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Papers by Donnalyn Pompper
Mass Communication and Society, 2018
This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Decidi... more This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Deciding What's News, is now more relevant than ever. The concept of mass communication has changed significantly since Dr. Gans conducted his ethnography of newsrooms to discover how producers of news define and select news that is communicated via mass media. In many ways, the traditional newsroom doesn't even exist anymore. Moreover, our mass communication theories for explaining people's perceptions of news and their understandings of it have grown considerably since the 1970s. The aim of this special issue is to build upon traditional approaches to operationalizing and understanding mass media's role in defining, shaping, and amplifying news-as well as people's perceptions of news. This special issue will be published in early 2020 as part of Volume 23. The deadline for paper submission will be May 1, 2019. This topic captures the scope, breadth, and depth that Mass Communication and Society seeks to accomplish-but also enables scholars across multiple subdisciplines to share their particular perspective and expertise. We invite scholars around the world to employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed formal research methods.
Mass Communication and Society, 2018
This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Decidi... more This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Deciding What's News, is now more relevant than ever. The concept of mass communication has changed significantly since Dr. Gans conducted his ethnography of newsrooms to discover how producers of news define and select news that is communicated via mass media. In many ways, the traditional newsroom doesn't even exist anymore. Moreover, our mass communication theories for explaining people's perceptions of news and their understandings of it have grown considerably since the 1970s. The aim of this special issue is to build upon traditional approaches to operationalizing and understanding mass media's role in defining, shaping, and amplifying news-as well as people's perceptions of news. This special issue will be published in early 2020 as part of Volume 23. The deadline for paper submission will be May 1, 2019. This topic captures the scope, breadth, and depth that Mass Communication and Society seeks to accomplish-but also enables scholars across multiple subdisciplines to share their particular perspective and expertise. We invite scholars around the world to employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed formal research methods.
Howard Journal of Communications, 2005
This study investigated how a sample of female African American public relations practitioners vi... more This study investigated how a sample of female African American public relations practitioners view multiculturalism in the public relations curriculum and its effects on a feminized field that employs few women of color and where even fewer achieve senior-level management status. Focus groups were conducted in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Respondents shared anecdotes about workplace experiences that suggest multiculturalism is not being attended to at the college level and offered specific suggestions for public relations curriculum improvements.
Mass Communication and Society
Mass Communication and Society
Thanks for visiting my website to read the full Call for Chapter Proposals for this forthcoming e... more Thanks for visiting my website to read the full Call for Chapter Proposals for this forthcoming edited collection: https://sites.temple.edu/pompper/
Deadline for Chapter Proposals: January 15, 2017
Please visit the publisher's website: http://bit.ly/2ch90h2
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2012
Most people never see the impact of breast cancer removal on a body. Even breast cancer survivors... more Most people never see the impact of breast cancer removal on a body. Even breast cancer survivors rarely see its physical effects on others. Gender-laden symbols underwrite breast cancer narratives, with mass media romanticizing the female body through pink ribbon imagery and youthful fashion model-perfect representations. The real body which has experienced breast cancer surgery through lumpectomy or mastectomy mostly is invisible, passive, and features scar tissue damage considered un-gaze-worthy. Yet, the Pulitzer Prize nominated Surviving Cancer: Absolute Reality (SCAR) Project uses Facebook to enable those who experience breast cancer to see
post-mastectomy images and to share their own stories. Actual use of the SCAR Project Facebook page and to what end is the current study’s focus. Four themes emerged among narratives: (1) Inspiration and Support, (2) Cancer Scar Meanings, (3)
Authenticity, and (4) Redefined Beauty and Femininity. By examining women’s experiences with breast cancer as shared on Facebook, we discuss slippages that emerge between pink ribbon imagery and processes of rebuilding female gender
identity.
Key
While public relations offers numerous assets for organization-stakeholder relationship building ... more While public relations offers numerous assets for organization-stakeholder relationship building and for ethical corporate social responsibility and sustainability communication, it also faces challenges linked to negative perceptions of the profession which can lead to accusations of "greenwashing." This innovative book critically explores the growing, complex, and sometimes contradictory connections among public relations, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
This study was designed to investigate interprofessional collaborations among communication, fina... more This study was designed to investigate interprofessional collaborations among communication, finance and legal managers at Fortune 500 corporations regarding compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX or Sarbox) of 2002. Marking the decade anniversary of SOX, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 managers (communication, finance, legal) to discover specific effects of SOX implementation on corporations and ways internal departments work together to support compliance. A hermeneutic phenomenological analysis conducted on interview narratives revealed themes of: 1) Significant Internal Impact, 2) New Processes and a State of Constant Metamorphosis, and 3) Roles and Compulsory Teamwork. Findings are explained via the theory of planned behavior and recommendations are offered to strategic communicators.
Now well into the 21st century, the world's most powerful organizations' highest executive levels... more Now well into the 21st century, the world's most powerful organizations' highest executive levels and boards of directors still fail to represent a diverse collection of people shaped by unique social identity dimensions according to age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith/spirituality, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, and more, Offered in this book is an investigation into why a homophily framework, or a similarity-attraction hypothesis, continues to perpetuate leadership by predominantly Caucasian/White males and reinforces barriers that keep qualified people possessing a multiplicity of social identity dimensions from achieving their full human potential.
Research projects designed to examine social identity difference in orga nizations are driven by ... more Research projects designed to examine social identity difference in orga nizations are driven by a passion to affect positive change that ultimately leads to a more just society rather than one which enables status quo power perpetuation and continues to marginalize certain people and inhi bit them from achieving personal and career goals. This important change requires the support of all people and not just those who use a simplistically essentialist dyad because they feel a personal connection or because such avenues of inquiry are considered off limits when a researcher or a manager does not "match" members of specific minority groups. Polyvocality is necessary to exorcise -isms in the workplace and larger global communities, so this important work is everyone's responsibility.
Intersectionality research is normative; rooted in a desire to improve society as inspired by Soj... more Intersectionality research is normative; rooted in a desire to improve society as inspired by Sojoumer Truth 's 19th century writings and Kimberle Crenshaw's ongoing contemporary legal crusade. Overlapping social identity dimensions which constitute every human individual must be recognized and multidimensionality of lived experiences among people embraced. These dimensions intersect such that no one is just a gender or an ethnicity or a (dis)ability or a sexual orientation or a social class or a religion, and so on. Furthermore, intersectionalities are not some collection of layers that are piled or added on. Humans possess many distinctive social identity qualities simultaneously and they interplay in unique ways.
This chapter offers an introduction to the major directions that the study of culture as a social... more This chapter offers an introduction to the major directions that the study of culture as a social identity dimension has taken theory building and practi cal application . Culture is explored as it relates to a way of life of a people through arts, beliefs, ceremonies, communication, customs, ethnicityJood, gossip, language, lifestyle, music, nation oforigin, religion, ritual practices , stories, and more -and ways that this filters through organizations. Various interpretive and critical approaches are used to scrutinize the nature/culture debate, challenges in operationalizing culture, the circuitous process of culture, culture's interactions with social structures, and intersectionalities ofculture with other social identity dimensions.
Mass Communication and Society, 2018
This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Decidi... more This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Deciding What's News, is now more relevant than ever. The concept of mass communication has changed significantly since Dr. Gans conducted his ethnography of newsrooms to discover how producers of news define and select news that is communicated via mass media. In many ways, the traditional newsroom doesn't even exist anymore. Moreover, our mass communication theories for explaining people's perceptions of news and their understandings of it have grown considerably since the 1970s. The aim of this special issue is to build upon traditional approaches to operationalizing and understanding mass media's role in defining, shaping, and amplifying news-as well as people's perceptions of news. This special issue will be published in early 2020 as part of Volume 23. The deadline for paper submission will be May 1, 2019. This topic captures the scope, breadth, and depth that Mass Communication and Society seeks to accomplish-but also enables scholars across multiple subdisciplines to share their particular perspective and expertise. We invite scholars around the world to employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed formal research methods.
Mass Communication and Society, 2018
This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Decidi... more This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Deciding What's News, is now more relevant than ever. The concept of mass communication has changed significantly since Dr. Gans conducted his ethnography of newsrooms to discover how producers of news define and select news that is communicated via mass media. In many ways, the traditional newsroom doesn't even exist anymore. Moreover, our mass communication theories for explaining people's perceptions of news and their understandings of it have grown considerably since the 1970s. The aim of this special issue is to build upon traditional approaches to operationalizing and understanding mass media's role in defining, shaping, and amplifying news-as well as people's perceptions of news. This special issue will be published in early 2020 as part of Volume 23. The deadline for paper submission will be May 1, 2019. This topic captures the scope, breadth, and depth that Mass Communication and Society seeks to accomplish-but also enables scholars across multiple subdisciplines to share their particular perspective and expertise. We invite scholars around the world to employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed formal research methods.
Howard Journal of Communications, 2005
This study investigated how a sample of female African American public relations practitioners vi... more This study investigated how a sample of female African American public relations practitioners view multiculturalism in the public relations curriculum and its effects on a feminized field that employs few women of color and where even fewer achieve senior-level management status. Focus groups were conducted in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Respondents shared anecdotes about workplace experiences that suggest multiculturalism is not being attended to at the college level and offered specific suggestions for public relations curriculum improvements.
Mass Communication and Society
Mass Communication and Society
Thanks for visiting my website to read the full Call for Chapter Proposals for this forthcoming e... more Thanks for visiting my website to read the full Call for Chapter Proposals for this forthcoming edited collection: https://sites.temple.edu/pompper/
Deadline for Chapter Proposals: January 15, 2017
Please visit the publisher's website: http://bit.ly/2ch90h2
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2012
Most people never see the impact of breast cancer removal on a body. Even breast cancer survivors... more Most people never see the impact of breast cancer removal on a body. Even breast cancer survivors rarely see its physical effects on others. Gender-laden symbols underwrite breast cancer narratives, with mass media romanticizing the female body through pink ribbon imagery and youthful fashion model-perfect representations. The real body which has experienced breast cancer surgery through lumpectomy or mastectomy mostly is invisible, passive, and features scar tissue damage considered un-gaze-worthy. Yet, the Pulitzer Prize nominated Surviving Cancer: Absolute Reality (SCAR) Project uses Facebook to enable those who experience breast cancer to see
post-mastectomy images and to share their own stories. Actual use of the SCAR Project Facebook page and to what end is the current study’s focus. Four themes emerged among narratives: (1) Inspiration and Support, (2) Cancer Scar Meanings, (3)
Authenticity, and (4) Redefined Beauty and Femininity. By examining women’s experiences with breast cancer as shared on Facebook, we discuss slippages that emerge between pink ribbon imagery and processes of rebuilding female gender
identity.
Key
While public relations offers numerous assets for organization-stakeholder relationship building ... more While public relations offers numerous assets for organization-stakeholder relationship building and for ethical corporate social responsibility and sustainability communication, it also faces challenges linked to negative perceptions of the profession which can lead to accusations of "greenwashing." This innovative book critically explores the growing, complex, and sometimes contradictory connections among public relations, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
This study was designed to investigate interprofessional collaborations among communication, fina... more This study was designed to investigate interprofessional collaborations among communication, finance and legal managers at Fortune 500 corporations regarding compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX or Sarbox) of 2002. Marking the decade anniversary of SOX, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 managers (communication, finance, legal) to discover specific effects of SOX implementation on corporations and ways internal departments work together to support compliance. A hermeneutic phenomenological analysis conducted on interview narratives revealed themes of: 1) Significant Internal Impact, 2) New Processes and a State of Constant Metamorphosis, and 3) Roles and Compulsory Teamwork. Findings are explained via the theory of planned behavior and recommendations are offered to strategic communicators.
Now well into the 21st century, the world's most powerful organizations' highest executive levels... more Now well into the 21st century, the world's most powerful organizations' highest executive levels and boards of directors still fail to represent a diverse collection of people shaped by unique social identity dimensions according to age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith/spirituality, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, and more, Offered in this book is an investigation into why a homophily framework, or a similarity-attraction hypothesis, continues to perpetuate leadership by predominantly Caucasian/White males and reinforces barriers that keep qualified people possessing a multiplicity of social identity dimensions from achieving their full human potential.
Research projects designed to examine social identity difference in orga nizations are driven by ... more Research projects designed to examine social identity difference in orga nizations are driven by a passion to affect positive change that ultimately leads to a more just society rather than one which enables status quo power perpetuation and continues to marginalize certain people and inhi bit them from achieving personal and career goals. This important change requires the support of all people and not just those who use a simplistically essentialist dyad because they feel a personal connection or because such avenues of inquiry are considered off limits when a researcher or a manager does not "match" members of specific minority groups. Polyvocality is necessary to exorcise -isms in the workplace and larger global communities, so this important work is everyone's responsibility.
Intersectionality research is normative; rooted in a desire to improve society as inspired by Soj... more Intersectionality research is normative; rooted in a desire to improve society as inspired by Sojoumer Truth 's 19th century writings and Kimberle Crenshaw's ongoing contemporary legal crusade. Overlapping social identity dimensions which constitute every human individual must be recognized and multidimensionality of lived experiences among people embraced. These dimensions intersect such that no one is just a gender or an ethnicity or a (dis)ability or a sexual orientation or a social class or a religion, and so on. Furthermore, intersectionalities are not some collection of layers that are piled or added on. Humans possess many distinctive social identity qualities simultaneously and they interplay in unique ways.
This chapter offers an introduction to the major directions that the study of culture as a social... more This chapter offers an introduction to the major directions that the study of culture as a social identity dimension has taken theory building and practi cal application . Culture is explored as it relates to a way of life of a people through arts, beliefs, ceremonies, communication, customs, ethnicityJood, gossip, language, lifestyle, music, nation oforigin, religion, ritual practices , stories, and more -and ways that this filters through organizations. Various interpretive and critical approaches are used to scrutinize the nature/culture debate, challenges in operationalizing culture, the circuitous process of culture, culture's interactions with social structures, and intersectionalities ofculture with other social identity dimensions.