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{"title":"A thematic exploration of three countries’ government communication during the COVID-19 crisis and corresponding media coverage","authors":"L. Kenix, Jorge Freddy Bolanos Lopez","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2022.2058748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2022.2058748","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study adds to the current literature on crisis communication by exploring differences in COVID-19 governmental crisis communication and variances in the media coverage of that communication through thematic quantitative content analysis across three countries: New Zealand, The United States and The United Kingdom. Specifically, this research seeks to find the extent to which media ideology plays a role in reporting health crises. Results demonstrated that universally, press conferences were based on scientific advice and relied upon symbols that contributed to the clarity of health communication about COVID-19. Conversely, media coverage stressed economic challenges overall, but conservative newspapers focused more on health and the economy, whereas liberal newspapers leaned more towards politics. These findings demonstrate that even in major health crises, the ideologies of newspapers can play an important role in the framing of information.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82432442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sound citizens: Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923–1956","authors":"Donald Matheson","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2022.2029304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2022.2029304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78343215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Between a rock and a hard place’: Challenging encounters between disability service clients and workers","authors":"Hanna Nykänen","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.2006114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.2006114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Professional relationships in the health and welfare sector involve many challenging client encounters. This study aims to describe what kind of client interaction social service workers in disability services find challenging and how they rationalise and manage these challenges. The study investigates disability service workers’ perceptions of challenging client interactions using data from 22 interviews with disability service workers in two hospital districts. Interviewees highlighted lack of mutual trust and lack of shared understanding as two issues arising in challenging communicative behaviours that disability service workers find burdensome and miserable. The interviewees’ accounts referred to four aspects of these challenges: 1) individual, 2) third-party, 3) structural and 4) experiential. In addition, six different management strategies were identified: 1) adjusting interaction, 2) listening, 3) negotiating, 4) problem solving, 5) withdrawing and 6) encounter interruption.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78804672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seeing chronic inequities: A health communication call to action","authors":"M. Simpson, Kirstie McAllum, Stephanie Fox","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.2004705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.2004705","url":null,"abstract":"Seeing Chronic Inequities – A Health Communication Call to Action Communication is central to perceptions of and meanings given to health and wellbeing, delivery of health care and health promotion (Kreps & Bonaguro, 2009). It is also key to how individuals and communities experience and enact agency, personhood, legitimacy, culture, and, importantly, access to care. When these are hindered, the result can be inequitable access, cultural bias and racism in service provision within “mainstream” health systems, as research in health communication, Indigenous, and migrant studies has shown (e.g., Dutta, 2008; Hatala et al., 2015; Len-Ríos, 2009). Indeed, health systems infused with an ideology of individual responsibility marginalise alternative worldviews and contribute to chronic health inequities because these systems can neglect the cultural dimensions of wellbeing, service provision and health messaging (Ganesh & McAllum, 2010). The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us to a critical crossroad: Unprecedented pressure on healthcare systems globally continues to lay bare pre-existing but underacknowledged fractures in healthcare policy, provision and end-user experience. Now more than ever, there is an increased need for accessible, culture-centred and culturally responsive practices (e.g., Oetzel et al. 2020; Ramsden, 2002; Zarcadoolas et al., 2006). Yet, the pandemic also offers a unique opportunity to rethink conceptualisations and practices related to health (Simpson et al., 2020): We urge scholars in digital, health, Indigenous, intercultural, interpersonal, organizational, and political fields of communication to continue to probe, question, critique, rethink and redesign health care practices and systems. The articles in this special issue explore inequities, stigma, and culturally (un)safe health care both before (Nykänen; Price & Hill; Robb) and during the pandemic (Jayan & Dutta; Nguyen et al.). In the articles’ respective examination of health-related messages, discourses, narratives and worldviews, two main themes are evident: (a) stigma-based marginalisation and (b) cultural safety, care and community.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81773458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marginalised health communities: Understanding communities of ‘people without papers’ as silent networks of survival","authors":"J. Robb","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.1978627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.1978627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An estimated 11.3 million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, with a majority of this population having limited access to the U.S. healthcare system. This article draws upon in-depth interviews with 25 undocumented immigrants currently living in South Florida to examine how they survive and maintain their health given they are disenfranchised from the U.S. healthcare system. Using a culture-centred approach, I invited ‘people without papers’ to share stories about how their marginalised social status and cultural backgrounds influence the everyday ways they navigate the healthcare system and make health decisions. Participants’ stories focused on four main themes: finding accessible healthcare spaces through the ‘silent network’ (local undocumented immigrants); making healthcare comfortable through cultural solidarity; and supporting emotional/mental health through the ‘silent network’.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86514884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nobody cares about us: COVID-19 and voices of refugees from Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"P. Jayan, M. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.1994686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.1994686","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Aotearoa New Zealand’s pandemic communication approach amidst the COVID-19 (C19) has been applauded around the world. The New Zealand government’s border controls and other measures in response to C19 impacted refugees at the margins and prevented people from accessing support services and healthcare. The sanctioned power to ‘care’ thus became a performative form of power for silencing through the dismissing of voices of refugees as being irrelevant. Experiences of refugees at the margins are constructed amid the erasure of community voices in dominant approaches to health. What was missing from the dominant discourses was the voice of the refugees, who had gone through painful experiences of displacement and resettlement. How did the refugee communities at the margins of Aotearoa New Zealand navigate through the prevailing structural impediments to health during the pandemic? In this study, we use a culture- centred analysis to centre the structural context of disenfranchisement during the COVID-19 lockdown. Drawing on in-depth interviews with refugee participants, we attend to how health is negotiated in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown response at the margins. Infectious diseases such asC19 lay bare the structural determinants that create health and well-being challenges among refugee communities in New Zealand. The narratives point out that the one-size-fits-all approach of the government left behind refugees at the margins during the C19 in the public health efforts.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77360980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The silence of Alzheimer’s disease: Stigma, epistemic injustice, and the inequity of those with progressive cognitive impairment","authors":"Katey A. Price, M. Hill","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.2006113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.2006113","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Alzheimer’s disease is shrouded in stigma even though roughly 47 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the disease. This stigma is perpetuated through media, cultural misunderstandings, and age-related stereotypes, and is so powerful that it results in the silencing and social death of many of these individuals. This paper theoretically extends the model of self-stigma, using high-profile examples to illustrate individuals’ response paths, and emphasises the need for social interventions to improve quality of life for those living with Alzheimer’s disease; a moral imperative as diagnoses are expected to reach 130 million over the next 30 years.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78143827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who’s to blame for the spread of COVID-19 in New Zealand? Applying attribution theory to understand public stigma","authors":"T. Nguyen, S. Croucher, A. Diers-Lawson, Elena Maydell","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.1958635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.1958635","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has brought increased discrimination, stigma, and racism toward individuals of Asian descent. Little research has concentrated on public perceptions regarding who is to blame for the spread of the virus. This study extends integrated threat and attribution theories by examining the extent to which prejudice against Asians is related to blame attribution in New Zealand. The paper employs a mixed-method approach (n = 330). The findings suggest that to understand public stigma in ambiguous crises/events, it is significant to look beyond theoretic frameworks. Particularly, this research provides better understanding of how blame attribution has developed and linked with threats in the pandemic. First, fear of contact with COVID-19 is positively related to symbolic and realistic threats. Second, the more people believe COVID-19 is a public health risk, the more symbolic and realistic threats they have. Third, realistic threat is linked to blame attribution.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73667406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of fashion influencers’ attractiveness: A gender-specific perspective","authors":"Walter von Mettenheim, Klaus-Peter Wiedmann","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.2013087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.2013087","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, we investigate how the attractiveness and gender of an influencer impact receivers’ reaction depends on the users’ own attractiveness and gender. In social media, these variables may play different roles for individuals in varying contexts. To analyse these issues, a survey including 374 observations was conducted and analysed through structural equation modelling in SmartPLS. The results of our quantitative investigation were partially counter-intuitive. In most cases, a highly attractive influencer is more advantageous than an influencer of low attractiveness. More surprisingly, for male fashion, a female influencer appears to be more advantageous. Explanations are provided; based on the findings and implications for practitioners and influencers are proposed.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76475013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender and word elongation in Facebook-mediated communication in Palestinian Arabic","authors":"Tharwat Arafat, B. Hamamra","doi":"10.1080/22041451.2021.1958467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2021.1958467","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the social and linguistic functions of word elongation in Palestinian Facebook-mediated communication. Drawing on Ochs’ social constructivism and Parrott’s classification of emotions, we analyse a 65-discourse corpus of personal interviews using a mixed methods approach. It finds, while there are many similarities in the conventions related to word elongation between male sand females, 75% of the female sample use this practice while 45% of the males said they hardly used it. Word elongation is clearly a feature that characterises female language although its use is not restricted to females. Forty percent of males would use it to indicate that they are angry whereas 45% of females would use abbreviations instead. While 60% of females use word elongation to express positive feelings, 40% of males would use it to communicate positive emotions. The researchers conclude that elongated words reflect a social change in Palestinian society with respect to gender and language.","PeriodicalId":10644,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76940446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}