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{"title":"‘We will rise no matter what’: community perspectives of disaster resilience following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico","authors":"Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Kathryn E. Anthony, Ashlyn Tom, Alice Y. Kim, Courtney Armstrong","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2069473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2069473","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Category 4 Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017 and ploughed across the territory with sustained winds of 155 mph. Just two weeks earlier, category 5 Hurricane Irma had struck the island already damaging critical infrastructure making Hurricane Maria even more devasting. The hurricanes caused catastrophic damage, resulting in the largest and longest response to a domestic disaster in the history of the United States. This paper explores the recovery process in Puerto Rico using a community resilience lens. The study examines narratives, the media environment, trusted sources, and information preferences following the crisis. Community workshops, interviews, and focus groups reveal indicators of resilience in Puerto Rico alongside areas for improvement. Theoretical contributions discuss the role of identity, sense of place, and the impact of culture on community resilience. Practical contributions touch on messaging, acknowledging infrastructure vulnerabilities, and the importance of strengthening community relationships.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74330824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing media and information literacy competencies: a case study in rural schools in Yunnan Province, China","authors":"S. Croucher, Mingsheng Li, Ying Huang, Xiaohui Pan, Gang Yuan, Ying Kou","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2075236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2075236","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Applying a skills-based approach to media and information literacy (MIL), this study explores the MIL competencies of teachers in multi-ethnic schools in Yunnan Province, China. A focus group approach was used. Results showed: (1) teachers have limited access to media and information technologies; (2) teachers do not show much of an understanding of the principles and theories of media and information technology; (3) teachers lack basic knowledge and technology proficiency to evaluate and critically analyze media; (4) content creation is limited. MIL competencies are limited by a variety of cultural, structural, organizational, and technological constraints. It has suggested the government to be aware of the importance of MIL education and equip teachers and students with MIL competencies to enable them to co-construct independent life-long learning skills.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75920681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals","authors":"Charisse L. Corsbie-Massay, Breagin K. Riley, Raiana Soraia de Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2083433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083433","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Current research describes how the history of Black representation in the United States’ mainstream media – both on screen and behind the scenes – impacts Black media professionals and complicates the reproduction of authentic Blackness in the twenty-first century. Coupling Hall’s model of encoding and decoding with media production studies, we analyze 22 interviews with self-identified Black media professionals at a Black-owned full-service communications company that targets Black consumers for mainstream brands. Findings suggest that mediated representations of Black people, which are inescapable and influential, are also narrow because white audiences’ perceptions of authentic Blackness determine which depictions of Blackness are profitable. By contrast, Black media producers argue that profitable Blackness is not authentic because it does not include the diversity of the Black experience. We leverage participants’ understandings of Blackness and the role of media to provide practical insights into how media industries can incorporate notions of diversity and inclusion to create authentic mediated Blackness.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88669084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perpetuating the past: U.S. high school history textbooks and systemic racism","authors":"J. P. Kelly, Roger C. Aden","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2083416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083416","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While decades of scholarship demonstrate that U.S. history textbooks have incrementally told a fuller story of U.S. history, our review of nine prominent high school history textbooks illustrates how these texts perpetuate systemic racism and uphold the socially constructed centering of whiteness. Those contemporary textbooks’ accounts of 13 unjust government actions directed against different minoritized groups reveal three narrative strategies that continue to displace systemic racism from the nation's narrative: omitting refuses to acknowledge the existence of unjust actions; minimizing reduces the pernicious effects of those actions; and severing disconnects those actions from governmental culpability. We conclude with recommendations for how textbook creators might work against the systemic racism that has permeated the collective memory of the U.S..","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89140419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communication as raced practice","authors":"Mohan J. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2085890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2085890","url":null,"abstract":"Communication practice is raced, situated within the interpenetrating structures of whiteness, slavery, colonialism, and capitalism that simultaneously occupy, expel, erase, constrain, and reduce diverse forms of knowing and being. How we come to communicate in the world across diverse contexts is, on one hand, shaped by the knowledge structures that constitute our interpretive frameworks, and on the other hand, shapes the structures of (re)producing knowledge. In a transformative intervention, ‘‘Race matters’ in the Journal of Applied Communication Research,’ published in 2008, Mark P. Orbe and Brenda J. Allen interrogated through a critical reading the ways in which questions of race have been systematically erased from applied communication scholarship. They offered a typology for approaching race matters in applied communication scholarship and made six recommendations, (a) centralize race in applied communication scholarship; (b) resist the myth that race issues are salient only in certain settings; (c) engage in intersectional research; (d) explore the impact of methodological choices on research processes and outcomes; (e) explore the racialized dynamics of power at microand macrolevels; and (f) promote an engaged scholarship model for research on race. The architecture of applied communication has been shaped by whiteness, taking-forgranted as universal the values of hegemonic white culture. Reproduced through knowledge categories that are generated from largely U.S.-based scholarship carried out with white populations, the body of this applied communication literature defines communication practice in the image of whiteness. This parochial framing of communication practice then severely limits how we come to understand and respond to problems emergent from and rooted in racism. Worse, the historic whiteness of applied communication scholarship reproduces racist norms in framing how we approach communication problems and go about finding solutions to them. Racism, in other words, is both a central problem in itself, and an embedded problem that underlies the applied approaches to addressing contemporary global challenges ranging from hunger, poverty and inequality to climate change. It is, therefore, with great humility and admiration that I introduce this special issue ‘‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: Past, present, and future”’ edited by Mark P. Orbe, Jasmine T. Austin, and Brenda J. Allen. First, I want to note that these scholars are significant scholars in the discipline who have embodied the ethos of anti-racist scholarship by placing their bodies on the line. Second, the powerful critique they bring to the conversation on applied communication scholarship unsettles the hegemonic categories of applied communication. Here I note with humility that the 2008 intervention written by Mark and Brenda was not published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research. Their intervention interrogates the extent to which ra","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84255090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Race matters’ in applied communication research: past, present, and future","authors":"Mark P. Orbe, Jasmine T. Austin, B. Allen","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2083407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083407","url":null,"abstract":"Social issues have worked to stimulate communication scholarship since the inception of the discipline (Orbe & Allen, 2008). From the start, the focus of the Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR) has been to feature communication research that examines social issues in situ (Hickson, 1973). Over the years, JACR has championed scholarship that – through productive theoretical frameworks – provides practical guidelines to specific communication-based problems (Eadie, 1990). This 2022 special issue follows this tradition. Specifically, it is designed to present an academic space that highlights applied communication research that centralizes race – and through intersectionality, other salient aspects of identity – in meaningfully insightful ways. As such, it features engaged research that centralizes race as both a theoretical anchor and powerful point of praxis. ‘Race matters,’ as an ideological concept, was first introduced by West (1993). The insightful duality of the phrase emphasizes the saliency of race (race as noun, matters as verb) as well as the breadth of topical diversity related to race (race as adjective, matters as plural noun). Given this, ‘race matters’ serves as an appropriate marker for a special issue designed to engage the social construction of race, especially as the saliency and far-reaching effects of racism continue to manifest across the U.S. and global communities. The communication discipline has not escaped the effects of white supremacy and racism. While critiques from scholars of color have been documented over the years (e.g. Daniel, 1995), recent discourse confronting the field of communication for its lack of representation of scholars and scholarship from people of color has reached new heights. It was prompted, in part, by an analysis that found that scholars of color continue to be severely underrepresented in publication rates, citation frequency, and editorial roles throughout the field of communication (Chakravartty et al., 2018). This study – highlighted through the hashtag #CommunicationSoWhite – sparked unprecedented conversations regarding issues of diversity, inclusion, equity, and access on multiple levels throughout the communication discipline. At the core of this discourse is a compelling argument that ‘publication and citation practices reproduce institutional racism’ (Chakravartty et al., p. 257), the result of which is knowledge production that reinforces whiteness as the norm, and consequently, severely limits our ability to fully understand the salient role that race plays in communication processes. Recent","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91167336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(Un)masking self in the ivory tower: An African herstory","authors":"Rita Daniels","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2083422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 From a critical autoethnographic perspective, this article records the herstory of a young African woman positioned as an international academic in the U.S. ivory tower. I rely on Dove’s [(1998). African womanism: An Afrocentric theory. Journal of Black Studies, 28(5), 515–539. https://do.org/10.1177/002193479802800501] African womanist theory and Afrocentric cultural frames to narrate and interpret my experiences. I critically navigate my intersectionality through cultural communication and autoethnography as I dance to tunes of apatampa to present a positioned, encultured, and embodied account of myself. As a corollary, I use different African features and methods of womanist engagements, such as storytelling, poetry, and proverbs, to share my experiences as a young African woman in a predominantly white institution (PWI). I share how this ussearch can be utilized to inform practice to increase the whistle volumes of African and international female faculty in U.S. higher education.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84998505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"JACR special issue reviewers, 2021–2022","authors":"Wilfredo Alvarez, N. Bardhan, S. Camara, Gina R. Castle, Heewon Kim","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2087022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2087022","url":null,"abstract":"Wilfredo Alvarez, Utica College Dawna Ballard, University of Texas, Austin Nilanjana Bardhan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Sakile K. Camara, California State University, Northridge Gina R. Castle, St. John’s University Purba Das, Ohio University, Southern Sharde Davis, University of Connecticut Debbie Dougherty, University of Missouri Autumn Edwards, Western Michigan University Elizabeth Eger, Texas State University Shiv Ganesh, University of Texas, Austin Eletra Gilchrist-Petty, University of Alabama, Huntsville Britney Gilmore, Texas Christian University Angela Gist-Mackey, University of Kansas Cerise L. Glenn, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Marnel Niles Goins, Marymount University Lisa K. Hanasono, Bowling Green State University Tina M. Harris, Louisiana State University Amy Heuman, Texas Tech University Mark Hopson, George Mason University Matthew Houdek, Rochester Institute of Technology Pavitra Kavya, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Heewon Kim, Arizona State University Erika Kirby, Creighton University, Joshua Miller, Texas State University Eleanor Novek, Monmouth University James Olufowate, University of Oklahoma Brittany Peterson, Ohio University Manu Pokharel, Texas State University Chris Poulos, University of North Carolina Greensboro Amardo Rodriguez, Syracuse University Karla Scott St. Louis University Jordan Soliz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Andrew Spieldenner, California State University, San Marcos David Stamps, Bentley University Danielle Stern, Christopher News University Sachiko Tankei-Aminian, Florida Gulf Coast University Courtney Wright, University of Tennessee Michael Zirulnik, Arizona State University","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80588471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communication dilemmas and race in an Asian American Chamber of Commerce","authors":"Natasha Shrikant, Dana Marshall","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2083420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper uses grounded practical theory (GPT) to examine how members of a pan-Asian organization manage dilemmas surrounding race and the workplace. An action implicative discourse analysis of 20 hours of audio-recorded meeting interactions among members of an Asian American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) reveals two dilemmas: how to maintain solidarity among an ethnically diverse group and how to communicate a racialized business identity to external corporate donors. Participants managed dialectical tensions between similarities and difference through membership categorization, metadiscourse, humor, and code-switching. Analysis illustrates that AACC practices operate from a locus of difference that values ‘diversity’ as a shared identity and provides leeway for creatively constructing difference. This paper extends GPT as a framework that highlights race as central to communication problems in the workplace and discusses how a better understanding of complexities of Asian American identity negotiation can offer practical insights into present-day race relations and diversity initiatives.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83270205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘We’re talking about race!:’ communicative practices of chief diversity officers","authors":"Kristina Ruiz-Mesa","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2083432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083432","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research focused on the framing of race, diversity, equity, and inclusion through the communicative practices of chief diversity officers (CDOs) working in U.S. institutions of higher education. Grounded in applied communication scholarship and co-cultural theory (Orbe, 1996), this project investigated how CDOs frame their campus work, and employ communicative practices in formal and informal settings to design institutional policies and build campus support for their efforts. To explore how CDOs accomplish their institutional work, in-depth interviews (N = 25) were conducted with higher education CDOs. CDOs employed communicative practices that confirmed the practices identified by Orbe (1998a), and engaged in a nuanced practice of reflexive questioning. Communicative practices were all strategically employed by CDOs to advance conversations about race, diversity, equity, and inclusion in order to move campus constituents to action in support of institutional changes to language, policies, and practices.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88941585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}