Confronting Idea Stealers in the Workplace: The Unfortunate Moral Credentialing Granted to Power-Holders

How and when do employees confront one another for stealing their ideas? Business communication literature on confronting unethical behavior is synthesized with moral licensing theory to better understand responses to unethical actors about unjustified credit taking in the workplace. In this message production experiment, working adults ( N = 344) were randomly assigned to respond to a supervisor, peer coworker, or subordinate who stole or ignored the participant’s intellectual contributions. Content and statistical analyses revealed subordinates were comparatively less direct when confronting bosses, suggesting third-party moral licensing and moral credentialing were measurable in communication patterns. Importantly, this dynamic was not attributable to perceptions of task interdependence. Instead, subordinates perceived the stealing or ignoring of their ideas to be less unethical than did bosses. Additionally, individuals whose ideas have been stolen in the workplace were less confrontational compared to those who have not. Thus, data suggest incremental acquiescence to this form of workplace wrongdoing, particularly when the transgressor holds high hierarchical status. Taken together, these data may explain how recognition for ideas tends to spread vertically to bosses (labeled here, vertical credit creep), which may function to reinforce established power arrangements and to perpetuate unjustified credit taking in the workplace.

The Effectiveness of Aided AAC Modeling for Belizean Children: A Case Study

Purpose Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions have been deemed efficacious. However, even with the medium to large effect sizes, there is a paucity of research investigating the effects of aided modeling on expressive outcomes for children from multicultural and multilingual backgrounds. Method This case series study examined the effectiveness of aided AAC modeling on aided and unaided expressive output (i.e., one- and two-symbol messages) in three children from different cultures in Belize (one Creole and two Mestizo) in a preschool-like group setting. Additionally, treatment intensity metrics (i.e., number of sessions, number of minutes, and number of aided/unaided models) were analyzed to determine whether this was an appropriate intensity for children in Belize. Results Results indicated that all children increased their aided and unaided symbol message production within five intervention sessions lasting 180 min per day (15 hr total). Additionally, the average number of aided/unaided models, sampled several times over the course of 5 days, was 43.75 per 15-min period. Conclusions Aided AAC modeling intervention was beneficial for these children. However, the length of each session (3 hr) may have negatively impacted expressive outcomes. The number of models per 15-min period was beneficial and in line with previous research outcomes. The multicultural clinical implications are also discussed.

Active Is as Active Does: Deliberative and Non-deliberative Political Communication in Context

The development of theories of citizens’ political communication has been hindered by a debate over whether such communication is best characterized as deliberative or non-deliberative. This article aims to overcome that impasse with a new account of citizens’ political communication informed by theories of message production and sense-making: the goals–sense-making–justification (GSJ) model. This model holds that citizens’ political-communicative behavior is influenced by multiple goals and cognitive plans, which generally vary in different contexts. This variation helps to explain why citizens’ informal political discussions during non-election periods rarely feature reason-giving—and so can be understood as non-deliberative—whereas such discussions during major-election campaigns often feature the reason-giving that is characteristic of deliberation. Moreover, the model demonstrates how cognitive plans developed in informal political discussions over repeated major-election cycles enable citizens to engage competently in reason-giving during formal deliberations.

Keep it “real”: the co-construction of authentic performance and audience connection in poetry slam competitions

With the poetry slam competition – a live, competitive spoken word poetry reading – as context for this project, the study explores the concepts of authenticity and audience connection as they relate to message production and meaning-making processes in the field of professional communication. This project uses a symbolic interactionist perspective and Goffman’s (1959) theory of dramaturgy to investigate the poet-audience relationship and discover how a display of authentic performance works to achieve the goal of audience connection. The researcher interviewed six slam poets from the Greater Toronto and Southwestern Ontario area about their experiences in the poetry slam world. Results from the interviews reveal that authenticity is co-constructed between poet and audience, involving a coalescence of private preparation strategies and onstage performance strategies that help craft a sense of credibility and honesty from the poet that, in turn, contribute to achieving successful audience connection by the slam poet as performer.

Keep it “real”: the co-construction of authentic performance and audience connection in poetry slam competitions

With the poetry slam competition – a live, competitive spoken word poetry reading – as context for this project, the study explores the concepts of authenticity and audience connection as they relate to message production and meaning-making processes in the field of professional communication. This project uses a symbolic interactionist perspective and Goffman’s (1959) theory of dramaturgy to investigate the poet-audience relationship and discover how a display of authentic performance works to achieve the goal of audience connection. The researcher interviewed six slam poets from the Greater Toronto and Southwestern Ontario area about their experiences in the poetry slam world. Results from the interviews reveal that authenticity is co-constructed between poet and audience, involving a coalescence of private preparation strategies and onstage performance strategies that help craft a sense of credibility and honesty from the poet that, in turn, contribute to achieving successful audience connection by the slam poet as performer.

Message Production Process in Stand Up Comedy: Ethnographic Study in Stand Up Community Indo Surabaya

Proses produksi pesan dalam stand up comedy merupakan isu krusial yang masih jarang dibahas dalam riset akademik. Publik seringkali tidak menyadari bahwa pesan dalam stand up comedy pada dasarnya membutuhkan proses persiapan yang panjang dan rumit. Lebih jauh lagi para proses produksi ini semua pesan yang disampaikan dalam stand up comedy sejatinya disiapkan, termasuk dalam tema-tema besar seperti isu gender, diskriminasi rasial, dan juga kelas. Informan dalam penelitian ini merupakan para comedians, anggota komunitas Stand Up Indo Surabaya, individu yang mewakili berbagai macam isu pada konten stand up comedy yang sering dibicarakan. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa komunitas Stand Up Indo Surabaya menjalankan praktik budaya stand up comedy atau stand up comedy culture sesuai dengan visi komunitas yang dipunya dan memiliki kekhasan dalam proses produksi materi komedi secara kolektif. Hal tersebut diwujudkan dengan pelaksanaan kegiatan secara rutin seperti sharing ilmu, comedy buddy, open mic—baik secara konvensional maupun online melalui sosial media Instagram (@standupindo_sby).

Message Production Process in Stand Up Comedy: Ethnographic Study in Stand Up Community Indo Surabaya

Proses produksi pesan dalam stand up comedy merupakan isu krusial yang masih jarang dibahas dalam riset akademik. Publik seringkali tidak menyadari bahwa pesan dalam stand up comedy pada dasarnya membutuhkan proses persiapan yang panjang dan rumit. Lebih jauh lagi para proses produksi ini semua pesan yang disampaikan dalam stand up comedy sejatinya disiapkan, termasuk dalam tema-tema besar seperti isu gender, diskriminasi rasial, dan juga kelas. Informan dalam penelitian ini merupakan para comedians, anggota komunitas Stand Up Indo Surabaya, individu yang mewakili berbagai macam isu pada konten stand up comedy yang sering dibicarakan. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa komunitas Stand Up Indo Surabaya menjalankan praktik budaya stand up comedy atau stand up comedy culture sesuai dengan visi komunitas yang dipunya dan memiliki kekhasan dalam proses produksi materi komedi secara kolektif. Hal tersebut diwujudkan dengan pelaksanaan kegiatan secara rutin seperti sharing ilmu, comedy buddy, open mic—baik secara konvensional maupun online melalui sosial media Instagram (@standupindo_sby).

A simple model of speech communication and its application to intelligibility enhancement

We introduce a model of communication that includes noise inherent in the message production process as well as noise inherent in the message interpretation process. The production and interpretation noise processes have a fixed signal-to-noise ratio. The resulting system is a simple but effective model of human communication. The model naturally leads to a method to enhance the intelligibility of speech rendered in a noisy environment. State-of-the-art experimental results confirm the practical value of the model. © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.

A simple model of speech communication and its application to intelligibility enhancement

We introduce a model of communication that includes noise inherent in the message production process as well as noise inherent in the message interpretation process. The production and interpretation noise processes have a fixed signal-to-noise ratio. The resulting system is a simple but effective model of human communication. The model naturally leads to a method to enhance the intelligibility of speech rendered in a noisy environment. State-of-the-art experimental results confirm the practical value of the model. © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.