Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons^™

Discursive Struggles Of Tradition And Nontradition In The Retrospective Accounts Of Married Couples Who Cohabited Before Engagement, Julia Moore, Jennifer Kienzle, Elizabeth Flood Grady

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Couples who cohabit and then become engaged often participate in nontraditional living arrangements and traditional marriage proposals. Because understandings of tradition and nontradition are constituted in discourse, we employed relational dialectics theory to examine the interplay of competing discourses in the talk of married participants who cohabited before engagement. Through retrospective interviews, we investigated the discursive struggles in participants’ talk across three contexts: pre-engagement cohabitation, the marriage proposal ritual, and the (re)telling of the proposal story to friends and family. Analysis of participant interviews illustrated three discursive struggles: (a) pragmatism and risk in cohabitation, (b) romance and partnership in the …

Representasi Distinction Pejabat Negara Dan Kuasa Simbolik Di Media, Nurul Islam

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Penelitian ini mengkaji strategi distinction dan penempatan kapital dari akumulasi kepemilikan kapital oleh Dahlan Iskan melalui teks berita di arena jurnalistik, harian Koran Tempo. Strategi distinction sebagai konsep yang melanggengkan dominasi aktor dan sebagai politik-pencitraan melalui kuasa simbolik di media massa. Analisis wacana kritis Fairclough dan in-depth interview digunakan sebagai motode memperoleh data tentang praktek simbolisasi melalui representasi teks atas tindakan distingsi. Level teks menggunakan instrument teks distingsi dan wawancara untuk memperoleh data leve meso, serta studi literature untuk level makro. Studi ini menunjukkan bahwa strategi distingsi dan akumulasi kepemilikan kapital melalui relasisosial-budaya dan simbolik menjadi konsepsi kuasa atas aktor …

Seks Dan Seksualitas Pascareformasi, Afra Suci

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

No abstract provided.

Identitas Budaya Orang Indonesia Dalam Kota Virtual Jepang (Studi Etnografi Virtual Terhadap Pengguna “Ameba Pigg”), Luh Gde Pratiwi Mayasari

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

AbstrakAmeba Pigg adalah media sosial Jepang berbentuk dunia virtual. Walaupun diciptakan dengan basis budaya Jepang, terdapat orang-orang Indonesia yang tinggal di dalamnya. Dengan adanya perbedaan budaya tersebut, penelitian ini mencoba untuk memahami bagaimana identitas budaya yang ditunjukkan, bagaimana proses terbentuknya dan hal-hal apa yang berkontribusi dalam proses tersebut. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif, dilakukan dengan metode etnografi virtual, didukung wawancara mendalam terhadap tiga orang informan yang telah tinggal bertahun-tahun di Ameba Pigg, serta menggunakan teknik analisis tematik. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah terjadi hibriditas antara budaya Jepang dan Indonesia di dalam identitas budaya para informan yang tersebut terbentuk melalui proses …

User Acceptance Dan Media Richness Pada Video Conference Dalam Kehadiran Bersama Secarasosial (Social Co-Presence), Windra Irawan

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

No abstract provided.

Pengelolaan Hubungan Romantis Jarak Jauh (Studi Penetrasi Sosial Terhadap Pasangan Yang Terpisah Jarak Geografis Sejak Pacaran Hingga Menikah), Girly Kurniati

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Frekuensi interaksi dan kedekatan secara fisik merupakan faktor yang menyebabkan suatu hubungan asmara dapat bertahan. Akan tetapi, tuntutan pekerjaan maupun pendidikan kerap kali memaksa pasangan untuk menjalani sebuah hubungan romantis jarak jauh. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses individu membangun relasi interpersonal dan bagaimana mereka mengelola hubungan jarak jauh dengan pasangannya. Untuk mengetahui proses perkembangan dan pengelolaan hubungan, peneliti menggunakan Teori Penetrasi Sosial yang dikemukakan oleh Altman dan Taylor serta Tahapan Hubungan Antarpribadi milik Devito. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan paradigma post positivis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tahapan perkembangan hubungan antarpribadi tidak bersifat linear karenadimungkinkan terjadinya lompatan maupun kemunduran …

Inovasi Teknologi Portal Intranet Kominfo: Perspektif Actor Network Theory, Rieka Mustika

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Penelitian ini melihat bagaimana proses translasi yang terjadi ketika inovasi teknologi portal intranet diterapkan di Kementerian Kominfo.Konsep difusi inovasi dan actor network theory digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Pendekatannya adalah kualitatif, dengan metode studi kasus. Unit analisis yang diteliti berupa aktor manusia dan non-manusia. Aktor manusia yaitu inisiator dan beberapa pengguna portal intranet, kemudian aktor non-manusia antara lain aplikasi intranet dan forum diskusi yang berada di portal intranet. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan proses translasi terjadi melalui tahap problematisasi di mana inisiator menawarkan inovasi intranetpada aktor-aktor. Dilanjutkan dengan tahap interressement di mana portal intranet didesain inisiator sebagai single gateway bagi aplikasi e-government. Enrollment …

Pengkultusan Merek Iphone Oleh Anggota Perempuan Komunitas Pelanggan, Rinandi Rinandi

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kesadaran merek, ritual dan tradisi dan tanggung jawab moral kolektif anggota perempuan dari komunitas pengguna dalam proses pengkultusan merek Iphone. Dengan menggunakan metode studi kasus, penelitian ini terutama menggunakan konsep pengkultusan merek Muniz dan O‘Guinn (2001) dan perilaku perempuan terhadap ponsel seperti yang dijelaskan oleh Wilska (2003). Kesimpulan utama dari penelitian ini adalah proses pengkultusan merek oleh anggota perempuan dari komunitas Iphone terjadi dalam pembentukan kesadaran merek, ritual dan tradisi dan tanggung jawab moral kolektif. Gender dan bagaimana wanita berinteraksi turut membangun bagaimana proses pengkultusan merek ini.

This study aims to understand the awareness of …

The Digital Gap: An Investigation Into The Access And Use Of Internet In Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Kayla Steinberg

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Although still less than 20 percent of the Nicaraguan population has access to the internet, in the years preceding 2012, internet in Nicaragua grew by 113 percent. This rapid development of internet in the country generates several questions, including: “Who has access to the internet in Nicaragua?,” Where are they using the internet?,” and “How are they using it?” This paper answers these three questions and investigates how the answers differ between different demographic groups, especially between young and older people and women and men, through the results of a survey distributed primarily in a public park with free wifi …

Subversive Humor, Chris A. Kramer

Dissertations (1934 -)

Oppression is easily recognized. That is, at least, when oppression results from overt, consciously professed racism, for example, in which violence, explicit exclusion from economic opportunities, denial of adequate legal access, and open discrimination perpetuate the subjugation of a group of people. There are relatively clear legal remedies to such oppression. But this is not the case with covert oppression where the psychological harms and resulting legal and economic exclusion are every bit as real, but caused by concealed mechanisms subtly and systematically employed. In many cases, those with power and privilege use cultural stereotypes in order to sustain an …

Slipping Into Darkness: An Ideological Critique Of Racial Inequality Coverage In Milwaukee Newspapers, 2010-2014, Enrique Brown

Master's Theses (2009 -)

This ideological critique assessed mainstream and African American newspaper coverage on racial inequalities such as racial segregation and infant mortality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 2010 through 2014. Employing Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Class Theory, this textual research analyzed the texts of 405 reports, columns, and editorials from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee's mainstream paper of record, and The Milwaukee Courier, the city's premier African American newspaper. The study discovered important convergences in the Courier and Journal Sentinel's portrayal of racial inequalities as indicators of a racially diseased city and nation. However, the research also revealed important differences in …

Governing Bodies: Caster Semenya And The Rhetorical Management Of Sex And Gender Ambiguity In Professional Athletics, Samuel Robert Evans

English Theses & Dissertations

Sport has long been thought of as an "opiate for the masses," where a collective can forget about social, political, racial, or economic differences and unify to compete in the same space or root for a common team (Eitzen and Sage 202). Scholarship in sports communication, sports rhetoric, and sports sociology, however, has shown that this view of sport as an apolitical cultural institution separate from impactful political debate is oversimplified. Rather, sports are key sites in which beliefs about gender, race, class, and politics are made manifest.

This dissertation uses the case of Caster Semenya, a female South African …

Fearless Friday: Tiarra Riggins, Christina L. Bassler

SURGE

As we conclude Yik Yak Awareness Week, we’d like to recognize Tiarra Riggins ’17, the fearless organizer behind this week’s events. ”People don’t realize how words can damage a soul,” says Tiarra. Her efforts this week have been aimed at stopping cyberbullying and changing the culture of Yik Yak to a more positive and uplifting space. The events during this past week ranged from a discussion on the effects of cyberbullying to daily CUB tables, encouraging students to sign a banner against cyberbullying and the negative aspects of Yik Yak. [excerpt]

Sagging Pants Does Not Equate To Sagging Values, Vanessa Lopez-Littleton

UCF Forum

I teach a class in the DeVos Sport Business Management graduate program at the For years I’ve debated the issue of people wearing sagging pants with anyone who cared to listen. I’ve hesitated to speak publicly for fear people would think I was condoning the style of dress. For the record, I believe style is a matter of personal expression.

A 21st Century Fairy Tale: Disney Princesses And Perceptions Of Gender, Gina Graham

Library Research Prize Student Works

Disney's animated characters, songs, story themes and trinkets are true cultural icons, venerated across the world by staunch believers, adults as well as children, who live in massive urban centers and in tiny rural hamlets (Faherty 1). For some, the Disney princess is the princess of all princesses (Do Rozario 34). As Bruce asserts, since the 1937 premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's princesses have become a directing force of young American girls culture (Princesses 7). Before determining whether this force is positive or negative, one must ask: does the portrayal of princesses in Disney movies affect …

Accommodating New Vistas, Jessica Gasiorek, Howard Giles, Jordan Soliz

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

In this special issue, we aim to provide a diverse sample of current research that uses and/or extends Communication Accommodation Theory in innovative ways. With this prologue, we provide a general overview of the tenets and recent developments of theory, discussing how each of the seven original research articles included herein fits in the theory’s ever-evolving framework and body of research.

I'M Hopeful The Power Of Sport Will Expand To Spur Social Change, Richard E. Lapchick

UCF Forum

I teach a class in the DeVos Sport Business Management graduate program at the University of Central Florida on ethical and moral principles in sport. Last week we welcomed a distinguished panel to our class, which included: Charlie Freeman, executive vice president of the Orlando Magic; Linda Landman-Gonzalez, vice president for government affairs and community relations for the Orlando Magic; Brett Lashbrook, chief operating officer of Orlando City Soccer; and Keith Lee, the chief operating officer of the National Consortium of Academics and Sport.

History Curriculum Needs More Coverage Of Black Inventors, Anthony Major

UCF Forum

There is a reason we study Russian and European history as an integral part of our history curriculum. History is required from pre-K to college because it is a vital part of knowing how you and your country came to be.

Postcolonial Disability In Mohesen Makhmalbaf’S Kandahar, Sukshma Vedere

Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies (2015-2021)

Kandahar (2001), an Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, details the journey of the protagonist, Nafas, to Kandahar to save her sister from committing suicide on the day of the solar eclipse. The film has gained recent attention by disability studies scholars for the representation of disability in Afghanistan; scholars have discussed the significance of prosthetics and international aid for the disabled in post-war zones of the Third World, but little has been said about disability as a postcolonial embodiment. I argue that Kandahar represents the postcolonial state as a disabled space both literally and metaphorically. It projects the veil …

Who Cares About Their Names: Case Study In Starbucks, Emi Kanemoto, Zehui Dai

Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies (2015-2021)

According to Institute of International Education report (2013), 764,495 international students enrolled in the U.S universities in 2012. The number of international students in the U.S continues growing. This study focuses on a common experience among international students on university campuses: their names are misspelled or mispronounced by cashiers or workers at on-campus coffee stores. The researchers chose a Starbucks at a Midwestern mid-size University as a site to conduct this study.

It is possible for anybody to have their name misspelled or mispronounced. Through observation and focus group, this study focuses on revealing how international students interpret the situation …