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Sommer, Lucie.
The Importance of Developing Robust Research Methodology for Studying the Communicative Constitution of Organization: An Exemplary Framework and Pilot Study.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2011, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/13 
► Reaching beyond traditional conceptions of the relationship between communication and organization, scholars studying the communicative constitution of organization (or CCO) are charting new intellectual…
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▼ Reaching beyond traditional conceptions of the relationship between communication and organization, scholars studying the communicative constitution of organization (or CCO) are charting new intellectual territory. They aim beyond a transmission view (where communication is understood to express already existing organizational realities), beyond an interpretive view (where the emphasis is on what members understand organizations to be and communication is viewed as the medium through which members' develop shared understandings), and endeavor to articulate a constitutive view (where communication practices are treated as prior to and generative of organizational meaning and reality). Given these goals, is not surprising that CCO scholars have gravitated towards intellectual paradigms that are located outside of the more traditional approaches (e.g. positivism, interpretivism). More specifically, they have consistently preferred a social constructionist approach, in general, and a practice-based approach, in particular. This approach has resulted in valuable theoretical advances in terms of our understanding about the fundamental role that communication practices play in the constitution of organization. Scholarly attention to the methodological dimensions of this work, however, has been greatly lacking. My project aims to highlight the importance of this dimension, arguing that more deliberate consideration of methodological issues is a crucial part realizing the promise that practice theory holds for understanding CCO. Responding to this imperative, I identify a practice theory that is common in CCO scholarship (Giddens' structuration theory, 1979, 1984) and I develop a carefully-considered methodological model for researchers employing this theory. I then pilot this model in an empirical study of an organization in a US university – an organization whose purpose is to coordinate the technology activities of diverse constituents (academic, administrative, and technical). Using the methodological framework I developed to guide my analysis (a critical discourse analysis), I examine the competing discursive practices of various organizational constituents and describe how these both reproduce and revise particular organizational realities (and the shared knowledge underlying these realities).
Advisors/Committee Members: Timothy R. Kuhn, Michele Jackson, Patricia Sullivan.
Subjects/Keywords: communicative constitution of organization; critical discourse analysis; managerialist discourse; methodology; organizational knowledge; structuration theory; Communication
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Sommer, L. (2011). The Importance of Developing Robust Research Methodology for Studying the Communicative Constitution of Organization: An Exemplary Framework and Pilot Study. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/13
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sommer, Lucie. “The Importance of Developing Robust Research Methodology for Studying the Communicative Constitution of Organization: An Exemplary Framework and Pilot Study.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/13.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sommer, Lucie. “The Importance of Developing Robust Research Methodology for Studying the Communicative Constitution of Organization: An Exemplary Framework and Pilot Study.” 2011. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Sommer L. The Importance of Developing Robust Research Methodology for Studying the Communicative Constitution of Organization: An Exemplary Framework and Pilot Study. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/13.
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Sommer L. The Importance of Developing Robust Research Methodology for Studying the Communicative Constitution of Organization: An Exemplary Framework and Pilot Study. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2011. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/13
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Chorley, Sarah K.
Negotiating Organizational Identity with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/79
► This organizational communication research study investigates the ways in which individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) narratively negotiate their organizational identities. Thirty-four adults with OCD were…
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▼ This organizational communication research study investigates the ways in which individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) narratively negotiate their organizational identities. Thirty-four adults with OCD were interviewed, and the findings from this study suggest that participants drew on a particular set of discursive resources to account for, justify, or explain their organizational behavior, organizational or career position, manifestations of OCD, misconceptions of OCD, and the stigmatic identity of being “mentally ill.” These discursive resources include <i>normalcy, organizing and economy, medicine, </i>and <i>personal life scripts.</i> Theoretically, this study has implications for the ways in which OCD, identity, and organizational communication are studied. The practical application of this study is a communication intervention for adults in intensive treatment for OCD, which includes recommendations for the meaning management of discursive resources in the workplace.
Advisors/Committee Members: Timothy R. Kuhn, Karen L. Ashcraft, Lawrence R. Frey, Jody Jahn, Amy Wilkins.
Subjects/Keywords: applied communication research; discursive resources; narrative identity; obsessive-compulsive disorder; organizational communication; Communication; Mental and Social Health
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Chorley, S. K. (2018). Negotiating Organizational Identity with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/79
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chorley, Sarah K. “Negotiating Organizational Identity with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/79.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chorley, Sarah K. “Negotiating Organizational Identity with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.” 2018. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Chorley SK. Negotiating Organizational Identity with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/79.
Council of Science Editors:
Chorley SK. Negotiating Organizational Identity with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/79
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Burk, Nicholas R.
The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge in Collaborative Work: Texts, Conversations, and Social Material Practices.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/82
► Over the past thirty years, science research in the U.S. has faced increasing demand for collaboration across disciplinary and organizational divides, with varying success. This…
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▼ Over the past thirty years, science research in the U.S. has faced increasing demand for collaboration across disciplinary and organizational divides, with varying success. This dissertation study traces a federal research laboratory facility through organizational changes implemented toward achieving greater cross-disciplinary collaborative capacity. The particular interest driving this study is to discern and trace the role of disciplinary expert knowledge as a potential resource and/or obstacle for situated, collaborative problem-solving. To examine the mitigating role of expert knowledge toward the achievement of problem-centered collaborative knowing, I study laboratory and building management meetings involving a committee of scientists and building workers representing a number of research units and building systems workers. Through participant-observation during these collaborative management meetings, and by asking follow-up questions during interviews with those involved, I document the collaborative communication and resulting texts produced by the committee as they raise, discuss and resolve the building and laboratory issues experienced during these organizational changes. Key findings center on the way that collaborative talk became encoded into organizing texts that provided a common vision of the organization and collaborative work, by linking together and configuring organized meanings, narratives, practices, material (spatial and object) understandings and, in the process, specifying worker relationships. Together, these configurations resulted in a new type of expert knowledge: a textual compilation of building knowledge that replaced prior “silo-ed” laboratory-specific expert knowledge/practice combinations.
Advisors/Committee Members: Matthew A. Koschmann, Timothy R. Kuhn, Bryan C. Taylor, Karen L. Ashcraft, Paul M. Leonardi.
Subjects/Keywords: collaboration; communication as constitutive of organizing (cco); organizational communication; social materiality; problem-solving; Communication; Organizational Behavior and Theory
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Burk, N. R. (2018). The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge in Collaborative Work: Texts, Conversations, and Social Material Practices. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/82
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Burk, Nicholas R. “The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge in Collaborative Work: Texts, Conversations, and Social Material Practices.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/82.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Burk, Nicholas R. “The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge in Collaborative Work: Texts, Conversations, and Social Material Practices.” 2018. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Burk NR. The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge in Collaborative Work: Texts, Conversations, and Social Material Practices. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/82.
Council of Science Editors:
Burk NR. The Communicative Accomplishment of Knowledge in Collaborative Work: Texts, Conversations, and Social Material Practices. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/82
University of Colorado
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Eger, Elizabeth K.
Communicating Organizational and Transgender Intersectional Identities: an Ethnography of a Transgender Outreach Center.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/84
► This dissertation examined the communicative construction of identity by members of a transgender outreach organization. It focused on how members’ communication created and modified…
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▼ This dissertation examined the communicative construction of identity by members of a transgender outreach organization. It focused on how members’ communication created and modified <i>organizational identities</i> in relationship to participants’ <i>individual identities</i>. Through my three-year ethnography of and volunteering with the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico (TGRC), I conducted 415 hours of participant observation, 64 hours of semi-structured interviews (n=36), document analysis, and over nine hours of creative focus groups (n=5) of one of the only transgender-centered organizations in the United States. I investigated how TGRC members negotiated the significance of relevant individual and organizational identities, their relationships, and their implications for transgender organizational outreach. I argued that TGRC’s transgender-centered organizational outreach and their emic, ambiguous emphasis on their members’ intersectional identities revealed important complexities for organizational communication inquiry. My data analysis reviewed two salient identity intersections for many TGRC participants: (1) <i>homeless and transgender</i> identities</i> and (2) <i>indigenous and transgender</i> identities, which both tied to other identity intersections. Next, I presented TGRC organizational identity ideals responding to participants’ transgender intersectional identities: (1) TGRC as <i>family</i> and (2) TGRC as <i>support for all facets of transgender living</i>. I then examined four communication constraints for sustaining those organizational identity ideals: (1) <i>family tensions</i>, (2) <i>non-binary critiques</i>, (3) <i>Harm Reduction Program competition</i>, and (4) <i>Nonprofit Industrial Complex hegemony</i>. My dissertation revealed theoretical and practical recommendations for studying the communicative construction of organizational identity for transgender intersectional outreach organizing. Specifically, we need increased understanding of how organizational members create organizational identities that account for complex, intersectional participant identities as they simultaneously organize around a strategic, focused identity category. This research offered a unique examination of the complexities of constructing organizational identities for an identity-based organization—collectives advancing outreach and justice for members “sharing” one or more social identities (e.g., race, disability, sexuality, etc.). I offer three future extensions for organizational identity research grounded in prior scholarship and in my ethnographic findings: (1) <i>contrasting communication</i>, (2) <i>detypification</i>, and (3) <i>crystallized organizational identity using ambiguous intersectionality</i>. I end by calling for future engaged transgender and intersectional organizational communication research.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bryan C. Taylor, Timothy R. Kuhn, Scarlet Bowen, Jamie Skerski, Gerard A. Hauser.
Subjects/Keywords: ethnography; intersectionality; nonprofit organizations; organizational communication; organizational identity; transgender; Communication; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies; Organizational Behavior and Theory
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Eger, E. K. (2018). Communicating Organizational and Transgender Intersectional Identities: an Ethnography of a Transgender Outreach Center. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/84
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Eger, Elizabeth K. “Communicating Organizational and Transgender Intersectional Identities: an Ethnography of a Transgender Outreach Center.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/84.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Eger, Elizabeth K. “Communicating Organizational and Transgender Intersectional Identities: an Ethnography of a Transgender Outreach Center.” 2018. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Eger EK. Communicating Organizational and Transgender Intersectional Identities: an Ethnography of a Transgender Outreach Center. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/84.
Council of Science Editors:
Eger EK. Communicating Organizational and Transgender Intersectional Identities: an Ethnography of a Transgender Outreach Center. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/84
University of Colorado
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Blithe, Sarah J.
Investigating the Glass Handcuff: Gendered Discourses, Occupational Identities, and the Leave-taking Practices of Men in Technical Occupations.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2012, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/29
► The intersections of work and nonwork fuel Discourses that beget biases, inequalities, and complications. Discourses of balance and entrepreneurialism are particularly laden with inequalities…
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▼ The intersections of work and nonwork fuel Discourses that beget biases, inequalities, and complications. Discourses of balance and entrepreneurialism are particularly laden with inequalities and contribute to both structural inequalities and biases that inform the everyday practices of individuals. This study explores the ways men in technical occupations invoke these Discourses when making decisions about when and whether to take leaves of absence. Technical occupations are well known to be particularly rife with inequities and simultaneously face a shortage of workers. As such, increasing equality in these occupations would both improve the lives of those working in technical jobs and would allow technical organizations to recruit and retain more workers. I believe that the everyday work-life practices of men in organizations both draw upon and reify the troublesome Discourses of balance and entrepreneurialism.
The findings of the interviews and textual analysis conducted in this dissertation revealed that men in technical occupations view their occupational identities as a "natural" and passionate part of their person, and that they believe they have the opportunity, through their work, to save or change the world. Further, the data revealed that the uniqueness of technical culture complicates leave-taking, that gendered roles and expectations preclude men from taking leaves of absence, and leaves of absence are mitigated by virtual work, vacation time, or quitting for many men in technical occupations. Finally, the data suggested that while most men feel they are "balanced," the concept of balance itself is understood in this context as burnout avoidance or completely irrelevant because work and life are so integrated for these men.
Contributions from this study include both theoretical and practical implications, including expanding connections between the Discourse of entrepreneurialism and work-life "choices" and implicating occupational identities as particularly relevant for understanding work-life policies and practices. Moreover, the tensions at the intersections of the Discourses and everyday practice result in a unique form gender inequality where men are linked to their work, unable to take leaves of absence. To explain this situation, I present the metaphor of the glass handcuff, which suggests that invisible mechanisms (e.g., entrepreneurialism and occupational identity) lock men into the public, making it difficult for these men to participate fully in the home and also creating biases for women and other caretakers in workplaces. To conclusion, I argue that because the current state of leave policy in the United States is gendered, raced, classed, and ableist, broad reform in leave policy is necessary.
Advisors/Committee Members: Timothy R. Kuhn, Catherine Ashcraft, Karen Lee Ashcraft, Lisa Flores, Michele Jackson.
Subjects/Keywords: Entrepreneurialism; Gender; Glass Handcuff; Leave; Occupational Identity; Work-life balance; Gender and Sexuality; Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Blithe, S. J. (2012). Investigating the Glass Handcuff: Gendered Discourses, Occupational Identities, and the Leave-taking Practices of Men in Technical Occupations. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/29
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Blithe, Sarah J. “Investigating the Glass Handcuff: Gendered Discourses, Occupational Identities, and the Leave-taking Practices of Men in Technical Occupations.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/29.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Blithe, Sarah J. “Investigating the Glass Handcuff: Gendered Discourses, Occupational Identities, and the Leave-taking Practices of Men in Technical Occupations.” 2012. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Blithe SJ. Investigating the Glass Handcuff: Gendered Discourses, Occupational Identities, and the Leave-taking Practices of Men in Technical Occupations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/29.
Council of Science Editors:
Blithe SJ. Investigating the Glass Handcuff: Gendered Discourses, Occupational Identities, and the Leave-taking Practices of Men in Technical Occupations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2012. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/29
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Wang, Mingjie.
“All Migrant Workers on the Earth Are One Family”: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Rhetoric and Emerging Civil Sphere in a Transitional China.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2012, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/31
► China had remained one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but the human costs, economic inequality, social discrimination, and political marginalization imposed…
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▼ China had remained one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but the human costs, economic inequality, social discrimination, and political marginalization imposed upon the hundreds of millions of migrant workers had become unprecedentedly grave. In the context of such social predicaments, Grassroots Home (GH) emerged as a self-regulated association of migrant workers, who aspired to make their collective voice heard and to imagine a better society.
This research regards GH as a representative anecdote of China's emerging civil sphere, defined as an ongoing social and rhetorical accomplishment of something approaching group solidarity and civil judgment about matters of mutual interest. Theoretically, this research emphasizes the role of vernacular rhetoric in the self-production of society in which social imaginaries and abstract principles of civil sphere take concrete forms in time and place.
This research explores three fundamental questions regarding 1) GH's formation as an ongoing rhetorical project, especially in terms of maintaining autonomy in relation to the party-state authorities; 2) GH's creation of something approaching a distinctly workers' culture through vernacular rhetoric; 3) GH's visions of a better society by (re)appropriating and (re)inventing cultural resources in a way that their meanings became rhetorically salient and communally comprehensible.
In order to explore these questions, this research blends rhetoric and ethnography by conducting sustained fieldwork at GH where the researcher observed and heard naturally occurring vernacular rhetoric among the workers and participated in their cultural activities and organizational duties.
This work finds that the migrant workers had demonstrated sophisticated rhetorical competence. Their engagement in a vernacular realm helped to preserve their self-organization as a place in which to remain independent from and strategically cooperative with the party-state. They had been building an emerging culture of their unique worldview by reclaiming the productivity of labor. They envisioned a better society by (re)discovering and (re)inventing the cultural resources of the socialist legacy, traditional culture of love, and an agrarian dream.
The findings from this research have theoretical and practical implications for better understanding and potentially engaging China's emerging civil sphere. The empirical reflexive lessons learned from this research can help to further develop methods of rhetorical ethnography.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gerard A. Hauser, Andrew Calabrese, Bryan C. Taylor, Lisa Keränen, Timothy R. Kuhn.
Subjects/Keywords: China; civil society; civil sphere; migrant workers; public sphere; vernacular rhetoric; Communication; Rhetoric; Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Wang, M. (2012). “All Migrant Workers on the Earth Are One Family”: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Rhetoric and Emerging Civil Sphere in a Transitional China. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/31
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wang, Mingjie. ““All Migrant Workers on the Earth Are One Family”: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Rhetoric and Emerging Civil Sphere in a Transitional China.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/31.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wang, Mingjie. ““All Migrant Workers on the Earth Are One Family”: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Rhetoric and Emerging Civil Sphere in a Transitional China.” 2012. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Wang M. “All Migrant Workers on the Earth Are One Family”: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Rhetoric and Emerging Civil Sphere in a Transitional China. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/31.
Council of Science Editors:
Wang M. “All Migrant Workers on the Earth Are One Family”: An Ethnographic Study of Vernacular Rhetoric and Emerging Civil Sphere in a Transitional China. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2012. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/31
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Ruiz-Mesa, Kristina.
Discourses of Difference: Communicating Diversity in U.S. Higher Education.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2016, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/68
► This research focused on institutional framings of diversity in mission statements and communicative practices of chief diversity officers (CDOs) in U.S. institutions of higher education.…
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▼ This research focused on institutional framings of diversity in mission statements and communicative practices of chief diversity officers (CDOs) in U.S. institutions of higher education. Grounded in applied communication scholarship, this project investigated how CDOs employ communicative practices in formal and informal settings to inform institutional policies and practices related to diversity and inclusion. To document dominant framings of diversity used by campus leaders, a content analysis of institutional mission and diversity statements (N = 50) was conducted. The findings showed that diversity is framed in those statements as inclusive excellence, social justice, and required legally. To explore the connection between those framings and CDOs’ communicative practices related to institutional diversity work, in-depth interviews (N = 25) were conducted with CDOs. Interviewees provided examples of how CDOs employ communicative practices in formal communication settings through audience analysis, personal distancing, persuasive storytelling, and reflexive questioning. Additionally, CDOs used informal micropractices of collaboration and relationship building, identity work, and coping with microaggressions to garner campus support and to gain allies for their campus diversity and inclusion efforts. The contributions of these findings to applied communication scholarship are discussed with regard to new concepts that are offered for understanding and improving CDOs’ communication to promote greater equity and inclusion in higher education.
Advisors/Committee Members: Timothy R. Kuhn, Lawrence R. Frey, Michele Moses, Karen L. Ashcraft, Brenda J. Allen.
Subjects/Keywords: applied communication; chief diversity officers; communicative practices; diversity; higher education; inclusion; Communication; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration
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Ruiz-Mesa, K. (2016). Discourses of Difference: Communicating Diversity in U.S. Higher Education. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Colorado. Retrieved from https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/68
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ruiz-Mesa, Kristina. “Discourses of Difference: Communicating Diversity in U.S. Higher Education.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 07, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/68.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ruiz-Mesa, Kristina. “Discourses of Difference: Communicating Diversity in U.S. Higher Education.” 2016. Web. 07 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ruiz-Mesa K. Discourses of Difference: Communicating Diversity in U.S. Higher Education. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 07].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/68.
Council of Science Editors:
Ruiz-Mesa K. Discourses of Difference: Communicating Diversity in U.S. Higher Education. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2016. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/comm_gradetds/68
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