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Contexts of the dark side of communication /

Research on the dark side of communication has typically been studied from a single standpoint confined to a specific context. As an intradisciplinary project, this volume transcends the traditional unilateral perspective and focuses on a wide range of communication topics across a variety of contex...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gilchrist-Petty, Eletra S. (Editor), Long, Shawn (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2016]
Series:Lifespan communication (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 10.
Subjects:
Interpersonal communication.
Communication in organizations.
Cyberbullying.
Gossip in the workplace.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / MARK ORBE
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: a contextual perspective of the dark side of human communication / ELETRA S. GILCHRIST-PETTY
  • Context 1: The dark side of interpersonal communication
  • Unlimited: ostracism's potential to awaken us to possibility and mystery / KATIE M. STRILEY
  • "They don't get it, and I don't want to try to explain IT to them" : perceptions of support messages for individuals bereaved by the death of a parent or sibling / ERIN BASINGER AND ERIN WEHRMAN
  • On sexualization and attraction : a communication "dark" side / D.L. STEPHENSON
  • Didn't expect you to hurt me this way : a typology of hurtful events in dating and marital relationships / ELETRA S. GILCHRIST-PETTY
  • Student-sourced verbal aggression on teaching evaluations / FELECIA F. JORDAN-JACKSON
  • Context 2: The dark side of organizational communication
  • Workplace bullying : U.S. academic managers' intervention strategies / SUSAN L. THEISS AND LYNNE M. WEBB
  • Defamation, public persecution, and death threats : characterizing retaliation against whistle-blowers / BRIAN K. RICHARDSON AND DIANNE GRAVELY
  • "A cat fight in the office" : the use of gossip as a means of resource control / FALON KARTCH AND KATHLEEN S. VALDE
  • Dispelling darkness through dialogue in discrimination crises : learning diversity lessons the hard way / DONYALE R. GRIFFIN PADGETT, MELVIN GUPTON, AND IDRISSA N. SNIDER
  • Microaggressive communication in organizational settings / SHAWN D. LONG, HALEY WONZNYJ, MARCUS J. COLEMAN, AMIN MAKKAWY, AND CALVIN SPIVEY
  • Hazing as a tool of destructive organizational identification and loyalty / CRESHEMA R. MURRAY AND KENON A. BROWN
  • Context 3: The dark side of health communication
  • Exploring the dark side of social support among african americans with prostate cancer / JASON THOMPSON, ROCKELL BROWN-BURTON, AND DEVLON JACKSON
  • "My doctor ruined my entire birthing experience" : a qualitative analysis of Mexican-American women's birth struggles with health care providers / LEANDRA H. HERNANDEZ
  • Body politics' strategies for inclusiveness : a case study of the national breast cancer coalition / ANNETTE MADLOCK GATISON
  • Being detained : time, space, and intersubjectivity in long-term solitary confinement / MICHAEL P. VICARO
  • Context 4: The dark side of computer mediated communication
  • Catfished : disenfranchised grief of the never-existed / TRISHA K. HOFFMAN AND JOCELYN M. DEGROOT
  • I heard it through the grapevine : how organizational rumors impact interpersonal relationships via traditional and CMC channels / STACIE W. MUMPOWER AND MEGAN BASSICK
  • "I regret nothing" : cyberbullying and prosocial influence in the first-person shooter game / KIMBERLY L. KULOVITZ AND EDWARD A. MABRY
  • Past abuse, cyberstalking, and help-seeking behavior / ELAINE L. DAVIES
  • How do computer-mediated channels negatively impact existing interpersonal relationships? / AMY J. JOHNSON, ERYN BOSTWICK, AND CHRIS ANDERSON
  • Context 5: the dark side of blended communication contexts
  • "The more things change" : technologically-mediated abuse of intimate partner violence victims / JESSICA J. ECKSTEIN
  • Turbulence, turmoil, and termination : the dark side of social networking sites for romantic relationships / JESSE FOX AND COURTNEY ANDEREGG
  • Shedding light on dark structures constraining work/family balance : a structurational approach / JENNY DIXON AND COREY J. LIBERMAN
  • "The serial-killer application" : email overload and the dark side of communication technology in the workplace / ASHLEY BARRETT
  • Epilogue
  • Shawn d. long
  • Biographies
  • Index.