{"title":"BoPopriation: How self-promotion and corporate commodification can undermine the body positivity (BoPo) movement on Instagram","authors":"Kyla N Brathwaite, David C. DeAndrea","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1925939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1925939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Proponents of the body positivity (BoPo) movement prominently use social media to promote body appreciation and normalize marginalized bodies. However, companies and social media users have increasingly commodified the movement for self-serving reasons or economic gain. Providing a unique test of the persuasion knowledge model, this experiment examined (a) how the commodification of a prosocial movement can undermine its efficacy and (b) how the symmetry between visual and text-based messaging can influence viewer reactions. Results indicated that body positive posts on Instagram that contained self-promotion or promoted products were viewed as less morally appropriate and were less effective at promoting body appreciation and inclusivity. Practical implications are discussed and a novel boundary condition for the persuasion knowledge model is presented.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1925939","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45705346","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":"Feminist theory and interorganizational collaboration: An ethnographic study of gendered tension management","authors":"R. Rice","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1931703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1931703","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on feminist theories in organizational communication, this study investigated gendered tension management strategies in interorganizational collaboration. I analyzed data from a 2-year ethnographic study and semi-structured interviews within a collaboration. Findings showed that collaboration members engaged with gendered discourses across levels of the collaboration, including in tensions related to collaborative structure, professional identities, and goals and outcomes. I proposed that collaborators engage in gendered tension management to indicate how gender and difference, particularly the unspoken cultural norms of white masculinity, constitute collaborations. Tension management prioritized tactical, control-related goals over more holistic, care-related goals. This study brought feminist theorizing into consideration with interorganizational collaboration and found that gendered discourses are implicated in the tension management strategies used by collaborators.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1931703","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45109392","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":"Moral framing and information virality in social movements: A case study of #HongKongPoliceBrutality","authors":"Rong Wang, Wenlin Liu","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1918735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1918735","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Guided by moral foundation theory and information virality theory, this study explored how moral framing, operationalized as the use of one of the five moral dimensions in tweets (i.e., care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity), is related to virality of social movement messages. It offered a case study of the 2019 Hong Kong protests by analyzing Twitter data collected using #HongKongPoliceBrutality. Results demonstrated that care framing promotes message virality, indicated by the likelihood of getting retweeted and favorited. However, the use of the fairness or authority frame decreased virality. Results indicated that the supporters of the movement were more likely to be triggered by non-political messages. The effect of moral framing on information virality was contingent upon the audience.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1918735","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42902823","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":"Structurational divergence, safety climate, and intentions to leave: An examination of health care workers’ experiences of abuse","authors":"Jessica L. Ford, Yaguang Zhu, Ashley K. Barrett","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1900886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1900886","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Guided by structurational divergence (SD) theory, this study examined the presence and impact of unresolved tensions surrounding safety issues among hospital workers. Using a two-study design, data were gathered for Study 1 from focus groups and interviews involving 40 hospital employees at two hospitals. Thematic analysis indicated workers experienced SD-cycles marked by unresolved conflict, immobilization, and erosion of development. Study 2 surveyed (N = 303) workers within the same hospital network to examine the impact of unresolvable safety issues as both the outcome of SD and the antecedent to workers’ intent to leave. The conceptual model tested shows the destructive outcomes of SD on safety climate, where higher levels of SD lead to lower perceptions of safety climate.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1900886","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43067826","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":"Cultural difference as a resource for arguments in institutional interactions","authors":"Natasha Shrikant","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2020.1776351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2020.1776351","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes how institutional members orient to cultural difference during arguments in meeting interactions. Membership categorization analysis (MCA) of 21 h of audio-recorded conversations from eight months of fieldwork with an Asian American Chamber of Commerce illustrates that participants oriented to cultural difference as a resource when building, supporting, or opposing arguments about institutionally related activities. Participants constructed cultural differences between cultural categories or participants oriented to cultural difference as a taken-for-granted fact and used this fact to support their arguments. Overall, this study contributes to theorizing intercultural communication through illustrating how cultural difference is a discursive phenomenon. MCA of participants’ interactions reveals nuanced, complex ways that cultural difference routinely constitutes institutional life.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2020.1776351","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42155359","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":"Relational load: Implications for executive functioning, mental health, and feelings of unity in romantic relationships","authors":"T. Afifi, C. Haughton, Callie Parrish","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1896015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1896015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined how ongoing relationship maintenance and communal perspectives influence relational load and executive functioning immediately after a stressful conversation in the laboratory in a sample of predominantly white romantic partners. It also explored the aftermath of relational load on partners’ communal perspectives and mental health five consecutive days following the conversation. Receiving greater maintenance from one’s partner before the conversation was associated with increased unity and less conflict, which reduced relational load. This was particularly true for men. Women’s communal perspectives were also associated with better executive functioning for themselves and their partners. Finally, greater relational load diminished feelings of unity and mental health in the days after the laboratory, but the effect on mental health was short-lived.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1896015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45274771","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}
Stephen A. Rains, Anjali Ashtaputre, K. Němcová, Bethany R. Lutovsky, Eric Tsetsi, Corey A. Pavlich, Chelsie Akers
{"title":"The evolution of supportive conversations: Tracking within-discussion changes in support seeking and provision messages","authors":"Stephen A. Rains, Anjali Ashtaputre, K. Němcová, Bethany R. Lutovsky, Eric Tsetsi, Corey A. Pavlich, Chelsie Akers","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1889009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1889009","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite widespread agreement about the benefits of social support, much remains to be learned about the dynamic nature of supportive communication. We examined the evolution of supportive conversations by investigating changes within support seeking and provision behaviors over the course of a discussion. Across two existing datasets, the results showed that support seekers’ use of approach behaviors, avoidance behaviors, and exonerating justifications varied systematically during conversations. The prevalence of moderate and low person-centered feedback from support providers also varied across the four quartiles of supportive conversations and in conjunction with support seekers’ change in emotional distress. The results collectively offered evidence that supportive conversations are generally organized in a sequence of four phases.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1889009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46910111","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":"Heterogeneity of Facebook friend network facilitates political learning: Evidence from a panel survey during the 2016 US presidential campaign","authors":"Minchul Kim, Yanqin Lu, Jae Kook Lee","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2021.1882683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1882683","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the effects of Facebook network heterogeneity on campaign knowledge gain by looking at the process where heterogeneity facilitates exposure to information about elections. Findings suggested that Facebook network heterogeneity promoted exposure to campaign information that, in turn, predicted knowledge about candidate issue positions. This indirect effect of network heterogeneity was conditioned by the level of campaign interest. To elaborate, a more heterogeneous Facebook network was positively associated with campaign knowledge for people with lower levels of campaign interest, suggesting that Facebook has the potential to narrow the knowledge gap between the politically attentive and the politically inattentive. Implications of the findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2021.1882683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43106483","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":"Parasocial cues: The ubiquity of parasocial relationships on Twitch","authors":"Alex P. Leith","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2020.1868544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2020.1868544","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analyzed Twitch chat messages for verbal indicators of the presence of parasocial relationships. Unlike traditional parasocial research, this study employed natural language processing to score streamer-targeted and viewer-targeted messages for verbal immediacy. It divided chat data according to stream content and streamer type and found that streamer-targeted messages consistently scored higher in verbal immediacy than viewer-targeted messages. The verbal immediacy scores for this dataset were content-agnostic. The findings illustrated a new method for testing the perceived relational closeness of parasocial relationships, namely, utilizing user-generated content to identify verbal indicators of parasocial relationships. Researchers are now capable of exploring the variance of parasocial relationships as they are naturally presented through new media platforms, where media users and figures co-exist.","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2020.1868544","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44293426","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":"An introduction to the special issue on social media, or why this isn’t a special issue on social network(ing) sites","authors":"Andrew M. Ledbetter","doi":"10.1080/03637751.2020.1866917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2020.1866917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48176,"journal":{"name":"Communication Monographs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03637751.2020.1866917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49337536","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}