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Item A Dramaturgical Analysis of Latina Influencers Use of Props and Settings to Signal Identity(2022-06-27) Soto-Vásquez, Arthur D.; Jimenez, NadiaDramaturgical analysis has been applied by scholars to social media influencers, but how props and settings are used to signal identity is understudied. This study uses a series of in-depth interviews with Latina influencers who live and work in a mid-size city on the U.S./Mexico border and an analysis of corresponding posts to explore how props and settings can be used to signal gender and race while also communicating authenticity. The findings show that influencers have to carefully and strategically navigate the use of props and settings not to appear fake and contrived. They blend the use of frontstage props with calibrated sharing of backstage settings to approximate an authentic online performance of their branded identity that is approachable but also monetizable. When performing their gender, the influencers adopt a having-it-all performance, balancing family, beauty, career success, and health while using backstage settings to create connection. Finally, Latina influencers on the border portray it as a setting that differs from its mainstream representation as a place to avoid. They also strategically deploy Latina identity to market themselves and localize national trends.Item Allies in Action: The Communicative Experiences of People Who Challenge Social Injustice on Behalf of Others(Taylor & Francis, 2011-10-14) DeTurk, SaraThis study explores the lived experiences of people who act as allies in the interest of social justice. Interviews were conducted to investigate the meaning of the ally identity and the tactics allies use to interrupt stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination against others. Findings suggest that people who speak out on behalf of social justice from positions of relative power do so (a) out of identity concerns that emphasize moral obligations, (b) largely through authoritative and dialogic strategies that draw on their symbolic capital, and (c) in ways that reflect ideologies of culturally dominant groups. The study also describes tensions arising out of the contradictory nature of deploying social power against the system that confers it. Conventional definitions of “allies” that rely on static notions of power, finally, are challenged as too simplistic.Item Application of Statistics Training to Real-World Contexts: Issues Related to Working as Data Analysts Outside Academe(2021-07-09) LeBlanc, H. Paul, III; Cortez, David, A.; Doss, Leslie, E.Through I-Corps™ customer discovery interviews (NSF Award 1925391), the authors determined that early and mid-career data analysts would be positively benefitted by the development and commercialization of an interactive software tool designed to assist in the selection of statistical tests for their real-world applications. The primary advantage addressed with this innovation is the concomitant reduction in time spent by data analysts in training and/or researching which statistical method to employ for a specific application. This paper details the development of the Stat Tree™ software prototype to accomplish those goals.Item Attitudes Regarding the Components of Ethical Communication(2007) LeBlanc, H. Paul, III; Magallanes, AriadneThis study investigated the relationship between components of ethical communication. Based on survey data (N = 319), Principal Components Analysis revealed four positively loaded factors (honesty, integrity, modesty and patience) and two negatively loaded factors (arrogance and deception). As predicted, components of ethics are correlated. In particular, the ethical virtues of honesty, integrity, modesty and patience are positively interrelated. Additionally, the ethical virtues of honesty, integrity and patience are negatively related to the vices of arrogance and deception. Other relationships between ethical virtues and vices and various demographic variables are discussed.Item Communication and Humility: A Journey(2023) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis book covers the journey of communication development over the life-span including self and other-awareness, listening, knowing, and their impacts on the processes of teaching, mentoring and leading in personal and professional settings.Item COVID-19 Effects on Communication Course and Faculty Evaluations(Sage, 2021-08-25) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIStudent evaluations of teaching (SETs) are utilized by universities as one component in assessing course effectiveness, despite evidence in the research regarding their validity. With the global COVID-19 pandemic, many universities rapidly transitioned teaching modalities from face-to-face to online learning, regardless of the faculty experience. This study investigates the effects on SETs of the rapid transition in teaching modalities for all sections of courses occurring during COVID-19 compared with all sections of courses taught within a Communication department at a large public research university over the past 8 years. The results indicate moderate effects from the rapid transition to online learning.Item Giving Voice to Diversity: An Interactive Approach to Conflict Management and Decision-Making in Culturally Diverse Work Environments(2002) Broome, Benjamin J.; DeTurk, Sara; Kristjansdottir, Erla S.; Kanata, Tamie; Ganesan, PuvanaWhile there is much evidence to show that diversity of viewpoints and perspectives allows for more creative problem solving and decision-making, there is also a great deal of research to indicate that cultural diversity presents one of the foremost challenges to organizations. This paper describes a process called "Interactive Management" (IM) and its application with employees of a large multinational technology company. IM was used in a set of workshops to help groups identify and structure barriers to effective communication in culturally diverse work environments. Methodologies were employed that gave voice to the wide variety of perspectives among the participants while simultaneously helping them structure the complexity of the issues they were discussing. Based on results from these workshops, there is evidence that IM can play a valuable role in managing issues associated with diversity in the workplace setting.Item Improving the media mix: how promotional products enhance advertising impact(Taylor & Francis, 2022-03-23) Liu, Fang; LeBlanc, H. Paul, III; Kanso, Ali; Nelson, RichardMany traditional forms of advertising are losing ground to alternative media. Such a trend represents opportunities for the promotional products medium. However, the effectiveness of promotional products in comparison to other advertising alternatives has not been widely empirically tested. This experiment examines responses to advertising media by employing two sets of seven randomly assigned conditions at two major U.S. universities. The findings revealed statistically significant effective improvements in contrast to television advertising when promotional products were used in credibility perceptions, attitudes towards the advertisement and the product, and behavioural intents such as purchasing intent and referral intent. Additionally, positive effects were observed when promotional products were used in conjunction with television and print advertising compared with television and print advertising alone. Future directions for research are recommended.Item The influence of nurses' engagement and openness on patients' reports of health communication satisfaction(2004) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study analyzed patients’ perceptions of their nurses’ willingness to engage in interaction and patients’ satisfaction in communication about health with their nurses (N = 270). Results indicated that a strong and significant positive correlation exists between patients’ perceptions of their nurse’s interaction engagement and their satisfaction with their relationship with their nurse (r = .70). Results also indicate a strong and significant negative correlation exists between patients’ perceptions of their nurse’s closedness to the relationship and the patient's relational satisfaction with their nurse (r = -.55).Item The Influence of Physicians' Engagement and Openness on Patients' Reports of Health Communication Satisfaction(2003) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study analyzed patients' perceptions of their physicians' willingness to engage in interaction and be open, and patients' satisfaction in communication about health with their physicians (N=322). Results indicated that a moderate to strong and significant positive correlation exists between patients' perceptions of their physician's interaction involvement and their satisfaction with their relationship with their physician (r=.579). Results also indicate a moderate and significant negative correlation exists between patients' perceptions of their physicians' closedness to the relationship and relational satisfaction with their physician (r= -.507).Item The Influence of Professional Self-Interests on the Management of a Nonprofit Organization: A Case Study(2002) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis case study examines how the structural characteristics of management in a state chapter of a national physician's association influence the decision-making processes and efficacy of the administrative procedures associated with meeting the organization's goals. In particular, this study situates the role of professional self-interests in regards to communication between a board of directors, comprised of physicians, and the non-physician manager of a nonprofit organization, and investigates how the relationship between the board and the manager influences the outcomes of the organization. The analysis is based on reference to other organizations in which the professional self-interests of participants influence decision-making in the organization.Item On the use of course evaluations for purposes of faculty personnel decisions(2012) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIMany universities utilize student teaching evaluations even though their validity is hotly contested in the research. This study examines publicly available data of all sections of courses evaluated in a program at a large public research university over three successive semesters to determine if claims of validity can be confirmed. Additionally, this study investigates other characteristics of the data such as the relationship between course average grade and per course global indicators of teaching and course effectiveness. Given the findings, the study offers policy recommendations for the use of the student teaching evaluations in faculty personnel decisions.Item Perceived Barriers and Use of Evidence-Based Practices for Adolescent HPV Vaccination among East Texas Providers(2023-03-25) Kim, Sarah; Zhou, Kelvin; Parker, Susan; Kline, Kimberly N.; Montealegre, Jane R.; McGee, Lindy U.Adolescents living in rural areas are less likely to be up to date on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which can prevent cervical cancer. We administered a telephone survey to 27 clinics in rural East Texas to assess perceived barriers to HPV vaccination and current use of evidence-based interventions to promote HPV vaccination. Perceived barriers were assessed using a 5-point Likert scale and clinical implementation of evidence-based practices was determined. Findings are reported using descriptive statistics. The most commonly reported barriers were missed vaccination opportunities due to the pandemic (66.7%), followed by vaccine hesitancy due to the pandemic (44.4%) and due to the HPV vaccine specifically (33.3%). Fewer than a third of clinics reported using the evidence-based strategies of use of a "refusal to vaccinate" form (29.6%), having an identified HPV vaccine champion (29.6%), and recommending the HPV vaccine at age 9 (22.2%). While many clinics surveyed currently implement evidence-based practices to promote HPV vaccination, there is a need and desire for additional HPV vaccination interventions in East Texas clinics.Item Physician-Patient Communication: The Relationship Between Engagement, Confirmation and Satisfaction(2004) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study analyzed physicians' self-reported measures of engagement, confirmation and relational satisfaction in their communication with their patients (N= 218). Results indicated that communication engagement and confirmation significantly influence reported satisfaction (R2 = .20, F (1,216)= 55.24, p < .01; R2 = .14, F (1,216)= 35.87, p < .01, respectively). Additional results are reported. Implications for these results and directions for future study are discussed.Item The Political Public Relations Battleground: Tactics and Images in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign(2002) Kanso, Ali; LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study examines the public relations tools that Governor George W. Bush and Vice-president Al Gore used during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign. It also draws some lessons from mistakes that both candidates committed.Item Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence Regarding the Intrusiveness of Recording Devices in Naturalistic Research(International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research, 2016) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIICritics of naturalistic social science research charge that participant awareness of the existence of a recording device alters the behavior of the research participants, known as the “Hawthorne effect.” This study compares segments of talk in which participants explicitly orient to the recording device against segments of talk without such orientation to determine how and if such orientation alters the behaviors of participants. Conversational data were gathered over a six-year period comprising 64 independent conversations involving 213 subjects. Data were transcribed and coded following the conventions of Conversation Analysis. A total of 18 of the 64 transcribed recordings (28.1%) contained references to the recording device. A total of 284 lines in these eighteen transcribed conversations had references to the recording device and/or the researcher, out of a total of 3,906 lines in the 18 transcriptions (7.3%), or out of a total of 11,675 lines in the entire conversation library (0.02%). Lines from both types of compared segments were coded for turns-at-talk by individual participant. A total of 227 unique turns-at-talk (3.3% of total) in which the recording device was directly addressed were compared to 6,597 unique turns-at-talk in which the recording device was not relevant to the content of the conversation. Results indicate that no statistically significant differences occur between compared segments of talk, thus failing to find evidence to support claims of a “Hawthorne effect” in naturalistic social science research.Item Relating college course grades to attendance(2005) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study compared the attendance records of students against their test score averages for students at four institutions across multiple sections of several difference courses over a fourteen year period (N = 1617). Results indicated that attendance significantly influences test score averages for students across sections and institutions (R2 = .181). Other results indicated that the same relationship holds when controlling for institutional, course subject, and whether an attendance policy was enforced. Implications for these findings in terms of approaches to attendance policy making are discussed.Item Spanish-Speaking Physicians: Satisfaction in the Transactional Relationship with Patients(2008) Losey, Erin Hill; LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study examined self-reports of engagement, confirmation, and satisfaction by Spanish-speaking physicians within the context of the relationship with Spanish-speaking patients. Previous research suggests the interaction is transactional and both physician and patient mutually contribute to the relationship. Results demonstrated engagement and confirmation positively influenced relational satisfaction of physicians (R2 = .58, F(1,14) = 19.38, p < .01; R2 = .29, F(1,14) = 5.84, p = .03, respectively). Additional results are reported. Implications and directions of future research are discussed within.Item Teaching approaches and self-efficacy outcomes in an undergraduate research methods course(2006) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis study investigated the outcomes of teaching objectives and techniques in an undergraduate research methods course. In particular, the study examined student perceptions of their relative comfort level with performing specific research tasks during the first and fourteenth weeks of a fifteen week semester. Results indicated that students' comfort level increased significantly. Whether students had conducted or participated in research as a subject prior to the course, in general, played little role in the measured increase in research comfort level. Implications for educators teaching and undergraduate research methods course are discussed.Item The Spirit of Travel(2023-01-08) LeBlanc, H. Paul, IIIThis creative work of personal stories, poems and photographs relate to the search for beauty through travel handed down as family tradition.