Mark P. Orbe’s research while affiliated with Western Michigan University and other places

... Posts were collected from AVEN and Reddit by engaging in keyword searches in December 2021. Keyword searches as a method have been used by scholars in a variety of important contexts such as a racialization in communication research (Orbe & Allen, 2008;Orbe et al., 2022), usage of COVID-19 contact tracing apps (Elkhodr et al., 2021), and pathologizing language of gender nonconformity (Galluzzo, 2021). Given our focus on prominent tropes, our keywords were "monster," "alien," and "robot" for AVEN, which were combined with "asexual," "aromantic," "ace," and "aro" for Reddit (given its broader scope). ...

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"I am not a Robot, I am Asexual": A Qualitative Critique of Allonormative Discourses of Ace and Aro Folks as Robots, Aliens, Monsters

... Previous studies (Chung, 2019;Harb, 2016;Matsunaga & Torigoe, 2008;Razzante et al., 2021) have examined co-cultural identities in various global contexts. Chung (2019) explored the identities of Hong Kong and Canada as parts of the British Empire in the past. ...

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Co-Cultural Identities of Thai-Lao: A Guideline for Cultural Curriculum Development

... Autoethnography entails "turning of the ethnographic gaze inward on the self (auto), while maintaining the outward gaze of ethnography, looking at the larger context wherein self-experiences occur" (Denzin, 1997, p. 227). Autoethnography involves doing self-conscious, deliberate identity work (i.e., the formation, understanding, and presentation of self), to understand or represent some phenomenon that exceeds the self (Butz & Besio, 2009)-in this case, virtual internationalization. Autoethnography is cultural analysis through personal narrative, involving the auto ethnographers researching themselves in relation to others (Boylorn & Orbe, 2021). Autoethnography, further, allows minoritized subjects, who have historically been operationalized by hegemonic discourses, to self-represent themselves (Butz & Besio, 2009). ...

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Global South Sisterhood in a Virtual Exchange: A Critical Autoethnography

... Through its exploration of the communication practices of typically marginalized groups, co-cultural theory is an organizational communication theory that examines the intersections of "culture, power and communication" (Orbe 2021, 209). Co-cultural theory (Orbe 1996(Orbe , 1998(Orbe , 2021 describes the lived experience of co-cultural group members, defined as traditionally marginalized within a societal context, as they engage with dominant group members. It explores their experiences and strategies for interacting with the dominant group. ...

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Examining the Ad Industry’s Race and Ethnicity Problem: Application and Extension of Co-Cultural Theory

... Penington and Wildermuth (2005) provide a framework for assessing intercultural competency that includes the components of knowledge, awareness, motivation, skills, and encounters. Finally, Orbe and Orbe (2018) discuss how asking students to draw upon intercultural communication and ethnographic methods (such as field notes and an emic perspective) contributed to a rich, meaningful global experience during a nineday trip to the Dominican Republic. This course also encourages students to consider how power relations support cultural dialectical tensions while embracing these tensions as necessary for personal growth (Martin & Nakayama, 1999). ...

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The voice of communication in comprehensive internationalization

... The second is SIBI (Sitem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia, or literally Indonesian Signed System), promoted by Indonesian government policy and used in education for deaf children in Indonesia. If BISINDO is more rooted in culture and social interaction in the regions and is promoted by deaf people, then SIBI is more formal and based on Indonesian grammar (Gumelar et al., 2018;Olivia & Mulyadi, 2022;Palfreyman, 2019). ...

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“So, suppose that in this world everyone is deaf”. A co-cultural approach on deaf people communicative practices

... Pengalaman komunikasi pada usaha yang berada dalam lingkup keluarga menerapkan komunikasi yang dilakukan melalui obrolan ringan, pertemuan keluarga, dan rapat keluarga, dimana dilakukan diskusi untuk mendapatkan keputusan. Beberapa penelitian yang dilakukan untuk melihat komunikasi antar budaya menggunakan cocultural theory, diantaranya Penelitian fenomologis yang pernah dilakukan untuk melihat pengalaman komunikatif dari pilot wanita berkulit hitam menggunakan co-cultural theory, ditemukan bahwa praktik komunikasi yang dilakukan berupa negosiasi dalam ruang profesional menyensor diri sendiri, persiapan ekstensif, mirroring, menghilangkan stereotip, meningkatkan visibilitas, menggunakan penghubung, dan menghindari serta terlihatnya praktik komunikasi rasionalisasi dan aliansi strategis pada penelitian ini (Zirulnik & Orbe, 2019). ...

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Penerapan dan Perluasan Co-Cultural Theory pada Pengalaman Komunikatif Pelaku Usaha Mikro

... Although research in Communication has explored inclusion by identifying instructor behaviors that foster inclusion, considering the role of course content in inclusion, and the importance of adopting inclusive pedagogies, limited scholarship has sought to understand how students make sense of and define the concept of inclusion (Ashby-King & Hanasono, 2019;Kvam et al., 2018). As such, this study seeks to join other scholars who note that issues of diversity and its execution are perceptual and shaped by power, privilege, and positionality (e.g., Ahmed, 2012;Hosek & Soliz, 2016;Orbe, 2016;Sprague, 2016). ...

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Respect or ambivalence: interpreting student perceptions of inclusivity/exclusivity in a four-year predominately white institution

... The selection of research subjects might lead the researcher or the audience for this research to want to generalize the documented ways of reasoning in a research study to apply to all students from similar demographics (e.g., "All Black students think this way"). Attributing particular behavior (e.g., a pattern in sense making) categorically to ethnic group membership, or essentializing, is one danger in focusing on race (Bell, Orbe, Drummond, & Camara, 2000;Gutiérrez, 2002). Essentializing has the effect of reducing the diversity and complexity of practices of individual members of a group into one common practice. ...

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Anti-Deficit Narratives: Engaging the Politics of Research on Mathematical Sense Making

... One possible explanation for this lack of association is that some students, particularly religious students, may view oral sex as a sexual behavior that does not compromise their virginity. Qualitative evidence suggests that some religious young adults report they will remain a virgin until marriage, but believe oral sex is allowed because it does not involve penetration (e.g., Bergeron, 2017;Kauffman et al., 2013;Sawyer et al., 2007). If students do not consider oral sex to contradict religious prohibitions against sexual behavior, then personal variations in their religious service attendance may not actually be associated with their engagement in oral sex. ...

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Religiosity, sexual behaviors, sexual motivations, and gender: A three-year longitudinal study