Elizabeth A Hintz
Biographic Data
| ID | 757955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Hintz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hintz |
| SIGNATURE | HINTZ E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5202-4771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“It’s Not Just the Headscarf”: Unveiling the Identity Frames of U.S. American Gen Z Hijabis
“Google Didn’t Get a Medical Degree”: Understanding the Influence of Patient Online Health Information-Seeking on Shared Decision-Making
Patients are engaging in unprecedented levels of online health information-seeking (e.g., via TikTok, Google). Guided by shared decision-making (SDM) theorizing, this study illuminates health care workers' (HCWs) perspectives of patients' use of online health information in clinical encounters. We identify third-party health information (i.e., health information from beyond a clinical encounter) as a decision-making agent in the SDM process. Appl…
Navigating Healthcare as a Woman of Color With Autoimmune Disease: Intersectional Dilemmas in Patient–Provider Interactions
Women of color with autoimmune disease experience communicative dilemmas at the intersection of their triply minoritized (i.e., ethnic-racial, gender, and illness) identities during interactions with their healthcare providers (HCPs), which shape their care. Sensitized by intersectionality and normative rhetorical theory (NRT), the present study interrogates taken-for-granted assumptions reflected in HCPs’ communication, as recalled by 150 Black …
Assessing the Role of Ambivalent Sexism on the Associations Between Individual Characteristics and Sexual Well-Being in New Romantic Relationships
A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements
If the discipline’s goal is to advance practice, policy, and theory, it is imperative that communication scholars are engaging in rigorous research and that our flagship field-general journals (Communication Monographs [CM], Communication Research [CR], Human Communication Research [HCR], and Journal of Communication [JOC], which we refer to as the “Big Four” hereafter) are publishing the most meaningful inter- and sub-disciplinary work. When a m…
“Saving us to Death”: Ideology and Communicative (Dis)enfranchisement in Misapplications of the 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Guided by the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study interrogates how interactions in which chronic pain patients are force tapered from their prescribed opioids are constrained and afforded by the hegemonic ideologies. To interrogate the harms caused for chronic pain patients by ideological policies enacted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and assess what communicative mechanisms reify and resist such ide…
Disclosing Sexual Dysfunction in Newly Established Romantic Relationships: An Experimental Test of Five Strategies from the Revelation Risk Model
400) to assess five strategies (i.e. initiate, response, third-person disclosure, humor, evidence) used to hypothetically disclose two types of sexual dysfunction (SD) - vulvovaginal pain (VVP) and erectile dysfunction (ED) - in romantic relationships of six months or less. Results indicated that relationship investment varied depending on the SD disclosed, such that participants who imagined that their partner disclosed ED were less invested tha…
Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: A retrospective review of concept development and extensions
This retrospective review synthesizes communication scholarship concerning character assassination (CA) or the deliberate destruction of a target’s character by an attacker. We first review the five pillars of CA, before tracing the development of CA across the three subfields of communication most prevalent in our sample: Political communication, rhetoric, and persuasion; mediated/mass communication and new communication technologies; and public…
Anticipating, experiencing, and responding to disenfranchising talk: The experiences of people with type 1 diabetes
Credibility work in disenfranchising patient-clinician conversations for Mono/Multiracial women of color with autoimmune disease in the U.S
Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength
Guided by implicit theories of relationships and sexual satisfaction and the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), our study investigated the mediating role of sexual communal strength on associations between implicit beliefs regarding sexual compatibility and relational thriving in new romantic couples (≤ 6 months duration) facing a hypothetical scenario of sexual dysfunction (i.e., vulvovaginal pain or erectile dysfunction). Particip…
Theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement: Introduction, explication, and application
In this essay, we set forth the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD). The TCD is useful for exploring the ramifications of the hegemonic ideologies which constrain and afford our everyday lives, and which are constructed and reflected in disenfranchising talk (DT). The TCD also asks what communication mechanisms work to reify and resist these hegemonic ideologies. We first introduce the warrant for this theorizing, then overview the…
“Are we saying every time you drink, you’ll get cancer?” Lessons learned from a focus group study of communicating difficult-to-swallow health-risk information
This essay explores lessons learned when conducting focus group interviews with participants exposed to novel health-risk messages. Focus group participants exposed to new health-risk information might be defensive, affecting the quality of the data collected. Hence, accounting for potential participant defensiveness is of great importance for researchers who are developing and testing these health-risk messages. In this essay, I identify two for…
A Critical Quantitative Approach to Intersectionality: Interrogating Race and Class in the Context of Female Chronic Pain
Addressing calls to advance critical quantitative approaches to intersectionality, this study used multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to examine how female chronic pain patients’ (N = 350) interactions with their healthcare providers are, in addition to gender, shaped along axes of race and socioeconomic status. Guided by intersectionality and the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study illustrates how quantitative …
Developing Measures for and Testing the Theory of Communicative Disenfranchisement (TCD) in the Context of Chronic Pain
The post-positivist articulation of the theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD) asserts that people subjected to disenfranchising talk (DT; talk that discredits, silences, and stereotypes) experience proximal consequences (PCs; reduced agency, perceived credibility, and ability to exercise rights and privileges) and make negative inferences about others' future interactional goals (negative goal inferences [NGIs]). Through the mediators …
Framing Chronic Pain in U.S. News Coverage of the Opioid Epidemic (2012-2022)
Chronic pain, pain persisting longer than six months, afflicts 20% of the U.S. population and is the leading cause of disability. To manage pain, many chronic pain patients (CPPs) and healthcare providers turn to opioids, prescription medications that block pain signals and offer relief. However, in light of the U.S.’ ongoing opioid epidemic, CPPs without a history of opioid use disorder (OUD) are facing increased stigma when seeking opioid medic…
“You are Telling the Story Yourself”: Defining and Developing Narrative Pictorial Warning Labels
Pictorial warning labels (PWLs) featuring narrative content are promising strategies for communicating health risks and motivating behavior change. The objectives of this study were to (1) identify what intrinsic features a PWL must have to be constructed as a narrative and (2) uncover in what ways narrative PWLs are perceived as being (in)effective. Seven online focus groups were conducted via Zoom with moderate and heavy drinkers (n = 30). Part…
Advancing a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory in the context of difficulty orgasming
Addressing calls for increased communication scholarship that interrogates power in stigma processes, we develop a critical postmodern approach to stigma management communication (SMC) theory and demonstrate how it can be used in the context of difficulty orgasming. Semi-structured interviews with mostly white, cisgender women experiencing orgasm difficulties in mixed-sex relationships (N = 31) revealed how dominant discourse creates an idealized…
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the Covid-19 pandemic
This longitudinal study explored associations between communication resilience processes, job-search self-efficacy, and well-being for a sample of US adults who involuntarily lost their jobs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), we tested four possible models regarding how the enactment of resilience processes would be associated with job-search self-efficacy and well-being over ti…
“It’s All in Your Head”: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Research About Disenfranchising Talk Experienced by Female Patients with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions
Interactions between female patients with chronic pain and their medical providers in which providers question or contest the "realness" or nature of their illness experience (e.g. "It's all in your head") have been reported extensively in the extant qualitative literature, particularly for poorly understood ("contested") chronic pain syndromes. Many terms have been offered to describe this talk (e.g. invalidating, dismissive), resulting in conce…
Caring for Patients without Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Material Conditions as Multidimensional Cascading Triggers for Resilience Processes
Guided by communication theory of resilience (CTR), we analyze 453 narrative accounts by Reddit user healthcare workers (HCWs) of their experiences with COVID-19-related personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages between March and May 2020. Via thematic analysis and sensitized by CTR concepts, we examine PPE shortages as a disruptive trigger event that catalyzes the enactment of resilience processes. Findings problematize PPE shortages as mate…
E-sisters and the case of the Essure coil: Power, representation, and voice in women’s public docket accounts to the FDA of medical device adverse events
One in ten U.S. patients has an internally implanted medical device. Yet, lax regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resulted in the approval of medical devices disproportionately harming women, including Bayer Pharmaceutical’s Essure, a permanent female sterilization device. Victims of Essure often suffer adverse events, including serious injuries, device malfunctions, and death. Guided by critical feminist theorizing, thi…
Contesting illness: Communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions
Guided by the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study analyzes 738 narratives describing negative (n = 381) and positive (n = 357) patient–provider interactions recounted by 399 female-identifying patients residing in 22 countries who are living with poorly understood chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) such as fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, and endometriosis. Using thematic co-occurrence analysis (TCA), a novel method t…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
Communication work about chronic pain: A mixed methods application and extension of the integrative theory of communication work
Guided by the integrative theory of communication work, we present a computational and qualitative analysis of Reddit comments authored by patient-users living with chronic overlapping pain conditions. We first employed computational text analysis to compress the data corpus via structural topic modeling. The community detection algorithm Louvain was employed to identify communities of topics within the data. Then, we extracted a subset of the da…
Childfree and “bingoed”: A relational dialectics theory analysis of meaning creation in online narratives about voluntary childlessness
We utilize RDT 2.0 to analyze 424 narrative accounts by voluntarily childless (“childfree”) Reddit users of bingo-response interactions to explore how discourse constrains and enables meaning creation. Contrapuntal analysis revealed competing Discourses of Reproductive Normativity (DRN) and Reproductive Autonomy (DRA). We identified both dialogically expansive and contractive discursive practices. The carnivalesque, a communication genre characte…
Reddit in communication research: Current status, future directions and best practices
This study offers a prescriptive review of the current status of Reddit in communication research. We analyze the characteristics of studies utilizing Reddit in the field of communication, examine the functions of Reddit within those studies, and identify future directions emerging from the analysis. Findings describe characteristics (e.g. methodologies, publication outlets, disciplinary affiliations, and use of theory) of communication studies u…
Disrupting Sexual Norms: An Application of the Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (Cifc) Framework in the Context of Vulvodynia
This study uses intersectional methodology to critically explore vulvodynia, chronic female genital pain, as it disrupts norms governing gender roles in heterosexual sex and reproduction. Interviews with 26 women with vulvodynia illuminate core tenets of the critical interpersonal and family communication (CIFC) framework, which include power; private and public sphere bidirectionality; the critique, resistance, and transformation of the status q…
Media Frames of Voluntary Childlessness in the United States from 1989 to 2018
I hate all the children, especially mine: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly childfree regretful parents
Guided by relational dialectics theory (RDT), we analyzed 85 first-person testimonials of parental regret written by users of the /r/childfree subreddit. We interrogated how competing discourses animate what it means to be a parent (our semantic object). Contrapuntal analysis revealed dominant and marginalized Discourses of Parenting as Heaven (DPHN) and Parenting as Hell on Earth (DPHL), respectively, as well as a third Discourse of Parenting as…
Setting the Agenda: Beyond Discourse Dependence and a Dependence on Discourse
The exploration of discourse has been enormously generative to critical family communication scholarship (CFC), as scholars have both studied discourse in and of families as well as theorized about what discourse is and does. The heuristic value of discourse to CFC moves us to offer an agenda for future CFC research that asks family communication scholars to theoretically expand beyond discourse. Drawing on the momentum of CFC work grounded in di…
Emplotting anticipatory resilience: An antenarrative extension of the communication theory of resilience
This work extended the communication theory of resilience by examining how individuals construct anticipatory resilience through narratives of disruptive life events. Guided by postmodern antenarrative theory, we analyzed the emplotment of 25 individuals’ narratives of disruptive events to understand how participants make sense of these events and prospectively craft resilience as storied logics of the future. The findings challenged extant resil…
Communication work about chronic pain: A mixed methods application and extension of the integrative theory of communication work
Guided by the integrative theory of communication work, we present a computational and qualitative analysis of Reddit comments authored by patient-users living with chronic overlapping pain conditions. We first employed computational text analysis to compress the data corpus via structural topic modeling. The community detection algorithm Louvain was employed to identify communities of topics within the data. Then, we extracted a subset of the da…
Best Practices for Returning Research Findings to Participants: Methodological and Ethical Considerations for Communication Researchers
Many research studies have offered ethical guidelines for the recruiting of participants, solicitation of informed consent, and harvesting of data from communities and individuals. However, few guidelines exist for returning research findings to participants although participants often desire access to the results of the studies in which they participate, and researchers are often interested in providing results. Furthermore, little research has …
Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength
Guided by implicit theories of relationships and sexual satisfaction and the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), our study investigated the mediating role of sexual communal strength on associations between implicit beliefs regarding sexual compatibility and relational thriving in new romantic couples (≤ 6 months duration) facing a hypothetical scenario of sexual dysfunction (i.e., vulvovaginal pain or erectile dysfunction). Particip…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
Making sense of changes in military partners' post-deployment adjustment concern: Turning points, trajectories, and accounts
Reintegration after a military service member returns home from deployment is a time of uncertainty that requires adjustment by all family members. Building on accounts (i.e., story-like constructions that help make sense of stressful events) scholarship, this study documents (a) turning points (TPs) and (b) patterns in partners' levels of concern about post-deployment adjustment and investigates (c) how romantic partners account for why changes …
Pain communication: An agenda for communication researchers
Chronic pain is a significant and costly public health issue which is affected by political, organizational, and interpersonal social processes. Although medical pain scholarship has long examined communication constructs and processes, communication research and theory have remained largely absent. Scholars of communication must lend their research to this important issue to understand the role of communication in constituting and shaping the so…
Best Practices for Returning Research Findings to Participants: Methodological and Ethical Considerations for Communication Researchers
Many research studies have offered ethical guidelines for the recruiting of participants, solicitation of informed consent, and harvesting of data from communities and individuals. However, few guidelines exist for returning research findings to participants although participants often desire access to the results of the studies in which they participate, and researchers are often interested in providing results. Furthermore, little research has …
Disrupting Sexual Norms: An Application of the Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (Cifc) Framework in the Context of Vulvodynia
This study uses intersectional methodology to critically explore vulvodynia, chronic female genital pain, as it disrupts norms governing gender roles in heterosexual sex and reproduction. Interviews with 26 women with vulvodynia illuminate core tenets of the critical interpersonal and family communication (CIFC) framework, which include power; private and public sphere bidirectionality; the critique, resistance, and transformation of the status q…
Childfree and “bingoed”: A relational dialectics theory analysis of meaning creation in online narratives about voluntary childlessness
We utilize RDT 2.0 to analyze 424 narrative accounts by voluntarily childless (“childfree”) Reddit users of bingo-response interactions to explore how discourse constrains and enables meaning creation. Contrapuntal analysis revealed competing Discourses of Reproductive Normativity (DRN) and Reproductive Autonomy (DRA). We identified both dialogically expansive and contractive discursive practices. The carnivalesque, a communication genre characte…
Pain communication: An agenda for communication researchers
Chronic pain is a significant and costly public health issue which is affected by political, organizational, and interpersonal social processes. Although medical pain scholarship has long examined communication constructs and processes, communication research and theory have remained largely absent. Scholars of communication must lend their research to this important issue to understand the role of communication in constituting and shaping the so…
Media Frames of Voluntary Childlessness in the United States from 1989 to 2018
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale
According to the communication theory of resilience (CTR; P. M. Buzzanell, 2010), people reintegrate from disruptive events and construct a new normal through five interrelated processes: (a) crafting normalcy; (b) affirming identity anchors; (c) maintaining/using communication networks; (d) constructing alternative logics; and (e) foregrounding productive action while backgrounding negative emotions. Enacting these processes creates tensions bet…
Theorizing disenfranchisement as a communicative process
This essay lays initial groundwork for a theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD), which explores what occurs when individuals’ experiences, identities, and relationships are discredited (i.e., not treated as “real”) by others and how such talk disempowers them and alters their perceptions of future interactions. Five key assumptions of TCD advocate: (1) attending to power; (2) considering discursive and material conditions and their hist…
Communication Work About Chronic Unexplained Pain
This essay draws upon Donovan's conceptualization of "communication as work" to explicate types of communicative work undertaken by the authors - two patients with vulvodynia, a poorly understood chronic genital pain condition - during patient-provider interactions prior to diagnosis. Uniquely positioned as patients-turned-scholars, we extend the rich construct of "communication work" by narrating the types of communicative work undertaken oursel…
Emplotting anticipatory resilience: An antenarrative extension of the communication theory of resilience
This work extended the communication theory of resilience by examining how individuals construct anticipatory resilience through narratives of disruptive life events. Guided by postmodern antenarrative theory, we analyzed the emplotment of 25 individuals’ narratives of disruptive events to understand how participants make sense of these events and prospectively craft resilience as storied logics of the future. The findings challenged extant resil…
“Having Pain is Normal”: How Talk about Chronic Pelvic and Genital Pain Reflects Messages from Menarche
Chronic pelvic and genital pain conditions (CPGPCs) often go undiagnosed and untreated in women for years after symptom onset. This is due, in part, to communication challenges experienced by patients such as difficulties describing pain and the stigmatized nature of CPGPCs. However, studies have yet to explore how early messages about menstruation, a context similar in its stigmatized and painful nature, may contribute to undertreatment and diag…
Reddit in communication research: Current status, future directions and best practices
This study offers a prescriptive review of the current status of Reddit in communication research. We analyze the characteristics of studies utilizing Reddit in the field of communication, examine the functions of Reddit within those studies, and identify future directions emerging from the analysis. Findings describe characteristics (e.g. methodologies, publication outlets, disciplinary affiliations, and use of theory) of communication studies u…
Setting the Agenda: Beyond Discourse Dependence and a Dependence on Discourse
The exploration of discourse has been enormously generative to critical family communication scholarship (CFC), as scholars have both studied discourse in and of families as well as theorized about what discourse is and does. The heuristic value of discourse to CFC moves us to offer an agenda for future CFC research that asks family communication scholars to theoretically expand beyond discourse. Drawing on the momentum of CFC work grounded in di…
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the Covid-19 pandemic
This longitudinal study explored associations between communication resilience processes, job-search self-efficacy, and well-being for a sample of US adults who involuntarily lost their jobs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), we tested four possible models regarding how the enactment of resilience processes would be associated with job-search self-efficacy and well-being over ti…
“It’s All in Your Head”: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Research About Disenfranchising Talk Experienced by Female Patients with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions
Interactions between female patients with chronic pain and their medical providers in which providers question or contest the "realness" or nature of their illness experience (e.g. "It's all in your head") have been reported extensively in the extant qualitative literature, particularly for poorly understood ("contested") chronic pain syndromes. Many terms have been offered to describe this talk (e.g. invalidating, dismissive), resulting in conce…
Caring for Patients without Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Material Conditions as Multidimensional Cascading Triggers for Resilience Processes
Guided by communication theory of resilience (CTR), we analyze 453 narrative accounts by Reddit user healthcare workers (HCWs) of their experiences with COVID-19-related personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages between March and May 2020. Via thematic analysis and sensitized by CTR concepts, we examine PPE shortages as a disruptive trigger event that catalyzes the enactment of resilience processes. Findings problematize PPE shortages as mate…
E-sisters and the case of the Essure coil: Power, representation, and voice in women’s public docket accounts to the FDA of medical device adverse events
One in ten U.S. patients has an internally implanted medical device. Yet, lax regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resulted in the approval of medical devices disproportionately harming women, including Bayer Pharmaceutical’s Essure, a permanent female sterilization device. Victims of Essure often suffer adverse events, including serious injuries, device malfunctions, and death. Guided by critical feminist theorizing, thi…
Contesting illness: Communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions
Guided by the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study analyzes 738 narratives describing negative (n = 381) and positive (n = 357) patient–provider interactions recounted by 399 female-identifying patients residing in 22 countries who are living with poorly understood chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) such as fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, and endometriosis. Using thematic co-occurrence analysis (TCA), a novel method t…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
Communication work about chronic pain: A mixed methods application and extension of the integrative theory of communication work
Guided by the integrative theory of communication work, we present a computational and qualitative analysis of Reddit comments authored by patient-users living with chronic overlapping pain conditions. We first employed computational text analysis to compress the data corpus via structural topic modeling. The community detection algorithm Louvain was employed to identify communities of topics within the data. Then, we extracted a subset of the da…
Making sense of changes in military partners' post-deployment adjustment concern: Turning points, trajectories, and accounts
Reintegration after a military service member returns home from deployment is a time of uncertainty that requires adjustment by all family members. Building on accounts (i.e., story-like constructions that help make sense of stressful events) scholarship, this study documents (a) turning points (TPs) and (b) patterns in partners' levels of concern about post-deployment adjustment and investigates (c) how romantic partners account for why changes …
I hate all the children, especially mine: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly childfree regretful parents
Guided by relational dialectics theory (RDT), we analyzed 85 first-person testimonials of parental regret written by users of the /r/childfree subreddit. We interrogated how competing discourses animate what it means to be a parent (our semantic object). Contrapuntal analysis revealed dominant and marginalized Discourses of Parenting as Heaven (DPHN) and Parenting as Hell on Earth (DPHL), respectively, as well as a third Discourse of Parenting as…
Theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement: Introduction, explication, and application
In this essay, we set forth the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD). The TCD is useful for exploring the ramifications of the hegemonic ideologies which constrain and afford our everyday lives, and which are constructed and reflected in disenfranchising talk (DT). The TCD also asks what communication mechanisms work to reify and resist these hegemonic ideologies. We first introduce the warrant for this theorizing, then overview the…
“Are we saying every time you drink, you’ll get cancer?” Lessons learned from a focus group study of communicating difficult-to-swallow health-risk information
This essay explores lessons learned when conducting focus group interviews with participants exposed to novel health-risk messages. Focus group participants exposed to new health-risk information might be defensive, affecting the quality of the data collected. Hence, accounting for potential participant defensiveness is of great importance for researchers who are developing and testing these health-risk messages. In this essay, I identify two for…
A Critical Quantitative Approach to Intersectionality: Interrogating Race and Class in the Context of Female Chronic Pain
Addressing calls to advance critical quantitative approaches to intersectionality, this study used multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to examine how female chronic pain patients’ (N = 350) interactions with their healthcare providers are, in addition to gender, shaped along axes of race and socioeconomic status. Guided by intersectionality and the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study illustrates how quantitative …
Developing Measures for and Testing the Theory of Communicative Disenfranchisement (TCD) in the Context of Chronic Pain
The post-positivist articulation of the theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD) asserts that people subjected to disenfranchising talk (DT; talk that discredits, silences, and stereotypes) experience proximal consequences (PCs; reduced agency, perceived credibility, and ability to exercise rights and privileges) and make negative inferences about others' future interactional goals (negative goal inferences [NGIs]). Through the mediators …
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