“…This body of literature tends to identify message sources and content (Hoffner, Levine, & Toohey, 2008;Levine & Hoffner, 2006;Medved, Brogan, McClanahan, Morris, & Shepherd, 2006). However, this work has been critiqued for focusing almost exclusively on message senders and what they say rather than on the receivers (Jahn & Myers, 2014). Similarly, VAS research addresses the messages that socialize without attending to the experience of receivers' vocational anticipation.…”