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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reconsidering ‘Ties’: The Sociotechnical Job Search Network
(SAGE Publications, 2020-10-26)This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechnical ego-networks. United States residents (N = 285) who had sought jobs in the past 2 years responded to questions about ... -
Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device use, and task-acknowledgment
(SAGE Publications, 2020-06-07)In organizational meetings, mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversations (i.e., multicommunication). This experiment uses video vignettes to test how manager policy (no policy, pro-technology, ... -
The Structuration of Identification on Organizational Members’ Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2020-09-10)The structurational model of identification is applied to test structures that may lead to sharing organizational membership on social media and increased organizational identification. We propose and test how antecedents ... -
Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05-08)Latinos represent a large ethnic minority group in the United States, but their political participation, including on social media, is low compared to other groups. Guided by social identity and social cognitive theories, ... -
Argumentative Competence in Friend and Stranger Dyadic Exchanges
(Springer, 2019-08-17)This manuscript investigates the role of argumentative competence in interpersonal dyadic exchanges. Specifically, this study examined the two sub-dimensions of competence, argumentative effectiveness and appropriateness, ... -
Problem Solving in Teams and Groups
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-08-23)This textbook covers content relevant to COMS342: Problem Solving in Teams and Groups at the University of Kansas. Content in this textbook is adapted from The Open University, OpenStax, The Noba Project, and Wikipedia. ... -
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-08-22)"Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy" is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. ...