Critical Communication Studies and COVID-19: Mediation, Discourse, and Masks

Tegar Aprilio Armanda, NPM: 1532010014. “Student Communication Anxiety During Thesis Guidance (Analysis of Communication Anxiety To Alumni of Students of the Communication Studies Program Merdeka Madiun University Class of 2015). Communication Studies Program, Merdeka Madiun University, Supervisor : Maria Madgalena W., S.Sos, M.Si, Supervisor 2: Zulin Nurchayati, S.Psi, M.Si. Year 2020. The purpose of this study was to determine the cause and effect of communication anxiety between students of the Merdeka Madiun University Class of 2015 with the supervisor when conducting thesis guidance, forms of communication anxiety itself that have been experienced by students of Communication Studies Merdeka Madiun University Class of 2015, anticipatory steps taken by the Communication Sciences Merdeka Madiun University Class of 2015 students, how important is the handling of communication anxiety, data related to communication anxiety among final year students. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. Research data obtained through observation techniques, literature studies, interviews, and documentation. The informants came from the 2015 Communication Merdeka Madiun University alumni students. The results of this study are modeling and skill acquisition factors causing the emergence of communication anxiety, the type of communication anxiety perceived by informants is generalized context communication apprehension and situational communication apprehension, the form of communication anxiety perceived by informants is state anxiety, the most anticipatory step recommended by informants is to better understand the thesis material before the guidance and remain calm during the guidance.Keyword: Anxiety, Communication anxiety, Students of the Communication Studies Program Merdeka Madiun University Class of 2015,Thesis Guidance.

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The Pain of Performative Professionalism

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.140 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 140-143

Author(s):

Angela N. Gist-Mackey

Keyword(s):

Organizational Communication ◽

Vantage Point ◽

Symbolic Violence ◽

Emotion Work ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Professional Perspective

This essay is the personal and professional perspective of the National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's awards chair during the 2019 convention. It explores issues of emotion, work, professionalism, silence, embodiment, symbolic violence, and intersectional precarity from the vantage point of an outsider within the academy and the discipline of communication studies.

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Scenes from the Margins

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.133 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 133-136

Author(s):

Kathryn Joan Leslie

Keyword(s):

Organizational Communication ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Professional Association ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Alternative Futures

The scenes in this reflection explore the ways my white, queer, nonbinary body navigates a professional association from the margins under the influence of white supremacy. I confess to shadow feelings of self-importance that continuously creep up as I engage in anti-racist work and consider how this presence of white righteousness must be relentlessly undermined and destabilized as we work to consider new and alternative futures for (organizational) communication studies.

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The Digital Turn in Media and Communication Studies

Media Watch ◽

10.15655/mw/2019/v10i2/49631 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

Author(s):

UMA SHANKAR PANDEY

Keyword(s):

Communication Studies ◽

Media And Communication

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A Semiotic Phenomenological Explication of Intercultural Communication: A Challenge for a New Paradigm of Intercultural Communication Studies

Korea Jouranl of Communication Studies ◽

10.23875/kca.27.4.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 21-37

Author(s):

Du Won Lee

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Communication Studies ◽

New Paradigm

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Hollow Notion of Corporate Social Responsibility. Introduction of a Frame Field Model to Investigate CSR in Public Discourses

MedienJournal ◽

10.24989/medienjournal.v42i1.1624 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 11-32 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Franzisca Weder

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Field Model ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Business Practices ◽

Frame Field ◽

Quantitative Content ◽

German Speaking ◽

Corporate Social

The present study examines the relevance and framing of Corporate Social Responsibility in the mass media. Challenged by the ethically (over)loaded issue of responsibility, communication studies are searching for a new understanding of framing to investigate phenomena of new economic values like Corporate Social Responsibility in public discourses. For the quantitative content analysis put forward herein, frames are described as footprints of diverse positions, which determine a given public discourse. The longitudinal analysis of 26 German-speaking newspapers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland between 1999 and 2008, a phase where CSR was aligned in business practices and CSR communication established in public discourses, aims at identifying CSR-frames as well as inquiring into the existence of a public discourse about CSR. The results show that there is no discourse on CSR itself. Instead of the assumed multiple issue-specific frames, CSR itself is (ab)used as a masterframe or “buzz word” in economic discourses.

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