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Boundary Work and Transactive Memory Systems in Teams: Moderating Effects of the Visibility Affordance
(Sage, 2023-07-27)Individuals in work teams frequently cross boundaries across teams, often by using information and communication technologies (ICTs). The current study investigates the effects of members’ boundary work and the visibility ... -
“Posts are my own”: effects of social media disclaimers on perceptions of employees and their organizations from tweets and retweets
(Emerald, 2023-05-16)PURPOSE – This study empirically assesses the perceptions the public has of employees and their organization following a [re]tweet, and the additional potential ameliorating effect of a disclaimer distancing the organization ... -
A Test of the Mobile Phone Appropriation Model: A Comparison between Chinese and US Samples
(Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies, 2023-08-30)The mobile phone appropriation (MPA; Wirth et al., 2007, 2008) model is an integrative model that seeks to explain attitudes and behaviors related to mobile phone usage from a communication perspective, proposing a dynamic ... -
Interpersonal Media Among Americans’ Sympathy Groups: Theory of the Niche and Satisfying Social Needs
(2023-11-16)This manuscript extends the theory of the niche by examining the frequency of interpersonal media use among participants’ personal network, and by reporting the degree to which individuals perceive three social needs are ... -
Reframing Aging: Intra- and Intergenerational Digital Conversational Agents to Support Older Adults
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-20)Digital conversational agents (DCAs) have become extraordinarily ubiquitous. Researchers envision the prospects of using DCAs to monitor health among older adults. However, older adults show hesitation to engage with DCAs. ... -
The Pain of Performative Professionalism: Emotionally Embodying Business as Usual
(University of California Press, 2020-05-01)This essay is the personal and professional perspective of the National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's awards chair during the 2019 convention. It explores issues of emotion, work, ... -
Digital Stress as a Mediator of the Relationship between Mobile and Social Media Use and Psychological Functioning
(2021-11)The present investigation uses Apple iPhone Screen Time to assess the association between mobile and social media use and psychological functioning with digital stress as a mediator in a sample of young adult (N = 267) and ... -
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Public Land, and the Spaces of Whiteness
(Frontiers Media, 2021-12-17)In this essay, I examine the 2016 takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The principal instigators of this occupation, the Bundy family of Nevada, pointed to federally owned public lands as the primary reason for ... -
THE BACKSTORY: THE POWER OF PAST LIVED EXPERIENCES AND COMMUNICATION WITHIN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)ABSTRACT Research on the public’s stigmatizing attitudes toward individuals with alcohol- and substance-use disorders is well-documented, but researchers are increasingly focused on how those public attitudes are constructed ... -
Making Mandingo: Racial Archetypes, Pornography, and Black Male Subjectivity
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Mandingo is a reference to a longstanding myth in American culture, that black men have an unquenchable desire for white woman. I will argue that Mandingo is an example of a racial archetype. Racial archetypes are specific ... -
Delayed Childbearing, Relational Influences, and Workplace Outcomes
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Guided by the Circumplex Model of Family Functioning (Olson, Sprenkle, & Russell, 1979), this study examined women’s perceptions of their decision to delay childbearing as well as perceptions of personal fulfillment through ... -
The Tea Party Movement and Entelechy: an Inductive Study of Tea Party Rhetoric
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)On February 19, 2009, CNBC journalist Rick Santelli’s fiery outburst against the Obama Administration on national television gave the Tea Party Movement (TPM) its namesake. Soon after rallies were organized across the U.S. ... -
Navigating Ambiguous Negativity: A Case Study of Twitch.tv Live Chats
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The popular gaming-oriented platform Twitch.tv, which offers video game fans an online space to interact by sharing and viewing gameplay and participating in live chats, is faced with the problem of online negativity ... -
We Should Not Get Rid of Incivility Online
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)Incivility and toxicity have become concepts du jour in research about social media. The clear normative implication in much of this research is that incivility is bad and should be eliminated. Extensive research—including ... -
Hispanic/Latino(a) Immigrant Acculturation and U.S. American Native English Speakers’ Intergroup Perceptions and Attitudes: Accommodation, Social Attraction, and Anxiety
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Guided by communication accommodation theory (CAT; Giles, 1970, 2016) and the acculturation framework (Berry, 1980, 2011), this study used a 3 (social attributions: positive, negative, neutral) x 4 (accommodation/acculturation ... -
Gazing at the Golden Age: The Role of Perspective in Counter-Memorial Display
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)How does the traveling museum exhibition 1001 Inventions design memories of the Golden Age of Islam to counter Islamophobia in the modern world? The Golden Age of Islam occurred centuries ago but is still a potent rhetorical ... -
Group Membership, Content Valence, and Stereotype Agreement: Testing the Effects of Jokes and Asian Stereotypes
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Guided by the theories of social identity (Tajfel & Turner, 1979; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Re- icher, Wetherell, 1987) and intergroup contact (Allport, 1954; McIntyre, Paolini, Hewstone, 2016; Pettigrew, 1998; Pettigrew & ... -
Humor production in long-term romantic relationships: What the lack of moderation by sex reveals about humor’s role in mating
(De Gruyter, 2019-05-15)This manuscript explores whether the associations between partner humor production and relationship satisfaction and humor’s importance in romantic relationships are moderated by sex. Study 1 reports a meta-analysis (k = 10; ... -
Transactive Memory and the Job Search: Finding Expertise and Influence in Socio-technical Networks
(Routledge, 2020-05-13)Structural, communicative, and relational attributes of transactive memory (TM) affect the expertise and influence job seekers perceive in their job information networks. Using a sample of U.S. job seekers (N = 285), we ... -
Employer reviews may say as much about the employee as they do the employer: Online disclosures, organizational attachments, and unethical behavior
(SAGE Publications, 2020-09-02)Do reviews on organizational review websites (e.g., Indeed.com, GlassDoor.com) speak to the employer or the employee? This study tests the structural relationship between cognitive and affective organizational attachments ...