Melissa Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8716-6497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. Immigration News
Immigration is high on the U.S. policy and news agenda, and thus important to public service organizations that provide assistance to migrants and advocate for immigration-related legislation. This longitudinal study analyzes 1,952 news sources and 445 other organizational information subsidies in 534 newspaper articles about immigration from the U.S.-Mexico border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, 1993–2022. Nonprofit (NPO) a…
Tigah camp
Lucy's Story
Corrigenda to “The Oldham Notebooks
R ajeshwari D utt . Empire on Edge
Belize, a small English-speaking former British colony (British Honduras) nestled between Mexico, Guatemala, and the Caribbean Sea, is a compelling place to explore how a colonial power tried to maintain its borders and govern where identity was fluid, alliances shifting, and conflict frequent. Rajeshwari Dutt takes on this task, focusing on the late 1800s, just as northern Belize became entangled in the Yucatec Caste War. Cleverly titled Empire …
Creole becoming and the commons
In rural Belize, Afro-Caribbean people have been generating economies and ecologies that simultaneously articulate with and are other than the global capitalism that initially brought enslaved West Africans and free Northern Europeans to the shores of Central America in the 1700s. What it is to be Belizean Creole initially emerged in the crucible of forest slavery and racial capitalism, but flourished in the generation of reciprocal economies and…
Acculturation, Pluralism, and Digital Social Advocacy in Nonprofit Strategic Communications
This qualitative study investigates the use of acculturation-themed images in nonprofit strategic communications and digital advocacy efforts of 13 organizations serving Hispanic and Latinx immigrant communities in two U.S. states. The study analyzes data from 14 in-depth interviews with the public relations and marketing communication professionals responsible for the website content and digital strategy for the organizations. Based on study fin…
Gender, Race and Ecotourism Assemblages in Rural Creole Belize
Race and gender intertwine with ecotourism in Belize's northern rural Creole villages, communities that are home to protected areas renowned for birds and other wildlife. Racialising and gendering assemblages found here emerge out of Belize's long history of forest-based slavery economies. From the early days of sport fishing and jaguar hunting in the 1950s through to contemporary bird-and wildlife-watching, tourism has joined these socio-natural…
Acculturation, pluralism, empowerment
This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target pu…
Dreamers” or threat
This research analyzes Spanish- and English-language news discourses in the United States following the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It identifies how sources quoted by journalists affected framing of stories in five ethnic and general market newspapers. Coverage of Dreamers and DACA was generally positive, especially compared to common representations of undocumented immigrants as criminals and as a …
Online mentoring of dissertations
This study focused on the mentoring experiences of 10 faculty members during the dissertation stage of two online professional doctoral programs. Interview data provided insight into the strategies used by the professors in the areas of virtual communication, research design and dissertation development, and psychosocial support, and the challenges they faced during the online mentoring of dissertations. The findings emphasize the importance of s…
Becoming Creole
Culture as soft power
The purpose of this article is to emphasize autonomous and separatist regions in the nation branding and public diplomacy communication literature, and to highlight how promoting culture can convey soft power. In particular, the short article illuminates the practical aspects of branding: especially the visual element that has received limited attention in prior public diplomacy studies. Examples from government websites of Catalonia, the Basque …
Visual Expressions of Black Identity
This qualitative and quantitative content analysis examines 46 African and African American museum websites. Merelman’s cultural projection concept serves as a foundation to explain the societal importance of Black cultural expression. The analysis reviews how the African- and African American-centric organizations communicate Black and organizational identities on their digital platforms. Described are images, sound, and visual dynamism. The fin…
Coverage of Mexico in United States media
This study summarizes the research produced from 1984 to 2014 about coverage of Mexico in the United States media. The most important findings are: in the last three decades there has been an exponential growth in academic production related to this topic; researchers working for public universities in border states (geographic proximity) or with high rates of Hispanics in the population (cultural proximity) are producing most of these studies; a…
Creolized Conservation
In this article, I analyze the implementation and management of Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary in rural Creole (Afro-Caribbean) Belize as a process of creolization. Encounters between different villagers, Belizean and international conservationists, and government officials in creating and running the sanctuary generated both synthesis and disjuncture in the conservation policy and practice that emerged. Differently positioned actors shifted the…
Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research
The growth of ethnic media is a bright trend in the U.S. media market, and media for various cultural groups are expanding in Europe and elsewhere. However, despite increased scholarly attention to ethnic media, ethnic media theoretical concept development has not kept pace. This article has three purposes. It differentiates ethnic media from other media forms and defines related concepts, organizes and models contemporary ethnic media literature…
Mexican Expatriates Vote? Framing and Agenda Setting in U.S. News Coverage About Mexico
This content analysis examined framing and second-level agenda setting in U.S. newspaper pre-election coverage of the 2006 Mexican presidential elections and the new Mexican expatriate voting law. The authors conducted a quantitative analysis of 161 articles and a qualitative analysis of 36 articles in U.S. newspapers from August 2005 through mid-April 2006. Findings indicated that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received more coverage (59.6%) than R…
Thesis Abstracts
Ambivalent Landscapes
Vassos Argyrou, The Logic of Environmentalism
Prevalence Estimates of Overweight and Obesity in Cree Preschool Children in Northern Quebec According to International and US Reference Criteria
Objectives. We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Cree Canadian children aged 5 years (n=1044) using international and US growth references and examined the longitudinal tracking of weight categories between ages 2 and 5 years (n=562). Methods. Weight categories based on body mass index (calculated from measured heights and weights) were derived from the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and the Centers for Disease Contro…
Anthropology and Environment Section
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras
How Ethnic Are U.S. Ethnic Media
In this article, I review 3 waves of ethnic media scholarship, and I describe how the dominant paradigm shifted from assimilation concerns to pluralism. I used qualitative and quantitative content analysis to examine news and features in 5 new nationwide women's magazines targeted to U.S. Hispanics. Thirty-eight percent of the manifest content mentioned Latinos and 27% mentioned specific Latin American cultures. These new English-language and bil…
How Ethnic Are U.S. Ethnic Media
In this article, I review 3 waves of ethnic media scholarship, and I describe how the dominant paradigm shifted from assimilation concerns to pluralism. I used qualitative and quantitative content analysis to examine news and features in 5 new nationwide women's magazines targeted to U.S. Hispanics. Thirty-eight percent of the manifest content mentioned Latinos and 27% mentioned specific Latin American cultures. These new English-language and bil…
Parent-Child Relationships and Children's Images of God
Jane R. Dickie, Amy K. Eshleman, Dawn M. Merasco, Amy Shepard, Michael Vander Wilt, Melissa Johnson, Parent-Child Relationships and Children's Images of God, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 25-43
Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research
The growth of ethnic media is a bright trend in the U.S. media market, and media for various cultural groups are expanding in Europe and elsewhere. However, despite increased scholarly attention to ethnic media, ethnic media theoretical concept development has not kept pace. This article has three purposes. It differentiates ethnic media from other media forms and defines related concepts, organizes and models contemporary ethnic media literature…
Ambivalent Landscapes
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras
Pre‐television stereotypes
This study explored images of Mexicans and dominant symbols in early U.S. newsreels, whether they changed throughout the 1920s, and whether they reflected the era's film stereotypes. Dominant images were dignitaries, doers, beauties, bystanders, and clerics. Symbols of modernity and class outweighed traditional images. Negative symbols like dirt or weapons were not prevalent. After 1924, symbols of literacy, diplomacy, and construction were more …
Gender, Race and Ecotourism Assemblages in Rural Creole Belize
Race and gender intertwine with ecotourism in Belize's northern rural Creole villages, communities that are home to protected areas renowned for birds and other wildlife. Racialising and gendering assemblages found here emerge out of Belize's long history of forest-based slavery economies. From the early days of sport fishing and jaguar hunting in the 1950s through to contemporary bird-and wildlife-watching, tourism has joined these socio-natural…
Dreamers” or threat
This research analyzes Spanish- and English-language news discourses in the United States following the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It identifies how sources quoted by journalists affected framing of stories in five ethnic and general market newspapers. Coverage of Dreamers and DACA was generally positive, especially compared to common representations of undocumented immigrants as criminals and as a …
Prevalence Estimates of Overweight and Obesity in Cree Preschool Children in Northern Quebec According to International and US Reference Criteria
Objectives. We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Cree Canadian children aged 5 years (n=1044) using international and US growth references and examined the longitudinal tracking of weight categories between ages 2 and 5 years (n=562). Methods. Weight categories based on body mass index (calculated from measured heights and weights) were derived from the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and the Centers for Disease Contro…
Creolized Conservation
In this article, I analyze the implementation and management of Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary in rural Creole (Afro-Caribbean) Belize as a process of creolization. Encounters between different villagers, Belizean and international conservationists, and government officials in creating and running the sanctuary generated both synthesis and disjuncture in the conservation policy and practice that emerged. Differently positioned actors shifted the…
Mother God, Father God
This study explored children's perceived distance from and involvelnent with God as related to (a) parents' involvelnent in parenting, (b) children's perceptions of God's gender, and (c) God's involvelnent in problematic situations. Forty-nine children ages 4-10 were interviewed and their parents colnpleted questionnaires. Children who were older, or whoseparents were less involved, perceived God as closer; when children perceived God as male, bo…
Lucy's Story
Creole becoming and the commons
In rural Belize, Afro-Caribbean people have been generating economies and ecologies that simultaneously articulate with and are other than the global capitalism that initially brought enslaved West Africans and free Northern Europeans to the shores of Central America in the 1700s. What it is to be Belizean Creole initially emerged in the crucible of forest slavery and racial capitalism, but flourished in the generation of reciprocal economies and…
Acculturation, Pluralism, and Digital Social Advocacy in Nonprofit Strategic Communications
This qualitative study investigates the use of acculturation-themed images in nonprofit strategic communications and digital advocacy efforts of 13 organizations serving Hispanic and Latinx immigrant communities in two U.S. states. The study analyzes data from 14 in-depth interviews with the public relations and marketing communication professionals responsible for the website content and digital strategy for the organizations. Based on study fin…
Coverage of Mexico in United States media
This study summarizes the research produced from 1984 to 2014 about coverage of Mexico in the United States media. The most important findings are: in the last three decades there has been an exponential growth in academic production related to this topic; researchers working for public universities in border states (geographic proximity) or with high rates of Hispanics in the population (cultural proximity) are producing most of these studies; a…
Mexican Expatriates Vote? Framing and Agenda Setting in U.S. News Coverage About Mexico
This content analysis examined framing and second-level agenda setting in U.S. newspaper pre-election coverage of the 2006 Mexican presidential elections and the new Mexican expatriate voting law. The authors conducted a quantitative analysis of 161 articles and a qualitative analysis of 36 articles in U.S. newspapers from August 2005 through mid-April 2006. Findings indicated that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received more coverage (59.6%) than R…
The Making of Belize
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Anne Sutherland. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. + 202 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
Gender, War, and Peace
The relationships between gender and war are complex. Ways of thinking about gender and war influence the questions asked, the knowledge sought, and the meaning given to evidence. In psychological research, sex role theory is the standard explanation for findings of difference between women and men in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to war. Feminist inquiry suggests several viable alternatives to sex role theory: feminist psychoanalysis…
Gender, War, and Peace
The relationships between gender and war are complex. Ways of thinking about gender and war influence the questions asked, the knowledge sought, and the meaning given to evidence. In psychological research, sex role theory is the standard explanation for findings of difference between women and men in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to war. Feminist inquiry suggests several viable alternatives to sex role theory: feminist psychoanalysis…
In vitro fertilization analysis of squirrel monkey oocytes produced by various follicular induction regimens and the incidence of triploidy
An in vitro fertilization system utilizing squirrel monkeys was used to compare follicle‐stimulating hormone, clomiphene citrate and prostaglandin E 1 as follicular induction regimens, analyze culture medium characteristics, and examine the physiological phenomenon of polyspermy. Induction of follicular growth was poor with clomiphene citrate when compared to the control group and increased the incidence of atretic follicles at all levels tested.…
Parent-Child Relationships and Children's Images of God
Jane R. Dickie, Amy K. Eshleman, Dawn M. Merasco, Amy Shepard, Michael Vander Wilt, Melissa Johnson, Parent-Child Relationships and Children's Images of God, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 25-43
The Role of Self in Third-Person Effects About Body Image
This study examines the perceived effect of idealized media images on self and classmates for three levels of outcome undesirability: perception of ideal body weight, effect on self-esteem, and likelihood of developing an eating disorder. A significant third-person effect was observed, which widened as the outcome increased in social undesirability. Those with high self-esteem exhibited stronger third-person effect than those with low self-esteem…
Mother God, Father God
This study explored children's perceived distance from and involvelnent with God as related to (a) parents' involvelnent in parenting, (b) children's perceptions of God's gender, and (c) God's involvelnent in problematic situations. Forty-nine children ages 4-10 were interviewed and their parents colnpleted questionnaires. Children who were older, or whoseparents were less involved, perceived God as closer; when children perceived God as male, bo…
Pre‐television stereotypes
This study explored images of Mexicans and dominant symbols in early U.S. newsreels, whether they changed throughout the 1920s, and whether they reflected the era's film stereotypes. Dominant images were dignitaries, doers, beauties, bystanders, and clerics. Symbols of modernity and class outweighed traditional images. Negative symbols like dirt or weapons were not prevalent. After 1924, symbols of literacy, diplomacy, and construction were more …
How Ethnic Are U.S. Ethnic Media
In this article, I review 3 waves of ethnic media scholarship, and I describe how the dominant paradigm shifted from assimilation concerns to pluralism. I used qualitative and quantitative content analysis to examine news and features in 5 new nationwide women's magazines targeted to U.S. Hispanics. Thirty-eight percent of the manifest content mentioned Latinos and 27% mentioned specific Latin American cultures. These new English-language and bil…
The Making of Belize
The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins. Anne Sutherland. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. + 202 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras
Anthropology and Environment Section
Vassos Argyrou, The Logic of Environmentalism
Prevalence Estimates of Overweight and Obesity in Cree Preschool Children in Northern Quebec According to International and US Reference Criteria
Objectives. We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Cree Canadian children aged 5 years (n=1044) using international and US growth references and examined the longitudinal tracking of weight categories between ages 2 and 5 years (n=562). Methods. Weight categories based on body mass index (calculated from measured heights and weights) were derived from the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and the Centers for Disease Contro…
Ambivalent Landscapes
Mexican Expatriates Vote? Framing and Agenda Setting in U.S. News Coverage About Mexico
This content analysis examined framing and second-level agenda setting in U.S. newspaper pre-election coverage of the 2006 Mexican presidential elections and the new Mexican expatriate voting law. The authors conducted a quantitative analysis of 161 articles and a qualitative analysis of 36 articles in U.S. newspapers from August 2005 through mid-April 2006. Findings indicated that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received more coverage (59.6%) than R…
Thesis Abstracts
Incorporating Self-Categorization Concepts Into Ethnic Media Research
The growth of ethnic media is a bright trend in the U.S. media market, and media for various cultural groups are expanding in Europe and elsewhere. However, despite increased scholarly attention to ethnic media, ethnic media theoretical concept development has not kept pace. This article has three purposes. It differentiates ethnic media from other media forms and defines related concepts, organizes and models contemporary ethnic media literature…
Coverage of Mexico in United States media
This study summarizes the research produced from 1984 to 2014 about coverage of Mexico in the United States media. The most important findings are: in the last three decades there has been an exponential growth in academic production related to this topic; researchers working for public universities in border states (geographic proximity) or with high rates of Hispanics in the population (cultural proximity) are producing most of these studies; a…
Creolized Conservation
In this article, I analyze the implementation and management of Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary in rural Creole (Afro-Caribbean) Belize as a process of creolization. Encounters between different villagers, Belizean and international conservationists, and government officials in creating and running the sanctuary generated both synthesis and disjuncture in the conservation policy and practice that emerged. Differently positioned actors shifted the…
Visual Expressions of Black Identity
This qualitative and quantitative content analysis examines 46 African and African American museum websites. Merelman’s cultural projection concept serves as a foundation to explain the societal importance of Black cultural expression. The analysis reviews how the African- and African American-centric organizations communicate Black and organizational identities on their digital platforms. Described are images, sound, and visual dynamism. The fin…
Becoming Creole
Culture as soft power
The purpose of this article is to emphasize autonomous and separatist regions in the nation branding and public diplomacy communication literature, and to highlight how promoting culture can convey soft power. In particular, the short article illuminates the practical aspects of branding: especially the visual element that has received limited attention in prior public diplomacy studies. Examples from government websites of Catalonia, the Basque …
Acculturation, pluralism, empowerment
This quantitative visual content analysis investigated the use of acculturation, pluralism, empowerment, and resistance-themed messages and images in nonprofit strategic communication and digital intercultural communication. The study analyzed data from 135 U.S.-based Latino nonprofit websites. Based on study findings, the authors argue that these nonprofits may be missing opportunities to strengthen relationships and cultural ties with target pu…
Dreamers” or threat
This research analyzes Spanish- and English-language news discourses in the United States following the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It identifies how sources quoted by journalists affected framing of stories in five ethnic and general market newspapers. Coverage of Dreamers and DACA was generally positive, especially compared to common representations of undocumented immigrants as criminals and as a …
Online mentoring of dissertations
This study focused on the mentoring experiences of 10 faculty members during the dissertation stage of two online professional doctoral programs. Interview data provided insight into the strategies used by the professors in the areas of virtual communication, research design and dissertation development, and psychosocial support, and the challenges they faced during the online mentoring of dissertations. The findings emphasize the importance of s…
Acculturation, Pluralism, and Digital Social Advocacy in Nonprofit Strategic Communications
This qualitative study investigates the use of acculturation-themed images in nonprofit strategic communications and digital advocacy efforts of 13 organizations serving Hispanic and Latinx immigrant communities in two U.S. states. The study analyzes data from 14 in-depth interviews with the public relations and marketing communication professionals responsible for the website content and digital strategy for the organizations. Based on study fin…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (15 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works)