Communication Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Internet Research as is Isn’t, Is, Could Be, and Should Be
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The Swedish Model: Balancing Markets and Gifts in the Music Industry
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)The internet has destabilized media industries. This article uses the case of Swedish independent music labels, musicians, and fans to articulate one model for understanding the new roles each can take in this new context. ... -
Tunes that Bind?: Predicting Friendship Strength in a Music-Based Social Network
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009)Despite the popularity of social network sites based on common interests, the association between these shared interests and relational development is not well understood. This manuscript reports results of an empirical ... -
Amateur experts: International fan labor in Swedish independent music
(SAGE Publishing, 2009-09)With the rise of Web 2.0 have come increased opportunities for fans to serve as filters, influencing the global flow of cultural materials. On the one hand, this represents a giant leap forward for fans, who can now serve ... -
Agreements and Disagreements in a Computer-Mediated Discussion
(Taylor and Francis (Routlegde), 1996)Agreements and disagreements in a predominantly female computer-mediated discussion group which discusses soap operas are analyzed in terms of their message features. The findings differ from those on agreements and ... -
Interpreting Soap Operas and Creating Community: Inside a Computer-Mediated Fan Culture
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The Performance of Humor in Computer-Mediated Communication
(Blackwell Publishing, 1995-09)There has been very little work on humor in computer-mediated communication. Indeed, the implication of some CMC work is that the medium is inhospitable to humor. This essay argues that humor can be accomplished in CMC and ... -
Countering Questionable Tactics by Crying Foul
(American Forensic Association, 2011)How do crying foul strategies, such as saying opponents are trying to "terrify" into a decision, pressure opponents to argue well? I submit that crying foul strategies work by making a norm determinate, and by making ... -
A Normative Pragmatic Model of Making Fear Appeals
(Penn State University Press, 2011)How do fear appeals generate persuasive force, or reasonably pressure addressees to act as the speaker advocates? Leading models of fear appeals provide partial answers to this question because they locate persuasive force ... -
Identity Implications of Influence Goals: Initiating, Intensifying, and Ending Romantic Relationships
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2003)The current work explores the generalizability of a revised analysis of face and facework (Wilson, Aleman, & Leatham, 1998) by investigating the potential face threats that concern young adults as they seek to initiate, ... -
“Let’s (Not) Talk About That”: Bridging the Past Sexual Experiences Taboo to Build Healthy Romantic Relationships
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)Research has shown that individuals in romantic relationships often avoid discussing past sexual experiences. In order to ascertain whether past relationships and/or past sexual experiences were considered to be “taboo,” ... -
Identity Implications of Relationship (Re)Definition Goals: An Analysis of Face Threats and Facework as Young Adults Initiate, Intensify, and Disengage from Romantic Relationships
(SAGE Publishing, 2009)Identity implications theory (IIT) is applied to analyze how young adults manage identity concerns associated with the goals of initiating, intensifying, and disengaging from romantic relationships. Participants wrote their ... -
Parental and Peer Contributions to the Emotional Support Skills of the Child: From Whom Do Children Learn to Express Support?
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)With advancing age, children increasingly turn to peers for emotional support, and the child's ability to provide sensitive emotional support to peers becomes an increasingly important predictor of social acceptance. ... -
Pink Ribbons, Blue Moons, and Silver Linings: Communicating, Coping, and Caring
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Which comforting messages really work best? A different perspective on Lemieux and Tighe’s “receiver perspective”
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2005)This article responds critically to a recent article by Lemieux and Tighe (Communication Research Reports, 21, 144–153, 2004) in which the authors conclude that recipients of comforting efforts prefer messages that exhibit ... -
“Unrealistic realities”: Child abuse and the aesthetic resolution
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 1998)This article addresses the complex social realities of organizational life through aesthetic theory. After reviewing aesthetic theory and its relationship to organizational communication, we discuss the issue of suspected ... -
Thoughts about talk in romantic relationships: Similarity makes for attraction (and happiness, too)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 1994)This current study assessed whether heterosexual dating partners are similar in their values about communication and how well such similarities predict partners’ attraction to one another and satisfaction with their ... -
Similarity in cognitive complexity and attraction to friends and lovers: Experimental and correlational studies
(Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 1997)Two studies are reported examining whether similarities in cognitive complexity foster different forms of interpersonal attraction. Study 1 provided an experimental test of the hypothesis that perceivers would be more ... -
Relational implications of communication skill evaluations and love styles.
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2003)As values placed by individuals on communication skills may associate with experiences of romantic love, this study explores relationships between communication values and the adoption of six major love styles (Lee, 1973). ... -
Narrative approaches to raising consciousness about sexual harassment: From research to pedagogy and back again
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 1996)In this paper we discuss narrative from both a theoretical and pedagogical perspective. After briefly reviewing the theoretical possibilities of narrative for addressing the problem of sexual harassment, we discuss how ...