Cynthia Stohl
Biographic Data
| ID | 74937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Stohl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Stohl |
| SIGNATURE | STOHL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7050-6168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Understanding the perceptions of memorable messages about academic performance among students of color in the United States
This study addresses students of color (SOC) perceptions of memorable messages (MMs) related to their academic ability. A survey of 165 undergraduate students who identified as people of color vividly recalled both positively and negatively valenced messages. Our analysis identified four distinct positive themes embedded within the MMs: praise, encouragement, advice, and support, and four negative themes: criticism, discouragement, reprimand, and…
Memorable messages matter: Diversity, inclusion, and institutional success for faculty and students of color in the United States
As institutions of higher education aim to support diverse campus communities, a sense of urgency has developed to better understand the predictors of success for faculty and students of color. Amongst the growing body of literature about the needs and challenges of faculty and students of color in higher education, one finding is unequivocal: messages matter and matter far beyond the initial utterance. In addition to discussing the difficulties …
Visibility agents: Organizing transparency in the digital era
Transparency is a complex and multifaceted communication phenomenon. In the current environment, demands for organizational transparency now come from a wide range of entities we term visibility agents, ranging from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and global networks, on one hand, to activist coalitions and automated surveillance agents, on the other. We develop a framework to conceive of such visibility agents and the range of transparency …
What makes people willing to comment on social media posts? The roles of interactivity and perceived contingency in online corporate social responsibility communication
Interactivity is an important concept in the study of online social processes. Two experiments tested how interactivity influenced people’s willingness to comment on social media and their perceptions of a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. Across two operationalizations of interactivity (presence/absence of replies, high/low degree of reference to earlier messages), interactivity led to greater perceived contingency, which …
The appropriation of traditional media content in online contexts: A South Korean textbook case
This study explores the appropriation of traditional media content in an online protest context and highlights the significance of legacy media to activists’ communication practices online. Appropriation refers to the direct transfer of content originally produced in traditional media into social media posts. Focusing on the massive 2015 South Korean protests in opposition to the government’s decision to issue a single state-history textbook, a c…
Crowds, Clouds, and Community: Crowds, Clouds, and Community
Embodying both the promises and perils of our collective past and the dreams and dangers of global connectedness, the study of crowds, clouds, and community includes assumptions about central communication processes: organizing, socializing, and mediatizing. Across International Communication Association Divisions and Interest Groups we have a rich heritage of studies engaging these classical ideas and all 3 terms continue to be featured prominen…
From Wall Street to Wellington: Protests in an Era of Digital Ubiquity
The Occupy movement is said to represent a new generation of post-Seattle protests, driven by social networking, and breaking from organizing practices in previous eras. This study analyzes the Occupy Wellington protest to shed light on the role of protests in an era of digital media ubiquity. Based on the participant observation as well as 76 brief interviews, the study explores how activists used digital media, and examines the broader institut…
Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change
Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The American Legion, AARP and MoveOn - the authors reconceptualize collective action as a phenomenon in which technology enhances people's ability to cross bou…
Communicating in a Collaborating Group: A Longitudinal Network Analysis
Responding to rapid economic and technological change, escalating interdependence and the intensified competition associated with globalization, organizations are entering into multiple collaborative relationships across sectors and nations. These collaborations are more complex than typical organizational structures. Incorporating the bona fide group perspective and utilizing a longitudinal approach to network analysis (SIENA), this research exa…
Qualifying Engagement: A Study of Information and Communication Technology and the Global Social Justice Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Scholarly commentary has underscored the importance of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizing the Global Social Justice Movement (GSJM). This study examines key communicative assumptions regarding technology and activist participation in the GSJM by asking three research questions: (a) what impacts of ICT-enabled brokerage are evident in the GSJM in Aotearoa New Zealand; (b) how are activists' attitudes embedded in th…
Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences
Journal Article Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences Get access Cynthia Stohl, Cynthia Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Stohl Michael Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment
Journal Article Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment Get access Bruce Bimber, Bruce Bimber 1Bruce Bimber (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.. 4may be directed to Bimber at Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andrew J. Flanagin, A…
Participatory Processes/Paradoxical Practices: Communication and the Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy
This article brings together previous research efforts by the authors and reviews a wide range of relevant literatures to explain and analyze paradoxes of employee participation and workplace democracy. Although the authors do not take the position that all or even most of these paradoxes are necessarily harmful, they do maintain that there are a variety of practical avenues for dealing with them. The heart of the essay analyzes several main cate…
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Democracy, Participation, and Communication at Work: A Multidisciplinary Review
This review essay examines a broad multidisciplinary literature on democracy and work, highlighting issues of theory and practice of special interest to communication scholars. The essay treats relevant and selective research from the following fields (in addition to communication studies): the sociology of organizations, political science and public administration, comparative and labor economics, management and organizational behavior, cultural…
Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action
PART ONE: ORGANIZATIONS AS NETWORKS Connectedness-in-Action A Network Perspective PART TWO: THE COMPLEX MATRIX Messages Relationships PART THREE: LINKING COMMUNICATION AND ORGANIZATION Hierarchy Participation Conclusion
Social support messages and the management of uncertainty in the experience of breast cancer: An application of problematic integration theory
This article synthesizes past studies of illness, stress, coping, and social support and offers a model of communicative support, based on problematic integration theory, that emphasizes two major dimensions of meaning in the breast cancer experience. The model suggests that supportive messages are designed to help the breast cancer patient manage both perceptions of the likelihood (e.g., uncertainty) of various illness experiences and evaluation…
A Functional Perspective for Bona Fide Groups
Participating as participation: A network approach
This paper adopts a network approach to the study of worker participation in an attempt to capture the inherent communicative nature of participating within an organization. Although complex, dynamic, interactive processes are the very essence of participation, it has most often been conceptualized as a unidimensional, static variable, typically assessed at the individual level. The network study focuses attention upon the communicative activitie…
European Managers'Interpretations of Participation: A Semantic Network Analysis
Journal Article European Managers'Interpretations of Participation: A Semantic Network Analysis Get access Cynthia Stohl Cynthia Stohl 1Cynthia Stohl is a professor in the Department of Communication at Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 20, Issue 1, September 1993, Pages 97–117, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1993.tb00317.x Published: 17 March 2006
Factors Affecting the Adoption of a New Technology
Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control
This paper argues for a postmodern conception of power in which discourse is conceived as the principal medium through which power relations are maintained and reproduced. Specifically, power is identified as a pervasive characteristic of organizational life which constitutes the identity of organization members. Discourse, as a structured social practice, creates meaning formations rooted in a system of presence and absence which systematically …
Absence as Workplace Control: A Critical Inquiry
(1990). Absence as Workplace Control: A Critical Inquiry. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 13, Communication Yearbook 13, pp. 59-68
Bridging the Parallel Organization: A Study of Quality Circle Effectiveness
The role of memorable messages in the process of organizational socialization
This study examines the structure, form, and nature of the content and context of memorable messages exchanged within an organization. Based on the work of Knapp, Stohl and Reardon (1981) an analysis of interviews conducted within a small company indicates that all members were able to recall precisely a specific message which had a lasting influence on their work lives. The messages capsulized how one “should” behave in the organization and func…
Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment
Journal Article Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment Get access Bruce Bimber, Bruce Bimber 1Bruce Bimber (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.. 4may be directed to Bimber at Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andrew J. Flanagin, A…
Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control
This paper argues for a postmodern conception of power in which discourse is conceived as the principal medium through which power relations are maintained and reproduced. Specifically, power is identified as a pervasive characteristic of organizational life which constitutes the identity of organization members. Discourse, as a structured social practice, creates meaning formations rooted in a system of presence and absence which systematically …
From Wall Street to Wellington: Protests in an Era of Digital Ubiquity
The Occupy movement is said to represent a new generation of post-Seattle protests, driven by social networking, and breaking from organizing practices in previous eras. This study analyzes the Occupy Wellington protest to shed light on the role of protests in an era of digital media ubiquity. Based on the participant observation as well as 76 brief interviews, the study explores how activists used digital media, and examines the broader institut…
Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences
Journal Article Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences Get access Cynthia Stohl, Cynthia Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Stohl Michael Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
European Managers'Interpretations of Participation: A Semantic Network Analysis
Journal Article European Managers'Interpretations of Participation: A Semantic Network Analysis Get access Cynthia Stohl Cynthia Stohl 1Cynthia Stohl is a professor in the Department of Communication at Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 20, Issue 1, September 1993, Pages 97–117, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1993.tb00317.x Published: 17 March 2006
Social support messages and the management of uncertainty in the experience of breast cancer: An application of problematic integration theory
This article synthesizes past studies of illness, stress, coping, and social support and offers a model of communicative support, based on problematic integration theory, that emphasizes two major dimensions of meaning in the breast cancer experience. The model suggests that supportive messages are designed to help the breast cancer patient manage both perceptions of the likelihood (e.g., uncertainty) of various illness experiences and evaluation…
Qualifying Engagement: A Study of Information and Communication Technology and the Global Social Justice Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Scholarly commentary has underscored the importance of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizing the Global Social Justice Movement (GSJM). This study examines key communicative assumptions regarding technology and activist participation in the GSJM by asking three research questions: (a) what impacts of ICT-enabled brokerage are evident in the GSJM in Aotearoa New Zealand; (b) how are activists' attitudes embedded in th…
Participating as participation: A network approach
This paper adopts a network approach to the study of worker participation in an attempt to capture the inherent communicative nature of participating within an organization. Although complex, dynamic, interactive processes are the very essence of participation, it has most often been conceptualized as a unidimensional, static variable, typically assessed at the individual level. The network study focuses attention upon the communicative activitie…
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Communicating in a Collaborating Group: A Longitudinal Network Analysis
Responding to rapid economic and technological change, escalating interdependence and the intensified competition associated with globalization, organizations are entering into multiple collaborative relationships across sectors and nations. These collaborations are more complex than typical organizational structures. Incorporating the bona fide group perspective and utilizing a longitudinal approach to network analysis (SIENA), this research exa…
Visibility agents: Organizing transparency in the digital era
Transparency is a complex and multifaceted communication phenomenon. In the current environment, demands for organizational transparency now come from a wide range of entities we term visibility agents, ranging from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and global networks, on one hand, to activist coalitions and automated surveillance agents, on the other. We develop a framework to conceive of such visibility agents and the range of transparency …
What makes people willing to comment on social media posts? The roles of interactivity and perceived contingency in online corporate social responsibility communication
Interactivity is an important concept in the study of online social processes. Two experiments tested how interactivity influenced people’s willingness to comment on social media and their perceptions of a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. Across two operationalizations of interactivity (presence/absence of replies, high/low degree of reference to earlier messages), interactivity led to greater perceived contingency, which …
The appropriation of traditional media content in online contexts: A South Korean textbook case
This study explores the appropriation of traditional media content in an online protest context and highlights the significance of legacy media to activists’ communication practices online. Appropriation refers to the direct transfer of content originally produced in traditional media into social media posts. Focusing on the massive 2015 South Korean protests in opposition to the government’s decision to issue a single state-history textbook, a c…
“Memorable” Messages
Mark L. Knapp, Cynthia Stohl, Kathleen K. Reardon; “Memorable” Messages, Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 December 1981, Pages 27–41, https
Sugar or Spice: Teachers’ Perceptions of Sex Differences in Communicative Correlates of Attraction
Developing a Communicative Competence Scale
(1983). Developing a Communicative Competence Scale. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 7, Communication Yearbook 7, pp. 685-716
Political Economy and the Palate: Teaching Political Economy to Elementary School Children
The A.M.I.G.O. project: A multicultural intergroup opportunity
The role of memorable messages in the process of organizational socialization
This study examines the structure, form, and nature of the content and context of memorable messages exchanged within an organization. Based on the work of Knapp, Stohl and Reardon (1981) an analysis of interviews conducted within a small company indicates that all members were able to recall precisely a specific message which had a lasting influence on their work lives. The messages capsulized how one “should” behave in the organization and func…
Quality Circles and Changing Patterns of Communication
Once installed, quality circles produce dramatic results for an organization. They improve morale, increase a sense of loyalty to the organization, and foster a sense of teamwork among employees who participate. They improve overall productivity of the organization, and they improve the quality of the product or service. And they reduce grievances, lost time, accidents, scrap, attrition, absenteeism, and tardiness. In short, they solve problems a…
Bridging the Parallel Organization: A Study of Quality Circle Effectiveness
Absence as Workplace Control: A Critical Inquiry
(1990). Absence as Workplace Control: A Critical Inquiry. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 13, Communication Yearbook 13, pp. 59-68
Factors Affecting the Adoption of a New Technology
Power and Discourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control
This paper argues for a postmodern conception of power in which discourse is conceived as the principal medium through which power relations are maintained and reproduced. Specifically, power is identified as a pervasive characteristic of organizational life which constitutes the identity of organization members. Discourse, as a structured social practice, creates meaning formations rooted in a system of presence and absence which systematically …
A Functional Perspective for Bona Fide Groups
Participating as participation: A network approach
This paper adopts a network approach to the study of worker participation in an attempt to capture the inherent communicative nature of participating within an organization. Although complex, dynamic, interactive processes are the very essence of participation, it has most often been conceptualized as a unidimensional, static variable, typically assessed at the individual level. The network study focuses attention upon the communicative activitie…
European Managers'Interpretations of Participation: A Semantic Network Analysis
Journal Article European Managers'Interpretations of Participation: A Semantic Network Analysis Get access Cynthia Stohl Cynthia Stohl 1Cynthia Stohl is a professor in the Department of Communication at Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 20, Issue 1, September 1993, Pages 97–117, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1993.tb00317.x Published: 17 March 2006
Social support messages and the management of uncertainty in the experience of breast cancer: An application of problematic integration theory
This article synthesizes past studies of illness, stress, coping, and social support and offers a model of communicative support, based on problematic integration theory, that emphasizes two major dimensions of meaning in the breast cancer experience. The model suggests that supportive messages are designed to help the breast cancer patient manage both perceptions of the likelihood (e.g., uncertainty) of various illness experiences and evaluation…
Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action
PART ONE: ORGANIZATIONS AS NETWORKS Connectedness-in-Action A Network Perspective PART TWO: THE COMPLEX MATRIX Messages Relationships PART THREE: LINKING COMMUNICATION AND ORGANIZATION Hierarchy Participation Conclusion
Democracy, Participation, and Communication at Work: A Multidisciplinary Review
This review essay examines a broad multidisciplinary literature on democracy and work, highlighting issues of theory and practice of special interest to communication scholars. The essay treats relevant and selective research from the following fields (in addition to communication studies): the sociology of organizations, political science and public administration, comparative and labor economics, management and organizational behavior, cultural…
There's Safety in Numbers: Creating a Campus Advisers' Network to Help Complainants of Sexual Harassment and Complaint Receivers
Virtually all universities and colleges have policies and procedures for dealing with sexual harassment, but most victims do not report their experiences to officials. At the heart of many victims' reasons for not reporting is concern about their safety. There are also safety concerns for persons receiving complaints. This article documents the efforts at one university to create a safer environment for victims to report their experiences. We dis…
Participatory Processes/Paradoxical Practices: Communication and the Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy
This article brings together previous research efforts by the authors and reviews a wide range of relevant literatures to explain and analyze paradoxes of employee participation and workplace democracy. Although the authors do not take the position that all or even most of these paradoxes are necessarily harmful, they do maintain that there are a variety of practical avenues for dealing with them. The heart of the essay analyzes several main cate…
Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment
Journal Article Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment Get access Bruce Bimber, Bruce Bimber 1Bruce Bimber (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.. 4may be directed to Bimber at Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Andrew J. Flanagin, A…
Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences
Journal Article Networks of Terror: Theoretical Assumptions and Pragmatic Consequences Get access Cynthia Stohl, Cynthia Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Stohl Michael Stohl 1Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…
Qualifying Engagement: A Study of Information and Communication Technology and the Global Social Justice Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand
Scholarly commentary has underscored the importance of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in organizing the Global Social Justice Movement (GSJM). This study examines key communicative assumptions regarding technology and activist participation in the GSJM by asking three research questions: (a) what impacts of ICT-enabled brokerage are evident in the GSJM in Aotearoa New Zealand; (b) how are activists' attitudes embedded in th…
Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change
Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The American Legion, AARP and MoveOn - the authors reconceptualize collective action as a phenomenon in which technology enhances people's ability to cross bou…
Communicating in a Collaborating Group: A Longitudinal Network Analysis
Responding to rapid economic and technological change, escalating interdependence and the intensified competition associated with globalization, organizations are entering into multiple collaborative relationships across sectors and nations. These collaborations are more complex than typical organizational structures. Incorporating the bona fide group perspective and utilizing a longitudinal approach to network analysis (SIENA), this research exa…
From Wall Street to Wellington: Protests in an Era of Digital Ubiquity
The Occupy movement is said to represent a new generation of post-Seattle protests, driven by social networking, and breaking from organizing practices in previous eras. This study analyzes the Occupy Wellington protest to shed light on the role of protests in an era of digital media ubiquity. Based on the participant observation as well as 76 brief interviews, the study explores how activists used digital media, and examines the broader institut…
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