{"title":"Speaking Out, Speaking Up: Co-cultural Communication through an LGBTQ Discussion Panel","authors":"J. Rudnick, Stevie Munz","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2161612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2161612","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study engaged in ethnographic observation and qualitative interviewing research practices to examine an educational program involving self-identified LGBTQ individuals who participate on classroom panel discussions and question/answer sessions about their coming out experiences. By observing ten LGBTQ discussion panels and conducting 35 interviews with panelists and student audience members, we explored the classroom as a space capable of allowing for nuanced understanding of gender and sexual minoritized experiences. Our observations sensitized us to the LGBTQ panelists’ stories and student audience members’ insights. Thematic analysis of fieldnotes and interview transcripts led to the emergence of three themes: creating conditions for engagement, establishing accountability, and witnessing stories of difference. Implications for future research are also offered.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89842672","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 Spaces Between: Using Thick Intersectionality to Explain Identity Gaps Presented in Ginny & Georgia","authors":"Virgil L. Hayes, Olivia Watson","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2154828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2154828","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ginny & Georgia, an original Netflix show released in 2021, showcases how racial identity construction cannot be separated from history, culture, language, and oppressive structural systems in society through the writing of the main character Ginny. In this paper, we explore how communication theory of identity (CTI) and thick intersectionality (TI) connect to examine the material consequences of the ideologies that undergird Ginny’s identity formation. Findings illuminated identity gaps formed at the personal-enacted and personal-relational locations through Ginny’s on-screen performance, which highlight the complexity of and tensions within expressing and performing multiraciality. We argue these identity gaps accentuate the interlocking systems of oppression that lead to expectations of group membership performances. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82353076","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 Digital Citizen(ship): Politics and Democracy in the Networked Society","authors":"Theresa Russell-Loretz","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75645685","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":"Understanding the Relationship between Communication Competence and Social Media Use","authors":"Pavica Sheldon, Lynn Johnson Ware","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2153382","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the last couple of years, a high number of employers started raising concerns about the lack of soft skills in recent college graduates. Many have pointed to social media as hurting our face-to-face communication. Following these concerns, the purpose of our study was to examine the relationship between communication competence and social media use. One hundred and eighty-nine adults, ages 18 to 73, completed a survey rating their social media use and self-perceived communication competence. We measured communication competence using McCroskey and McCroskey scale, which measures communication competence in a variety of settings. The results showed that Instagram and Facebook were used for social compensation purposes, especially among participants who perceive themselves to have low communication competence skills. Generation-wise, older individuals were more competent when communicating in a variety of settings.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81516400","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":"Rhetorical Altermobilities: A Framework for the Study of Discourse, Mobility, and Resistance","authors":"Alexandra Parr Balaram","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2147212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2147212","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on interdisciplinary mobility scholarship, I introduce rhetorical altermobilities as the discursive alteration of individual or collective (im)mobility for purposes of resistance. A rhetorical altermobilities framework encourages the analysis of the form and function of rhetorical altermobilities in order to discern possibilities for rhetorical resistance. Applying this framework, I argue that in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. leverages rhetorical altermobilities by reconstructing the meaning of both his own mobility and the mobility of the larger Civil Rights movement. This illustrates both the utility of this framework in beginning to elucidate the complex and nuanced relationship between discourse, mobility, and resistance, and the potential for its use in gleaning still new information from oft- and well-studied artifacts.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81539810","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":"Public Memory: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting","authors":"Kelly Errera, S. DeIuliis","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2139407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2139407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The theoretical and practical relationship between memory and forgetting are often separated as rhetorical acts of history. However, this separation may fail to account for the important interconnectedness of the two terms. Public memory and forgetting raise significant implications for philosophy of communication. The increased and “unprecedented politicization of memory” increasingly bears witness to a “complex” interaction and “public engagement with memory”. Understanding the human role in public memory, this project seeks to review scholarly work that frames remembering and forgetting as a dialogue situated in the public sphere.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72578162","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":"Preparing for Careers: Emerging Adults’ Perceptions of Career Messages Received from Different Vocational Anticipatory Socialization Sources","authors":"Melinda R. Aley, K. Levine","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2141307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2141307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The six sources of vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) information communicate important career-related messages that are vital to the future success of emerging adults. Building on previous research that identified the types of messages provided to adolescents, the current study assessed the quality and usefulness of these messages. A total of 251 emerging adults (mean age = 20.74; SD = 3.2) discussed their use of VAS sources, including parents, schools, peers, part-time jobs, traditional media, and the Internet. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on participants’ open-ended responses to the types of VAS sources they use and the reasons for utilizing these sources. Results indicate that emerging adults go to the Internet more than any other VAS source. The current study shows that the Internet is increasing as a popular source of VAS information, while emerging adults seek and receive different types of VAS information from different VAS sources.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88597425","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":"Future Time Perspective as a Moderator of the Associations between Own Age-Related Communication and Aging Efficacy","authors":"Quinten S. Bernhold","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2141306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2141306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, older adults’ future time perspective was examined as a moderator of the associations between their age-related communication and aging efficacy. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that aging efficacy was consistently high when older adults viewed their future as expansive, regardless of their tendency to communicate as a gloomy ager or an engaged ager. Conversely, the tendency to communicate as a gloomy ager was negatively associated with aging efficacy for older adults who viewed their future as restricted. The tendency to communicate as an engaged ager was positively associated with aging efficacy for older adults who viewed their future as restricted. Age-related communication may increase in potency when people perceive their life as nearing an end.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74622763","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}
Heather M. Stassen, Tennley A. Vik, H. Carmack, Jocelyn M. DeGroot
{"title":"The Burdened Burdensome Woman: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis of Discussions of The New York Times’ Homeschooling Gender (Dis)Parity Article","authors":"Heather M. Stassen, Tennley A. Vik, H. Carmack, Jocelyn M. DeGroot","doi":"10.1080/1041794X.2022.2137573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2137573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the COVID-19 pandemic swept America in 2020, schools closed and families shifted to children learning online from home. This labor was dominantly covered by mothers, many of whom still had careers to maintain. A 2020 New York Times article reporting on the homeschooling shift concluded with the polarizing declaration that while women did most of the labor associated with homeschooling, men did not perceive the gender imbalance. Guided by a critical feminist lens, the authors examined the comments posted in the article’s comment section to unpack the discourse. Western society places pressure on women to flawlessly perform motherhood and other tasks simultaneously; as such, the COVID-19 pandemic provided a context rich for further subjugation and subordination of pink-collar work.","PeriodicalId":46274,"journal":{"name":"Southern Communication Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75500375","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}