State Secrets and Redaction: The Interaction Between Silence and Ideographs

Connelly, Eric

doi:10.1080/10570314.2011.653470

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“…Text segments are defined as portions of responses that fully communicate an idea, which may be less than a single sentence, a single sentence, or multiple sentences. Scholars have referred to these whole-idea units with names like lexia [31][32][33] or ideograph [34][35][36]. The goals of the survey were to understand the COVID-19 experiences and the challenges as they related to HRSA project work, so the aspects of responses that did not relate to those topics were not coded.…”

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Experience and Impact of COVID-19 on a Newly Formed Rural University Medical Office: Survey Study

Benton¹

2023

JMIR Form Res

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic had large social effects, particularly in the fields of medicine and medical education. Medical organizations in the United States operate in overlapping contexts with interrelated goals inside multiple organizations, and the context of work strongly influenced how organizations were able to respond to COVID-19 restrictions. Objective This research examines the experience and impact of COVID-19 on the implementation of a Health Resources and Services Administration grant in a newly formed university medical office with the interrelated goals of health policy, health outreach, and medical education. The goal is to understand how COVID-19 created different experiences and challenges for leaders and their collaborators working in medical education compared to those working in public health outreach or health policy. Methods A survey about COVID-19 opportunities and challenges was administered to work unit leaders and their project collaborators. The most common experiences and challenges are shown, direct educational and other respondents’ experiences and challenges are compared, and open-ended comment segments are analyzed. Results Helping others adjust to digital work, remoteness, and coordination were common experiences during COVID-19. Common challenges include coordination and an inability to make comparisons to previous program years. On average, respondents had 11.3 (SD 7.8) experiences and 8.3 (SD 6.9) challenges considered in the survey. While all units were influenced by COVID-19 restrictions, medical education units had more experiences and challenges. Those involved directly in medical education experienced 69% (18.6/27) of their possible experiences and 54% (14.7/27) of their possible challenges on average compared to 35% (7/20) and 21% (4.2/20) among other respondents (P<.001). COVID-19 restrictions increased the complexity of project work and presented challenges, especially in terms of coordinating responses and access to locations. Conclusions The findings suggest that COVID-19 made the overall administration of programs more complex and drew attention from other medical and public health programs. While remoteness is appropriate for some medical education tasks, it is less appropriate for clinical learning. Remoteness presents an especially large challenge to clinical education. Employees now have expectations for remoteness to be built into programs and workplaces. Program administrators will have to integrate remoteness’ benefits and drawbacks into their organization for the foreseeable future.

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Experience and Impact of COVID-19 on a Newly Formed Rural University Medical Office: Survey Study

Benton¹

2023

JMIR Form Res

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“…Moreover, ideographs that discourage certain behaviors are called negative ideographs, while ideographs that promote an ideal are called positive ideographs (Conelly, 2012). For instance, <rule of law>, <liberty>, <freedom>, <heritage> and <national security> often function as positive ideographs in United States context to justify certain practice of power and certain behaviors (see McGee, 1980;Ewalt, 2012;Connelly, 2012;Kelly, 2014). On the other hand, <terrorism> functions as a negative ideograph in the United States as a means of discouraging certain actions and beliefs among the general population (Jackson, 2011).…”

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“…It is important to note that through the process of invoking culturally embedded ideology, ideographs could be used as persuasive tools to alter perception of a rhetorical situation (Connelly, 2012).…”

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The <Three Cs> of Japan’s Pandemic Response as an Ideograph

Allgayer

Kanemoto

2021

Front. Commun.

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While the COVID-19 pandemic soared across the world and changed the political dynamics on a global scale, Japan was viewed by some news sources as a “miracle” exception that beat the anticipated projections by experts of how the virus would affect the nation. Though there are a number of potential guesses about Japan’s initial pandemic outcome, which include low numbers of testing, an existing culture of mask-wearing, sanitation, and certain degree of social distancing, the political environment and communication from the government have also been accredited to the so-called “success” of Japan’s pandemic experience. By using the concept of ideograph, this study rhetorically analyzes the key slogan that emerged from Japanese political discourse surrounding the COVID-19 situation: 3つの密 - Mittsu no Mitsu (The Three Cs). Specifically, the authors conclude the ways in which < Three Cs > function as a negative ideograph in this specific rhetorical context. By doing so, the authors argue that this slogan that stems from political discourse became culture-bound and serves as a present-day ideological construction in the form of an ideograph for collective governance to (un)justify certain behaviors.

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Strategic Silence

Harlow¹

2018

The International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication

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Scholars in communication and other fields have studied silence in a variety of contexts. Many of these studies consider groups and individuals who have been marginalized or who are otherwise unable to advocate their own cause. Strategic silence, in contrast, is the intentional choice of an empowered actor to remain silent in order to advance a strategic interest. The concept of strategic silence applies across business, politics, and other fields.

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State Secrets and Redaction: The Interaction Between Silence and Ideographs

Cited by 15 publications

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Experience and Impact of COVID-19 on a Newly Formed Rural University Medical Office: Survey Study

Experience and Impact of COVID-19 on a Newly Formed Rural University Medical Office: Survey Study

The <Three Cs> of Japan’s Pandemic Response as an Ideograph

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