburban site in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and serve as a visual narrative of resistance to dominant structures. This study contributes to critical theorizing of culture and communication and the coconstruction of visual stories.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1895294
A. Brekke, Ralina L. Joseph, Naheed Gina Aaftaab
ABSTRACT In Black colloquial culture, the practice of documenting and calling out injustices is known as “showing receipts.” The ongoing labor of collecting, communicating, and showing receipts is one way to highlight the hypocrisies embedded in racist structures and hold those in power accountable. As the receipts pile up in the form of viral videos of sexism, racism, and violence against Black bodies, accountability cannot be easily ignored. Showing receipts as a form of resistance, however, is both exhausting and never-ending. Thus, women of color need spaces of respite and community care where we can speak our stories and be heard. In this essay, we demonstrate one such space: digital storytelling shared between women of color. While reciprocal sharing provides women of color storytellers a respite from the labor of proving our worth and producing receipts, in recording our truths and sharing them online, we also create digital receipts as testimony to our experiences. Although there is no guarantee that those in power will listen, by producing, archiving, and disseminating these receipts, storytellers maintain hope that our words will make an impact.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1895293
Phillip E. Wagner
ABSTRACT In this essay, I situate the body as a visual storytelling device and explore photovoice as a technology of the self, giving (visual)voice to my embodied sensemaking. Photovoice boldly embraces subjective lived experience as the catalyst for action and advocacy through the incorporation of photography (self- or other-focused) into the research process. These (auto)ethno-(photo)graphic endeavors fit within the wider spectrum of performance- and arts-based research, which are guided by aesthetics. Through reflexive, critical analysis of my conflicting experiences with identity and weight, I situate the body as a site where meaning is both imbued and embedded. I argue that photography, employed as a critically reflexive practice, provides multilayered storied (in)visibility. I hope to inspire others to utilize photovoice as a pedestrian mechanism of sensemaking with great utility for interrogating epistemological standpoints, sensemaking, and identity, ultimately telling our visual stories in ways that aural- or text-centric mechanisms alone cannot convey, particularly for narratives of progress.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1881610
Maud Ceuterick, Chris Ingraham
ABSTRACT Virtual reality (VR) storytelling, particularly in its nonfictional modes, promises a sensory immersion among others whose lives and ways of being a privileged viewer might not otherwise experience. In this essay, by focusing on the Emmy-nominated 2018 VR film Traveling While Black, we explore how the immersive power of VR storytelling can enact ethnographic encounters premised less on the impulse to extract meaning from other people and their ways of life than on the sensory and affective force of being with others in an unfolding experience of both similitude and difference. Without wishing to overstate VR’s empathy-inducing potential, we suggest that by situating viewers at a paradoxical threshold between proximity and distance, the affective power of VR derives in part from a narrative form capable of fostering nonappropriative relations.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2020.1819557
Deanna Shoemaker, Karen Werner
ABSTRACT This performative, dialogic essay and experimental performance in sound for 2+ voices explores collaboration through audio as an embodied and emergent critical communication pedagogy. We frame two audio projects as inherently pedagogical forms of creative inquiry while evoking the uncertainty, joy, and chaos of our evolving processes on the page and in aural resonances. Sound-based collaborations as critical communication pedagogy offer an intimate third space where an expanded “we” emerges and communicates in concert with other environmental actors, such as the seasons, birds, and vibrant matter. Using audio as a uniquely intimate medium, we explore critical inquiry through context-based assemblages of seemingly disparate parts and experiences that coexist and can (re)constitute each other. Voices and sounds become coagentic through affective and material gestures; there are many dramatic movements and messages in play, if only we listen.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2020.1819556
M. Levan
ABSTRACT In this audio essay, I ruminate on the pedagogical implications of two kinds of deep listening to what lies beneath our taken-for-granted auditory worlds. The first considers the elemental soundscapes and chatty silence of the environments in which we are always already implaced. The second considers the ethical drones and demands of dispossession, especially in terms of social justice. In doing so, I also develop a notion—following Stephano Harney and Fred Moten, Tina Campt, and others—of fugitivity related to listening, sound, stillness, and escape. The essay contains recorded narration that is enveloped in and infused with fugitive sounds of nature, human-made sounds, a beating heart, and low-frequency infrasound that can only be felt but not heard.
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