Ziyu Long

• Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Communication
• Professor (Associate) at Colorado State University

Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study explored how U.S. college students engage in resilience strategies in response to food insecurity. While adaptive resilience strategies provided short-term relief to deal with hunger, such strategies reinforced stigma, led to well-being crises, and perpetuated vicious cycles of framing college food inse...

We offer a critical intervention to decolonize organizational communication from the roots by interrogating the basic assumptions of “organizing” and foregrounding alternatives that draw on nonwestern languages, cultures, and philosophies. Centering language and the lived experiences of two marginalized women organizing actors in China through 10-y...

The ideas of this forum germinated at the Organizational Communication Division’s pre-conference at the 106th annual convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) in 2020. A group of scholar-teachers, committed to addressing various critical social issues, came together to challenge dominant ideas, paradigms, and structures within and...

Drawing from the experiences of graduate students who become parents during graduate school in the United States, we argue that working parents encounter multiple liminalities, defined as “betwixt and between the original positions arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremony” (Turner, 1977, p. 95) in their work-family negotiation. Findings reve...

Inclusion is a topic of interest to many organizational communication scholars and is often implicit in research, but not fully articulated. In this paper, we review the published English-language organizational communication literature on inclusion. The major themes in the literature are inclusion as a discourse of difference, inclusion as voice a...

Guided by feminist politics of reinscription and intersectionality theory, this study theorized how women entrepreneurs from China, Denmark, and the United States depicted their situated struggles to resist simultaneous interlocking oppressions in everyday entrepreneuring based on 40 in-depth interviews. Participants described that they experienced...

In this forum, we engage in a reflexive intergenerational conversation regarding the contributions of feminist scholars to organizational communication scholarship, as well as the potentials of feminist organizational communication theory and praxis to address urgent challenges facing our institutions and communities. We also offer critique of this...

Courses: Organizational Communication; any advanced communication course that can benefit from using a case study approach. Objectives: This semester-long case study assignment asks students to write a case study around an organizational communication issue based on their empirical data collection of a real organization. Students are expected to (a...

We trace back our own multi‐year teaching and writing collaboration in academia to theorize feminist collaboration. Drawing from feminist theories and our autoethnographic reflections, we surface three metaphorical processes that constitute feminist collaboration. We consider feminist collaboration as (a) reflexive becoming, that is, feminist colla...

Analyzing 219 blog posts from 52 self-employed women lifestyle bloggers in North America, this study shows how these digital professionals navigate tensions and communicatively constitute work flexibility. In their narratives, women bloggers employed tension management approaches such as reframing, continual connections, and reflective practice in...

Taking a ventriloqual approach to intersectionality analysis, this study investigates the communicative constitution of graduate student parenthood and their work-life negotiations. Analyzing 30 in-depth interviews, we found that figures – ideal graduate student worker norms, gender ideologies of work and family, and cultural values of family and c...

The combined forces of China’s reforms, resurgent traditional values, and problematic labor market have led the Chinese Post80s generation to reconstruct their careers. Drawing on 33 in-depth interviews, this study examines how Post80s professionals communicatively constitute resilience as they utilize and transform meanings of chengyu (成语, Chinese...

Based on network mapping of 12 in-depth interviews, this exploratory study analyzes the configurations and evolutions of engineering faculty’s mentoring networks. Gender, race/ethnicity, and academic ranking have shaped faculty’s mentoring experiences. Women and ethnic minority faculty in our study tend to be more proactive in building mentoring ne...

Feminist pedagogies hold potential to create more inclusive and transformative classrooms. Adopting a tension-centered approach, we draw on our individual and collective reflections on the design and instruction of a multisection undergraduate organizational communication course to build an autoethnographic account of the tensions associated with e...

This study examines Chinese post-1980s women’s meanings of work at the intersections of gender, generation, and culture. A feminist ventriloquial approach is used to tease out the enactment of tensions in the communicative constitutions of the colloquialism hao gongzuo (“good work”). Figures such as women’s personal aspirations, gender roles, cultu...

This study explicated Post80s workers’ communicative constructions of work meanings guided by the dialogical self theory. Analyzing 33 in-depth interviews, we found Post80s workers constructed their work meanings regarding choice, development, and impact as they invoked individual and collective voices amid the discursive and material discontinuiti...

Courses: Undergraduate Organizational Communication, Communication Theory, and Small Group Communication courses.Objectives: This single-class activity aims to engage students actively in explaining and applying systems components, processes, and properties.

We analyzed the mentoring narratives of women of color in faculty in engineering using feminist poststructural narratological lenses. We found that university mentoring systems were designed to align with master narratives of mentoring but did not coincide with women faculty’s own mentoring stories. Specifically, women engineers regarded their ment...

Starting one’s own business has become an increasingly popular career choice in transition economies (Amorós and Bosma, 2014; Kuratko, 2005), given the institutional push for business innovation and job creation (Bruton et al., 2008), need and desire to improve one’s life quality and well-being (Moore, 2000), decreasing stability in paid employment...

This paper unpacks the communicative constitutions of resilience and sustainability in global communication through research exemplars that address grand challenges for engagement of new generational workforce, better inclusion of professional immigrants, sustainable organizational development and leadership, and infrastructure design for global wa...

In a recent opinion piece in Wall Street Journal, Carl Schramm, former President and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation said that despite colleges churning out entrepreneurially-minded students, the “teaching of entrepreneurship gets an incomplete” due to a lack of evidence of benefits (Schramm, 2014). Schramm highlights the growth in entrepreneurship...

We propose a research agenda to study mentoring as constituted communicatively from episodic, network, and intersectional perspectives. The episodic perspective highlights the everyday communicational events and moments of interactions where actions and meanings of mentoring are co-constructed. The network perspective encourages a holistic analysis...

Telework—the performance of paid labor activities at sites other than conventional workplaces and through the use of communication technologies—has not been considered a legitimate work form in China. Analyzing in-depth interviews thematically, the authors found that teleworkers from the post-80s generation not only legitimized their work form prag...