Anna Wiederhold Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4257325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Wiederhold Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Wiederhold |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2310-0699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aspen Collective for Engaged Communication Scholarship statement
Since 2002, a collective of communication scholars and practitioners has gathered in Aspen, Colorado, and cities nearby, to share their experiences and challenges collaborating with communities and
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Special Issue Forum
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Sense of Community and Migration Intentions among Rural Young Professionals
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Work–life management in legal prostitution
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel ind…
Embodying imperfect unity
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Conducting fieldwork at and away from home
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them - as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile…
Local Art, Local Action
In every campaign, politicians make promises. They spell out their hopes and dreams for their constituents and describe the dystopia that would exist should their opponent be elected instead. With campaign speeches characterized by lofty promises, buzz words, and vague generalities, deliberative opportunities exist for clarification and complexification of candidate (and party) platforms. I propose a unique possibility for local politics that wou…
Work–life management in legal prostitution
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel ind…
Sense of Community and Migration Intentions among Rural Young Professionals
This mixed-methods study examines rural young professionals' migratory intentions in relation to sense of community. The most significant difference we found in migratory intentions was between two groups, which we call stayers and seekers. Both groups highly valued sense of community but they reported dramatically different experiences related to the dimensions of membership and emotional connection to the particular focal community of this stud…
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them - as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile…
Special Issue Forum
The novel coronavirus global pandemic—and the associated disease it causes (COVID-19)—swept the world in 2020, completely changing life as it once was. Academic mothers experienced COVID-19 as an unanticipated crash of simultaneous parenting responsibilities, remote teaching, and continued pressure to produce research. In this forum, four academic mothers present vignettes that represent their experiences navigating privilege and risk while paren…
Embodying imperfect unity
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyzes the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies – skeleton and organs, ligaments a…
Local Art, Local Action
In every campaign, politicians make promises. They spell out their hopes and dreams for their constituents and describe the dystopia that would exist should their opponent be elected instead. With campaign speeches characterized by lofty promises, buzz words, and vague generalities, deliberative opportunities exist for clarification and complexification of candidate (and party) platforms. I propose a unique possibility for local politics that wou…
Embodying imperfect unity
In March 2003, a contemporary version of the Greek play Lysistrata was performed on over 1000 stages across the globe to protest the war in Iraq. This article analyzes the synchronized performances of Lysistrata in order to question the role of the lived body in social activism. The lived body, as conceptualized by Young (2005), considers the power and constraint we experience as the material facts of our bodies – skeleton and organs, ligaments a…
Conducting fieldwork at and away from home
In this article, I begin from the premise that a meaningful difference exists between being a member of the same broad cultural group as your participants and actually sharing a personal history, a social network, and an assumed place-based investment in the future with them - as experienced by those scholars who conduct their research in the places they call home. I draw upon my own research experiences in order to argue that manipulating mobile…
Work–life management in legal prostitution
Across occupations, people contend with the difficult task of managing time between their work and other aspects of life. Previous research on stigmatized industries has suggested that so-called ‘dirty workers’ experience extreme identity segmentation between these two realms because they tend to cope with their occupational stigma by placing distance between their work and personal lives. Through a qualitative study of Nevada’s legal brothel ind…
Dialogue and Deliberation as Agonistic Resistance
This essay develops a theory of public dialogue and deliberation as agonistic resistance to authoritarian governance.Where authoritarian regimes value strict obedience to authority at the expense of freedom, deliberative democracy is predicated on the decentralization of power and the exercise of personal and political freedoms. As such, practices of dialogue and deliberation stand in direct contradiction to the values of authoritarian governance…
Sense of Community and Migration Intentions among Rural Young Professionals
This mixed-methods study examines rural young professionals' migratory intentions in relation to sense of community. The most significant difference we found in migratory intentions was between two groups, which we call stayers and seekers. Both groups highly valued sense of community but they reported dramatically different experiences related to the dimensions of membership and emotional connection to the particular focal community of this stud…
Special Issue Forum
The novel coronavirus global pandemic—and the associated disease it causes (COVID-19)—swept the world in 2020, completely changing life as it once was. Academic mothers experienced COVID-19 as an unanticipated crash of simultaneous parenting responsibilities, remote teaching, and continued pressure to produce research. In this forum, four academic mothers present vignettes that represent their experiences navigating privilege and risk while paren…
Developing a grounded practical theory of engaged communication scholarship
This study analyzes use of the terms ‘engaged scholarship’ and ‘engaged research’ in all 11 NCA journals to develop a grounded practical theory (GPT) of engaged communication research. We find that the practice of engaged scholarship is defined by tensions between role identity goals of scholar and practitioner; relational goals of expertise and partnership; and outcome goals of theory and practice. To manage these tensions, engaged scholars (1) …
Perspectivas y Agencia en la Comunicación para el Desarrollo y el Cambio Social en las Américas
En un mundo en constante transformación resulta crucial analizar la manera como distintos agentes sociales comprenden el cambio social. En el ámbito de la comunicación, este concepto se encuentra intrínsecamente ligado a la tradición de la Comunicación para el Desarrollo y el Cambio Social (CDCS). Esta tradición ha evolucionado regionalmente, con aportes de autores Latinoamericanos y un menor protagonismo de autores norteamericanos, acusados de i…
Aspen Collective for Engaged Communication Scholarship statement
Since 2002, a collective of communication scholars and practitioners has gathered in Aspen, Colorado, and cities nearby, to share their experiences and challenges collaborating with communities and
The myth of the ivory tower
The mythological ivory tower looms above the dirty masses, the messy thrum of everyday life. Great thinkers retreat to its sanctuary for the perspective required for insight, creativity, and art. I
Rethinking narrative sensemaking
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Art (2 works)