Fanny Ramirez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 763961 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fanny Ramirez |
| PRENOMES | Fanny |
| SOBRENOME | Ramirez |
| ASSINATURA | RAMIREZ F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9467-1133 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From red scare to RedNote
Using digital sovereignty and intercultural competence as theoretical frameworks, this study examines the migration of TikTok refugees to RedNote (Xiaohongshu) following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025 TikTok ban. Based on a content analysis of 387 videos, we find that users navigated RedNote in ways that contested U.S. digital authoritarianism and generated spontaneous cross-cultural exchange with Chinese users. We argue these interactions constit…
News media framing on abortion in the post- Dobbs era
We apply framing theory to investigate how the news media framed the issue of abortion after the 2022 Dobbs decision. We conducted a rigorous content analysis of 1607 local news stories in states with abortion bans or restrictions that went into effect in the first year post-Dobbs. Our results uncover several key findings. First, we found that local news relied on thematic frames far more frequently than episodic frames. Second, when local news a…
He posted/she posted
Drawing on communication affordance theory and literature on victim blaming, rape myths, and violence against women, this study uses a qualitative content analysis of 108 publicly available court judgements to examine the use of social media evidence in sexual assault trials in Canada. Our findings indicate that the defense and the prosecution use social media’s affordance of digital association to establish relational ties between victims and de…
Resilience and Resourcefulness
Purpose This article examines how crisis centers in Louisiana, USA, adapted their direct care services during COVID-19 to continue helping survivors affected by violence. Organizational resilience theory serves as the project’s main theoretical framework. As such, we report on how community- and university-based crisis centers drew on principles of resilience and resourcefulness to adapt their direct care services (e.g., crafting normalcy, puttin…
Race, gender, and electronic surveillance in intimate relationships
This study uses qualitative survey data and Uncertainty Reduction Theory to examine the digital monitoring practices of Black and Latinx women in intimate relationships. Approximately 46% of participants had engaged in intimate surveillance, suggesting that casual monitoring behaviors are now commonplace. Justifications for monitoring include reassurance-seeking, suspected infidelity, maladaptive coping, distrust, early relationship uncertainty, …
The dialectic link between trust and privacy
Based on open-ended survey data of 400 women who self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study examines women's digital media sharing practices in romantic relationships amid a growing trend towards the personalization of digital technologies. Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory as well as scholarship on privacy and trust in romantic relationships frame our work. Approximately 56% of participants said romantic partners should not …
Unveiling the Nexus Between Digital Monitoring and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Romantic Relationships
Using survey data from a sample of 378 women who live in the United States and self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study explores predictors of women's digital monitoring practices in intimate relationships in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). We use literature about surveillance, monitoring, and IPV to frame our study. Our results show three significant instances that influence the odds of monitoring a romantic partner: (…
Narcissisticabuse
This article uses the framework of ‘digitized narratives’ to examine how, in the aftermath of the Gabby Petito case, survivors of narcissistic abuse turned to Twitter to share personal narratives and educate others about violence against women. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of 204 tweets collected during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the U.S. in October 2021, we argue that survivors of narcissistic abuse used #NarcissisticAbuse…
Defending against social media
Secondary data collection practices are often opaque to platform users and researchers but known to shape individuals’ life chances in significant and unequal ways. In this paper, we articulate a clear relationship between invisible, unwanted data collection and its adverse, downstream consequences for marginalized groups by examining instances in the criminal justice field where social media data function as criminal evidence. We show how social…
Gendering of the “ideal user” in 1990s-era internet magazines
This project responds to calls by scholars to interrogate how gender was depicted on the early commercial internet. More broadly, it examines how the idea of “users” was and is constructed in different times and places. Specifically, it examines images—advertisements, photos, and other illustrations—and how they depicted gender norms and user behaviors on the internet—in their “idealized” forms. Our study looks at how magazines, such as Internet …
Covid-19 in the Media
Using survey data of 330 self-identified Black individuals, we examine how Black individuals coped with news media coverage about the negative consequences of COVID-19 for Black communities, and what stressors other than COVID-19 news coverage they experienced. We find that Black individuals relied primarily on healthy, positive-coping strategies (e.g., taking proactive health measures, spending time with family and friends, and focusing on work)…
Assessing Physical and Digital News Spaces
Homepages and front pages are both important places in the news production world. And yet, we know little about how these differ in contexts beyond Western Europe and the United States. This study contributes a field theory-based assessment of the differences in news content and presentation between the homepage and front page of the Daily Monitor, an influential Ugandan newspaper. Using a qualitative analysis of PDFs taken from 27 days in April,…
Let Us Fly Our Drones
This study uses diffusion of innovations theory to examine the growing popularity of drone journalism across U.S. colleges. We argue that collegiate-level developments in drone journalism represent a shift in drone technology’s diffusion across society from an instrument limited to a few select groups to a technology that is now used by future professionals with the power to shape the practice of journalism. Through a content analysis of college …
“We’re Essential Because You’re Essential”
Within weeks of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, domestic violence and sexual assault incidents increased. To adhere to new health protocols, social service providers were encouraged to move outreach efforts to virtual formats. We draw on 21 in-depth interviews with Louisiana organizations working in violence against women to examine how they 1) transitioned to online outreach efforts and 2) adapted…
‘But her age was not given on her Facebook profile’
This paper examines the role of social media evidence in sexual assault trials in Canada, focusing on cases with underage female victims. Teenage girls are among the heaviest social media users and face unique expectations regarding the performance of heteronormative gender norms. Society simultaneously encourages girls to enact gender roles that emphasize their femininity and sexuality and punishes them for acting according to these standards. W…
The digital divide in the US criminal justice system
The growing use of digital evidence from smartphones and social media has led to a digital divide in the US criminal justice system that advantages law enforcement and prosecutors while further increasing the vulnerability of poor people and people of color who rely on public legal assistance. Drawing on a year-long ethnographic study of one of the first digital forensics laboratories in a public defender office, I argue that digital inclusion in…
Carceral communication
This article introduces the concept of carceral communication to focus attention on the role of communication in mass incarceration’s racialized, criminal justice process. To argue that a communication perspective helps explain how individuals, neighborhoods, and prisons are linked together, the article uses publicly available indictments that charged three New York City youth gangs with violent crimes. It identifies three facets of carceral comm…
Perceptions of police use of force among U.S. adults and the role of communication accommodation in improving police–civilian interactions
This paper examines how U.S. adults define police use-of-force and what these understandings of police violence mean for police–civilian interactions. Our findings show that public attitude is split between pro- and anti-law enforcement stances. Pro-law enforcement individuals see use-of-force as something that is part of the job for police officers, associate the term with positive emotions, and give the benefit of the doubt to police officers w…
Defending Against Social Media
As justice-minded academics, we want to understand the role of social media in civil society with a vested interest in ensuring that social media serves a pluralistic society fairly and equitably. Gillespie (2018) has helped frame this task in terms of both governance of platforms and by platforms, but we also want to know what state governments do with social media (Gorwa, 2019). This paper focuses on how social media companies cooperate with st…
Guilty by Visible Association
Using an affordances framework, we consider how increased visibility afforded by social media impacts the criminal justice process. The use of social media as criminal evidence is a development that particularly impacts low-income populations of color already under heavy surveillance. Content analysis of seven gang indictments filed by the District Attorney (DA) of a large U.S. city that included a total of 1,281 overt acts of conspiracy revealed…
Guilty by Visible Association
Using an affordances framework, we consider how increased visibility afforded by social media impacts the criminal justice process. The use of social media as criminal evidence is a development that particularly impacts low-income populations of color already under heavy surveillance. Content analysis of seven gang indictments filed by the District Attorney (DA) of a large U.S. city that included a total of 1,281 overt acts of conspiracy revealed…
He posted/she posted
Drawing on communication affordance theory and literature on victim blaming, rape myths, and violence against women, this study uses a qualitative content analysis of 108 publicly available court judgements to examine the use of social media evidence in sexual assault trials in Canada. Our findings indicate that the defense and the prosecution use social media’s affordance of digital association to establish relational ties between victims and de…
The dialectic link between trust and privacy
Based on open-ended survey data of 400 women who self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study examines women's digital media sharing practices in romantic relationships amid a growing trend towards the personalization of digital technologies. Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory as well as scholarship on privacy and trust in romantic relationships frame our work. Approximately 56% of participants said romantic partners should not …
Covid-19 in the Media
Using survey data of 330 self-identified Black individuals, we examine how Black individuals coped with news media coverage about the negative consequences of COVID-19 for Black communities, and what stressors other than COVID-19 news coverage they experienced. We find that Black individuals relied primarily on healthy, positive-coping strategies (e.g., taking proactive health measures, spending time with family and friends, and focusing on work)…
The digital divide in the US criminal justice system
The growing use of digital evidence from smartphones and social media has led to a digital divide in the US criminal justice system that advantages law enforcement and prosecutors while further increasing the vulnerability of poor people and people of color who rely on public legal assistance. Drawing on a year-long ethnographic study of one of the first digital forensics laboratories in a public defender office, I argue that digital inclusion in…
Guilty by Visible Association
Using an affordances framework, we consider how increased visibility afforded by social media impacts the criminal justice process. The use of social media as criminal evidence is a development that particularly impacts low-income populations of color already under heavy surveillance. Content analysis of seven gang indictments filed by the District Attorney (DA) of a large U.S. city that included a total of 1,281 overt acts of conspiracy revealed…
Defending Against Social Media
As justice-minded academics, we want to understand the role of social media in civil society with a vested interest in ensuring that social media serves a pluralistic society fairly and equitably. Gillespie (2018) has helped frame this task in terms of both governance of platforms and by platforms, but we also want to know what state governments do with social media (Gorwa, 2019). This paper focuses on how social media companies cooperate with st…
Perceptions of police use of force among U.S. adults and the role of communication accommodation in improving police–civilian interactions
This paper examines how U.S. adults define police use-of-force and what these understandings of police violence mean for police–civilian interactions. Our findings show that public attitude is split between pro- and anti-law enforcement stances. Pro-law enforcement individuals see use-of-force as something that is part of the job for police officers, associate the term with positive emotions, and give the benefit of the doubt to police officers w…
“We’re Essential Because You’re Essential”
Within weeks of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, domestic violence and sexual assault incidents increased. To adhere to new health protocols, social service providers were encouraged to move outreach efforts to virtual formats. We draw on 21 in-depth interviews with Louisiana organizations working in violence against women to examine how they 1) transitioned to online outreach efforts and 2) adapted…
‘But her age was not given on her Facebook profile’
This paper examines the role of social media evidence in sexual assault trials in Canada, focusing on cases with underage female victims. Teenage girls are among the heaviest social media users and face unique expectations regarding the performance of heteronormative gender norms. Society simultaneously encourages girls to enact gender roles that emphasize their femininity and sexuality and punishes them for acting according to these standards. W…
The digital divide in the US criminal justice system
The growing use of digital evidence from smartphones and social media has led to a digital divide in the US criminal justice system that advantages law enforcement and prosecutors while further increasing the vulnerability of poor people and people of color who rely on public legal assistance. Drawing on a year-long ethnographic study of one of the first digital forensics laboratories in a public defender office, I argue that digital inclusion in…
Carceral communication
This article introduces the concept of carceral communication to focus attention on the role of communication in mass incarceration’s racialized, criminal justice process. To argue that a communication perspective helps explain how individuals, neighborhoods, and prisons are linked together, the article uses publicly available indictments that charged three New York City youth gangs with violent crimes. It identifies three facets of carceral comm…
Let Us Fly Our Drones
This study uses diffusion of innovations theory to examine the growing popularity of drone journalism across U.S. colleges. We argue that collegiate-level developments in drone journalism represent a shift in drone technology’s diffusion across society from an instrument limited to a few select groups to a technology that is now used by future professionals with the power to shape the practice of journalism. Through a content analysis of college …
Narcissisticabuse
This article uses the framework of ‘digitized narratives’ to examine how, in the aftermath of the Gabby Petito case, survivors of narcissistic abuse turned to Twitter to share personal narratives and educate others about violence against women. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of 204 tweets collected during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the U.S. in October 2021, we argue that survivors of narcissistic abuse used #NarcissisticAbuse…
Defending against social media
Secondary data collection practices are often opaque to platform users and researchers but known to shape individuals’ life chances in significant and unequal ways. In this paper, we articulate a clear relationship between invisible, unwanted data collection and its adverse, downstream consequences for marginalized groups by examining instances in the criminal justice field where social media data function as criminal evidence. We show how social…
Gendering of the “ideal user” in 1990s-era internet magazines
This project responds to calls by scholars to interrogate how gender was depicted on the early commercial internet. More broadly, it examines how the idea of “users” was and is constructed in different times and places. Specifically, it examines images—advertisements, photos, and other illustrations—and how they depicted gender norms and user behaviors on the internet—in their “idealized” forms. Our study looks at how magazines, such as Internet …
Covid-19 in the Media
Using survey data of 330 self-identified Black individuals, we examine how Black individuals coped with news media coverage about the negative consequences of COVID-19 for Black communities, and what stressors other than COVID-19 news coverage they experienced. We find that Black individuals relied primarily on healthy, positive-coping strategies (e.g., taking proactive health measures, spending time with family and friends, and focusing on work)…
Assessing Physical and Digital News Spaces
Homepages and front pages are both important places in the news production world. And yet, we know little about how these differ in contexts beyond Western Europe and the United States. This study contributes a field theory-based assessment of the differences in news content and presentation between the homepage and front page of the Daily Monitor, an influential Ugandan newspaper. Using a qualitative analysis of PDFs taken from 27 days in April,…
News media framing on abortion in the post- Dobbs era
We apply framing theory to investigate how the news media framed the issue of abortion after the 2022 Dobbs decision. We conducted a rigorous content analysis of 1607 local news stories in states with abortion bans or restrictions that went into effect in the first year post-Dobbs. Our results uncover several key findings. First, we found that local news relied on thematic frames far more frequently than episodic frames. Second, when local news a…
He posted/she posted
Drawing on communication affordance theory and literature on victim blaming, rape myths, and violence against women, this study uses a qualitative content analysis of 108 publicly available court judgements to examine the use of social media evidence in sexual assault trials in Canada. Our findings indicate that the defense and the prosecution use social media’s affordance of digital association to establish relational ties between victims and de…
Resilience and Resourcefulness
Purpose This article examines how crisis centers in Louisiana, USA, adapted their direct care services during COVID-19 to continue helping survivors affected by violence. Organizational resilience theory serves as the project’s main theoretical framework. As such, we report on how community- and university-based crisis centers drew on principles of resilience and resourcefulness to adapt their direct care services (e.g., crafting normalcy, puttin…
Race, gender, and electronic surveillance in intimate relationships
This study uses qualitative survey data and Uncertainty Reduction Theory to examine the digital monitoring practices of Black and Latinx women in intimate relationships. Approximately 46% of participants had engaged in intimate surveillance, suggesting that casual monitoring behaviors are now commonplace. Justifications for monitoring include reassurance-seeking, suspected infidelity, maladaptive coping, distrust, early relationship uncertainty, …
The dialectic link between trust and privacy
Based on open-ended survey data of 400 women who self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study examines women's digital media sharing practices in romantic relationships amid a growing trend towards the personalization of digital technologies. Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory as well as scholarship on privacy and trust in romantic relationships frame our work. Approximately 56% of participants said romantic partners should not …
Unveiling the Nexus Between Digital Monitoring and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Romantic Relationships
Using survey data from a sample of 378 women who live in the United States and self-identify as either Black or Latinx, this study explores predictors of women's digital monitoring practices in intimate relationships in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). We use literature about surveillance, monitoring, and IPV to frame our study. Our results show three significant instances that influence the odds of monitoring a romantic partner: (…
From red scare to RedNote
Using digital sovereignty and intercultural competence as theoretical frameworks, this study examines the migration of TikTok refugees to RedNote (Xiaohongshu) following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025 TikTok ban. Based on a content analysis of 387 videos, we find that users navigated RedNote in ways that contested U.S. digital authoritarianism and generated spontaneous cross-cultural exchange with Chinese users. We argue these interactions constit…
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