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{"title":"Building capacity for citizen science communication of water quality risks: Exploring the enhancement of the communication infrastructure in Letcher County, Kentucky.","authors":"Laura M Fischer, Dan O'Hair, Madison Wallace, Xianlin Jin, Jason Unrine","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2160267","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2160267","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the coal mining regions of Eastern Kentucky, access to potable water has been diminished due to industrial pollution and aging infrastructure. Current communications regarding contaminated water are often too inaccessible and too infrequent to appropriately address the issues in target communities. To explore possible improvements to the community's communication infrastructure, the researchers explored what types of stories should be used to communicate about water quality risks, who should communicate about these stories, and how these stories should be communicated. Researchers enlisted a key community member to conduct 24 individual interviews with community members, using snowball sampling. Open and axial coding was used to conduct a constant comparative analysis of the data for emergent themes. Analyzing the verbatim interviews, the researchers concluded communication infrastructure should be enhanced to engage the public about water quality risks. Risk messaging should share water quality information through stories that are designed to be easily digested and frequently distributed using laypeople's terms, visuals, graphs, and maps. These stories should be shared using an integrated communication infrastructure where key community storytellers, such as local news, social media, and interstitial agents, work together to share risk information across platforms and channels.</p>","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10501336/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10635659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"I’m just trying to fill my kids up: parents’ pre-emptive (re)construction of identities amidst rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States","authors":"Marwa Abdalla, Yea-Wen Chen","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2142065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2142065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines 16 Muslim parents’ communication with their children after Donald Trump’s electoral victory and amidst increasing Islamophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States. Our analysis highlights communication interactions, informed by participants’ perceived demonization of Muslims in media and political discourses, intended to counter negative stereotypes and cultivate strength, confidence, and belonging in their children. Drawing on cultural identity theory, we theorize pre-emptive avowals and ascriptions to describe participants’ communication labor to cultivate resistance in their children to Islamophobia and various forms of racism. We conclude by considering unique and intersectional communication labor in minoritized families and discussing directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81476399","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":"Fake news by any other name: phrases for false content and effects on public perceptions of U.S. news media","authors":"Jessica R. Collier, E. Van Duyn","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2148487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2148487","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The term ‘fake news’ aims to delegitimize news and is weaponized by political leaders and partisan media. Research has noted the negative impact of the phrase ‘fake news’ yet little work has investigated alternative discourse. We explore whether the phrase ‘fake news’ is distinct from alternative phrases such as ‘misinformation’ and ‘false news.’ Using two experiments, we compare effects of these phrases on evaluations of trust and credibility regarding U.S. news media. Results indicate that ‘fake news’ exerts disproportionate negative effects on perceptions of news and journalists, when controlling for political ideology, compared to ‘misinformation.’ Effects are pronounced when the phrase is used by a politician. Findings challenge research to address the communicative underpinnings of the fake news phenomenon rather than focus on “fake news” as a varietal of misinformation. Insights are discussed for news organizations seeking to distance themselves from the term while providing audiences with accurate information.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76623604","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":"The role of interpersonal communication in instilling a sense of social justice: Beirut August 4, 2020, explosion","authors":"Christine Mady, Jessica R. El-Khoury","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2146524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2146524","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The August 4, 2020, Beirut Port explosion killed over 200 people and left countless Lebanese injured and traumatized. To this date, the reasons behind the explosion remain unknown and the burden of this unjust act weighs heavily upon all Lebanese. Countless journalistic reports attest to the failure of official communication channels and the lack of meaningful action. None, however, delve into the role that interpersonal communication plays in instilling a sense of justice. This paper therefore investigates how interpersonal communication, specifically through people’s participation in communal communicative initiatives, may subvert the unjust official discourse and introduce a positive change in individual and communal lives. It posits that interpersonal communication may create a sense of justice not just between individuals in distinct interactions but at a societal level. It proposes basic tenants defining an interpersonally situated sense of justice and expands the significance of interpersonal communication in social justice studies providing it with a plausible structure.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85351255","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":"The impact of source credibility and risk perception attitudes on Americans’ willingness to participate in contact tracing applications","authors":"Ryan P. Weber, William I. MacKenzie, Candice L. Lanius","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2143274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2143274","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Contact tracing has emerged as one tool to communicate infection risks with the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses source credibility and the risk perception attitude framework to interpret how Americans responded to contact tracing messages from a technology company, employer, physician, or state government. Survey participants (n = 245) were generally positive towards a contact tracing message regardless of source. Participants with high risk perceptions and low efficacy beliefs responded more strongly to appeals from their company and their physician while the low risk-low efficacy group found the state government appeal more compelling. The results suggest that several sources delivering the same health message could engage people with different risk perceptions and efficacy beliefs.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89103783","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":"#Metoo as communities of practice: a study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment","authors":"Yanbing Tan, Kaibin Xu","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2141582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2141582","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Online disclosure of one’s own experience and the harasser’s name is a prominent way of telling #MeToo stories in China. Drawing on the theoretical perspective of community of practice (CoP), this article conducts a narrative analysis of these disclosures to explore how they are employed to form communities of practice that serve to resist sexual harassment, thereby contributing to digital feminism in China. The study finds that they shape a common identity as victims and sustain affective solidarity through sharing traumatic experiences and reflective discourses to build the community. Their discursive practice of exposing harassers, including tagging variant hashtags, archiving contents for continued proliferation, and inviting netizens to re-post information, serves to break the silence and challenge the social environment that connives at sexual harassment, constituting a forceful digital feminist movement. By incorporating the theoretical insights of CoPs with the #MeToo movement, the article expands the study of digital feminism.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73215585","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":"Pandemic communication as transformation","authors":"M. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2153001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2153001","url":null,"abstract":"The global pathways of the COVID-19 pandemic, the textured layers of the inequalities in pandemic outbreaks, the deep inequalities in ownership and patterns of access to basic preventive and healthcare resources, and the interpenetrating precarities produced by hegemonic pandemic responses divulge the violence of the capitalist-colonial project. The raced and classed nature of these inequalities necessitate critical theorizing that attends to the relationship between communication and the organizing structures of racial capitalism. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic is constituted amidst global changes in ecosystems and changing human–animal relationships and mobilities, foregrounding the interpenetrating relationship between climate colonialism and the crises it produces. How does communication theory explain, interpret, and critique communicative practices around the pandemic that are constituted amidst the interpenetrating linkages between colonialism and capitalism? How to theorize the communicative practices generating pandemic disinformation and hate, rooted in networks of white supremacy, and directed at communities at the margins? How do communities at the margins build communication strategies that sustain them, offer an organizing ethic of care and mutuality, and resist the disinformation seeded and circulated by white supremacists and other connected hate infrastructures such as Hindutva in India and far-right in Israel? What role does communication practice play in resisting the organizing structures that (re)produce raced, classed, gendered inequalities rendered visible during the pandemic? The articles in this volume collectively explore diverse forms of communicative practices amidst the pandemic, negotiating the organizing structures that both constrain and enable everyday life in crisis. These communicative practices depict the dynamic nature of individual, relational, and community agency, reflected in community resilience amidst the proliferation of stigmatizing hate, the roles of organizational and supervisor support in constituting the resilience of young adult workers, the role of stories in constituting the negotiations of healthcare amidst the pandemic, and the organizing practices that support the negotiations of the pandemic. Shinya Uekusa explores the relational role of community translators in mediating and negotiating the communicative rights of communities at the margins amidst the pandemic, interrogating top-down forms of crisis response that are disconnected from questions of communicative inequality. The evocative article by Anis Rahman and colleagues draws on autoethnographic notes to render visible the precarities of academic life amidst the pandemic, exacerbated by the ongoing neoliberal transformation of the academe. They invite us to communicative practices of self-reflection, negotiation of labor, and collaborative dialogue as anchors to building and sustaining equity in the academe.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85498174","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":"Factors affecting rumor believability in the context of COVID-19: the moderating roles of government trust and health literacy","authors":"Hyegyu Lee, Jarim Kim","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2141069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2141069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores the mediating role of prior exposure to a rumor in the relationship between anxiety and rumor believability, and the moderated mediation thereof by government trust and health literacy. A total of 534 participants aged 19–59 were recruited from a research survey panel in an early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea. Using two negative COVID-19 rumors, prior exposure to a rumor and rumor believability were measured for each rumor. The results showed that anxiety about COVID-19 led to rumor believability, mediated by prior exposure to a rumor. Government trust moderated the relationship between anxiety and rumor exposure in both rumor cases. Health literacy moderated the relationship between anxiety and rumor believability only in the rumor about lung damage caused by COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78913647","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":"Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: online harassment of Asian Americans during COVID-19","authors":"S. Tong, Elizabeth Stoycheff, Rahul Mitra","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2141068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2141068","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores perceptions of online racial hate speech directed at Asian Americans in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how individuals’ enactment of resilience communication in response to that threat affected their self-reported estimates of personal health. Using a nationally representative survey (n = 1767) that oversampled Asian Americans (n = 455), we found that Asian Americans perceived the problem of online hate speech to be more severe than members of non-targeted groups. Analysis revealed a mediated pathway through which heightened perceptions of online racial hate speech were positively associated with individuals’ enactment of specific resilience processes tied to identity affirmation, which was linked to positive gains in psychological health. Results contribute to resilience theory in the context of racism and the observed relationships between resilience communication and health. We discuss how individuals in minoritized communities and allies might use resilience to combat the synergistic stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87272783","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":"Strategies and effectiveness of the Chinese government debunking COVID-19 rumors on Sina Weibo: evaluating from emotions","authors":"Hao Gao, Difan Guo, Huimin Yin, Jing Wu, Zijia Cao, Lina Li","doi":"10.1080/00909882.2022.2144409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2144409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Chinese government refuted rumors on social media for infodemic management when COVID-19 outbroke. This study selected 80 government accounts on Sina Weibo and collected 501 valid anti-rumor posts with comments from 18 January to 29 February 2020. This paper evaluated the effectiveness of rumor debunking from the public emotions reflected in the comments. This study also examined the influence of different anti-rumor strategies, such as fact-checking, rumor response modes, and presentation forms, on the effectiveness of rumor debunking. The findings revealed that fact-checking, combined response mode and text presentation could improve the effectiveness of rumor debunking to some extent. Further analysis of the public emotions indicated a correlation between the trust in government and the effectiveness of rumor debunking. These findings suggested building a multiparticipant response mechanism with medical institutions and media to mitigate the COVID-19 infodemic through targeted strategies, thus further increasing the government's credibility via information governance.","PeriodicalId":47570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Communication Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78433816","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}