Yea‐wen Chen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4879918 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yea‐wen Chen |
| PRENOMES | Yea‐wen |
| SOBRENOME | Chen |
| ASSINATURA | CHEN Y W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7771-9871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Centering Graduate Teaching Assistants in reimagining the future
U.S. higher education is undergoing an authoritarian crisis that disrupts the purpose and conditions of teaching and learning as well as academic freedom and labor (Giroux & Filippakou, 2020). Acro
Spirituality and Family Communication
Examining the Double Bind of anti-Racism in (U.S.-Based) Communication Programs’ Statements against Racism
In this study, we critically analyze statements published by doctoral degree-granting Communication programs throughout 2020 and 2021 in response to racism against Black Americans and Asian American/Pacific Islanders. Because anti-racist discourses are intertwined with social practices in that they help create the spaces for equitable policies, we seek to understand the ideological struggles in the discourses around institutional racism during a …
Pluriversal possibilities for the Euro/U.S.-centric intercultural communication field? A review of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Taiwan
The mainstream narrative of intercultural communication (IC) as a field remains Euro/U.S.-centric despite efforts to (re)imagine it from the margins. To shift this, in this exploratory essay we challenge the disciplinary contours of IC by using a pluriversal framework. We ask, how to pluriversalize Euro/U.S.-centric IC scholarship when it already penetrates non-European/U.S. spaces? And what lessons can this offer? To that end, we turn to a compa…
I felt too involved in something that I didn’t know how to deal with”
Considering that women, people of color, and minoritized faculty are expected to provide disproportionate emotional labor, this study focuses on how "immigrant" women faculty navigate emotional labor in U.S. academia. Based on interviews with 28 "immigrant" women across nationality, race/ethnicity, rank, and discipline, this study examines how they navigate emotional labor particularly through the Trump administration and the ongoing COVID-19 pan…
Communication About Negative and Uncertain Results
This case study focuses on a video telehealth consult to discuss genetic testing results. Participants include a Genetic Counselor (GC) and a Patient (P) previously diagnosed with ovarian cancer who is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments. Utilizing conversation analysis (CA), attention is first given to a series of interactional dilemmas as GC delivers and P responds to negative, uncertain, and complex test results. Specific findings add…
I’m just trying to fill my kids up
This qualitative study examines 16 Muslim parents’ communication with their children after Donald Trump’s electoral victory and amidst increasing Islamophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States. Our analysis highlights communication interactions, informed by participants’ perceived demonization of Muslims in media and political discourses, intended to counter negative stereotypes and cultivate strength, confidence, and belonging in the…
“Is it because I’m international?”
Given the relatively invisible yet growing presence of international academics on U.S. campuses, this study investigates the lived negotiations of “international instructors” across disciplines via critical communication pedagogy (CCP) as aligned with a pedagogy of cultural wealth. We place “international instructors” within quotation marks to challenge a territorial linear logic of the world, and also to facilitate a new space for rethinking aca…
“It takes a village”
When School Is Home and Home Is Work
This essay discloses the journey of two women as they become faculty-in-residence (FIR) at different institutions. Though far apart physically, the authors utilize a method of collaborative autoethnography to reflect on how their experiences marked boundaries, allowed for self-care, and supported residential education and community. Storied moments highlight issues of emotional labor, especially for female FIRs; out-of-class interactions with stu…
There is not just one way of doing it ”
The experiences of queer/LGBTQ+ adoptive parents have received limited attention within the communication discipline, particularly at the junction of family and intercultural studies. This qualitative study employs Muñoz's (1999. Disidentifications: Queers of color and the performance of politics. University of Minnesota Press) disidentifications to unpack how same-sex male adoptive parents re-configure and re-articulate dominantly ascribed meani…
Spat On and Coughed At
This paper examines Chinese international students' lived experiences of being stigmatized during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. To understand their dual-marginalization due to Othered Chinese-ness (e.g. racialized immigrant Others and foreigner Asians) and presumed contagiousness (e.g. suspected, diseased, and infectious), we adopt co-cultural theory to centralize their experiences of coping with COVID-related sti…
So, it’s like you’re swimming against the tide”
Muslim parents in the United States negotiate their intersecting identities and roles as parents amidst increasing (white) nationalism and anti-Muslim racism. In this qualitative study, we draw on cultural identity theory (CIT) to examine how sixteen cis-heterosexual/educated/able-bodied Muslim women parenting children in the United States make sense of their identity negotiations as individuals and parents. Our analysis identifies three overlapp…
Paradoxes of Belonging, Organizing, and Agency
Supported social enterprises (SSEs) are organizations that rely on both public subsidies and commercial activities to support underserved individuals’ social and economic integrations. As such, SSEs must manage paradoxes embedded in their double-bottom line that binds market and welfare logics. Having to pass through such authoritative and discordant filters, SSEs are inevitably compelled to vacillate between risky alignment strategies. Deploying…
We are the Unusual Factor”
Same-sex parenting in the United States (U.S.) is a rich site for scholars across disciplines to deepen more nuanced and complex understandings of diverse family dynamics. Despite the existence of this growing population that diversifies U.S. family values, communication scholars have long neglected same-sex households in their research agenda. In this qualitative study, we deploy queer theory to expose and call into question the cultural binary …
Developing a Method of Critical Thematic Analysis for Qualitative Communication Inquiry
This case study elucidates a method of critical thematic analysis that the authors argue is useful as a methodological tool used to code and interpret in-depth, qualitative interview discourses. They extend Owen's (1984) articulation of thematic analysis via recurrence, repetition, and forcefulness by adding a method of closed coding that identifies the prominence of ideologies, power relations, and status-based hierarchies. This method is demons…
Teaching Critical Moments within Neoliberal Universities
This study seeks to understand critical intercultural communication pedagogy (CICP) and the struggles associated with how to teach intercultural communication from a critical perspective. We explore the nexus of critical communication pedagogy and critical intercultural communication by analysing interview discourses with fifteen self-identified critical intercultural communication instructors across the United States. The analysis revealed theme…
“Why Don't You Speak (Up), Asian/Immigrant/Woman?” Rethinking Silence and Voice through Family Oral History
This essay deploys a disruptive moment of giving up tenure to rethink silence and voice in the context of institutional whiteness from the standpoint of a racialized Asian/immigrant/woman faculty. I narrate moments during my first tenure-track years weathering the quiet and invisible storms of whiteness at a historically white institution in the Midwestern United States. In (re)writing my story, I (re)orient my identity as an immigrant Other in U…
When religion meets academia
Given that religion is an understudied yet important topic, this exploratory research investigates how millennial Christians negotiate their intersecting cultural identities on college campuses. Specifically, this research took place on a Hispanic-serving, four-year public university in the Southwestern United States. The research team analyzed interview transcripts with student leaders and members of religious organizations. Following analytical…
Oh my god! You have become so Americanized ”
Guided by De La Garza and Ono’s differential adaptation theory, we examine discourses from immigrant women faculty in the U.S. academy. We utilize thematic analysis to analyze interviews with 26 self-identified immigrant faculty members. Our analysis reveals three interrelating themes: negotiating foreign-female body politics, navigating paradoxes of adaptation, and deploying strategic ambiguity. We theorize the notion of “micro/macro-adaptation”…
Emotions and Pan-Asian Organizing in the U.S. Southwest
Emotion is recognized as essential in human service work. Despite a recent surge of research on emotions in organizations in the past 20 years, communication scholars, however, have paid inadequate attention to workplace emotions. Yet, one key to promoting sustainable identity-based organizing lies in crafting alignments among identity, emotion, and action. This gap motivates the current study to examine emotions across organizational positions w…
Multicultural Neoliberalism and Academic Labor
In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the U.S. academy, we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplines working across U.S. colleges and universities. Collectively, the women’s voices converge around three primary themes pertaining to neoliberal restructuring of higher education: commodification of education, multicultural neoliberalism, and universal …
“My Family Isn't Racist—However…”
We analyzed via critical discourse analysis undergraduate essays from multiple sections of an introductory intercultural communication course to interrogate underlying ideology/ies that influence intercultural communication education. “Multicultural/Multiracial Obama-ism (MMO)” is coined to expose the reconfiguration of multiracial/multicultural Americans as new signifiers of a “post-racial” utopia under the Obama presidency. The dominant ideolog…
Relating across Difference for Social Change
This special issue has its origin in an unexpected conversation. At the reception of the International and Intercultural Communication Division at the 2012 National Communication Association Convention, the co-editors of this issue began discussing their participation and affiliation with a variety of nonprofit organizations (NPOs). As we described our involvements, we noticed a few themes. First, the work and success of the NPOs relied criticall…
Public Engagement Exercises with Racial and Cultural “Others”
Concerns about the inadequacy of using dialogue to address the material realities of race and racism motivate this essay. Hence, I reflect on the current state of conversations on race, diversity, and inclusion from the standpoint of cultural and racial “others.” To orient my reflections, I first unpack assumptions about what might constitute “productive” public deliberation on race. I argue that productive public engagement exercises on race (a)…
Multicultural Neoliberalism and Academic Labor
In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the U.S. academy, we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplines working across U.S. colleges and universities. Collectively, the women’s voices converge around three primary themes pertaining to neoliberal restructuring of higher education: commodification of education, multicultural neoliberalism, and universal …
Communicating a “New” Environmental Vernacular
This study focuses on communication as a lens and tool for reinvigorating and empowering marginalized cultural environmental relations. We use a community-based cultural approach to identify a core Hispanic premise of a sense of relations-in-place. This premise constitutes nature as a socially integrated space that provides the grounding for human relations, and differs from dominant Western discourses that constitute nature as an entity separate…
Self-Efficacy in Intercultural Communication
This study designed and validated an instrument for measuring sojourners' intercultural and everyday communication self-efficacy. Factor analysis of a Likert-type scale completed by Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme respondents (N = 213) identified a unidimensional-factor solution with 34-items loading (α=.95). It revealed negative, positive, and no correlation with existing scales that lent validity to the resulting Sojourner Self-Effi…
Spat On and Coughed At
This paper examines Chinese international students' lived experiences of being stigmatized during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. To understand their dual-marginalization due to Othered Chinese-ness (e.g. racialized immigrant Others and foreigner Asians) and presumed contagiousness (e.g. suspected, diseased, and infectious), we adopt co-cultural theory to centralize their experiences of coping with COVID-related sti…
I felt too involved in something that I didn’t know how to deal with”
Considering that women, people of color, and minoritized faculty are expected to provide disproportionate emotional labor, this study focuses on how "immigrant" women faculty navigate emotional labor in U.S. academia. Based on interviews with 28 "immigrant" women across nationality, race/ethnicity, rank, and discipline, this study examines how they navigate emotional labor particularly through the Trump administration and the ongoing COVID-19 pan…
Establishing Cross-Cultural Measurement Equivalence of Scales Associated with Face-Negotiation Theory
To extend face-negotiation theory (FNT) to romantic relationship contexts, we examined the patterns of responses to six survey instruments among five countries. We intend this initial paper to serve as a tutorial of testing measurement invariance—specifically by elaborating on: (a) how to establish measurement equivalence and (b) how to test measurement invariance using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The results highlight the importance…
Intercultural Identity Positioning
This study examines interview discourses from board members/volunteers, staff, and clients in two nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Southwest. Extending cultural identity theory constructs of avowal, ascription, and salience, the study used aspects of critical discourse analysis to thematically determine what the interview discourses revealed about identity positioning, negotiation of cross-status relationships and hierarchies, and how ideologi…
We are the Unusual Factor”
Same-sex parenting in the United States (U.S.) is a rich site for scholars across disciplines to deepen more nuanced and complex understandings of diverse family dynamics. Despite the existence of this growing population that diversifies U.S. family values, communication scholars have long neglected same-sex households in their research agenda. In this qualitative study, we deploy queer theory to expose and call into question the cultural binary …
When religion meets academia
Given that religion is an understudied yet important topic, this exploratory research investigates how millennial Christians negotiate their intersecting cultural identities on college campuses. Specifically, this research took place on a Hispanic-serving, four-year public university in the Southwestern United States. The research team analyzed interview transcripts with student leaders and members of religious organizations. Following analytical…
Oh my god! You have become so Americanized ”
Guided by De La Garza and Ono’s differential adaptation theory, we examine discourses from immigrant women faculty in the U.S. academy. We utilize thematic analysis to analyze interviews with 26 self-identified immigrant faculty members. Our analysis reveals three interrelating themes: negotiating foreign-female body politics, navigating paradoxes of adaptation, and deploying strategic ambiguity. We theorize the notion of “micro/macro-adaptation”…
Relating across Difference for Social Change
This special issue has its origin in an unexpected conversation. At the reception of the International and Intercultural Communication Division at the 2012 National Communication Association Convention, the co-editors of this issue began discussing their participation and affiliation with a variety of nonprofit organizations (NPOs). As we described our involvements, we noticed a few themes. First, the work and success of the NPOs relied criticall…
Influences of Culture on Self-Disclosure as Relationally Situated in Intercultural and Interracial Friendships from a Social Penetration Perspective
Intercultural and interracial relationships face barriers, tensions, and challenges that are absent from intracultural and intraracial relationships. These challenges provide the impetus for this study to examine the influences of individualism-collectivism and relational intimacy on topics and dimensions of self-disclosure in intercultural/interracial friendships from a social penetration perspective. A total of 252 participants responded to the…
Self-Efficacy in Intercultural Communication
This study designed and validated an instrument for measuring sojourners' intercultural and everyday communication self-efficacy. Factor analysis of a Likert-type scale completed by Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme respondents (N = 213) identified a unidimensional-factor solution with 34-items loading (α=.95). It revealed negative, positive, and no correlation with existing scales that lent validity to the resulting Sojourner Self-Effi…
Intercultural Identity Positioning
This study examines interview discourses from board members/volunteers, staff, and clients in two nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Southwest. Extending cultural identity theory constructs of avowal, ascription, and salience, the study used aspects of critical discourse analysis to thematically determine what the interview discourses revealed about identity positioning, negotiation of cross-status relationships and hierarchies, and how ideologi…
Communicating a “New” Environmental Vernacular
This study focuses on communication as a lens and tool for reinvigorating and empowering marginalized cultural environmental relations. We use a community-based cultural approach to identify a core Hispanic premise of a sense of relations-in-place. This premise constitutes nature as a socially integrated space that provides the grounding for human relations, and differs from dominant Western discourses that constitute nature as an entity separate…
Challenges and Benefits of Community-Based Participatory Research for Environmental Justice
This essay features critical reflections on a process of generative community-based participatory research (CBPR) in which communication researchers collaborated with environmental organizations, cultural advocacy groups, and community participants to identify better ways of addressing ecocultural struggles. In response to Depoe's call to promote scholar–practitioner interactions, the authors make explicit challenges and benefits implicated in em…
Measuring Patterns of Self-Disclosure in Intercultural Friendship
This study examined how friendship types, levels of friendship, and cultural backgrounds affected breadth of self-disclosure (BSD). BSD was measured with six self-disclosure topic items—in which higher scores indicated greater willingness to engage in conversations about various topics—from three groups with varying experiences with intercultural friendships. Confirmatory factor analysis was used with Multiple-Indicators, Multiple-Causes models t…
Connecting Community Voices
Steady increase in the incidence of atherosclerosis is becoming a major concern not only in the United States but also in other countries. One of the major risk factors for the development of atherosclerosis is high concentrations of plasma low-density lipoprotein, which are metabolic products of very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL). VLDLs are synthesized and secreted by the liver. In this review, we discuss various stages through which VLDL parti…
Facing a crisis of ‘unlikely’ relationships? Discourses of friendship and alliance across differences
Public Engagement Exercises with Racial and Cultural “Others”
Concerns about the inadequacy of using dialogue to address the material realities of race and racism motivate this essay. Hence, I reflect on the current state of conversations on race, diversity, and inclusion from the standpoint of cultural and racial “others.” To orient my reflections, I first unpack assumptions about what might constitute “productive” public deliberation on race. I argue that productive public engagement exercises on race (a)…
Establishing Cross-Cultural Measurement Equivalence of Scales Associated with Face-Negotiation Theory
To extend face-negotiation theory (FNT) to romantic relationship contexts, we examined the patterns of responses to six survey instruments among five countries. We intend this initial paper to serve as a tutorial of testing measurement invariance—specifically by elaborating on: (a) how to establish measurement equivalence and (b) how to test measurement invariance using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The results highlight the importance…
“My Family Isn't Racist—However…”
We analyzed via critical discourse analysis undergraduate essays from multiple sections of an introductory intercultural communication course to interrogate underlying ideology/ies that influence intercultural communication education. “Multicultural/Multiracial Obama-ism (MMO)” is coined to expose the reconfiguration of multiracial/multicultural Americans as new signifiers of a “post-racial” utopia under the Obama presidency. The dominant ideolog…
Relating across Difference for Social Change
This special issue has its origin in an unexpected conversation. At the reception of the International and Intercultural Communication Division at the 2012 National Communication Association Convention, the co-editors of this issue began discussing their participation and affiliation with a variety of nonprofit organizations (NPOs). As we described our involvements, we noticed a few themes. First, the work and success of the NPOs relied criticall…
Multicultural Neoliberalism and Academic Labor
In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the U.S. academy, we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplines working across U.S. colleges and universities. Collectively, the women’s voices converge around three primary themes pertaining to neoliberal restructuring of higher education: commodification of education, multicultural neoliberalism, and universal …
Oh my god! You have become so Americanized ”
Guided by De La Garza and Ono’s differential adaptation theory, we examine discourses from immigrant women faculty in the U.S. academy. We utilize thematic analysis to analyze interviews with 26 self-identified immigrant faculty members. Our analysis reveals three interrelating themes: negotiating foreign-female body politics, navigating paradoxes of adaptation, and deploying strategic ambiguity. We theorize the notion of “micro/macro-adaptation”…
Emotions and Pan-Asian Organizing in the U.S. Southwest
Emotion is recognized as essential in human service work. Despite a recent surge of research on emotions in organizations in the past 20 years, communication scholars, however, have paid inadequate attention to workplace emotions. Yet, one key to promoting sustainable identity-based organizing lies in crafting alignments among identity, emotion, and action. This gap motivates the current study to examine emotions across organizational positions w…
“Why Don't You Speak (Up), Asian/Immigrant/Woman?” Rethinking Silence and Voice through Family Oral History
This essay deploys a disruptive moment of giving up tenure to rethink silence and voice in the context of institutional whiteness from the standpoint of a racialized Asian/immigrant/woman faculty. I narrate moments during my first tenure-track years weathering the quiet and invisible storms of whiteness at a historically white institution in the Midwestern United States. In (re)writing my story, I (re)orient my identity as an immigrant Other in U…
When religion meets academia
Given that religion is an understudied yet important topic, this exploratory research investigates how millennial Christians negotiate their intersecting cultural identities on college campuses. Specifically, this research took place on a Hispanic-serving, four-year public university in the Southwestern United States. The research team analyzed interview transcripts with student leaders and members of religious organizations. Following analytical…
Developing a Method of Critical Thematic Analysis for Qualitative Communication Inquiry
This case study elucidates a method of critical thematic analysis that the authors argue is useful as a methodological tool used to code and interpret in-depth, qualitative interview discourses. They extend Owen's (1984) articulation of thematic analysis via recurrence, repetition, and forcefulness by adding a method of closed coding that identifies the prominence of ideologies, power relations, and status-based hierarchies. This method is demons…
Teaching Critical Moments within Neoliberal Universities
This study seeks to understand critical intercultural communication pedagogy (CICP) and the struggles associated with how to teach intercultural communication from a critical perspective. We explore the nexus of critical communication pedagogy and critical intercultural communication by analysing interview discourses with fifteen self-identified critical intercultural communication instructors across the United States. The analysis revealed theme…
We are the Unusual Factor”
Same-sex parenting in the United States (U.S.) is a rich site for scholars across disciplines to deepen more nuanced and complex understandings of diverse family dynamics. Despite the existence of this growing population that diversifies U.S. family values, communication scholars have long neglected same-sex households in their research agenda. In this qualitative study, we deploy queer theory to expose and call into question the cultural binary …
So, it’s like you’re swimming against the tide”
Muslim parents in the United States negotiate their intersecting identities and roles as parents amidst increasing (white) nationalism and anti-Muslim racism. In this qualitative study, we draw on cultural identity theory (CIT) to examine how sixteen cis-heterosexual/educated/able-bodied Muslim women parenting children in the United States make sense of their identity negotiations as individuals and parents. Our analysis identifies three overlapp…
Paradoxes of Belonging, Organizing, and Agency
Supported social enterprises (SSEs) are organizations that rely on both public subsidies and commercial activities to support underserved individuals’ social and economic integrations. As such, SSEs must manage paradoxes embedded in their double-bottom line that binds market and welfare logics. Having to pass through such authoritative and discordant filters, SSEs are inevitably compelled to vacillate between risky alignment strategies. Deploying…
“Is it because I’m international?”
Given the relatively invisible yet growing presence of international academics on U.S. campuses, this study investigates the lived negotiations of “international instructors” across disciplines via critical communication pedagogy (CCP) as aligned with a pedagogy of cultural wealth. We place “international instructors” within quotation marks to challenge a territorial linear logic of the world, and also to facilitate a new space for rethinking aca…
“It takes a village”
When School Is Home and Home Is Work
This essay discloses the journey of two women as they become faculty-in-residence (FIR) at different institutions. Though far apart physically, the authors utilize a method of collaborative autoethnography to reflect on how their experiences marked boundaries, allowed for self-care, and supported residential education and community. Storied moments highlight issues of emotional labor, especially for female FIRs; out-of-class interactions with stu…
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