Erik W Larson
Biographic Data
| ID | 180210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik W Larson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik W |
| FAMILY NAME | Larson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSON E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9998-688X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reinforcing, Refashioning, and Rejecting Do What You Love: How Professional Women Lifestyle Bloggers Negotiate the Paradox of Passion in Digital Labor
This study examines how women professional lifestyle bloggers in the United States negotiated the discourse “do what you love” (DWYL) as a source of meaningful work. While DWYL has many empowering aspects, this discourse can become self-exploitative and a form of hegemonic control. Specifically, we unpack how bloggers navigated DWYL in their digital labor in the overlap of paid labor and passion. Through an analysis of reflective blog posts, wome…
Imagining possibilities for translocal collaborative engaged research and pedagogy
Engaged communication scholarship is often deeply situated – and this makes sense considering many of the important place-based histories, contexts, and relationships that shape the collaborative e
Beyond ramen noodles: How critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity
Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study explored how U.S. college students engage in resilience strategies in response to food insecurity. While adaptive resilience strategies provided short-term relief to deal with hunger, such strategies reinforced stigma, led to well-being crises, and perpetuated vicious cycles of framing college food insecurity as an individual failure. When critical consciousness was cultivated, we found that participa…
What do Corporations Want: Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm by Timothy Kuhn
Gen Z College Students’ Preference for Affordances Over Aesthetics in Interpreting Workplace Imagery
Using data collected from focus groups with traditional college students, this paper examines how students read images of highly aestheticized workspaces. The findings demonstrate that although college students are attracted to the aesthetic of workspaces, they are also skilled at reading the affordances present in workspaces. Through experiences like internships, college life, and observations of their parents, students have learned what kinds o…
Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research
In 2019, we received a Top Paper Award for a paper presented at a national communication conference, despite our erasure of Black women from the history of midwifery in Alabama. We recognize and acknowledge the logics of white supremacy that informed our initial thinking and offer this essay as reparative work. We begin by describing our original research project. Then, we outline the reflexive, intellectual, and methodological practices that inf…
Communicating inclusion: A review and research agenda on inclusion research in organizational communication
Creating home at work: Humanistic Geography and Placemaking in Organizations
Drawing on the positive connotations associated with home from humanistic geography (Relph 1976 Relph, E. 1976. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion. [Google Scholar]; Tuan 1977 Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar]; Cresswell 2015 Cresswell, T. 2015. Place: A Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons. [Google Scholar]) and Western cultu…
The relational ontology of resistance: Hybridity, ventriloquism, and materiality in the production of bike commuting as resistance
Many studies of organizational resistance have focused on a knowing agent who intends to challenge power. In contrast, we suggest that resistance is the product of many agents of varying ontological statuses acting together. Using a study of bicycle commuting in the American Midwest (an activity that takes place at the edges of organizations), actor-network theory, and Cooren’s theory of ventriloquism, we demonstrate that resistance has a relatio…
Space, Place, and the Communicative Constitution of Organizations: A Constitutive Model of Organizational Space
Existing research on organizational spaces tends to focus on either material aspects or socially constructed aspects. Both approaches see space as something an organization possesses. In response, I use the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) to propose a constitutive model of organizational space. This theory considers the subjective and objective aspects of organizational space, as well as how space is both constitutive of and con…
Feminist Organizational Placemaking: The Relational Ontology of Place and Feminist Care
This essay explores a tension around the potential for placemaking in organizations to be a feminist practice. On one hand, places promote authenticity, security, humanity, and community—all practices in line with a feminist ethic of care. On the other hand, places can reproduce gendered norms and mandate emotional labor. Part of the reason that the making of place cannot be unequivocally positive in organizations is that, when viewed from a rela…
My drive is my sacred time’: Commuting as routine liminality
Commuting is a twice-daily routine for many workers. As it is situated between work and home, the commute is liminal, serving as a transition between the two realms while not belonging fully to either. In this paper, I show how many workers use the generative nature of routines to make commuting into a valuable and meaningful time that allows them to have time to themselves and pursue activities they cannot otherwise do. Commuting serves an impor…
Organizational Space and Place beyond Container or Construction: Exploring Workspace in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations
Space (measurable, objective) and place (meaningful space) are foundational elements of all organizations and organizing. However, extant literature on organizational space has focused on material space as a container for organizations or socially constructed places within organizations. Such an understanding contrasts research from critical geography that has demonstrated the centrality of space to all social life. Using geography and a constitu…
Through the Eyes of the Participant: Making Connections between Researcher and Subject with Participant Viewpoint Ethnography
In this article, we introduce participant viewpoint ethnography (PVE), a phenomenological video research method that combines reflexive, interview-based data with video capture of actual experiences. In PVE, participants wear a head-mounted camera to record the phenomena of study from their point of view. The researcher and participant then review the video together, and the participant narrates and explains salient practices in the video. This g…
Opting Out (Without Kids): Understanding Non‐Mothers' Workplace Exit in Popular Autobiographies
Since the term appeared in 2003, popular media and academics have been interested in the phenomenon of ‘opting out’ — elite women choosing to leave their jobs to stay at home with their children. Although it is unclear whether the opt‐out revolution actually exists, this conversation has resulted in a wealth of scholarship on women leaving successful jobs to care for their children, particularly how maternity might be a graceful time to exit gend…
Time and the constitution of markets: Internal dynamics and external relations of stock exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland
The organization of time influences the structural possibilities for social action as well as the cultural resources actors draw upon in social settings. In this paper, I use concepts developed in historical sociology to identify distinct elements of temporality to understand how time constitutes markets. I analyse how two types of temporal structures influence market behaviour and operation using comparative ethnographic data on stock exchanges …
Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania
How do global issue constructions serve as resources for actors engaged in domestic political contention, and what does the appropriation of global ideas by domestic actors imply about the spread of global culture? To contribute to knowledge about conflict-based diffusion of global ideas, we examine the histories of global constructions of indigenous rights and national debates about indigenous rights in Fiji and Tanzania. While global models of …
Institutionalizing Legal Consciousness: Regulation and the Embedding of Market Participants in the Securities Industry in Ghana and Fiji
How do differences in the implementation of regulation impact market behavior? I propose a theoretical framework to understand this impact as part of the process of embedding market participants through the institutionalization of legal consciousness within a field of action. I use this framework to understand the impact of the difference in the implementation of securities regulation in Ghana and Fiji. In Fiji, where the regulatory agency is mor…
Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture
Preface ix Introduction 3 One: Learning to Talk 19 Two: Rites of Arguments 38 Three: Evidence and the Creation of Truth 67 Four: In the Round 97 Five: Our Team 133 Six: Debate Culture 162 Seven: Teachers and Coaches 190 Eight: Gifted Leisure and the Politics of Debate 217 Nine: Debate and the Adolescent Toolkit 241 Appendix: Communities of Debate 252 Notes 271 Glossary 297 Index 299
Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Christian
Institutionalizing Legal Consciousness: Regulation and the Embedding of Market Participants in the Securities Industry in Ghana and Fiji
How do differences in the implementation of regulation impact market behavior? I propose a theoretical framework to understand this impact as part of the process of embedding market participants through the institutionalization of legal consciousness within a field of action. I use this framework to understand the impact of the difference in the implementation of securities regulation in Ghana and Fiji. In Fiji, where the regulatory agency is mor…
Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania
How do global issue constructions serve as resources for actors engaged in domestic political contention, and what does the appropriation of global ideas by domestic actors imply about the spread of global culture? To contribute to knowledge about conflict-based diffusion of global ideas, we examine the histories of global constructions of indigenous rights and national debates about indigenous rights in Fiji and Tanzania. While global models of …
Creating home at work: Humanistic Geography and Placemaking in Organizations
Drawing on the positive connotations associated with home from humanistic geography (Relph 1976 Relph, E. 1976. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion. [Google Scholar]; Tuan 1977 Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar]; Cresswell 2015 Cresswell, T. 2015. Place: A Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons. [Google Scholar]) and Western cultu…
My drive is my sacred time’: Commuting as routine liminality
Commuting is a twice-daily routine for many workers. As it is situated between work and home, the commute is liminal, serving as a transition between the two realms while not belonging fully to either. In this paper, I show how many workers use the generative nature of routines to make commuting into a valuable and meaningful time that allows them to have time to themselves and pursue activities they cannot otherwise do. Commuting serves an impor…
Opting Out (Without Kids): Understanding Non‐Mothers' Workplace Exit in Popular Autobiographies
Since the term appeared in 2003, popular media and academics have been interested in the phenomenon of ‘opting out’ — elite women choosing to leave their jobs to stay at home with their children. Although it is unclear whether the opt‐out revolution actually exists, this conversation has resulted in a wealth of scholarship on women leaving successful jobs to care for their children, particularly how maternity might be a graceful time to exit gend…
Through the Eyes of the Participant: Making Connections between Researcher and Subject with Participant Viewpoint Ethnography
In this article, we introduce participant viewpoint ethnography (PVE), a phenomenological video research method that combines reflexive, interview-based data with video capture of actual experiences. In PVE, participants wear a head-mounted camera to record the phenomena of study from their point of view. The researcher and participant then review the video together, and the participant narrates and explains salient practices in the video. This g…
Space, Place, and the Communicative Constitution of Organizations: A Constitutive Model of Organizational Space
Existing research on organizational spaces tends to focus on either material aspects or socially constructed aspects. Both approaches see space as something an organization possesses. In response, I use the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) to propose a constitutive model of organizational space. This theory considers the subjective and objective aspects of organizational space, as well as how space is both constitutive of and con…
Feminist Organizational Placemaking: The Relational Ontology of Place and Feminist Care
This essay explores a tension around the potential for placemaking in organizations to be a feminist practice. On one hand, places promote authenticity, security, humanity, and community—all practices in line with a feminist ethic of care. On the other hand, places can reproduce gendered norms and mandate emotional labor. Part of the reason that the making of place cannot be unequivocally positive in organizations is that, when viewed from a rela…
Time and the constitution of markets: Internal dynamics and external relations of stock exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland
The organization of time influences the structural possibilities for social action as well as the cultural resources actors draw upon in social settings. In this paper, I use concepts developed in historical sociology to identify distinct elements of temporality to understand how time constitutes markets. I analyse how two types of temporal structures influence market behaviour and operation using comparative ethnographic data on stock exchanges …
Are the Dead Sea Scrolls Christian
Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture
Preface ix Introduction 3 One: Learning to Talk 19 Two: Rites of Arguments 38 Three: Evidence and the Creation of Truth 67 Four: In the Round 97 Five: Our Team 133 Six: Debate Culture 162 Seven: Teachers and Coaches 190 Eight: Gifted Leisure and the Politics of Debate 217 Nine: Debate and the Adolescent Toolkit 241 Appendix: Communities of Debate 252 Notes 271 Glossary 297 Index 299
Institutionalizing Legal Consciousness: Regulation and the Embedding of Market Participants in the Securities Industry in Ghana and Fiji
How do differences in the implementation of regulation impact market behavior? I propose a theoretical framework to understand this impact as part of the process of embedding market participants through the institutionalization of legal consciousness within a field of action. I use this framework to understand the impact of the difference in the implementation of securities regulation in Ghana and Fiji. In Fiji, where the regulatory agency is mor…
Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania
How do global issue constructions serve as resources for actors engaged in domestic political contention, and what does the appropriation of global ideas by domestic actors imply about the spread of global culture? To contribute to knowledge about conflict-based diffusion of global ideas, we examine the histories of global constructions of indigenous rights and national debates about indigenous rights in Fiji and Tanzania. While global models of …
Time and the constitution of markets: Internal dynamics and external relations of stock exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland
The organization of time influences the structural possibilities for social action as well as the cultural resources actors draw upon in social settings. In this paper, I use concepts developed in historical sociology to identify distinct elements of temporality to understand how time constitutes markets. I analyse how two types of temporal structures influence market behaviour and operation using comparative ethnographic data on stock exchanges …
Opting Out (Without Kids): Understanding Non‐Mothers' Workplace Exit in Popular Autobiographies
Since the term appeared in 2003, popular media and academics have been interested in the phenomenon of ‘opting out’ — elite women choosing to leave their jobs to stay at home with their children. Although it is unclear whether the opt‐out revolution actually exists, this conversation has resulted in a wealth of scholarship on women leaving successful jobs to care for their children, particularly how maternity might be a graceful time to exit gend…
Organizational Space and Place beyond Container or Construction: Exploring Workspace in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations
Space (measurable, objective) and place (meaningful space) are foundational elements of all organizations and organizing. However, extant literature on organizational space has focused on material space as a container for organizations or socially constructed places within organizations. Such an understanding contrasts research from critical geography that has demonstrated the centrality of space to all social life. Using geography and a constitu…
Through the Eyes of the Participant: Making Connections between Researcher and Subject with Participant Viewpoint Ethnography
In this article, we introduce participant viewpoint ethnography (PVE), a phenomenological video research method that combines reflexive, interview-based data with video capture of actual experiences. In PVE, participants wear a head-mounted camera to record the phenomena of study from their point of view. The researcher and participant then review the video together, and the participant narrates and explains salient practices in the video. This g…
My drive is my sacred time’: Commuting as routine liminality
Commuting is a twice-daily routine for many workers. As it is situated between work and home, the commute is liminal, serving as a transition between the two realms while not belonging fully to either. In this paper, I show how many workers use the generative nature of routines to make commuting into a valuable and meaningful time that allows them to have time to themselves and pursue activities they cannot otherwise do. Commuting serves an impor…
Space, Place, and the Communicative Constitution of Organizations: A Constitutive Model of Organizational Space
Existing research on organizational spaces tends to focus on either material aspects or socially constructed aspects. Both approaches see space as something an organization possesses. In response, I use the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) to propose a constitutive model of organizational space. This theory considers the subjective and objective aspects of organizational space, as well as how space is both constitutive of and con…
Feminist Organizational Placemaking: The Relational Ontology of Place and Feminist Care
This essay explores a tension around the potential for placemaking in organizations to be a feminist practice. On one hand, places promote authenticity, security, humanity, and community—all practices in line with a feminist ethic of care. On the other hand, places can reproduce gendered norms and mandate emotional labor. Part of the reason that the making of place cannot be unequivocally positive in organizations is that, when viewed from a rela…
The relational ontology of resistance: Hybridity, ventriloquism, and materiality in the production of bike commuting as resistance
Many studies of organizational resistance have focused on a knowing agent who intends to challenge power. In contrast, we suggest that resistance is the product of many agents of varying ontological statuses acting together. Using a study of bicycle commuting in the American Midwest (an activity that takes place at the edges of organizations), actor-network theory, and Cooren’s theory of ventriloquism, we demonstrate that resistance has a relatio…
Creating home at work: Humanistic Geography and Placemaking in Organizations
Drawing on the positive connotations associated with home from humanistic geography (Relph 1976 Relph, E. 1976. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion. [Google Scholar]; Tuan 1977 Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1977. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar]; Cresswell 2015 Cresswell, T. 2015. Place: A Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons. [Google Scholar]) and Western cultu…
Communicating inclusion: A review and research agenda on inclusion research in organizational communication
Gen Z College Students’ Preference for Affordances Over Aesthetics in Interpreting Workplace Imagery
Using data collected from focus groups with traditional college students, this paper examines how students read images of highly aestheticized workspaces. The findings demonstrate that although college students are attracted to the aesthetic of workspaces, they are also skilled at reading the affordances present in workspaces. Through experiences like internships, college life, and observations of their parents, students have learned what kinds o…
Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research
In 2019, we received a Top Paper Award for a paper presented at a national communication conference, despite our erasure of Black women from the history of midwifery in Alabama. We recognize and acknowledge the logics of white supremacy that informed our initial thinking and offer this essay as reparative work. We begin by describing our original research project. Then, we outline the reflexive, intellectual, and methodological practices that inf…
Imagining possibilities for translocal collaborative engaged research and pedagogy
Engaged communication scholarship is often deeply situated – and this makes sense considering many of the important place-based histories, contexts, and relationships that shape the collaborative e
Beyond ramen noodles: How critical consciousness transforms resilience for U.S. college students navigating food insecurity
Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study explored how U.S. college students engage in resilience strategies in response to food insecurity. While adaptive resilience strategies provided short-term relief to deal with hunger, such strategies reinforced stigma, led to well-being crises, and perpetuated vicious cycles of framing college food insecurity as an individual failure. When critical consciousness was cultivated, we found that participa…
What do Corporations Want: Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm by Timothy Kuhn
Reinforcing, Refashioning, and Rejecting Do What You Love: How Professional Women Lifestyle Bloggers Negotiate the Paradox of Passion in Digital Labor
This study examines how women professional lifestyle bloggers in the United States negotiated the discourse “do what you love” (DWYL) as a source of meaningful work. While DWYL has many empowering aspects, this discourse can become self-exploitative and a form of hegemonic control. Specifically, we unpack how bloggers navigated DWYL in their digital labor in the overlap of paid labor and passion. Through an analysis of reflective blog posts, wome…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works)