Deborah D. Sellnow-Richmond, Amiso M. George, Marta Natalia Lukacovic, S. Salazar, Deanna D. Sellnow
{"title":"A comparative analysis of U.S. state government communication and resident compliance to CDC COVID-19 guidelines","authors":"Deborah D. Sellnow-Richmond, Amiso M. George, Marta Natalia Lukacovic, S. Salazar, Deanna D. Sellnow","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2165885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2165885","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As COVID-19 raged through the United States, Americans were inundated with messages from multiple and competing sources, some based on political ideologies, fueled by misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation via cable and social media. This study uses the IDEA model for effective instructional risk and crisis communication to examine the role of state governors in encouraging compliance with public health recommendations. It examines the relationships between messages sent in high- and low-compliance states, between state compliance levels and tendencies in public attitudes, and between messages sent and resident decisions about COVID-19 compliance. We analyzed press release messages from governors of five states with high immigrant populations and surveyed the public in these states to examine compliance rates regarding COVID-19 protective actions. Findings illustrate that perceived source credibility is critical to behavioral compliance regardless of message content adherence and that political ideology may become a competing narrative and may influence resident decisions.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"34 1","pages":"380 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74806337","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}
Ryan A. D’Souza, J. Rauchberg, Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez
{"title":"The labor of diversity in the 2020–2021 U.S. communication job market","authors":"Ryan A. D’Souza, J. Rauchberg, Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2173532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2173532","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76632073","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}
America L. Edwards, Rebecca Freihaut, T. Sellnow, Deanna D. Sellnow, Morgan C. Getchell, Adam Parrish
{"title":"Engaged learning: lessons learned by subject-matter experts from COVID-19 in the U.S. swine industry","authors":"America L. Edwards, Rebecca Freihaut, T. Sellnow, Deanna D. Sellnow, Morgan C. Getchell, Adam Parrish","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2178853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2178853","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91192410","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":"E-sisters and the case of the Essure coil: power, representation, and voice in women’s public docket accounts to the FDA of medical device adverse events","authors":"E. Hintz, J. Applequist","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2179417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2179417","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT One in ten U.S. patients has an internally implanted medical device. Yet, lax regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resulted in the approval of medical devices disproportionately harming women, including Bayer Pharmaceutical’s Essure, a permanent female sterilization device. Victims of Essure often suffer adverse events, including serious injuries, device malfunctions, and death. Guided by critical feminist theorizing, this case study examines 500 public docket comments written to the FDA by female patients recounting their experiences of adverse events with Essure. Reflexive thematic analysis revealed how women: (a) voiced their experiences to contest meanings of ‘safety,’ expressed identification with their ‘E-Sisters,’ and protected future women from harm; (b) identified forces of greed, deception, and gender bias as creating the conditions for harm to befall them; and (c) enacted resistance and called for a change in the status quo by the FDA and Bayer. Theoretical and practical implications for health communication researchers, medical practitioners and educators, and regulatory agencies are offered.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"133 1","pages":"500 - 518"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76611048","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":"‘I never even tried to get out of work’: low wage service work, work–life interrelationships, and women’s health in the United States","authors":"A. Golden, Caryn Medved, Elise Andaya","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2179415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2179415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72729557","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}
Sarah Jane Blithe, Renato Pereira Lima de Carvalho
{"title":"Decolonizing internationalization initiatives in Brazilian universities","authors":"Sarah Jane Blithe, Renato Pereira Lima de Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2179416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2179416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84865391","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":"Emotion as a predictor of crisis communicative behaviors: examining information seeking and sharing during Hurricane Florence*","authors":"Lucinda L. Austin, Seoyeon Kim, Adam J. Saffer","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2177121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2177121","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Those affected by catastrophic events like hurricanes are burdened with the task of preparing for and responding to the threats of harm in addition to dealing with the emotionally taxing process of consuming and sharing disaster-related information. However, little is known about how threats and emotions during natural disasters impact media usage for information seeking and sharing. This study examined the relationship between the perceived threat of disasters (including disaster severity and involvement recognition), negative emotions, and information seeking and forwarding/sharing via different types of media. We surveyed over 600 adults in U.S. counties impacted by Hurricane Florence in 2018. Our findings show that negative crisis emotions mediated the relationship between threat appraisals and information seeking and sharing behaviors. In our discussion, we suggest how disaster/emergency communication professionals can prepare and respond to disasters by knowing how emotions influence individuals’ communicative behaviors.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"559 - 578"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75082787","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":"‘Chemical jail’: culture-centered theorizing of carcerality in methadone maintenance treatment and addiction recovery in the United States","authors":"B. Stanley, A. Basu","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2180770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2180770","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study draws from qualitative interviews with eight adults living in the United States using methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) to recover from opioid addiction and dependence. While MMT can enhance the health and lives of methadone recipients, in this study we argue how MMT relies on carceral discourses of surveillance, discipline, and regulation to contain and control addicted bodies to secure whiteness. Using the culture-centered approach to health, our analysis revealed primary themes that demonstrate the interplay of carcerality and medicalization in MMT: (a) stigma, surveillance, and social control; (b) dualities of freedom and health; and (c) agency and resistance. These findings demonstrate the underlying assumptions of whiteness undergirding MMT as a dominant health regime for addiction treatment and how recipients resist carceral discourses of MMT. Ultimately, we call for communication theorizing and practice to advance a relational means of health that rejects the expansion of the prison industrial complex.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"463 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83214707","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":"Communicating about social justice in participatory budgeting in the United States: ‘Coming together’ to benefit communities","authors":"Vincent Russell","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2178856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2178856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Participatory budgeting (PB) is a public deliberation process designed to advance social justice by engaging geographical community members, especially those from oppressed populations, in collective decision making about spending public funds to improve their community. This 2.5-year, applied, ethnographic, community-based study of two PB processes implemented in Denver, Colorado, examined participants’ social justice discourse during their deliberations. The findings revealed three themes: participants’ listening to marginalized voices, people from oppressed populations engaging in the PB process, and community members ‘coming together’ to benefit oppressed populations. The findings illustrate discursive themes that advance social justice during PB deliberations, and, from an applied perspective, suggest that to recruit and retain participants from oppressed populations, as well as to engage in deliberation that promotes equitable outcomes, PB organizers and facilitators in the United States should promote participants’ communication about those themes during their deliberations.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"519 - 538"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81491749","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}
Jesse King, Jennifer A. Kam, M. Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo
{"title":"Enacting resilience at multiple levels during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring communication theory of resilience for U.S. undocumented college students","authors":"Jesse King, Jennifer A. Kam, M. Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2023.2178855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2023.2178855","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, college students faced a number of stressors that threatened their health and well-being. Undocumented college students faced similar stressors and additional ones that were unique to their immigration status. Drawing from communication theory of resilience, we conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with Mexican-origin undocumented college students in California. Our findings extended past research on the communication theory of resilience by identifying triggers that motivated undocumented students to enact resilience at multiple levels. Undocumented students reported (a) individual, interpersonal, institutional, and policy-level constraints that constantly threatened their health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic; (b) how they enacted resilience at those multiple levels; and (c) how their undocumented status was a source of stress but also a source of empowerment.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":"128 1","pages":"539 - 558"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85744145","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}