Very cool surprise to open today’s National Communication Association (NCA) “Comm Notes” mailing list and see my research article with Christine Nyawaga, PhD, featured in Communication Currents! đ€© đ©·
Working from recently published NCA journal articles and emerging research and perspectives, Communication Currents explains scholarly information in straightforward language geared for broad audiences, including communication experts working with laypeople, instructors and students, the press, and other interested members of the public.Â
Our study, which was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Communication & Race, examined how Black workers in STEM fields manage their social identities with coworkers on enterprise social media, like Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Slack.
The authors concluded that there were three clusters of communicative strategies, protective, connective, and self-affirming, and that specific affordances facilitated those strategies. Protective strategies were resisting stereotypes and evading surveillance. Connective strategies were enclaving with other Black workers and bridging with non-Black workers. Self-affirming strategies were âshowing up âfully,ââ personal branding, and engaging in Black advocacy. Nyawaga and Mitra also concluded that Black STEM workersâ identity management strategies are rooted in four situational stressors…
Rahul Mitra 