Thomas Richard Wagner, “Racist Attitudes Versus Actions: A Replication Proposal Activity of LaPiere’s 1934 Research to Understand the Communication of Racism,” Communication Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/17404622.2021.2003414
In this article, Wagner uses LaPiere’s 1934 research as the framework for a replication proposal activity. Students read LaPiere’s study, exploring “the connection between racist attitudes and behaviors” and provide written answers to discussion questions. Students then share their answers during a class discussion and complete a debrief assignment after the activity concludes. Wagner posits that this activity engages students in critical thinking about racism and builds on their understanding of research methods and what Wagner terms “the measurement of racism.”
Billy Table, L.D. Tronstad, and K. Kearns, “‘Anything is Helpful’: Examining Tensions and Barriers Towards a More LGBT-Inclusive Healthcare Organization in the United States,” Journal of Applied Communication Research, DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2021.1991582
In their study, Table, Tronstad, and Kearns examine perspectives on LGBT inclusion within a mid-sized healthcare organization. During interviews with 34 employees at a clinic in the United States, interviewees commonly invoked departmental and organizational, lived experience, and generational and geographical comparisons when discussing LGBT inclusion within their organization. The authors identify the dialectic tensions that emerged within each of the comparison themes and explain how these tensions reveal conflicting approaches and perspectives.
David C. Oh, “‘Feminists Really Are Crazy’: The Isu Station Incident and the Creation of an Androcentric, Misogynistic Community on YouTube,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2021.1985589
At the beginning of this essay, Oh details a video that captured one minute of an altercation between two women and a small group of men at a Seoul bar. The pixelated video, which was posted to YouTube, shows the women repeatedly insulting the men. In an analysis of the video and 761 comments posted about it, Oh explains how “enlightened sexism” was exhibited and an “androcentric, misogynistic community” was formed.