Category: Marginalized Groups

“Think Global, Act Local”: How #MeToo Hybridized Across Borders and Platforms for Contextual Relevance

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Information, Communication & Society (2023) Authors: Jiyoun Suk, Yibing Sun, Luhang Sun, Mengyu Li, Catalina Farías, Hyerin Kwon, Shreenita Ghosh, Porismita Borah, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Teresa Correa, Christine Garlough & Dhavan V. Shah Abstract: Beyond a consciousness-raising hashtag, #MeToo has become a transnational movement, crossing the borders of many societies. However, outsized attention has been …

From Weinstein to Kavanaugh: Shifting Coverage of Sexual Violence and the #MeToo Movement Across U.S. News Media

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Communication Monographs (2023) Authors: Min-Hsin Su, Jiyoun Suk, Porismita Borah, Shreenita Ghosha, Christine Garloughd, and Dhavan Shah Abstract: This study explores the framing strategies and language features of U.S. news coverage surrounding sexual violence and gender issues across the ideological media spectrum at two pivotal phases of the #MeToo movement: (1) during its initial rise as …

Platform Affordances, Discursive Opportunities, and Social Media Activism: A Cross-Platform Analysis of #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, 2017–2020

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News Media & Society (2024) Authors: Mengyu Li, Jiyoun Suk, Yini Zhang, Jon C. Pevehouse, Yibing Sun, Hyerin Kwon, Ruixue Lian, Rui Wang, Xinxia Dong, and Dhavan V. Shah Abstract: This study proposes affordances for discursive opportunities (ADO) as a theoretical framework that leverages the concept of technological affordances and the theory of discursive opportunities to …

Undergraduates’ pSTEM Identity and Motivation in Relation to Gender- and Race-based Perceived Representation, Stereotyped Beliefs, and Implicit Associations

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2023) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Campbell Leaper Abstract: Women and underrepresented minoritized (URM) persons remain marginalized in physical science, technology, engineering, and math (pSTEM). Relative to non-URM men, URM women may experience a double disadvantage based on their gender and race whereby they observe few same-gender and few same-race role …

International Perspectives on Lesbian Psychology

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Journal of Lesbian Studies (2023) Authors: Ella Ben Hagai and Christine R. Starr Abstract: Researchers from the Philippines, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Chile, Canada, Brazil, China, and the US shed new light on important questions in lesbian psychology while subverting the hegemonic status of Western scholarship. Articles part of this special issue move away from treating LGBTQ + identity as a …

That’s Not Me: (Dis)concordance Between pSTEM Nerd-genius Stereotypes and Self-concepts Predicts High School Students’ pSTEM Identity

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Social Psychology of Education (2023) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Campbell Leaper Abstract: Nerd-genius stereotypes about people in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM) are barriers to getting many adolescent girls interested in pSTEM. Endorsing these stereotypes may undermine youths’ pSTEM identity especially when they are incongruent with their self-concepts—possibly more likely for girls …

pSTEM Implicit Stereotypes and pSTEM Motivation Among Black and Latina Undergraduate Women: The Role of Gender and Ethnic/Racial Typicality

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Sex Roles (2024) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Alan Meca Abstract: Implicitly stereotyping pSTEM (physical sciences, technology, engineering, and math) with Asian and White men can demotivate Black and Latina women in pSTEM. However, theory suggests that stereotypes might not affect all members of a group in the same way. In a sample of 345 undergraduate …

A Turn to Assets in Community-Based Computing Research: Tradeoffs, Deficits, and Neoliberalism in Technological Development

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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2024) Authors: Jean Hardy and Jacob Thebault-Spieker Abstract: CSCW and HCI scholars are increasingly adopting asset-based approaches to community-based social computing research. Emerging from asset-based community development (ABCD), an approach to community and economic development research and practice that emerged in the 1990s, advocates for asset-based approaches argue that …

Toward Equitable Payment for Inclusive Participation

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Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (2023) Authors: Justin X. Moore, LaKesha N. Anderson, Cynthia Li, Reginald D. Benson Jr., Alejandra Garcia Rychtarikova, Lillie D. Williamson, Leslie E. Wolf, Ebony B. Whisenant, Erin Roark, Samantha R. Jones, and Christy J.W. Ledford

How Attributes of Place Threaten Community Trust in the American South: Opportunities for Improving Pandemic-Related Communication

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Journal of Health Communication (2023) Authors: Lauren A. Cafferty, Lillie D. Williamson, LaKesha N. Anderson, Samantha R. Jones, Justin X. Moore, Reginald D. Benson Jr, Ebony B. Whisenant, Candace Clinton, Nikeshia Lashaundra Lawson, and Christy J.W. Ledford Abstract: Trust and mistrust influence the utilization of health services, the quality of overall healthcare, and the prevalence …