Sage Communication & Media Studies

Author Cheryl Cooky discusses her co-authored article from the September 2015 issue, "Women, Sports, and Journalism: Examining the Limited Role of Women in Student Newspaper Sports Reporting."

Author Elizabeth Stoycheff discusses her article "Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring." Stoycheff elaborates on her findings of perceptions and justification of surveillance practices and the effects on the expression of minority political views.

Author Gholnecsar Muhammad speaks with editorial assistant Kira Dreher about her article, "Iqra: African American Muslim Girls Reading and Writing for Social Change," which is published in the July 2015 issue of Written Communication.

Author Chaim Noy talks with editorial assistant Kira Dreher about his article, "Writing in Museums: Toward a Rhetoric of Participation," which is published in the April 2015 issue of Written Communication.

Guest editor Craig Scott talks with MCQ Editor-in-Chief, Ling Chen, about the special issue on Hidden Organizations that is published in the November 2015 issue of Management Communication Quarterly.

Special issue editors Srirupa Roy and Paula Chakravartty discuss their special issue, entitled, "Modi and the Media: Indian Politics and the Electroral Aftermath."

Abstract: While elections across the globe today are mediated in the sense of being pervaded by the ambient presence and explicit deployments of varied media, the Indian national elections of 2014 showcase a specific logic of mediated populism that has become globally influential of late. To understand this logic, we examine the contexts and lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, i.e. the wider political-economic dynamics and contexts that shape and embed the Modi phenomenon. We focus on the changing relationship between privatized media across platforms, political elites and conceptions/productions of "the people" that these particular political historical dynamics have effected and enabled.

Former Written Communication editorial assistant Abigail Bakke interviews Dr. Elizabeth Angeli, author of "Three Types of Memory in Emergency Medical Services Communication," featured in the January 2015 issue of the journal.

ABSTRACT:

This article examines memory and distributed cognition involved in the writing practices of emergency medical services (EMS) professionals. Results from a 16-month study indicate that EMS professionals rely on distributed cognition and three kinds of memory: individual, collaborative, and professional. Distributed cognition and the three types of memory reduce cognitive workload during a 911 response, and they help evoke information as an EMS professional composes the legally binding patient care report. In addition to presenting results, the article details the author's interaction with two institutional review boards, which influenced the study's methods. The article argues that scholars should conduct more research on the collaborative and distributed nature of memory as it relates to workplace writing practices. Furthermore, the article calls for developing writing research methods that involve participant recollection.

A roundtable discussion on the future of scholarly publishing in a digital age, chaired by Steve Jones. Read the associated issue here.

Journal of Language and Social Psychology special issue editors Drs. Steven McCornack and Timothy Levine discuss research featured in their issue, "Advances in Deception Theory." The issue focuses on two new theories of deception: Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2; McCornack, Morrison, Paik, Wisner, & Zhu, 2014) and Truth Default Theory (TDT; Levine, 2014). These focal works are followed by peer reviewed, expert commentaries by Cole (2014), Greene (2014), Harwood (2014), Walczyk (2014), Van Swol (2014), and Verschuere and Shalvi (2014), and a look at the future of deception theory.

Christian Vaccarcari from University of Bologna talks to Maurice Vergeer, about his paper, From echo chamber to persuasive device? Rethinking the role of the Internet in campaigns. Read the associated articlehere.