TY - JOUR
T1 - Information-Seeking Outcomes of Representational, Structural, and Political Intersectionality Among Health Media Consumers
AU - Vardeman-Winter, Jennifer
AU - Jiang, Hua
AU - Tindall, Natalie T.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was made possible by an award from the University of Houston’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. The authors would like to thank the reviewers and editor for help in refining this manuscript.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Although the segmentation of publics is a standard practice in public relations programming, practitioners face challenges in using traditional approaches to identify and engage vastly different publics. Responding to the need for new approaches that consider global, cultural, and technological trends in consumer publics, this study provides evidence to a proposed intersectional approach to the segmentation of publics. Thirty-one women of different racial, socioeconomic, age, and relationship backgrounds were interviewed to explore how they perceived their multiple, overlapping identities influence their health decision making. Findings suggest that publics experience co-occurring oppression and privilege in varying contexts: in representations of them, in policies that affect them, and in structures that enable or hinder their ability to improve their health. The findings suggest that intersecting social structures shape disparate health public relations, intersecting policies widen the policymaker-public gap, and intersecting representations reflect a paradox of segmentation.
AB - Although the segmentation of publics is a standard practice in public relations programming, practitioners face challenges in using traditional approaches to identify and engage vastly different publics. Responding to the need for new approaches that consider global, cultural, and technological trends in consumer publics, this study provides evidence to a proposed intersectional approach to the segmentation of publics. Thirty-one women of different racial, socioeconomic, age, and relationship backgrounds were interviewed to explore how they perceived their multiple, overlapping identities influence their health decision making. Findings suggest that publics experience co-occurring oppression and privilege in varying contexts: in representations of them, in policies that affect them, and in structures that enable or hinder their ability to improve their health. The findings suggest that intersecting social structures shape disparate health public relations, intersecting policies widen the policymaker-public gap, and intersecting representations reflect a paradox of segmentation.
KW - Health Campaigns
KW - Public Relations
KW - Publics' Identity
KW - Qualitative
KW - Segmentation
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U2 - 10.1080/00909882.2013.828360
DO - 10.1080/00909882.2013.828360
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84886376838
SN - 0090-9882
VL - 41
SP - 389
EP - 411
JO - Journal of Applied Communication Research
JF - Journal of Applied Communication Research
IS - 4
ER -