{"title":"After “The Iron Throne”: what two YouTube fan-channels discussed following the end of Game of Thrones","authors":"Pedro Moura, Marisa Mourão, Marta Eusébio Barbosa","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2123028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2123028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132752907","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}
B. Bagley, Candace Forbes Bright, Edward Sayre, Roma Hanks, S. Wraight
{"title":"Uncertainty and disaster recovery: an analysis of victim perceptions utilizing the problematic integration theory","authors":"B. Bagley, Candace Forbes Bright, Edward Sayre, Roma Hanks, S. Wraight","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2099961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2099961","url":null,"abstract":"Guided by the problematic integration theory, the purpose of this study was to determine what probabilistic and evaluative orientations were formed during post-disaster decision-making following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the 2011 Tuscaloosa Tornado, the 2011 Mississippi Delta flooding, and a pair of tornados in Hattiesburg Mississippi in 2013 and 2017. A series of focus groups were conducted in communities impacted by these disasters. Five different themes emerged when coding the focus group data for probabilistic and evaluative orientations formed: (1) Distrust, (2) Disorientation, (3) Desperation, (4) Disparity, and (5) Disconnection. The broader implications of this study shed light on how people handle personal uncertainty, especially in situations where their lives have been dramatically shifted in a negative way.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116974779","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":"Student integration: an initial examination of student reports of markers of academic and social integration","authors":"Zac D. Johnson, Zachary W. Goldman","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2099960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2099960","url":null,"abstract":"The theory of student departure holds that integration is a critical component of student retention and persistence. Integration is an interactive process through which students come to be full members of the university community both academically and socially. To date, this concept has been examined and understood through poor conceptualizations and operationalizations. Instructional communication as a field is ideally situated to explore the concept of integration, which is inherently rooted in communication. Thematic analysis was used to examine student perceptions of their own academic and social integration. Results indicated students felt integrated when they fulfill their role as a student, build relationships among other institutional actors, and engage with the university. Students identified similar behaviors for both academic and social integration.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125413028","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":"Undocumented Latinx/Hispanic immigrants’ perceived stigma, social barriers, coping and adapting during COVID-19","authors":"Monica L. Ponder, Jordan L. Lindsey, Wei Sun","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2080757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2080757","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people and communities differently depending on individual social status and as members of society. Undocumented immigrants are a group that is especially vulnerable to uncontrolled community spread of COVID-19 in the US due to their low status in societal hierarchies, and obstacles like adverse policy. The undocumented immigrant population has been estimated to be around 10.5 million—nearly a quarter of the entire US foreign-born population, yet the inability to vote fundamentally excludes undocumented immigrants from the constituency that elected officials and lawmakers owe formal accountability. Consequently, undocumented immigrants often face substantial barriers not experienced by naturalized citizens of the host nation. The inability to identify oneself in the information economy and often being labeled as having no rights make undocumented immigrants an important group for understanding the detrimental effects of such social disadvantages. Through focus group studies, the researchers explore undocumented Hispanic immigrants’ experiences during the pandemic. Eight recurring themes were identified and discussed.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133433103","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":"“Soon as I saw him, my heart skipped a beat.” A structure analysis of romantic narratives by young Ghanaian women","authors":"Wincharles Coker","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2080756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2080756","url":null,"abstract":"Research on how young women in urban African cities talk about their love moments with their romantic partners is rare. This study examined the narrative structure of romantic love narratives as told by 12 first year Tourism and Hospitality Management female students in an English-medium public university in Ghana. The analysis showed that the background component of the stories was used by the young women to conceptualize about love, guard against heartbreaks, and/or to be adventurous. The study identified two types of complication, circumstantial complication and complication of intent, which led the narrators to evaluate the situations surrounding their associations with their partners. The study has implications for understanding the logic of love, cultural, and sexual development among young Ghanaian women.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125537542","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":"Core and catalyst criteria for disclosing one’s burnout in the workplace","authors":"Andrea L. Meluch","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2074528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2074528","url":null,"abstract":"A sample of 142 full-time employees who experienced job burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic completed an online, open-ended survey designed to explore the core and catalyst privacy rule criteria that individuals consider when disclosing or not disclosing their experiences of burnout in the workplace. Participant responses indicate that core criteria consisted of the quality of one’s relationship with colleagues and the organization’s culture. Catalyst criteria consisted of a sense of a shared experience of burnout, the risk of judgment toward the disclosure, and the severity of one’s burnout. These findings suggest that discussing job burnout in one’s workplace can create feelings of vulnerability that can potentially impact one’s job and, thus, employees are careful in choosing confidants and methods of disclosure for job burnout.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127110476","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}
Morgan April Morley, Jordan Soliz, Katie Kassler, Emily Strassburger
{"title":"Identity Tensions in the Family: Pathways to (Positive) Relational and Individual-Level Outcomes","authors":"Morgan April Morley, Jordan Soliz, Katie Kassler, Emily Strassburger","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2051595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2051595","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this inquiry was to inductively explore identity tensions that emerged from family identity differences and corresponding positive outcomes. Open-ended surveys were completed by participants (N = 87) in the United States who indicated that they experience religious, political, ethnic-racial, or sexual/gender identity difference within their family. We identified a number of themes related to relational and individual-level outcomes from the identity tensions as well as factors (e.g., constructive dialogue, common shared identity) that facilitate positive outcomes from the tensions.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134550435","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":"Promoting a social justice sensibility in qualitative communication research practice","authors":"E. Hintz","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2022.2051594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2022.2051594","url":null,"abstract":"This brief study applies the four tenets of the communication approach to social justice (CSJ) to illustrate how a social justice sensibility can be promoted via communicative micro-practices during a qualitative research study. By analyzing ethically important moments (which revealed both participants’ motivations for research participation and social justice needs) occurring during interviews with 26 women with vulvodynia, the CSJ framework elucidates the relationship between research practices, ethics, and social justice. Findings explore how foregrounding ethical principles, analyzing the structural issues affecting research participation, adopting an activist orientation, and engaging in identification and solidarity uphold a social justice sensibility. Theoretical and practical implications are offered.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126282881","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}
Calandra Lindstadt, Brittany P. Boyer, E. Ciszek, A. Chung, Gary B. Wilcox
{"title":"Drunk Girl: A brief thematic analysis of Twitter posts about alcohol use and #MeToo","authors":"Calandra Lindstadt, Brittany P. Boyer, E. Ciszek, A. Chung, Gary B. Wilcox","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.2016919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.2016919","url":null,"abstract":"This research brief presents analyses aimed at characterizing the content of a corpus of original and retweeted Twitter posts related to the role of alcohol intoxication in sexual assault within the context of the #MeToo movement. A text-mining approach was used to collect 25,014 tweets and retweets containing #MeToo and keywords involving alcohol intoxication posted during the year after #MeToo went viral (October 15, 2017 to October 15, 2018). A combination of algorithm-driven cluster analysis and manual qualitative analysis was used to discover the most prominent themes. Analyses revealed that the content of tweets related to alcohol use and #MeToo were overwhelmingly centered around U.S.politics. Analysis of a subsample of 5,566 original (i.e., non-retweeted) tweets revealed fewer politically-focused topics and a noteworthy theme expressing concern for men in the #MeToo era. Findings are discussed in relation to political discourse on social media, the use of #MeToo to express political ideologies, and implications for supporting sexual assault survivors.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132233146","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}
Jean J. Cabell, Kara Wood, Catherine High, A. Cooper, Imge Dogan, Michael Gannon, James M. Ragsdale, Kjerstin Gruys
{"title":"Staying in touch during COVID-19: How communication methods varied by age and COVID-related experiences","authors":"Jean J. Cabell, Kara Wood, Catherine High, A. Cooper, Imge Dogan, Michael Gannon, James M. Ragsdale, Kjerstin Gruys","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.2016921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.2016921","url":null,"abstract":"Many states in the U.S. implemented physical distancing policies to limit the spread of COVID-19. These policies disrupted communication for many people. One method to maintain communication, despite physical distancing policies, is computer mediated communication (CMC). However, younger generations tend to adopt technology at a higher rate than older generations, thus age could play a role in whether people use CMC in response to physical distancing policies. Because COVID-19 is unique in temporal context and scope, there is limited research examining the effects of physical distancing and age on communication. To understand how communication practices changed in response to physical distancing policies and whether these practices differed by age, we interviewed 20 participants. Findings suggested most participants increased CMC in response to physical distancing policies, although older participants were less likely to do so. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125071258","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}