Mark Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3969708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University-Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8701-1834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Community partnership lessons learned from the You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05589376. Registered 21 October 2022
My Life After I Received Christ
Having a conversion “testimony” and evangelizing nonbelievers by “sharing” that testimony are membership expectations of American evangelical culture. As such, institutional mass media provide guidance on testimony preparation and delivery. This study analyzes online testimonial guides from seven major evangelical organizations. That the guides’ advice is essentially identical suggests that testimonies are life stories by which believers negotiat…
Social disconnection correlates of a “Wish to Die” among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults
Introduction: Social disconnection and deaths by suicide among older adults are both important public health concerns, particularly in the context of ageing populations. The association between death ideation and behaviours, and social disconnection is well established and both functional and structural social relationships have been identified as predictive of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours. The "Wish to Die" (WTD) involves thoughts of …
The road from Teamsterville
In this essay, we offer three interrelated continua that together constitute a heuristic framework for locating metatheoretical approaches to the ethnography of communication (EC). The first continuum locates a range of epistemological approaches for EC research, from post-positive to interpretive to critical. Building on these epistemic commitments, the second continuum locates varying approaches to conceptualizing power relations in ethnographi…
Enhancing Community Engagement in Research
C OVID-19 has shed light on the need for community-engaged research to fuel crisis and emergency risk communication in underserved settings, promote timely and effective access to testing and vaccination for marginalized communities, and reduce disparities related to leveraging data and for communication, dissemination, and building trust. 1-3However, unethical and inappropriate research practice involving underserved communities, including histo…
An investigation of what protective individual- and community-level factors are associated with life satisfaction in middle-aged and older family carers in Ireland
Background: Family care plays an essential role in providing care in society. However, caring can cause stress, and mental and physical responses to caring vary widely. Different outcomes for carers may reflect different approaches or adaptability to caring and their ability to maintain or recover their mental health and wellbeing following an adverse event (psychosocial resilience). We aim to identify factors that may promote psychosocial resili…
"Christian Worldview"
In the speech code of American evangelicalism, the symbolic term “Christian worldview” and its companion term “biblical worldview” are ubiquitous. Speech codes theory (SCT) holds that symbolic terms simply and quickly communicate complex ideas, values, and meanings that are taken for granted in the shared culture of a speech community. Symbolic terms accomplish this work by activating community members’ cognitive schemata or shared mental organiz…
You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05455190 . Registered 13 July 2022
Using the Theory of Threshold Concepts as a Framework to Elucidate Development State in Professionalism Among Pediatric Residents
Unprofessional behavior among physicians significantly increases health care costs and negatively impacts patient care. 1 Residency training serves as a formative period of clinical and professional development for physicians. Notably, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has listed professionalism as 1 of 6 core competencies and is a required assessment competency. 2 Despite advances in defining, teaching, and, providing form…
“All Scripture Is Inspired by God”
Three in ten Americans believe that the Bible is the Word of God and should be taken literally, word for word. Surveys and studies show this contingent of literalists is composed primarily of evangelicals and, for White evangelicals in particular, that biblical literalism is a strong predictor of their conservative politics. The present essay, based on a case study of an evangelical church observed over three years, argues that biblical literalis…
Public health insurance and mortality in the older population
Return to Teamsterville
As the places of monuments are reconsidered today in light of social justice concerns, the authors revisit a “monument” of language and social interaction (LSI) research. Philipsen’s foundational work published nearly 50 years ago, “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville,” thus becomes a starting point for dialogue among four scholars with diverse views on the critical voice in ethnography of communication research. When read today, the homophobi…
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution
Globally, the number of citizen science clean-up projects, such as beach cleans, is increasing in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. Such activities offer the opportunity to gather insightful data on plastic abundance, distribution and composition. This information is key for informing effective management strategies aimed at reducing input but little work has been conducted to examine the challenges faced by …
Televangelism
In popular usage, televangelism connotes programming by American Protestant televangelists who preach an evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, or Charismatic theology. Just as popular radio stars migrated to television in the 1950s, early attempts at televangelism were mounted by major personalities in radio evangelism. The growth in local stations and invention of videotape sparked a televangelism boom in the 1970s and 1980s. At this scale, …
Residential marine field-course impacts on ocean literacy
Ocean Literacy is a growing global education movement aimed at deepening and contextualising the human relationship with the ocean. While ocean topics are largely missing from UK school curricula, Ocean Literacy principles offer an opportunity for environmental educators to infuse their programmes with broader perspectives on the ocean, creating openings for the development of learner knowledges, and increasing emotional connection with the marin…
Digital Religion and Media Economics
The economics that push every medium toward market concentration have historically done likewise to every religious medium. “Online religion” is now, in its turn, colonized by an “electronic church” industry that, due to media deregulation, is dominated by religious media conglomerates—through whom North Americans are most likely to engage in digital religion. The largest conglomerate alone generates 110 million computer sessions and 79 million m…
Impact of the final adjective in the Medical Student Performance Evaluation on determination of applicant desirability
MSPE: Medical Student Performance Evaluation; AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges; BCM: Baylor College of Medicine
From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland
Previous research on the labour market integration of migrants from EU Accession countries has primarily viewed migrants as individual economic actors, despite their increasing role in family formation. In this contribution, mothers' return to work after birth is analysed using data from the Irish childhood prospective cohort study Growing Up in Ireland. Families from the Accession countries appear to have little access to non-parental childcare …
A theory-informed, process-oriented Resident Scholarship Program
Based on our experience, and in line with the SDT, supporting residents' autonomy, competence, and relatedness through a process-oriented scholarship program may foster the curiosity, inquisitiveness, and internal motivation to learn that drives scholarly activity and ultimately the production of scholarly products
Cognition, Culture, and Charity
Previous researchers who applied cognitive dissonance theory to charitable giving found that giving is for many donors a means of acting consistently with their self-concepts as rational and moral beings. The present study extends this inquiry by investigating how “rationality” and “morality” are culturally constructed norms. Donor communications are effective insofar as their use of language reproduces the expectations of the stakeholder communi…
Give the Winds a Mighty Voice
The Evangelical movement in the United States arose as an interpretive community in the late 19th century when the penny press permitted mass dissemination of shared media texts. Network radio in the early and mid-20th century then furnished an ecology for Evangelicals to share real-time media rituals and be socially integrated into a broadly coherent subculture. This study presents a new history of Evangelicalism organized around its media, foll…
The clustering of health behaviours in Ireland and their relationship with mental health, self-rated health and quality of life
The current study identifies discernible patterns of lifestyle behaviours in the Irish population which are similar to those of our European counterparts. Healthier clusters (Former Smokers, Temperate and Healthy Lifestyle) reported higher levels of energy vitality, lower levels of psychological distress, better self-rated health and better quality of life. In contrast, those in the Multiple Risk Factor cluster had the lowest levels of energy and…
Avatars and Sojourners
Only in recent years have formal theories of immigrant and sojourner acculturation been developed. Could these theories be employed to study the acculturation of newcomers into the virtual cultures of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs)? These gameworlds are inhabited by millions of people worldwide and have emerged as societies with their own cultural myths, schemata, argot, and communication practices. As such, new players may be viewed …
I Was Saved at an Early Age
The author conducted four years of ethnographic fieldwork among American fundamentalists as a participant-observer in more than 250 worship services at some 200 churches in 17 states. By examining three fundamentalist practices—forms of personal address, the public sharing of conversion testimonies, and the annual Christmas program—the author illustrates how fundamentalist cultural assumptions about the nature of persons, how they should be linke…
The men's health policy contexts in Australia, the UK and Ireland
The state of men's health, internationally, is a deep public health concern. Despite pressure from the World Health Organisation that all health policy should consider the specific needs of both men and women through their push for ‘gender mainstreaming’, and increased interest in men's health, there have been relatively few gendered policy responses relating to men's health. In this article, we compare the men's health policy contexts in Austral…
From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland
Previous research on the labour market integration of migrants from EU Accession countries has primarily viewed migrants as individual economic actors, despite their increasing role in family formation. In this contribution, mothers' return to work after birth is analysed using data from the Irish childhood prospective cohort study Growing Up in Ireland. Families from the Accession countries appear to have little access to non-parental childcare …
Residential marine field-course impacts on ocean literacy
Ocean Literacy is a growing global education movement aimed at deepening and contextualising the human relationship with the ocean. While ocean topics are largely missing from UK school curricula, Ocean Literacy principles offer an opportunity for environmental educators to infuse their programmes with broader perspectives on the ocean, creating openings for the development of learner knowledges, and increasing emotional connection with the marin…
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution
Globally, the number of citizen science clean-up projects, such as beach cleans, is increasing in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. Such activities offer the opportunity to gather insightful data on plastic abundance, distribution and composition. This information is key for informing effective management strategies aimed at reducing input but little work has been conducted to examine the challenges faced by …
I Was Saved at an Early Age
The author conducted four years of ethnographic fieldwork among American fundamentalists as a participant-observer in more than 250 worship services at some 200 churches in 17 states. By examining three fundamentalist practices—forms of personal address, the public sharing of conversion testimonies, and the annual Christmas program—the author illustrates how fundamentalist cultural assumptions about the nature of persons, how they should be linke…
Cognition, Culture, and Charity
Previous researchers who applied cognitive dissonance theory to charitable giving found that giving is for many donors a means of acting consistently with their self-concepts as rational and moral beings. The present study extends this inquiry by investigating how “rationality” and “morality” are culturally constructed norms. Donor communications are effective insofar as their use of language reproduces the expectations of the stakeholder communi…
Give the Winds a Mighty Voice
The Evangelical movement in the United States arose as an interpretive community in the late 19th century when the penny press permitted mass dissemination of shared media texts. Network radio in the early and mid-20th century then furnished an ecology for Evangelicals to share real-time media rituals and be socially integrated into a broadly coherent subculture. This study presents a new history of Evangelicalism organized around its media, foll…
Avatars and Sojourners
Only in recent years have formal theories of immigrant and sojourner acculturation been developed. Could these theories be employed to study the acculturation of newcomers into the virtual cultures of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs)? These gameworlds are inhabited by millions of people worldwide and have emerged as societies with their own cultural myths, schemata, argot, and communication practices. As such, new players may be viewed …
A comparison of the strategic priorities of public and private sector information resource management executives
Remarque against War
A comparison of the strategic priorities of public and private sector information resource management executives
Ordinary Communicators’
In a previous article the author deconstructed the social science of the Goldhagen Thesis according to its chosen analytical frameworks of cognitive anthropology and symbolic interactionism. By the standards of those disciplines Goldhagen’s controversial conclusion – that German perpetrators enacted an ‘eliminationist antisemitism’ unique to their national culture – is called into question by his lack of discourse analysis. The criticism, however…
The Banality of Culture? Reassessing the Social Science of the Goldhagen Thesis on its own Terms
Though historians have parsed the historical chapters of Hitler’s Willing Execuationers, a close examination of the book’s key social science theoretical passages is also crucial to under-standing Goldhagen’s thesis. To establish his case for a uniquely German ‘eliminationist antisemitism’ driven by ‘culturally shared cognitive models’ Goldhagen relies on a single 1987 volume about cognitive anthropology, as well as works grounded in the theory o…
The men's health policy contexts in Australia, the UK and Ireland
The state of men's health, internationally, is a deep public health concern. Despite pressure from the World Health Organisation that all health policy should consider the specific needs of both men and women through their push for ‘gender mainstreaming’, and increased interest in men's health, there have been relatively few gendered policy responses relating to men's health. In this article, we compare the men's health policy contexts in Austral…
Avatars and Sojourners
Only in recent years have formal theories of immigrant and sojourner acculturation been developed. Could these theories be employed to study the acculturation of newcomers into the virtual cultures of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs)? These gameworlds are inhabited by millions of people worldwide and have emerged as societies with their own cultural myths, schemata, argot, and communication practices. As such, new players may be viewed …
I Was Saved at an Early Age
The author conducted four years of ethnographic fieldwork among American fundamentalists as a participant-observer in more than 250 worship services at some 200 churches in 17 states. By examining three fundamentalist practices—forms of personal address, the public sharing of conversion testimonies, and the annual Christmas program—the author illustrates how fundamentalist cultural assumptions about the nature of persons, how they should be linke…
The clustering of health behaviours in Ireland and their relationship with mental health, self-rated health and quality of life
The current study identifies discernible patterns of lifestyle behaviours in the Irish population which are similar to those of our European counterparts. Healthier clusters (Former Smokers, Temperate and Healthy Lifestyle) reported higher levels of energy vitality, lower levels of psychological distress, better self-rated health and better quality of life. In contrast, those in the Multiple Risk Factor cluster had the lowest levels of energy and…
Cognition, Culture, and Charity
Previous researchers who applied cognitive dissonance theory to charitable giving found that giving is for many donors a means of acting consistently with their self-concepts as rational and moral beings. The present study extends this inquiry by investigating how “rationality” and “morality” are culturally constructed norms. Donor communications are effective insofar as their use of language reproduces the expectations of the stakeholder communi…
Give the Winds a Mighty Voice
The Evangelical movement in the United States arose as an interpretive community in the late 19th century when the penny press permitted mass dissemination of shared media texts. Network radio in the early and mid-20th century then furnished an ecology for Evangelicals to share real-time media rituals and be socially integrated into a broadly coherent subculture. This study presents a new history of Evangelicalism organized around its media, foll…
A theory-informed, process-oriented Resident Scholarship Program
Based on our experience, and in line with the SDT, supporting residents' autonomy, competence, and relatedness through a process-oriented scholarship program may foster the curiosity, inquisitiveness, and internal motivation to learn that drives scholarly activity and ultimately the production of scholarly products
Digital Religion and Media Economics
The economics that push every medium toward market concentration have historically done likewise to every religious medium. “Online religion” is now, in its turn, colonized by an “electronic church” industry that, due to media deregulation, is dominated by religious media conglomerates—through whom North Americans are most likely to engage in digital religion. The largest conglomerate alone generates 110 million computer sessions and 79 million m…
Impact of the final adjective in the Medical Student Performance Evaluation on determination of applicant desirability
MSPE: Medical Student Performance Evaluation; AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges; BCM: Baylor College of Medicine
From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland
Previous research on the labour market integration of migrants from EU Accession countries has primarily viewed migrants as individual economic actors, despite their increasing role in family formation. In this contribution, mothers' return to work after birth is analysed using data from the Irish childhood prospective cohort study Growing Up in Ireland. Families from the Accession countries appear to have little access to non-parental childcare …
Residential marine field-course impacts on ocean literacy
Ocean Literacy is a growing global education movement aimed at deepening and contextualising the human relationship with the ocean. While ocean topics are largely missing from UK school curricula, Ocean Literacy principles offer an opportunity for environmental educators to infuse their programmes with broader perspectives on the ocean, creating openings for the development of learner knowledges, and increasing emotional connection with the marin…
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution
Globally, the number of citizen science clean-up projects, such as beach cleans, is increasing in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. Such activities offer the opportunity to gather insightful data on plastic abundance, distribution and composition. This information is key for informing effective management strategies aimed at reducing input but little work has been conducted to examine the challenges faced by …
Televangelism
In popular usage, televangelism connotes programming by American Protestant televangelists who preach an evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, or Charismatic theology. Just as popular radio stars migrated to television in the 1950s, early attempts at televangelism were mounted by major personalities in radio evangelism. The growth in local stations and invention of videotape sparked a televangelism boom in the 1970s and 1980s. At this scale, …
Using the Theory of Threshold Concepts as a Framework to Elucidate Development State in Professionalism Among Pediatric Residents
Unprofessional behavior among physicians significantly increases health care costs and negatively impacts patient care. 1 Residency training serves as a formative period of clinical and professional development for physicians. Notably, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has listed professionalism as 1 of 6 core competencies and is a required assessment competency. 2 Despite advances in defining, teaching, and, providing form…
“All Scripture Is Inspired by God”
Three in ten Americans believe that the Bible is the Word of God and should be taken literally, word for word. Surveys and studies show this contingent of literalists is composed primarily of evangelicals and, for White evangelicals in particular, that biblical literalism is a strong predictor of their conservative politics. The present essay, based on a case study of an evangelical church observed over three years, argues that biblical literalis…
Public health insurance and mortality in the older population
Return to Teamsterville
As the places of monuments are reconsidered today in light of social justice concerns, the authors revisit a “monument” of language and social interaction (LSI) research. Philipsen’s foundational work published nearly 50 years ago, “Speaking ‘Like a Man’ in Teamsterville,” thus becomes a starting point for dialogue among four scholars with diverse views on the critical voice in ethnography of communication research. When read today, the homophobi…
An investigation of what protective individual- and community-level factors are associated with life satisfaction in middle-aged and older family carers in Ireland
Background: Family care plays an essential role in providing care in society. However, caring can cause stress, and mental and physical responses to caring vary widely. Different outcomes for carers may reflect different approaches or adaptability to caring and their ability to maintain or recover their mental health and wellbeing following an adverse event (psychosocial resilience). We aim to identify factors that may promote psychosocial resili…
"Christian Worldview"
In the speech code of American evangelicalism, the symbolic term “Christian worldview” and its companion term “biblical worldview” are ubiquitous. Speech codes theory (SCT) holds that symbolic terms simply and quickly communicate complex ideas, values, and meanings that are taken for granted in the shared culture of a speech community. Symbolic terms accomplish this work by activating community members’ cognitive schemata or shared mental organiz…
You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05455190 . Registered 13 July 2022
Social disconnection correlates of a “Wish to Die” among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults
Introduction: Social disconnection and deaths by suicide among older adults are both important public health concerns, particularly in the context of ageing populations. The association between death ideation and behaviours, and social disconnection is well established and both functional and structural social relationships have been identified as predictive of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours. The "Wish to Die" (WTD) involves thoughts of …
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