“It’s Not Just the Headscarf”: Unveiling the Identity Frames of U.S. American Gen Z Hijabis Hijabis, Muslim women who are full-time observers of the religious headwear, hold various identities that are created, communicated, and sometimes contradict one another. Hijabis living in the U.S....

🎊 New publication by the fabulous Zienab Shoieb and myself out today in Communication Studies titled, "It’s not just the headscarf”: Unveiling the identity frames of U.S. American Gen Z hijabis." We apply and advance communication theory of identity. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New publication by Brooke H. Wolfe, David M. Markowitz, and myself out today in Journal of Health Psychology, "The verbal and psychological correlates of disenfranchising talk." Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨New pub. today by @timesnewromann.bsky.social, myself, J. Gunning, S. Davis, and S. Boateng in Qualitative Health Research, "Navigating healthcare as a woman of color with autoimmune disease: Intersectional dilemmas in patient–provider interactions." Read it: journals.sagepub.com/.../VNZRE7YF...

“Google Didn’t Get a Medical Degree”: Understanding the Influence of Patient Online Health Information-Seeking on Shared Decision-Making Patients are engaging in unprecedented levels of online health information-seeking (e.g., via TikTok, Google). Guided by shared decision-making (SDM) theorizing, this study illuminates health care ...

New publication by @timesnewromann.bsky.social and myself out today in @healthcommunities.bsky.social, "'Google didn’t get a medical degree': Understanding the influence of patient online health information-seeking on shared decision-making." Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5G8V2...

Sexuality & Culture

New research in 'Sexuality & Culture' examines benevolent and hostile sexism, sexual satisfaction, and sexual compatibility in early romantic relationships. bit.ly/4qtVaek @jacquelinengunning.bsky.social @elizabethahintz.bsky.social #SocialPsyc #ResearchPublishing

🚨Our 1st pub. of 2026 is out in Sexuality & Culture, "Assessing the role of ambivalent sexism on the associations between individual characteristics and sexual well-being in new romantic relationships" by myself, R. Tucker, A. Denes, and J. N. Gunning. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New publication with @timesnewromann.bsky.social in Feminist Pedagogy, "Teaching Oppositional Resistance to the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence in Acts of Gendered Violence." Read it here: digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpeda...

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🎊Humbled to share that I have been chosen as a recipient of the 2025 Early Career Scholar Award from the NCA Health Communication Division! I thank those who have supported and mentored me and look forward to continuing to serve the division and association. www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...

Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements”, by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

New Issue Alert! Introducing the JoC Special Issue: Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements, edited by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue

Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain Female chronic pain patients often report perceiving that their character (i.e. credibility, reputation) has been attacked by clinicians during healthcare interactions. Although initially developed...

🚨 New publication, "Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain" by myself, @timesnewromann.bsky.social, Rachel Tucker, and Madeline J. Moore out today in Journal of Health Communication! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P93NN...

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First authors featured in the special issue: ‪@mohanjdutt.bsky.social‬, Angela Cooke-Jackson, Oren Meyers, Karoliina A Karppinen, Peggy Peattie, Jeffrey Lane, and Rebecca M Rice.

A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements If the discipline’s goal is to advance practice, policy, and theory, it is imperative that communication scholars are engaging in rigorous research and tha

This special issue introduces a new theory and new #qualitative #methods. This special issue advances established qualitative approaches (#interviewing, #ethnography) and our consideration of qualitative ethical risks. Read our introduction to the special issue here: academic.oup.com/joc/article/...

Volume 75 Issue 4 | Journal of Communication | Oxford Academic Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers.

🎊🚨 Our (Kristina Scharp, Sandra Vera Zambrano) co-edited special issue of @journal-of-comm.bsky.social on #Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements is available now (Volume 75, Issue 4): academic.oup.com/joc/issue/75/4 !

"What, you desk rejected my paper. Can' t I just revise and resubmit?"

This question comes up a lot. Via @bowmanspartan.bsky.social:

"We prefer desk reject over an editor-only revise and resubmit for three main reasons: avoiding delays, reducing snap judgements, and securing reviews."

How so?

Portrait of Elizabeth

Visual with Time, Place and Title of her talk "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, and Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums"

Join us for our talk with #CAISfellow @elizabethahintz.bsky.social, University of Connecticut: "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, & Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums"
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...

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Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: a retrospective review of concept development and extensions Abstract. This retrospective review synthesizes communication scholarship concerning character assassination (CA) or the deliberate destruction of a target

🚨New publication alert! Read our article: "Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: A retrospective review of concept development and extensions" by Madeline J. Moore, Lili R. Romann, Rachel V. Tucker, and myself here: academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

Credibility Work in Disenfranchising Patient-Clinician Conversations for Mono/Multiracial Women of Color with Autoimmune Disease in the U.S. Racial health disparities are exacerbated by interactions with clinicians, and women of color living with autoimmune disease in the U.S. must engage i…

New pre-proof @ Social Science & Medicine w/ @jacquelinengunning.bsky.social, Sarah N. Boateng, and Lili R. Romann, "Credibility Work in Disenfranchising Patient-Clinician Conversations for Mono/Multiracial Women of Color with Autoimmune Disease in the U.S." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’re immediately hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor at our UConn Department of Communication! Details here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

A slightly belated 30th birthday gift... 🤓

New review for GET IT OUT!

When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.

An important post that highlights a serious concern in medicine and gives some resources to help. #womenshealth

When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain theconversation.com/when-doctors... by @marleneberke.bsky.social @elizabethahintz.bsky.social via @theconversation.com

When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.

Have you ever showed up to a medical appointment in pain and had your pain discredited or disbelieved?

This experience is common for women with chronic pain.
@elizabethahintz.bsky.social and teamed up to write about it for @theconversation.com!

theconversation.com/when-doctors...

When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.

New @theconversation.com article with @marleneberke.bsky.social published today! "When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting." Read it here: theconversation.com/when-doctors... #CommSky @tightlippedorg.bsky.social

📢 Grad students & emerging scholars—don’t miss this!
Join ComSHER’s panel: “Ask Editors: Turning Conference Papers into Journal Publications”
Wed, May 14 | 10–11 AM ET
Hear from editors on how to publish your work! More info below! #AEJMC #ComSHER

I am so honored and grateful to share that I have been selected as a #Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Finland! 🇺🇸 🇫🇮
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar

Anticipating, Experiencing, and Responding to Disenfranchising Talk: The Experiences of People with Type 1 Diabetes This interpretive study applies the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement to analyze 290 narratives authored by people diagnosed with type 1 di…

📚 New pub. in Social Science & Medicine with Brooke H. Wolfe, Olivia Watson, and myself, entitled, "Anticipating, Experiencing, and Responding to Disenfranchising Talk: The Experiences of People with Type 1 Diabetes." Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #commsky

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🚨New pub. in @josoperrel.bsky.social with J. Gunning, A. Denes, myself, and R. Tucker, "Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength." Read it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...