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SWITCHIN’ UP: THE EFFECT OF CODE-SWITCHING ON BLACK PROFESSIONALS IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE ORGANIZATIONS
(2023-08-30)This study explored how highly educated Black professionals holding at least a four-year degree view use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in relation to their ethnic identity. Additionally, the study investigated ... -
Social Media: The impact of Imagery and Engagement in Athletic Social Media
As the athletic communication field enhances its practices on social media in order to have the highest reach, the impact of visual content and its role in increasing social media engagement cannot be overstated. This study ... -
FRAMING LEADERSHIP RHETORIC: EXPLORING GENDER (IN) EQUALITY IN CORPORATE TRAINING MATERIAL
This study explores gender equality in the workplace using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Two sets of data were analyzed: leadership training and development materials and in-depth interviews. This two-fold ... -
NONPROFIT MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION PERSONNEL JOB SATISFACTION: THE EFFECTS OF ROLE CONFLICT AND ROLE AMBIGUITY
(2023-05-01)Job satisfaction is becoming increasingly important in efforts to retain employees across all sectors. The nonprofit sector is facing greater challenges than ever before in competing for and retaining adequate talent. The ... -
Documenting Emotional Labor: An Exercise in Critical Communication Pedagogy
(The Regents of the University of California, 2022)This essay builds on Lawless’s call to name and chronicle emotional work. The authors draw attention to the emotional labor that has become an institutional expectation of the academic position, particularly among people ... -
Locations of Possibility: Reengaging Embodied Pedagogy as an Act of Resistance
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"It's a Struggle, It's a Journey, It's a Mountain That You Gotta Climb": Black Misandry, Education, and the Strategic Embrace of Black Male Counterstories
(Left Coast Press, 2012)Access to education is one of the only or most realistic means in the United States to improving one's opportunities and agency over a lifetime. That so many Black men are severed from this opportunity, early and often, ... -
Critical Race Theory and Critical Communication Pedagogy: Articulating Pedagogy as an Act of Love from Black Male Perspectives
(2012-11)Building upon the established foundation of research concerning the systemic marginalization of Black men in traditionally White educational spaces, this essay positions Black male educational counterstories at the center ... -
Miracles and home births: the importance of media representations of birth
(Routledge, 2019-12-27)Since most women do not experience birth firsthand before giving birth themselves, many U.S. American birthing women draw knowledge from media representations for understanding what to expect during delivery. Most media ... -
Implicating Ourselves Through Our Research: A Duoethnography of Researcher Reflexivity
(SAGE, 2022)Researcher reflexivity is not a new concept in qualitative research. However, how/if researchers engage in that reflexivity varies. In this essay, the authors engage in reflexivity about a research project they conducted ... -
“Is it because I’m international?”: Unpacking experiences of “international instructors” via critical communication pedagogy as aligned with cultural wealth
(Routledge, 2022-03-14)Given the relatively invisible yet growing presence of international academics on U.S. campuses, this study investigates the lived negotiations of “international instructors” across disciplines via critical communication ... -
‘Never time to do anything well’: mothers’ reported constraints during a pandemic
(Routledge, 2022-03-28)Mothers’ perceptions of mothering could potentially influence several aspects of their home and work commitments. This study explores how mothers perceive their mothering experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic via 18 ... -
Mothering in a Pandemic: Navigating Care Work, Intensive Motherhood, and COVID-19
(Springer, 2022-03-03)Even before COVID-19, women around the world performed more unpaid domestic labor, specifically unpaid care labor, than men. COVID-19 has only exacerbated the gender gap in this domestic labor. For Western women, especially ... -
Towards Epistolary Dialogue
(Institute for Critical Education Studies, 2016-08-15)In this essay, we investigate the potential of letters as a communicative genre that embodies dialogue, and thus, disrupts power relations. To do so, we first outline a theoretical framework that draws upon feminist and ... -
PRODUCCIÓN DE NOTICIAS TELEVISIVAS EN ESPAÑOL EN ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
(Mavs Open Press, 2023-02-07)El contenido de las noticias de televisión cambia según su audiencia. El contenido responde a la composición demográfica de la población a la que sirve, a las fuerzas estructurales implícitas y explícitas que gobiernan ... -
Condom communication in young adults’ romantic relationships: Examining privacy’s effects on attitudes, norms, self-efficacy, and barriers
(2019)Condoms are the most recommended method of preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), yet they are underutilized. Young adults are at substantially higher risk for contracting an STI than other populations, but do ... -
Influence of Pediatric Patients’ Developmental or Chronic Health Condition Status as a Predictor of Parents’ Perceptions of Patient- and Family-Centered Care
(2022)Our study aimed to estimate how a pediatric patient’s health condition status influences parents’ perceptions of patient- and family-centered care (PFCC). We analyzed five years (2013–2017) of Medical Expenditure Panel ... -
‘Never time to do anything well’: mothers’ reported constraints during a pandemic
(2022)Mothers’ perceptions of mothering could potentially influence several aspects of their home and work commitments. This study explores how mothers perceive their mothering experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic via 18 ... -
Family Communicative Environment’s Effects on Young Adults’ Social Norms about Limiting Alcohol: Examining the Mediating Effects of Implicit Privacy Rules
(2021)Alcohol usage among young adults remains a prominent public health concern. Communicating with family members about alcohol can positively influence young adults’ perceptions of social norms, yet the stigmatized nature of ... -
The Balancing Act Is Magnified: U.S. Mothers’ Struggles amidst a Pandemic
(2021)Successes are often noticed in reflection after an event; struggles are felt in the moment. When COVID-19 was recognized as a public health emergency in the United States (US), many mothers felt their struggles more acutely. ...