{"title":"Shaping the UK Government’s public communications on COVID-19: general, follower, other?","authors":"C. McVittie","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.2017333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.2017333","url":null,"abstract":"The death rate in the United Kingdom from COVID-19 is, per capita, one of the highest in the world. Here, I examine three ways in which the UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson, has communicated to the UK population the actions that are necessary to deal with the pandemic. Using principles of discursive psychology and Bakhtinian analysis, I consider how Johnson’s descriptions discursively construct the government’s actions, the actions that are required of the population, and agency for reducing the spread of COVID-19. Relying on metaphors of war, claims to follow the science, and expressions of concerned advice, Johnson’s communications are shaped to manage the accountability of his government and himself for varying potential outcomes of the pandemic, allowing them to take credit if their efforts are treated as successful but to attribute responsibility elsewhere if the incidence of COVID-19illness and deaths continues to increase.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132959319","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":"Lessons from a dissolving interorganizational collaboration","authors":"Tiffany A. Dykstra-DeVette","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.2010122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.2010122","url":null,"abstract":"The dissolution of nonprofit interorganizational collaborations is an understudied, but relatively common phenomenon. This study uses interviews, field notes, and organizational documents to describe the tensions that emerged during the dissolution of an interorganizational collaboration among service providers, faith-based organizations, and community leaders and stakeholders aimed at addressing homelessness in rural Appalachia. Drawing on tension-centered theories of interorganizational collaboration, the analysis presents three tensions between community and fragmentation, organizational and collective accomplishments, and economic vs. social interests. The analysis demonstrates how the negotiation of tensions sustained collaboration, and how tensions were resolved through organizational dissolution. The conclusions present three lessons for dissolving community organizations that could facilitate future collaboration and research, emphasizing the importance of credit-sharing as a means of sustaining productive tensions in interorganizational collaborations.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116415538","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":"Chairing an academic department in a climate of crisis: Exploring the implications and limits of an ethic of care","authors":"Lesli K. Pace","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.1983858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.1983858","url":null,"abstract":"Chairing an academic department comes with interesting challenges. Much literature exists describing strategies and techniques department chairpersons should employ to develop and maintain efficient, effective, and enjoyable academic departments, but rarely are issues of ethics included in the discussion. With the onset of a global pandemic in spring of 2020, institutions of all kinds faced situations and problems that no one was prepared to navigate. This brief report uses the pandemic as the backdrop for the additional challenges confronted at a regional, midwestern public university. To better understand responses in my department, I reflect on strategies and decisions made during the first year as the new chairperson and conclude that a climate of crisis, combined with expectations unique to women in leadership, call into question the effectiveness of an ethic of care. The ethic of care and nurturing behaviors, thus, can be unsustainable and need an ethic of justice as a counterpart.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122286766","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}
Brooks M. Leftwich, Drew T. Ashby-King, Karen Boyd
{"title":"Student-instructor relationships and ethics education: examining student perceptions of the integrative ethical education model","authors":"Brooks M. Leftwich, Drew T. Ashby-King, Karen Boyd","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.1937295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.1937295","url":null,"abstract":"The National Communication Association has positioned ethics education as a key student learning outcome for those graduating with a degree in communication. However, as central as this learning outcome is, few studies, within communication and across disciplines investigating teaching/learning, have explored specific instructor behaviors that promote students’ ethical development. This study explores how instructor behaviors are recognized by students as fulfilling the integrative ethical education (IEE) model. A relationally based approach, the tenets of the IEE model propose pedagogical practices that can be implemented in order to promote student learning and ethical development. Conducting a thematic analysis of focus group and interview data, we identified specific instructor communication behaviors students connected to the IEE model. Further, our findings suggest that central to implementing the IEE model are the development of a strong student-instructor relationship and classroom community. Implications for ethics education in communication and future research directions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127882525","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. Bates, D. Grijalva, Paul A. Jacho, C. X. Barriga-Abril, M. Grijalva
{"title":"Participatory mural painting and identifying resources in Asset Based Community Development research: a case in rural Ecuador","authors":"B. Bates, D. Grijalva, Paul A. Jacho, C. X. Barriga-Abril, M. Grijalva","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.1940253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.1940253","url":null,"abstract":"Most development communication scholarship uses adeficits-based approach to social change. The asset-based community development (ABCD) emphasizes identifying acommunity’s strengths to promote social change. We offer an asset mapping that uses participatory mural painting as its discovery method. As part of an ongoing engagement in rural Ecuador, we worked with the children of Bellamaria, Loja to paint representations of assets in their community. Children identified both natural resources and relational resources as assets. Through an analysis of the mural, we demonstrate practical method for children for portraying assets in ABCD.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129495277","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":"Juxta-(re)position: challenging U.S. military and women subject positions through Instagram posts","authors":"A. Scott","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.1944900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.1944900","url":null,"abstract":"Exploration of how U.S. military minority service members, including active-duty women, communicate personal and social identity remains an underexplored area of organizational communication research. Recent policy changes integrating women into all facets of military service has created an opportunity to observe how U.S. military women visually communicate their personal and social identity as members of the military. This study aims to better understand how personal and social identity is communicated on Instagram during a period of organizational change. Using juxtaposition on Instagram to challenge existing notions of military and women, women were found to create a juxta-(re)positioning that violated expected norms of both military and women. This juxta-(re)positioning resulted in expanding normative assumptions of both military and women subject positions. This study serves as a starting point for understanding how minority individuals, through the use of juxtaposition, can capitalize on existing social media norms to (re)position themselves within an organization.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122814425","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":"What to withhold and when to disclose: gender transitions and privacy management on social media","authors":"M. C. Coker","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2021.1929425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.1929425","url":null,"abstract":"While digital resources are important in the development of gender and sexual identities and are often researched, I argue that transgender identities are distinct from other LGBTQ+ experiences and active strategies for managing digital gender transitions on social networks have not been subjected to qualitative inquiry. This study pairs communication privacy management alongside 131 transgender experiences to understand commonly utilized strategies of managing potentially vulnerable information (i.e., disclosure related to gender transitions) on social media. Findings suggest that disclosing information on social media related to gender transition compels transitioning individuals to consider the publicness of their account, the openness of their information sharing, and the type of information and content they share. These themes extend literature regarding transgender social support provision and online disclosures by depicting how transitioning publicly on social media can construct counterpublics and care structures, concepts usually linked to anonymous and closed online spaces.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121221934","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":"HBCU undergraduate students’ perceived stress management and coping skills","authors":"Wei Sun","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2020.1871402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2020.1871402","url":null,"abstract":"College students in U.S. higher education institutions experience stress and anxiety. The psychological problems students encounter are roadblocks to college success. Due to historical and socio-economic factors, minority students are more susceptible to stress and psychological needs compared to their White American peers. This research focuses on African American students’ perceived stress and management. Fourteen African American students from an HBCU (historically Black colleges and university) have participated in the study. The perceived stress and coping strategies of African American students, as well as social and emotional support needed in dealing with stress, and stress caused by societal factors, are identified and discussed. More research needs to be conducted on how to prevent, detect, and treat mental health problems of college students, especially among minority college students.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127622853","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":"“Okay, I’m not alone”: exploring parental communicative coping through untellable tales","authors":"Jennifer A. Jackl, Rachel M. McLaren","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2020.1853208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2020.1853208","url":null,"abstract":"Telling stories allows individuals to make sense of, and cope with, everyday life. Yet, not all tales are equally tellable. This study explores experiences of parents who possess an untellable tale of parenthood with the goal of further understanding how these narratives are utilized for coping. The grand theme of Intrapersonal Communication Strategies emerged with two sub-themes: Internal Narrative Reflection, and Internal Narrative Reframing. Interpersonal Communication Strategies emerged with four sub-themes: Tell the Untellable, Tell a Therapist, Write the Untellable, and Tell an Alternative Tale. We explicate these (sub)themes and explain how the findings further scholarship about generative and redemptive narratives, and tellability.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115431782","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":"Asian Americans’ perceived work-related stress: Impacts on job satisfaction and retention","authors":"Wei Sun, A. Critchfield","doi":"10.1080/17459435.2020.1844789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2020.1844789","url":null,"abstract":"Employees’ work-related stress is detrimental to organizational productivity and morale. Among Asian Americans, health disparities are present not only for lower socioeconomic classes but also for the middle class. Stress symptoms are less reported and the least treated among this population. This alarming phenomenon deserves immediate attention, to help Asian Americans maintain a healthy work-life balance. Nineteen Asian American professionals in various organizational roles share about their perceptions of organizational culture and work-related stress, their organizational identities and perceived stress and generational differences among Asian American professionals regarding job satisfaction, organizational identity, and enculturation.","PeriodicalId":406864,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research Reports in Communication","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127722716","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}