Alcides Velasquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 292050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alcides Velasquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alcides |
| FAMILY NAME | Velasquez |
| SIGNATURE | VELASQUEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8076-1720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Integrating corrective action theory into the social identity model of collective action to explain U.S. Latinos/as’ social media political expression
This study examines U.S. Latinos/as’ use of social media for collective expression by integrating the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) and corrective action theory. Using survey data from 995 participants, the findings show that ingroup identification was linked to collective expression primarily through indirect pathways. Collective efficacy was the clearest mechanism, while ingroup social media news and information exposure pr…
The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx
Aiming to expand current research on the mechanisms and conditions under which novel citizenship norms emerge among different populations, we investigate the antecedents of discursive citizenship norms among Latinx individuals in the United States. Results from a two-wave survey suggest that cross-platform news media repertoires are positively associated with individual information care norms and considered contribution norms. Social media politi…
Political Identity Threats on Social Media
One appealing explanation for the dismal state of digital politics in the U.S. is that social media offer abundant threats to users’ political identities. This paper provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for studying political identity threats on social media. A pilot study ( N = 931) established that individuals can recognize both realistic and symbolic threats when they explicitly appear in TikTok videos, but that, (a) threat types ar…
Shame, Suspicion, Surveillance, and Blame
This study explores how neoliberal ideology shapes the experience and management of stigma among the fastest-growing demographic in the United States—Latinos/as. We adopt a communicative framework of neoliberal stigma to explore how Latinos/as perceived stigma associated with their identity and stigma management communication theory to outline how Latinos/as manage and cope with neoliberal stigma. Through interviews with 17 Latinos/as, we uncover…
Intraparty and Interparty Political Disagreement as Predictors of Affective Polarization and Willingness to Engage in Interparty Contact
Interpersonal political discussion is a normatively valued practice in a democracy, shaping polarizing attitudes and influencing future contact intentions in divided political landscapes. Applying social identity, intergroup contact, and conflict management styles theories, in this article, we investigate the associations between political disagreement with in-party and out-party members, affective polarization, and willingness to engage in inter…
Theorizing networked counterpublics sanctions
Networked counterpublics have emerged on social media, articulating their lived experiences and collectively countering narratives propagated by mainstream publics. However, the voices of minority publics on social media can also be sanctioned by mainstream publics and institutions. Drawing upon the concept of sanctions within counterpublics literature, this study proposes a theoretically based framework that helps us understand the strategies, c…
Food for thought or food for emotions? An analysis of marketing strategies in television food advertising seen by children in Colombia
Objective: To establish the relationship between the marketing strategies and nutritional quality of foods and beverages promoted in television food advertisements (TV ads) seen by Colombian child audiences overall and based on child gender and socio-economic strata (SES). Design: A quantitative content analysis of marketing appeals was combined with nutritional data of the food products advertised and matched with TV audience ratings data for ea…
Group Consciousness and Corrective Action
This study examines the role that group consciousness plays in driving corrective action. Drawing from an online survey of Latinos in the United States ( N = 588), it tests the relationships among group consciousness, perceived media bias, proattitudinal selective exposure, and political participation. Results show support for a serial mediation model where the relationship between group consciousness and political participation runs through perc…
Extent and nutritional quality of foods and beverages to which children are exposed in Colombian TV food advertising
Objective: To examine children’s exposure to food and beverage advertising across a year of Colombian television based on whether products exceed Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)-defined nutrient thresholds. Design: Nutritional information was obtained for all foods and beverages advertised and used to categorise each product according to the product category (e.g. beverage, snack food) and nutritional quality based on the PAHO model for i…
Social Media Expression as a Collective Strategy
The visibility and association affordances of social media facilitate their potential use for collective action, especially for marginalized and disempowered groups. Guided by social identity theory (SIT), this study examines how perceived discrimination and perceptions of personal and objective constraints on Latinos’ social status increase Latinos’ social media expression. The results indicate that increased perceived discrimination is associat…
Scoping review of studies on food marketing in Latin America
OBJECTIVE: To document the evidence about marketing of ultra-processed foods and “non-alcoholic” beverages in Latin America. METHODS: We performed a structured search of quantitative and qualitative studies in PubMed, SciELO and LILACS, published between January 2000 and May 2017 and conducted in Latin America. We conducted a quality assessment following a standardized tool and a thematic analysis to identify key typologies of marketing across st…
Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use
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, this study examines the influence of two dimensions of ingroup identification (i.e., group self-definition, group self-investment) on Latinos(as)’ political expression about immigration and Latino culture on social media, the me…
Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles
Two interacting forces are subtly shifting the nature of American democracy—the public’s increased use of social media for political information and meaningful changes in the demographic characteristics of the country. This study specifically examined ways in which social media use for political purposes could leverage greater offline political participation among Hispanics and Latinos—a rapidly growing segment of the population. Using social cog…
Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts
Mobile phones have become central to family members’ daily communication. This study investigates the material and skills access barriers that parents of adolescents in resource-constrained contexts face for mobile relational maintenance. Following an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, interviews with parents in Bogotá, Colombia, explored how they managed to keep in touch with their children despite facing access barriers and how these …
Political Expression on Social Media
The use of social media sites for political expression has added a new layer to the study of political discussion. In this type of user-generated content applications, interpersonal and mass-mediated types of communication converge in one medium. Therefore, in this study, we bring together insights from interpersonal communication theories and mass communication models that predict online expression, adding explanatory power to this form of polit…
Latent Users in an Online User-Generated Content Community
Youth collective activism through social media
The relationship between social media use and youth’s political participation has been extensively studied. However, explanations for youth’s online collective political activism have been less explored. Previous studies have used the concept of internal political efficacy to examine the relationship between social media and political participation. However, this concept only explains individual political participation, while many political actio…
Social media and online political discussion
This study examines, through a content analysis of the census of news stories posted in a Colombian online political community, how status cues and informational cascades shape participation in online political discussions. Specifically, it looks at how the authors’ news stories posting increase rate, the number of news story sources, the velocity at which comments to a news story start to appear, and the comment interactivity affect discussion p…
The Use of Online Social Networking by Rural Youth and Its Effects on Community Attachment
In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been placed on improving access to Information and Communication Technology in the United States. With the rapidity at which broadband construction projects are dotting America, it is important to understand the social impacts of these infrastructural projects. One particularly salient issue is whether access to the Internet would decrease the involvement of youth in their home communities si…
Youth collective activism through social media
The relationship between social media use and youth’s political participation has been extensively studied. However, explanations for youth’s online collective political activism have been less explored. Previous studies have used the concept of internal political efficacy to examine the relationship between social media and political participation. However, this concept only explains individual political participation, while many political actio…
Political Expression on Social Media
The use of social media sites for political expression has added a new layer to the study of political discussion. In this type of user-generated content applications, interpersonal and mass-mediated types of communication converge in one medium. Therefore, in this study, we bring together insights from interpersonal communication theories and mass communication models that predict online expression, adding explanatory power to this form of polit…
Social media and online political discussion
This study examines, through a content analysis of the census of news stories posted in a Colombian online political community, how status cues and informational cascades shape participation in online political discussions. Specifically, it looks at how the authors’ news stories posting increase rate, the number of news story sources, the velocity at which comments to a news story start to appear, and the comment interactivity affect discussion p…
Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use
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, this study examines the influence of two dimensions of ingroup identification (i.e., group self-definition, group self-investment) on Latinos(as)’ political expression about immigration and Latino culture on social media, the me…
Social Media Expression as a Collective Strategy
The visibility and association affordances of social media facilitate their potential use for collective action, especially for marginalized and disempowered groups. Guided by social identity theory (SIT), this study examines how perceived discrimination and perceptions of personal and objective constraints on Latinos’ social status increase Latinos’ social media expression. The results indicate that increased perceived discrimination is associat…
Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts
Mobile phones have become central to family members’ daily communication. This study investigates the material and skills access barriers that parents of adolescents in resource-constrained contexts face for mobile relational maintenance. Following an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, interviews with parents in Bogotá, Colombia, explored how they managed to keep in touch with their children despite facing access barriers and how these …
The Use of Online Social Networking by Rural Youth and Its Effects on Community Attachment
In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been placed on improving access to Information and Communication Technology in the United States. With the rapidity at which broadband construction projects are dotting America, it is important to understand the social impacts of these infrastructural projects. One particularly salient issue is whether access to the Internet would decrease the involvement of youth in their home communities si…
Social media and online political discussion
This study examines, through a content analysis of the census of news stories posted in a Colombian online political community, how status cues and informational cascades shape participation in online political discussions. Specifically, it looks at how the authors’ news stories posting increase rate, the number of news story sources, the velocity at which comments to a news story start to appear, and the comment interactivity affect discussion p…
Latent Users in an Online User-Generated Content Community
Youth collective activism through social media
The relationship between social media use and youth’s political participation has been extensively studied. However, explanations for youth’s online collective political activism have been less explored. Previous studies have used the concept of internal political efficacy to examine the relationship between social media and political participation. However, this concept only explains individual political participation, while many political actio…
Political Expression on Social Media
The use of social media sites for political expression has added a new layer to the study of political discussion. In this type of user-generated content applications, interpersonal and mass-mediated types of communication converge in one medium. Therefore, in this study, we bring together insights from interpersonal communication theories and mass communication models that predict online expression, adding explanatory power to this form of polit…
Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles
Two interacting forces are subtly shifting the nature of American democracy—the public’s increased use of social media for political information and meaningful changes in the demographic characteristics of the country. This study specifically examined ways in which social media use for political purposes could leverage greater offline political participation among Hispanics and Latinos—a rapidly growing segment of the population. Using social cog…
Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts
Mobile phones have become central to family members’ daily communication. This study investigates the material and skills access barriers that parents of adolescents in resource-constrained contexts face for mobile relational maintenance. Following an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, interviews with parents in Bogotá, Colombia, explored how they managed to keep in touch with their children despite facing access barriers and how these …
Scoping review of studies on food marketing in Latin America
OBJECTIVE: To document the evidence about marketing of ultra-processed foods and “non-alcoholic” beverages in Latin America. METHODS: We performed a structured search of quantitative and qualitative studies in PubMed, SciELO and LILACS, published between January 2000 and May 2017 and conducted in Latin America. We conducted a quality assessment following a standardized tool and a thematic analysis to identify key typologies of marketing across st…
Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use
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, this study examines the influence of two dimensions of ingroup identification (i.e., group self-definition, group self-investment) on Latinos(as)’ political expression about immigration and Latino culture on social media, the me…
Social Media Expression as a Collective Strategy
The visibility and association affordances of social media facilitate their potential use for collective action, especially for marginalized and disempowered groups. Guided by social identity theory (SIT), this study examines how perceived discrimination and perceptions of personal and objective constraints on Latinos’ social status increase Latinos’ social media expression. The results indicate that increased perceived discrimination is associat…
Group Consciousness and Corrective Action
This study examines the role that group consciousness plays in driving corrective action. Drawing from an online survey of Latinos in the United States ( N = 588), it tests the relationships among group consciousness, perceived media bias, proattitudinal selective exposure, and political participation. Results show support for a serial mediation model where the relationship between group consciousness and political participation runs through perc…
Extent and nutritional quality of foods and beverages to which children are exposed in Colombian TV food advertising
Objective: To examine children’s exposure to food and beverage advertising across a year of Colombian television based on whether products exceed Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)-defined nutrient thresholds. Design: Nutritional information was obtained for all foods and beverages advertised and used to categorise each product according to the product category (e.g. beverage, snack food) and nutritional quality based on the PAHO model for i…
Food for thought or food for emotions? An analysis of marketing strategies in television food advertising seen by children in Colombia
Objective: To establish the relationship between the marketing strategies and nutritional quality of foods and beverages promoted in television food advertisements (TV ads) seen by Colombian child audiences overall and based on child gender and socio-economic strata (SES). Design: A quantitative content analysis of marketing appeals was combined with nutritional data of the food products advertised and matched with TV audience ratings data for ea…
Intraparty and Interparty Political Disagreement as Predictors of Affective Polarization and Willingness to Engage in Interparty Contact
Interpersonal political discussion is a normatively valued practice in a democracy, shaping polarizing attitudes and influencing future contact intentions in divided political landscapes. Applying social identity, intergroup contact, and conflict management styles theories, in this article, we investigate the associations between political disagreement with in-party and out-party members, affective polarization, and willingness to engage in inter…
Theorizing networked counterpublics sanctions
Networked counterpublics have emerged on social media, articulating their lived experiences and collectively countering narratives propagated by mainstream publics. However, the voices of minority publics on social media can also be sanctioned by mainstream publics and institutions. Drawing upon the concept of sanctions within counterpublics literature, this study proposes a theoretically based framework that helps us understand the strategies, c…
Integrating corrective action theory into the social identity model of collective action to explain U.S. Latinos/as’ social media political expression
This study examines U.S. Latinos/as’ use of social media for collective expression by integrating the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) and corrective action theory. Using survey data from 995 participants, the findings show that ingroup identification was linked to collective expression primarily through indirect pathways. Collective efficacy was the clearest mechanism, while ingroup social media news and information exposure pr…
The role of media use in the development of discursive citizenship norms among U.S. Latinx
Aiming to expand current research on the mechanisms and conditions under which novel citizenship norms emerge among different populations, we investigate the antecedents of discursive citizenship norms among Latinx individuals in the United States. Results from a two-wave survey suggest that cross-platform news media repertoires are positively associated with individual information care norms and considered contribution norms. Social media politi…
Political Identity Threats on Social Media
One appealing explanation for the dismal state of digital politics in the U.S. is that social media offer abundant threats to users’ political identities. This paper provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for studying political identity threats on social media. A pilot study ( N = 931) established that individuals can recognize both realistic and symbolic threats when they explicitly appear in TikTok videos, but that, (a) threat types ar…
Shame, Suspicion, Surveillance, and Blame
This study explores how neoliberal ideology shapes the experience and management of stigma among the fastest-growing demographic in the United States—Latinos/as. We adopt a communicative framework of neoliberal stigma to explore how Latinos/as perceived stigma associated with their identity and stigma management communication theory to outline how Latinos/as manage and cope with neoliberal stigma. Through interviews with 17 Latinos/as, we uncover…
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