M Chad Mcbride
Biographic Data
| ID | 760793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Chad Mcbride |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbride |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRIDE M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1370-1362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Theft of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Although the world is more democratic today than a century earlier, the decline of liberal democracies throughout the past decade poses grave concerns about democracy’s future stability. This paper examines the uneven trajectories of democratic backsliding in post-Communist Europe, focusing on Hungary, Serbia, and Albania. The region faces challenges from organized crime, where criminal enterprises collaborate with state actors, fostering corrupt…
Memorable Messages Embedded in Men’s Stories of Miscarriage
Miscarriage occurs in roughly one in five pregnancies in the United States. Although it is largely considered a “women’s issue,” non-miscarrying spouses also endure the mental and relational health effects of the loss. Drawing on communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) theory, we interviewed heterosexual, cisgender, mostly white, married men (n = 45) to solicit their stories of their spouse’s miscarriage. Six types of memorable messages (i.e.,…
An Examination of Individually Performed and (Co)Managed Facework
While more researchers have begun to study the work-spouse relationship and made claims that it is unique, scholars have yet to specifically examine how, if at all, communication in the work-spouse relationship is different from that with other coworkers. Facework was used as a theoretical lens to analyze data from 41 in-depth interviews with work spouses. Findings highlight how participants presented themselves in unique ways within the work-spo…
Presidential Spotlight
M. Chad McBride, immediate past president of the Central States Communication Association and Chad Edwards, past executive director share thoughts about helping navigate CSCA through troubling times whether it was the pandemic of 2020 or the dire situation the organization was in related to our nonprofit and organizational status. The aim of this address is that it might serve to help future leaders of CSCA through tough times and provide hope du…
Voices of women in commuter marriages
The goal of the present study was to examine the sites of discursive struggle in the talk of commuter wives and how the interpenetration of discourses construct meaning for those in the commuter marriage. Fifty individual interviews were analyzed using contrapuntal analysis to examine competing discourses. From our analysis, two sites of discursive struggle emerged from the talk of commuter wives about their marital relationships: (a) discursive …
Enacting Privacy Rules and Protecting Disclosure Recipients
Given the probability that the death of a family member will occur before a child has reached adulthood, the purpose of this project was to understand what motivates parents to either talk or not talk about a loved one's death with their children. Using Communication Privacy Management to inductively analyze interviews, we found parents were motivated to talk to their children about death because they wanted their children to be informed. This is…
Saving Face With Family Members
This purpose in the present study was to examine how people manage face needs when talking with family about a romantic relationship reconciliation. The researcher completed an inductive analysis from data collected from 26 in-depth interviews and found that participants accounted for their reconciliation through active corrective facework (by updating family and accounting for reconciliation) and passive corrective facework (by choosing not to u…
How Do You Get Two Houses Cleaned?”
This interpretive study focused on messages reported by commuter wives from social network members concerning unpaid family labor, including domestic work and relational work with spouses and children, and wives' subsequent communication about the accomplishment of such labor within their marriages and families. We conducted a thematic analysis of interview transcripts with commuting wives from five focus groups (n = 25) and 50 individual intervi…
The divorce decree, communication, and the structuration of coparenting relationships in stepfamilies
Using Giddens's (1984) structuration theory, this study explored the communicative processes surrounding the divorce decree in coparenting relationships in stepfamilies. Participants included 21 adults who were coparenting children in stepfamilies who completed diary entries of all interactions with coparents over a 2-week period, and who completed follow-up interviews. Results revealed two structures of signification with respect to the divorce …
Becoming "Point and Click" Parents
The purpose of this article is to describe the discourse of an adoption online Web site using thematic content analysis. Using the Web site adoptiononline.com as a case study, we discuss potential implications of this new medium on both the construction of family and the adoption process itself. Several themes emerged during our analysis that help family communication scholars better understand online communication in the process of adoption: sub…
The divorce decree, communication, and the structuration of coparenting relationships in stepfamilies
Using Giddens's (1984) structuration theory, this study explored the communicative processes surrounding the divorce decree in coparenting relationships in stepfamilies. Participants included 21 adults who were coparenting children in stepfamilies who completed diary entries of all interactions with coparents over a 2-week period, and who completed follow-up interviews. Results revealed two structures of signification with respect to the divorce …
Voices of women in commuter marriages
The goal of the present study was to examine the sites of discursive struggle in the talk of commuter wives and how the interpenetration of discourses construct meaning for those in the commuter marriage. Fifty individual interviews were analyzed using contrapuntal analysis to examine competing discourses. From our analysis, two sites of discursive struggle emerged from the talk of commuter wives about their marital relationships: (a) discursive …
Enacting Privacy Rules and Protecting Disclosure Recipients
Given the probability that the death of a family member will occur before a child has reached adulthood, the purpose of this project was to understand what motivates parents to either talk or not talk about a loved one's death with their children. Using Communication Privacy Management to inductively analyze interviews, we found parents were motivated to talk to their children about death because they wanted their children to be informed. This is…
How Do You Get Two Houses Cleaned?”
This interpretive study focused on messages reported by commuter wives from social network members concerning unpaid family labor, including domestic work and relational work with spouses and children, and wives' subsequent communication about the accomplishment of such labor within their marriages and families. We conducted a thematic analysis of interview transcripts with commuting wives from five focus groups (n = 25) and 50 individual intervi…
Becoming "Point and Click" Parents
The purpose of this article is to describe the discourse of an adoption online Web site using thematic content analysis. Using the Web site adoptiononline.com as a case study, we discuss potential implications of this new medium on both the construction of family and the adoption process itself. Several themes emerged during our analysis that help family communication scholars better understand online communication in the process of adoption: sub…
Saving Face With Family Members
This purpose in the present study was to examine how people manage face needs when talking with family about a romantic relationship reconciliation. The researcher completed an inductive analysis from data collected from 26 in-depth interviews and found that participants accounted for their reconciliation through active corrective facework (by updating family and accounting for reconciliation) and passive corrective facework (by choosing not to u…
Becoming "Point and Click" Parents
The purpose of this article is to describe the discourse of an adoption online Web site using thematic content analysis. Using the Web site adoptiononline.com as a case study, we discuss potential implications of this new medium on both the construction of family and the adoption process itself. Several themes emerged during our analysis that help family communication scholars better understand online communication in the process of adoption: sub…
The divorce decree, communication, and the structuration of coparenting relationships in stepfamilies
Using Giddens's (1984) structuration theory, this study explored the communicative processes surrounding the divorce decree in coparenting relationships in stepfamilies. Participants included 21 adults who were coparenting children in stepfamilies who completed diary entries of all interactions with coparents over a 2-week period, and who completed follow-up interviews. Results revealed two structures of signification with respect to the divorce …
How Do You Get Two Houses Cleaned?”
This interpretive study focused on messages reported by commuter wives from social network members concerning unpaid family labor, including domestic work and relational work with spouses and children, and wives' subsequent communication about the accomplishment of such labor within their marriages and families. We conducted a thematic analysis of interview transcripts with commuting wives from five focus groups (n = 25) and 50 individual intervi…
Saving Face With Family Members
This purpose in the present study was to examine how people manage face needs when talking with family about a romantic relationship reconciliation. The researcher completed an inductive analysis from data collected from 26 in-depth interviews and found that participants accounted for their reconciliation through active corrective facework (by updating family and accounting for reconciliation) and passive corrective facework (by choosing not to u…
Enacting Privacy Rules and Protecting Disclosure Recipients
Given the probability that the death of a family member will occur before a child has reached adulthood, the purpose of this project was to understand what motivates parents to either talk or not talk about a loved one's death with their children. Using Communication Privacy Management to inductively analyze interviews, we found parents were motivated to talk to their children about death because they wanted their children to be informed. This is…
Voices of women in commuter marriages
The goal of the present study was to examine the sites of discursive struggle in the talk of commuter wives and how the interpenetration of discourses construct meaning for those in the commuter marriage. Fifty individual interviews were analyzed using contrapuntal analysis to examine competing discourses. From our analysis, two sites of discursive struggle emerged from the talk of commuter wives about their marital relationships: (a) discursive …
An Examination of Individually Performed and (Co)Managed Facework
While more researchers have begun to study the work-spouse relationship and made claims that it is unique, scholars have yet to specifically examine how, if at all, communication in the work-spouse relationship is different from that with other coworkers. Facework was used as a theoretical lens to analyze data from 41 in-depth interviews with work spouses. Findings highlight how participants presented themselves in unique ways within the work-spo…
Presidential Spotlight
M. Chad McBride, immediate past president of the Central States Communication Association and Chad Edwards, past executive director share thoughts about helping navigate CSCA through troubling times whether it was the pandemic of 2020 or the dire situation the organization was in related to our nonprofit and organizational status. The aim of this address is that it might serve to help future leaders of CSCA through tough times and provide hope du…
Memorable Messages Embedded in Men’s Stories of Miscarriage
Miscarriage occurs in roughly one in five pregnancies in the United States. Although it is largely considered a “women’s issue,” non-miscarrying spouses also endure the mental and relational health effects of the loss. Drawing on communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) theory, we interviewed heterosexual, cisgender, mostly white, married men (n = 45) to solicit their stories of their spouse’s miscarriage. Six types of memorable messages (i.e.,…
The Theft of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Although the world is more democratic today than a century earlier, the decline of liberal democracies throughout the past decade poses grave concerns about democracy’s future stability. This paper examines the uneven trajectories of democratic backsliding in post-Communist Europe, focusing on Hungary, Serbia, and Albania. The region faces challenges from organized crime, where criminal enterprises collaborate with state actors, fostering corrupt…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)