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Works from 2024

Inventing a digital evangelical audience, Corrina Laughlin

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Effects of Intergroup Communication on Intergroup Anxiety and Prejudice through Single Sessions of Peer Counseling in Online Settings., Romy RW and Nick Joyce

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Impacts of Racial and Gender Identities on Individuals’ Intentions to Seek a Counselor, Romy RW and Nick Joyce

Works from 2023

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A Qualitative Inquiry into the Role of Communication in Reputation Management During Compounding Health Crises, Shawna Dias and Romy RW

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Investigating the Effects of Message Framing on College Students' Risk Perceptions and Protective Responses to Adenovirus, Shawna Dias and Romy RW

Social media and oil: Greenwashing Los Angeles, Jason Jarvis

Social media and oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles, Jason Jarvis

“Are you me?”: Understanding the political potential of feminist identity spaces on Reddit during the COVID-19 pandemic, Corrina Laughlin

Care as infrastructure: Rethinking working mothers’ care in the COVID-19 pandemic, Corrina Laughlin

Global Populism, its roots in media and religion, Corrina Laughlin

The Millennial Medium: The interpretive community of early podcast professionals, Corrina Laughlin

“Unruly Souls: The digital activism of Muslim and Christian feminists.”, Corrina Laughlin

Works from 2022

A Warning/A Call: The Spectacle of (In)Visibility in the Vernacular Response to DEI-A Work, Bryant Keith Alexander

Collaborative Spirit-Writing for Social Justice: In Giardina, M. and N. K. Denzin,, Bryant Keith Alexander

Critical and Performative Reflections on Current Crises, Bryant Keith Alexander

Masking/Truth: Transformative Visions and Utopias of Hope, Bryant Keith Alexander

Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet: Qualitative Inquiries on Race, Gender, Sexualities and Culture, Bryant Keith Alexander

Pivoting Between the Past/Present and Towards the Future/Perfect of Autoethnography, Bryant Keith Alexander

Still Spellbound: A Critical Performative Response to ‘STILL POINT’ by Elyse Pineau, Bryant Keith Alexander

Teaching and Engaging Autoethnography as Qualitative Methodology, Bryant Keith Alexander

Three Movements for Norman Denzin, Bryant Keith Alexander

‘We Wear the Mask’: Three Movements on Survival, Resistance, and Activist Affect with deference to Paul Laurence Dunbar, Bryant Keith Alexander

Redeem All: How digital life is changing American evangelical culture, Corrina Laughlin

Works from 2021

A Preface: Affective Realness, Bryant Keith Alexander

Collaborative Spirit-Writing Performance in Everyday Black Lives, Bryant Keith Alexander

Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity, Bryant Keith Alexander

Dreamscapes and Escapedreams: An Autoethnography through the Art of Jerry Weems, Bryant Keith Alexander

Inter and Enter: An Invitation to Collaboration Thru Autoethnography, Bryant Keith Alexander

Pele negra/máscaras brancas: a sustentabilidade performativa da branquitude (com desculpas a Frantz Fanon), Bryant Keith Alexander

Queer(y)ing Masculinities: Revisited, Bryant Keith Alexander

Raising Our Collective Voices: A Sing-Along for our Collaborative Futures, Bryant Keith Alexander

Raising Our Collective Voices: A Sing-Along for our Collaborative Futures, Introduction to a Song Panel from the ICQI 2021, Bryant Keith Alexander

Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, Bryant Keith Alexander

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication, Bryant Keith Alexander

Immersed in oil: Community journalism, petroculture, and environmental justice in Los Angeles, Jason Jarvis

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Immersed in oil: Community journalism, petroculture, and environmental justice in Los Angeles, Jason Jarvis and Tara Pixley

#AmplifyWomen: The emergence of an evangelical feminist public on social media, Corrina Laughlin

Why evangelicals are early adopters of new tech, Corrina Laughlin

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Media, Sports, and Society, Lawrence A. Wenner

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Playing on the Communication and Sport Field: Dispositions, Challenges, and Priorities, Lawrence A. Wenner

Works from 2020

An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility, and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric, Bryant Keith Alexander

A Welcome, A Warning and A Wish: On Entering a Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in the Year 2020, Bryant Keith Alexander

A Welcome, A Warning and a Wish: On Entering LMU through 'First to Go Program' in the Year 2020, Bryant Keith Alexander

Cowboys and Pirates: Verging on the Horizons of Dangerous Shores of the Past and All-Too Present, Bryant Keith Alexander

Cowboys of the Sea: Pirates as Desirous Malcontents, But not Really, Bryant Keith Alexander

Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity, Bryant Keith Alexander

Dense Particularities: Race, Spirituality, and Queer/ Quare Intersectionalities, Bryant Keith Alexander

Desire for a Magnificent Seven: A Queer Reading of a Western Remake, Bryant Keith Alexander

goputyourselfonyourknees, Bryant Keith Alexander

Introduction: Special Journal Issue ‘Cowboys and Pirates: Verging on the Horizons of Dangerous Shores of the Past and All-Too Present, Bryant Keith Alexander

Introduction to Special Section: ‘Qualitative Responses/Recovery in Repressive Times, Bryant Keith Alexander

I thought I knew you, Bryant Keith Alexander

I Want to be a Diversity Thug, Bryant Keith Alexander

‘My Grandmother Wore a Wig:’ On Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Mapping of Queer Origins in Wig Out!, Bryant Keith Alexander

On Social Justice, Black Lives Matter and the Power of Prayer, Bryant Keith Alexander

Qualitative Responses/Recovery in Repressive Times, Bryant Keith Alexander

Still Hanging/On: ‘Strange Fruit’ and ‘Glory’: Songs of/as/in Protest (or From Stage to Page: Documenting Ideological Performance), Bryant Keith Alexander

Survival in/at the Intersections, Bryant Keith Alexander

Survival in/at the Intersections: A Preface for Three Papers on the Matter of Things, Bryant Keith Alexander

Taking the Pulse: Looking for the Poetic and Performative in Terrorism and Hate, Bryant Keith Alexander

The Revolution Will Be Televised (with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron), Bryant Keith Alexander

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication, Bryant Keith Alexander

Biden wins debate on substance, but American democracy clear loser, Jason Jarvis

Biden wins final Presidential debate, Jason Jarvis

Harris wins VP debate, Jason Jarvis

Transcendental meditation’s tipping point: the allure of celebrity on the American spiritual marketplace, Corrina Laughlin

Works from 2019

I'm sorry my hair is blocking your smile': A Performative Assemblage and Intercultural Dialogue on the Politics of Hair and Place, Bryant Keith Alexander

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Three Brief Meditations on the Presumed Resurgent Western Motif, Bryant Keith Alexander

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Three Brief Meditations on the Presumed Resurgent Western Motif, Bryant Keith Alexander

Forgetting Fallujah: Covert Silence, Digital Public Memory and the Civilian Consequences of Operation Phantom Fury in Iraq, Jason Jarvis

Shark fin soup: Collective imagination in the transnational public sphere, Jason Jarvis

American Evangelical Gaming Culture: A Case Study Approach, Corrina Laughlin

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The Myth of the Student Hero and the “Dreaded Lit Review”, Dean Scheibel, Susan Gardner Archambault, and Melanie Hubbard

Works from 2018

Diversity Thugs: Intersections of the Academic, Personal and Political, Bryant Keith Alexander

On Mixed Marriages: Joining Forces and Building Community Between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs, Bryant Keith Alexander

Performance of Race, Culture, and Whiteness, Bryant Keith Alexander

Question Bridge: Black Males in America, Bryant Keith Alexander

Works from 2017

An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric, Bryant Keith Alexander

Black Male/White Tower: A Performative Film Autocritography, Bryant Keith Alexander

Breath, Breathe, Breathing: Communication in/as Acts of Social Justice (A Metaphorical Performative Assemblage), Bryant Keith Alexander

Epilogue, Bryant Keith Alexander

June 12, 2016: Terrorism and Hate in Orlando, America—Poetic and Performative Responses, Bryant Keith Alexander

Queer/Quare Theory: Worldmaking and Methodologies, Bryant Keith Alexander

SenseDance, Bryant Keith Alexander

Terrorism and Hate in Orlando, America (Poetic and Performative Responses), Bryant Keith Alexander

The Cost of a Presumed Public Good, Bryant Keith Alexander

YoungGiftedandFat, Bryant Keith Alexander

Spaceship Earth: The global legacy of Dr. Alfred “Tuna” Snider, Jason Jarvis

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On the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, the field of play, and six years of more “more than less”, Lawrence A. Wenner

Works from 2016

'Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!’: Policing Race in America, Bryant Keith Alexander

Introduction: “ ‘A Song For You’/’Killing Me Softly’: Lyrical Dialectics of Design, Desire, and Disdain” (A Performative Introduction), Bryant Keith Alexander

Introduction: “‘Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!’: Policing Race in America,”, Bryant Keith Alexander

Permissions as Established Templates of Sociality: On the Work of Laurel Richardson, Bryant Keith Alexander

The Song Book of Our Lives: Lyrical Autoethnographic Performances, Bryant Keith Alexander

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Virtual Engineering Sciences Learning Lab: Giving STEM Education a Second Life, Michelle L. Hammers

Clinton wins First US Presidential Debate, Jason Jarvis

Clinton wins Second Presidential Debate, Jason Jarvis

Clinton wins Third Presidential Debate, Jason Jarvis

The boundaries of digital dissent: Assessing the war on hacktivism, Jason Jarvis

The visual rhetoric of Anonymous networks, Jason Jarvis