{"title":"How Political Identification and Individual Differences Influence Black Lives Matter Message Reactions","authors":"Adrienne F. Muldrow, Sachiyo M. Shearman","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2024.2306823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2306823","url":null,"abstract":"Consistency theory, positing that individuals process information based on preexisting attitudes, is particularly relevant in today’s polarized political climate. This study investigates the impact...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139949570","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 Impact of Stigma on Sexual and Gender Minority Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Monica L. Ponder, Bryan M. Jenkins, Wei Sun","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2024.2317133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2317133","url":null,"abstract":"The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in life-altering changes for millions of people. Historically, marginalized groups prove to be among the most vulnerable populations during times of crisis...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139909993","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":"“Not Just Made for My Pure Entertainment”: Social Justice Movies as Tools for Fueling Consciousness, Conversations, Change","authors":"Sharifa Simon-Roberts, Owen Eagan","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2024.2304109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2304109","url":null,"abstract":"Social justice movies can offer nuanced depictions of causes affecting a society. Following the murder of George Floyd, issues surrounding racial inequality once again rose to the fore and captured...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583370","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}
Dorothy M. Bland, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Gheni Platenburg, Mira Lowe, Lawrence Mosley
{"title":"Facebook Framing of the First Female U.S. Vice President: An Intersectional Approach to Analyzing Memes Depicting Kamala Harris","authors":"Dorothy M. Bland, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Gheni Platenburg, Mira Lowe, Lawrence Mosley","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2289974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2289974","url":null,"abstract":"Kamala Harris made political history in 2020 when she was elected vice president of the United States. Our study employs intersectionality to shed light on how people framed Harris in Facebook meme...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583345","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}
Chuka F. Ononye, Ja’afar A. Wakili, Tochukwu J. Chukwuike
{"title":"Legitimizing Violence in Religious Propagation?: Linguistic Metaphors as Stance Acts in Boko Haram Pre-Violence Sermons","authors":"Chuka F. Ononye, Ja’afar A. Wakili, Tochukwu J. Chukwuike","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2024.2303427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2303427","url":null,"abstract":"Much linguistic effort has been made to analyze Boko Haram’s (BH) threat texts or newspaper reports on its activities using various discourse analytical and pragmatic tools. However, the group’s ea...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583643","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":"Decolonizing Communication Theories","authors":"Kehbuma Langmia","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2024.2306815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2306815","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Howard Journal of Communications (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139583243","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":"From Critical Pedagogy to Communication Activism Pedagogy in a Large Lecture Classroom: Increasing Awareness, Knowledge, and a Desire for Change","authors":"Kelli S. Boling","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2024.2305240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2024.2305240","url":null,"abstract":"Using pre- and post-semester surveys in a large lecture classroom focusing on social justice, human rights, and the media, this study measures the change in students’ beliefs regarding the importan...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515796","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":"Pragmatic Analysis of News Reports on Coronavirus from Selected National and International Newspapers","authors":"Jane Chinelo Obasi","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2298507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2298507","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic led to various scholarly studies both from scientific and linguistic repertoires. This study is a pragmatic analysis of news reports on Coronavirus from select...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139035545","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}
Emmanuel Chinedu Mbazu, B. Oladokun, James Dada Mohammed
{"title":"Awareness, Adoption and Perception of Lecturers toward the Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Nigeria","authors":"Emmanuel Chinedu Mbazu, B. Oladokun, James Dada Mohammed","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2291120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2291120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138587057","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":"Personalization as a Strategic Political Tool on Social Media: The Curious Case of VP Kamala Harris on Twitter","authors":"Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour","doi":"10.1080/10646175.2023.2289980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2023.2289980","url":null,"abstract":"Social media have reinvigorated the shift of focus from a party-centered politics to a personality-based one. This has made how politicians personalize on social media, especially in government, co...","PeriodicalId":45915,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138576321","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}