Article
Business
Joshua M. Parcha
Summary: This article introduces a method for translating principles of teaching and learning into practice, aiming to help instructors teach students the skill of innovation. It helps instructors to better foster students' ability to innovate.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Marthe Stevens, Anne Beaulieu
Summary: Machine learning approaches have the potential to contribute to patient treatment and care organization, but they also introduce complex environments and responsibility challenges. By elaborating on the concept of epistemic responsibility, this study investigates the process of responsibility formation among healthcare professionals learning machine learning techniques. The study argues that understanding the embedded relations in these complex environments is essential for generating epistemic responsibility. Contrary to the calls for control and clarification, the care approach reveals opportunities for ethical reflection and action.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
Summary: This paper introduces the Marketplace of Interpretation (MoI), a method that combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to quantify and compare polysemy in media reception studies. By drawing on the concept of framing and the marketplace metaphor, the paper demonstrates the effectiveness of the MoI method in comparing the polysemy of Facebook comment threads responding to different news stories.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Business
Kayoung Kim, Sun Kyong Lee
Summary: This study examined the role of social networks in gossip diffusion in an anonymous online community, Blind. The findings suggest that online gossip networks with large size, low connectedness, and high centralization are more likely to easily diffuse information to community members and the outside public. The study also found that company size and homophily affect tie formation in gossip networks. It reveals the potential impact of gossip diffusion on organizational boundaries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Hebatullah A. Orabi
Summary: This study used Bhatia's Critical Genre Analysis (CGA) framework to examine how aircraft accident reports are recognized as techno-professional discourse. The analysis was based on a corpus of reports collected from the NTSB website during 2000-2021. The findings revealed the textual characteristics, genre structure, professional practice, and professional culture of the corpus. The study contributes to understanding professional discourse and expands the application of CGA in professional practices.
DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, James Meese, Agata Stepnik
Summary: This article provides an overview of news media bargaining codes and discusses the reforms responding to the unequal bargaining power between digital platforms and news media publishers, using Australia and Canada as case studies. However, there are concerns about whether the funds received by news publishers will be reinvested into public interest journalism. The article questions the effectiveness of digital platform regulation and measures taken by nation-states in promoting reliable information and stabilizing democratic societies.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Laura Camargo-Fernandez, Alba Polo-Artal
Summary: This study employs the approach and methodology of critical discourse analysis to analyze the public discourse of Vox, a far-right party in Spain. The research focuses on the representation of women, particularly the nativist and anti-feminist ideologies articulated by female leaders of the party. The results reveal the construction of the imaginary Spanish and Catholic woman, as well as the use of manipulated historical events to reinforce the discourse of racial Spanishness. The representation of the Mother-woman and Tormentor-woman further justifies anti-feminist rhetoric by denying gender violence and the need for gender equality policies.
DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Lauren C. Anderson, Arthur A. Raney
Summary: In news media, the Black criminal stereotype, which portrays Black men as criminals, is overly represented. Limited evidence connects distorted news portrayals to stereotypical responses in viewers, and little research has explored this in sport media. This study aimed to replicate and expand previous research to examine changes in sports fans' perceptions of criminal athletes over the years, especially in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, and to determine if the sport played by an alleged criminal athlete influenced judgments on race and crime in sports. The findings suggest that sports fandom still predicts stereotypical judgments, but individual difference variables have a stronger relationship. This highlights the potential influence of social movements on attitudes and beliefs regarding race and crime.
COMMUNICATION & SPORT
(2023)
Article
Communication
James Dennison, Alexander Kustov
Summary: Research suggests that the electoral success of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) can lead to more negative attitudes toward immigration, but it can also have a reverse backlash effect, where greater success is associated with more positive immigration attitudes.
PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Stephen M. Croucher, Stephanie Kelly, Thao Nguyen, Kenneth Rocker, Tommy Yotes, Joanna Cullinane
Summary: This longitudinal study examined the changes in communication apprehension, willingness to communicate, and self-perceived communication competence over a 15-year period. The results indicate that these traits behaved more like state characteristics, with changes observed over time. However, group communication apprehension remained stable, suggesting it may be more trait-like. The limitations of the study include poor temporal stability in some measures.
COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Yi-Lun Jheng, Sander van de Cruys, Leen Catrysse, Heidi Vandebosch, David Gijbels, Karolien Poels
Summary: This study examines how texts can convey awareness and increase knowledge about health risks people are unaware of. The findings suggest that narrative texts perform better at raising awareness, whereas mixed-genre texts seem more effective in learning.
JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Jens E. Kjeldsen, Marie Gelang
Summary: This paper explores the argumentative functions of nonverbal communication in television debates, including praising and defending the debater's ethos and attacking the opponent's ethos. It argues that studies on nonverbal communication in debates should not only focus on the content, but also on how it is expressed. Analyzing excerpts from the 2008 primary election campaign debates between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the paper identifies two main types of nonverbal rhetoric, enacted actio and restrained actio, and demonstrates how they can be used for argumentation. Additionally, the concept of personal qualifier is introduced to discuss how debaters express degrees of certainty and emotional involvement nonverbally, similar to the function of qualifier in Stephen Toulmin's argument model.
ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Joelle Swart, Hanne Stegeman, Lucy Frowijn, Marcel Broersma
Summary: This paper examines how children develop digital literacy through offline play. The study finds that children's engagement with digital media in offline settings is equally important for understanding their development of digital literacy. The findings emphasize the social aspect of children's digital literacy, highlighting the importance of a sociocultural and non-media centric approach to play.
JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA
(2023)
Article
Communication
Fatima Abdul Rehman, Nael Jebril
Summary: This study examines the news coverage of Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup by three global news websites over a nine-year period. The findings show that, except for Al Jazeera English, which focused on infrastructure and politics, the other media outlets prioritized critical concerns by highlighting the social problems faced by migrant workers. Despite receiving significant media coverage, migrant workers were the least cited on all three news websites. Official and international sources were preferred over unofficial and local sources.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION GAZETTE
(2023)
Article
Communication
Nick Mathews, Benjamin Toff
Summary: This study examines how little-known local news organizations are responding to the threat posed by Facebook through in-depth interviews with owners and editors of community weekly newspapers in the US. The findings highlight the impact of Facebook on these news outlets' business models, with publishers viewing it as a direct competitor for advertising dollars and crucial content. The struggle to establish a unique identity and stay relevant in a world where social media feeds have become the preferred platform to document everyday lives has serious, negative, and long-term implications for the survival of smaller news outlets.
DIGITAL JOURNALISM
(2023)
Article
Communication
Srividya Ramasubramanian, Mohan J. Dutta
Summary: This article presents an alternative framework to resist hegemonic social sciences in data-driven communication theorizing through a culture-centered approach (CCA). It argues for data justice by transforming interpretive data framings, disrupting dominant knowledge production around data, and challenging capitalist and colonialist structures through data. The article proposes the CODE<^>SHIFT Model, based on community-engaged projects in the Global South, which highlights the importance of data justice in different stages of community-led transformation.
HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Communication
Zexin Ma, Elizabeth A. Hintz, Bia Cassano
Summary: This study found that narrative warning labels must include character, causality, and setting in order to be constructed as narratives. Participants in the discussion believed that narrative warning labels were more effective than graphic, non-narrative labels in conveying the cancer risk of alcohol because they were easy to understand, evoked curiosity and imagination, elicited sympathy for the character, did not cause aversion, and increased risk perceptions.
HEALTH COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Annina Claesson
Summary: This study focuses on the French media sector in the six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, exploring the disruption of journalistic digital tools. The findings reveal that Musk's actions prompted journalists to question the legitimacy of social media as a journalistic tool, but instead of abandoning Twitter, journalists strategically disconnected to reconcile their normative discomfort.
Review
Communication
Kelly Parker
Summary: This review focuses on the intersection of feminism, Hip-Hop, and education, as well as the role of Black women in shaping Hip-Hop and influencing society's perceptions. It outlines the benefits of the conference and the wide range of topics covered.
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Communication
Matthew C. Ramsey
Summary: This study examined university students' ratings of their primary care physicians' humor usage, credibility, and fear of physician. The results showed that physician identification humor was positively related to physician credibility and negatively related to fear of physician. Conversely, physician differentiation humor was negatively related to physician credibility and positively related to fear of physician. The study supports the continuum perspective of humor through empirical observations and provides recommendations for humor enactment in the physician-patient relationship.
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH REPORTS
(2023)
