Benjamin R Bates
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 146238 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin R Bates |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin R |
| SOBRENOME | Bates |
| ASSINATURA | BATES B R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5948-1396 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Painting Murals to Define a “Successful Childhood”
The Culture-Centered Approach argues that dialogue with marginalized communities identifies structural challenges to health and development and helps to articulate community-defined solutions. In rural communities in the Global South, international and national organizations displace this authentic dialogue by providing top-down definitions of child wellbeing. To resist these imposed definitions, and to amplify voices from communities, this study…
A culture-centered, arts-based approach to defining “quality education” in a rural Ecuadorian community
Education is fundamental to enhancing quality of life; yet, in rural Ecuador, there is inequitable access to education. In Ecuador, the definition of a good education is often shaped by neoliberal demands imposed by the Global North. Drawing on the Culture Centered Approach to communication, we engaged the children of Chaquizhca, a small community in rural Ecuador, to define a “quality education.” Through a participatory arts-based methodology, t…
Predictors of Low Back Pain Risk Among Farmers in Rural Communities of Loja, Ecuador
While lower back pain was widespread in the population studied, most risk factors that were analyzed were not significantly associated with its presence
Mobilizing the structure of minga
Nurturing care
Introduction: The importance of nurturing care for child development is well-established, and parents play a central role in providing this care. However, cultural values and traditions can influence child-rearing practices, and there are gaps in child welfare in Ecuador. Two research questions delve into caregivers' definitions of nurturing care for children aged 0-5 and its alignment with World Health Organization's concept. Methods: A qualitat…
Painting the Way Forward
Despite efforts within Ecuador to combat violence against women (VAW), the country still claims some of the highest rates of violence in the Americas. In this study, we complete a cultural visual analysis of anti-VAW public art in a small Ecuadorian city. Visual data is examined and interpreted by way of the social-ecological model (SEM). Specifically, our analysis considers how murals engage with the depiction of (a) VAW, (b) agentic responses t…
The (im)possibility of being a breastfeeding working mother
Background Throughout the twentieth century, public health agencies and expert healthcare professionals have recognized breastfeeding as the most nutritious and appropriate option for feeding infants. The Ecuadorian government, in line with international guidelines, has therefore developed laws and initiatives to improve the initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding, especially among working mothers. However, breastfeeding rates in Ecuador are …
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Three Latin American Countries
Although vaccines have been developed to prevent COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy is a significant barrier for vaccination programs. Most research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has blamed misinformation and misstated concerns about effectiveness, safety, and side effects of these vaccines. The preponderance of these studies has been performed in the Global North. Although Latin American has been substantially and negatively impacted by COVID-19, few s…
Identifying health care access barriers in southern rural Ecuador
Modifiable health care access barriers outlined in the HCAB are evident in the study area. Further research and implementation of programs to resolve these barriers, such as the creation of health care subcenters and/or mobile clinic, insurance coverage of specialized care, increasing availability and accessibility to affordable transportation, improving roadways, introduction of a 24/7 call center to schedule medical visits, monetary incentive f…
Correlates of Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Residents of Ohio
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance differed by sociodemographic and other modifiable factors. Findings can inform local public health authorities in the development of effective, context-specific communication strategies to improve vaccination uptake
The (In)Appropriateness of the WAR Metaphor in Response to Sars-CoV-2
The virus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes (COVID-19) are unfamiliar topics to most publics. One mechanism used by political leaders to make the strange and unfamiliar more understandable and familiar to their publics is using metaphor. In his responses to SARS-CoV-2, US President Donald Trump used the WAR metaphor to shape public understanding. In this analysis, I reveal how the entailments chosen by Trump to complete this metaphor lead to r…
En Nuestra Casa No Hay Chinchorros
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease that disproportionately affects impoverished rural communities. Insecticide-based approaches are inconsistently performed and exorbitantly priced for the communities affected. The present study considers an alternative approach to primary prevention of Chagas disease using entertainment education. As part of an ongoing effort in rural Ecuador, we worked with the children of the community of Guara, na…
Beers, Bros, and Brett
Following Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, memes containing his image during his statement and questioning emerged across social media platforms. We examine these memes as a collective visual ideograph of the . They display a shared visual representation while enacting competing ideological frameworks. Through an analysis of 71 memes, two prominent themes emerged. First, there was competition over repre…
Measuring intercultural/international outgroup favoritism
Outgroup favoritism influences cross-group communication. At the intercultural/international level, one’s outgroup favoritism affects one’s communication with members of other cultures. However, our ability to measure outgroup favoritism at the intercultural/international level is limited. This paper examined the interrelations between and relative validity of two measures of outgroup favoritism (i.e. cultural cringe, [Feather, N. T. (1993). Deva…
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Towards Covid-19 Among Ecuadorians During the Outbreak
Is an American Story Better? A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Domestic versus Foreigner Narratives in the Context of Chinese Air Pollution
Narrative messages are a useful tool in communicating health prevention. This study examines differences in the persuasiveness of narratives when they are ethnicity-incongruent or ethnicity-congruent. Many researchers claim that, because of a history of colonization and marginalization, the Chinese public favours foreigner messages that feature white English-speaking people, but little research has tested or explained this favouritism in communic…
White Liberals Need to Stop Talking and Start Listening
In this essay, I draw on personal and institutional experiences to argue that, rather than false listening, and rather than speaking, white liberals need to engage in a more careful form of listening. I argue that we (by we, I mean, explicitly, white liberals) need to attend to whom we are listening and the reasons we are listening
Testing “racial fetish” in health prevention messages
Previous research argues that readers should prefer messages featuring their own ethnicity. However, in China, messages featuring white people are common. We investigate Chinese participants evaluation of ethnicity-(in)congruent messages to understand why communication practices diverge from theoretical expectations. Two normative health prevention messages, tested in a quasi-experimental design, were constructed to be ethnically (in)congruent. T…
Community cartography in health communication
Scholars and practitioners are increasingly turning to maps as tools for promoting health and development communication. These maps are often criticized for privileging the interests of the global North and for authorizing (neo)colonial approaches. The authors offer a case of community mapping incorporating asset-based community development that offers an alternative cartography. Drawing on the maps produced by members of four communities in rura…
Accessing Womanhood
Mommy Groups as Sites for Deliberation in Everyday Speech
This study advances our knowledge of the role of metaphor in deliberation in everyday speech (with an emphasis on the role of competition, cooperation, and connection metaphors), which up to now has not been studied as an important discursive strategy in deliberation. Furthermore, the study contributes to our understanding of the discursive practices that happen during deliberation, as opposed to measuring, for example, deliberation’s effects. Af…
Where's the Joy in Cooking? Representations of Taste, Tradition, and Science in theJoy of Cooking
Procuring, preparing, and consuming foods are symbolic processes learned and reified within cultural boundaries. While many cultures have established tradition or taste as rules to guide food activities, contemporary Americans are mainly guided by a fascination with health and risk (Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma). As reflections of and contributors to public understandings of food and risk, cookbooks can be rich sites for scholarly investigation…
The impacts of an entertainment-education radio serial drama in Botswana on outcomes related to HIV prevention goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief
This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals among those who listen to Makgabaneng more often than among those who listen less often. This article begins by describing the general orientation of Mak…
Development of Scales to Assess Patients’ Perception of Physicians’ Cultural Competence in Health Care Interactions
This study describes the development of scales to measure patients’ perception of physicians’ cultural competence in health care interactions and thus contributes to promoting awareness of physician–patient intercultural interaction processes. Surveys were administrated to a total of 682 participants. Exploratory factor analyses were employed to assess emergent scales and subscales to develop reliable instruments. The first two phases were devote…
Circulation of the World War II / Holocaust analogy in the 1999 Kosovo intervention
This essay offers an analysis of the circulation of World War II and Holocaust analogies in discourses about American military involvement in Kosovo. The essay argues that the World War II/Holocaust analogy provided the public with a new vocabulary for understanding the situation in Kosovo. The essay uses Bill Clinton’s speeches about Kosovo during the first week of American intervention as a representative anecdote for discussing the analogy and…
Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks
Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability
This essay explores the relationships among disability, performance, and dance studies. Individuals with disabilities are often marginalized in current dance scholarship. Heather Mills's performances on Dancing with the Stars insert a dancer with a disability into mainstream perceptions of dance. This essay discusses three themes that emerge from an analysis of journalistic and blogger reactions to her performances. These themes reveal both empow…
Circulation of the World War II / Holocaust analogy in the 1999 Kosovo intervention
This essay offers an analysis of the circulation of World War II and Holocaust analogies in discourses about American military involvement in Kosovo. The essay argues that the World War II/Holocaust analogy provided the public with a new vocabulary for understanding the situation in Kosovo. The essay uses Bill Clinton’s speeches about Kosovo during the first week of American intervention as a representative anecdote for discussing the analogy and…
Testing “racial fetish” in health prevention messages
Previous research argues that readers should prefer messages featuring their own ethnicity. However, in China, messages featuring white people are common. We investigate Chinese participants evaluation of ethnicity-(in)congruent messages to understand why communication practices diverge from theoretical expectations. Two normative health prevention messages, tested in a quasi-experimental design, were constructed to be ethnically (in)congruent. T…
Community cartography in health communication
Scholars and practitioners are increasingly turning to maps as tools for promoting health and development communication. These maps are often criticized for privileging the interests of the global North and for authorizing (neo)colonial approaches. The authors offer a case of community mapping incorporating asset-based community development that offers an alternative cartography. Drawing on the maps produced by members of four communities in rura…
Accessing Womanhood
Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors
In the 1990s, critics of public discourse about genetics urged the replacement of the "blueprint" metaphor with the "recipe" metaphor. The subsequent appearance of the "recipe" metaphor in the mass media did not carry the expected reduction of genetic determinism, however. To account for the failure of the critical predictions, this essay extends Josef Stern's contextually based semantic theory of metaphor to a polyvocal theory of how metaphors d…
Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors
In the 1990s, critics of public discourse about genetics urged the replacement of the "blueprint" metaphor with the "recipe" metaphor. The subsequent appearance of the "recipe" metaphor in the mass media did not carry the expected reduction of genetic determinism, however. To account for the failure of the critical predictions, this essay extends Josef Stern's contextually based semantic theory of metaphor to a polyvocal theory of how metaphors d…
The New York Yankees and the conservative use of space
New York City’s “Canyon of Heroes”, the stretch of Broadway between Wall Street and City Hall, is often used as a space for celebrating sports, military, or political achievements through a parade. This essay offers an analysis of one iteration of a parade — the New York Yankees 1998 victory parade — and its (re)presentation by NBC. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s concept of la perruque, the essay argues that a negotiation of multiple readings of …
Care of the Self and Patient Participation in Genetic Discourse
Critics of genetic discourse are concerned that deterministic and discriminatory views of genetics are increasingly becoming adopted. These views argue that current genetic discourse becomes a source of power whereby powerful institutions harm people with so‐called “bad” genes. This essay argues that current analyses of the power of genetics discourse are grounded in an improper reading that disempowers patients. Deploying Michel Foucault's conce…
Public culture and public understanding of genetics
As the role of genetic science in everyday life has grown, policymakers have become concerned about Americans’ understandings of this science. Much effort has been devoted to formal schooling, but less attention has been paid to the role of public culture in shaping public understanding of genetics. Research into public cultural messages about genetics has claimed that the public is likely to adopt problematic accounts, but few studies have explo…
Senator Bill Frist and the Medical Jeremiad
Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks
Narrative Constructions of Health Care Issues and Policies
Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability
This essay explores the relationships among disability, performance, and dance studies. Individuals with disabilities are often marginalized in current dance scholarship. Heather Mills's performances on Dancing with the Stars insert a dancer with a disability into mainstream perceptions of dance. This essay discusses three themes that emerge from an analysis of journalistic and blogger reactions to her performances. These themes reveal both empow…
Circulation of the World War II / Holocaust analogy in the 1999 Kosovo intervention
This essay offers an analysis of the circulation of World War II and Holocaust analogies in discourses about American military involvement in Kosovo. The essay argues that the World War II/Holocaust analogy provided the public with a new vocabulary for understanding the situation in Kosovo. The essay uses Bill Clinton’s speeches about Kosovo during the first week of American intervention as a representative anecdote for discussing the analogy and…
Development of Scales to Assess Patients’ Perception of Physicians’ Cultural Competence in Health Care Interactions
This study describes the development of scales to measure patients’ perception of physicians’ cultural competence in health care interactions and thus contributes to promoting awareness of physician–patient intercultural interaction processes. Surveys were administrated to a total of 682 participants. Exploratory factor analyses were employed to assess emergent scales and subscales to develop reliable instruments. The first two phases were devote…
The impacts of an entertainment-education radio serial drama in Botswana on outcomes related to HIV prevention goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief
This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals among those who listen to Makgabaneng more often than among those who listen less often. This article begins by describing the general orientation of Mak…
Mommy Groups as Sites for Deliberation in Everyday Speech
This study advances our knowledge of the role of metaphor in deliberation in everyday speech (with an emphasis on the role of competition, cooperation, and connection metaphors), which up to now has not been studied as an important discursive strategy in deliberation. Furthermore, the study contributes to our understanding of the discursive practices that happen during deliberation, as opposed to measuring, for example, deliberation’s effects. Af…
Where's the Joy in Cooking? Representations of Taste, Tradition, and Science in theJoy of Cooking
Procuring, preparing, and consuming foods are symbolic processes learned and reified within cultural boundaries. While many cultures have established tradition or taste as rules to guide food activities, contemporary Americans are mainly guided by a fascination with health and risk (Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma). As reflections of and contributors to public understandings of food and risk, cookbooks can be rich sites for scholarly investigation…
Accessing Womanhood
Community cartography in health communication
Scholars and practitioners are increasingly turning to maps as tools for promoting health and development communication. These maps are often criticized for privileging the interests of the global North and for authorizing (neo)colonial approaches. The authors offer a case of community mapping incorporating asset-based community development that offers an alternative cartography. Drawing on the maps produced by members of four communities in rura…
White Liberals Need to Stop Talking and Start Listening
In this essay, I draw on personal and institutional experiences to argue that, rather than false listening, and rather than speaking, white liberals need to engage in a more careful form of listening. I argue that we (by we, I mean, explicitly, white liberals) need to attend to whom we are listening and the reasons we are listening
Testing “racial fetish” in health prevention messages
Previous research argues that readers should prefer messages featuring their own ethnicity. However, in China, messages featuring white people are common. We investigate Chinese participants evaluation of ethnicity-(in)congruent messages to understand why communication practices diverge from theoretical expectations. Two normative health prevention messages, tested in a quasi-experimental design, were constructed to be ethnically (in)congruent. T…
The (In)Appropriateness of the WAR Metaphor in Response to Sars-CoV-2
The virus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes (COVID-19) are unfamiliar topics to most publics. One mechanism used by political leaders to make the strange and unfamiliar more understandable and familiar to their publics is using metaphor. In his responses to SARS-CoV-2, US President Donald Trump used the WAR metaphor to shape public understanding. In this analysis, I reveal how the entailments chosen by Trump to complete this metaphor lead to r…
En Nuestra Casa No Hay Chinchorros
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease that disproportionately affects impoverished rural communities. Insecticide-based approaches are inconsistently performed and exorbitantly priced for the communities affected. The present study considers an alternative approach to primary prevention of Chagas disease using entertainment education. As part of an ongoing effort in rural Ecuador, we worked with the children of the community of Guara, na…
Beers, Bros, and Brett
Following Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, memes containing his image during his statement and questioning emerged across social media platforms. We examine these memes as a collective visual ideograph of the . They display a shared visual representation while enacting competing ideological frameworks. Through an analysis of 71 memes, two prominent themes emerged. First, there was competition over repre…
Measuring intercultural/international outgroup favoritism
Outgroup favoritism influences cross-group communication. At the intercultural/international level, one’s outgroup favoritism affects one’s communication with members of other cultures. However, our ability to measure outgroup favoritism at the intercultural/international level is limited. This paper examined the interrelations between and relative validity of two measures of outgroup favoritism (i.e. cultural cringe, [Feather, N. T. (1993). Deva…
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Towards Covid-19 Among Ecuadorians During the Outbreak
Is an American Story Better? A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Domestic versus Foreigner Narratives in the Context of Chinese Air Pollution
Narrative messages are a useful tool in communicating health prevention. This study examines differences in the persuasiveness of narratives when they are ethnicity-incongruent or ethnicity-congruent. Many researchers claim that, because of a history of colonization and marginalization, the Chinese public favours foreigner messages that feature white English-speaking people, but little research has tested or explained this favouritism in communic…
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Three Latin American Countries
Although vaccines have been developed to prevent COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy is a significant barrier for vaccination programs. Most research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has blamed misinformation and misstated concerns about effectiveness, safety, and side effects of these vaccines. The preponderance of these studies has been performed in the Global North. Although Latin American has been substantially and negatively impacted by COVID-19, few s…
Identifying health care access barriers in southern rural Ecuador
Modifiable health care access barriers outlined in the HCAB are evident in the study area. Further research and implementation of programs to resolve these barriers, such as the creation of health care subcenters and/or mobile clinic, insurance coverage of specialized care, increasing availability and accessibility to affordable transportation, improving roadways, introduction of a 24/7 call center to schedule medical visits, monetary incentive f…
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