Elizabeth A. Hintz
@elizabethahintz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Communication at UConn | I study how patients communicate about complex, stigmatized, and poorly understood health conditions and identities with their clinicians, romantic partners, and family members. #commsky #TeamCAIS
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I am so honored and grateful to share that I have been selected as a #Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Finland! 🇺🇸 🇫🇮
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar
New publication with @timesnewromann.bsky.social in Feminist Pedagogy, "Teaching Oppositional Resistance to the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence in Acts of Gendered Violence." Read it here: digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpeda...
Teaching Oppositional Resistance to the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence in Acts of Gendered Violence
Meeting the aims of this special issue to take a uniquely feminist approach to understanding AI in higher education, we offer a critical commentary to help other scholars apply a critical feminist len...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New publication with @timesnewromann.bsky.social in Feminist Pedagogy, "Teaching Oppositional Resistance to the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence in Acts of Gendered Violence." Read it here: digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpeda...
🎊Humbled to share that I have been chosen as a recipient of the 2025 Early Career Scholar Award from the NCA Health Communication Division! I thank those who have supported and mentored me and look forward to continuing to serve the division and association. www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
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ALT: a stack of books on a table with a cup of tea on the table
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September 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🎊Humbled to share that I have been chosen as a recipient of the 2025 Early Career Scholar Award from the NCA Health Communication Division! I thank those who have supported and mentored me and look forward to continuing to serve the division and association. www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
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Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements”, by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
September 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Introducing the editorial for the Special Issue: “A special issue on qualitative theorizing and methodological advancements”, by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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New Issue Alert! Introducing the JoC Special Issue: Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements, edited by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue
Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue
September 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
New Issue Alert! Introducing the JoC Special Issue: Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements, edited by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano
Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue
Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue
🚨 New publication, "Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain" by myself, @timesnewromann.bsky.social, Rachel Tucker, and Madeline J. Moore out today in Journal of Health Communication! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P93NN...
Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain
Female chronic pain patients often report perceiving that their character (i.e. credibility, reputation) has been attacked by clinicians during healthcare interactions. Although initially developed...
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August 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨 New publication, "Examining Character Assassination in Patient-Clinician Interactions About Chronic Pain" by myself, @timesnewromann.bsky.social, Rachel Tucker, and Madeline J. Moore out today in Journal of Health Communication! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P93NN...
🎊🚨 Our (Kristina Scharp, Sandra Vera Zambrano) co-edited special issue of @journal-of-comm.bsky.social on #Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements is available now (Volume 75, Issue 4): academic.oup.com/joc/issue/75/4 !
Volume 75 Issue 4 | Journal of Communication | Oxford Academic
Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers.
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August 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🎊🚨 Our (Kristina Scharp, Sandra Vera Zambrano) co-edited special issue of @journal-of-comm.bsky.social on #Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements is available now (Volume 75, Issue 4): academic.oup.com/joc/issue/75/4 !
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"What, you desk rejected my paper. Can' t I just revise and resubmit?"
This question comes up a lot. Via @bowmanspartan.bsky.social:
"We prefer desk reject over an editor-only revise and resubmit for three main reasons: avoiding delays, reducing snap judgements, and securing reviews."
How so?
This question comes up a lot. Via @bowmanspartan.bsky.social:
"We prefer desk reject over an editor-only revise and resubmit for three main reasons: avoiding delays, reducing snap judgements, and securing reviews."
How so?
July 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"What, you desk rejected my paper. Can' t I just revise and resubmit?"
This question comes up a lot. Via @bowmanspartan.bsky.social:
"We prefer desk reject over an editor-only revise and resubmit for three main reasons: avoiding delays, reducing snap judgements, and securing reviews."
How so?
This question comes up a lot. Via @bowmanspartan.bsky.social:
"We prefer desk reject over an editor-only revise and resubmit for three main reasons: avoiding delays, reducing snap judgements, and securing reviews."
How so?
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Join us for our talk with #CAISfellow @elizabethahintz.bsky.social, University of Connecticut: "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, & Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums"
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
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🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Join us for our talk with #CAISfellow @elizabethahintz.bsky.social, University of Connecticut: "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, & Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums"
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
🚨New publication alert! Read our article: "Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: A retrospective review of concept development and extensions" by Madeline J. Moore, Lili R. Romann, Rachel V. Tucker, and myself here: academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...
Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: a retrospective review of concept development and extensions
Abstract. This retrospective review synthesizes communication scholarship concerning character assassination (CA) or the deliberate destruction of a target
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July 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🚨New publication alert! Read our article: "Character assassination as a communicative phenomenon: A retrospective review of concept development and extensions" by Madeline J. Moore, Lili R. Romann, Rachel V. Tucker, and myself here: academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...
New pre-proof @ Social Science & Medicine w/ @jacquelinengunning.bsky.social, Sarah N. Boateng, and Lili R. Romann, "Credibility Work in Disenfranchising Patient-Clinician Conversations for Mono/Multiracial Women of Color with Autoimmune Disease in the U.S." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Credibility Work in Disenfranchising Patient-Clinician Conversations for Mono/Multiracial Women of Color with Autoimmune Disease in the U.S.
Racial health disparities are exacerbated by interactions with clinicians, and women of color living with autoimmune disease in the U.S. must engage i…
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July 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New pre-proof @ Social Science & Medicine w/ @jacquelinengunning.bsky.social, Sarah N. Boateng, and Lili R. Romann, "Credibility Work in Disenfranchising Patient-Clinician Conversations for Mono/Multiracial Women of Color with Autoimmune Disease in the U.S." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We’re immediately hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor at our UConn Department of Communication! Details here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
June 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
We’re immediately hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor at our UConn Department of Communication! Details here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
A slightly belated 30th birthday gift... 🤓
June 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A slightly belated 30th birthday gift... 🤓
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New review for GET IT OUT!
May 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
New review for GET IT OUT!
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An important post that highlights a serious concern in medicine and gives some resources to help. #womenshealth
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain theconversation.com/when-doctors... by @marleneberke.bsky.social @elizabethahintz.bsky.social via @theconversation.com
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain theconversation.com/when-doctors... by @marleneberke.bsky.social @elizabethahintz.bsky.social via @theconversation.com
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting
Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.
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May 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
An important post that highlights a serious concern in medicine and gives some resources to help. #womenshealth
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain theconversation.com/when-doctors... by @marleneberke.bsky.social @elizabethahintz.bsky.social via @theconversation.com
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain theconversation.com/when-doctors... by @marleneberke.bsky.social @elizabethahintz.bsky.social via @theconversation.com
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Have you ever showed up to a medical appointment in pain and had your pain discredited or disbelieved?
This experience is common for women with chronic pain.
@elizabethahintz.bsky.social and teamed up to write about it for @theconversation.com!
theconversation.com/when-doctors...
This experience is common for women with chronic pain.
@elizabethahintz.bsky.social and teamed up to write about it for @theconversation.com!
theconversation.com/when-doctors...
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting
Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.
theconversation.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Have you ever showed up to a medical appointment in pain and had your pain discredited or disbelieved?
This experience is common for women with chronic pain.
@elizabethahintz.bsky.social and teamed up to write about it for @theconversation.com!
theconversation.com/when-doctors...
This experience is common for women with chronic pain.
@elizabethahintz.bsky.social and teamed up to write about it for @theconversation.com!
theconversation.com/when-doctors...
New @theconversation.com article with @marleneberke.bsky.social published today! "When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting." Read it here: theconversation.com/when-doctors... #CommSky @tightlippedorg.bsky.social
When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting
Women who see doctors for pain from reproductive health conditions are often advised to relax and get help for anxiety instead.
theconversation.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New @theconversation.com article with @marleneberke.bsky.social published today! "When doctors don’t believe their patients’ pain – experts explain the all-too-common experience of medical gaslighting." Read it here: theconversation.com/when-doctors... #CommSky @tightlippedorg.bsky.social
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I am so honored and grateful to share that I have been selected as a #Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Finland! 🇺🇸 🇫🇮
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar
April 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I am so honored and grateful to share that I have been selected as a #Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Finland! 🇺🇸 🇫🇮
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar
I look forward to teaching and conducting research on communicative resilience in Finland! #commsky #FulbrightScholar
📚 New pub. in Social Science & Medicine with Brooke H. Wolfe, Olivia Watson, and myself, entitled, "Anticipating, Experiencing, and Responding to Disenfranchising Talk: The Experiences of People with Type 1 Diabetes." Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #commsky
Anticipating, Experiencing, and Responding to Disenfranchising Talk: The Experiences of People with Type 1 Diabetes
This interpretive study applies the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement to analyze 290 narratives authored by people diagnosed with type 1 di…
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April 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
📚 New pub. in Social Science & Medicine with Brooke H. Wolfe, Olivia Watson, and myself, entitled, "Anticipating, Experiencing, and Responding to Disenfranchising Talk: The Experiences of People with Type 1 Diabetes." Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #commsky
🚨New pub. in @josoperrel.bsky.social with J. Gunning, A. Denes, myself, and R. Tucker, "Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength." Read it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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April 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨New pub. in @josoperrel.bsky.social with J. Gunning, A. Denes, myself, and R. Tucker, "Implicit sexual beliefs and relational thriving in new romantic relationships facing imagined sexual dysfunction: The mediating role of sexual communal strength." Read it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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I made this bibliography for qualitative interviewing. Hope this helps someone. It's about 170 sources. If you have suggestions, please let me know.
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Interview bibliography.docx
Abell, J., Locke, A., Condor, S., Gibson, S., & Stevenson, C. (2006). Trying similarity, doing difference: The role of interviewer self-disclosure in interview talk with young people. Qualitative Rese...
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March 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I made this bibliography for qualitative interviewing. Hope this helps someone. It's about 170 sources. If you have suggestions, please let me know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I recently completed an interview on the podcast "Life as a Patient-Doctor" discussing health communication. Listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXcv... #HealthComm #commsky
Health Care Hacks with Elizabeth Hintz, PHD
YouTube video by Patient-Doctor Moss
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January 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I recently completed an interview on the podcast "Life as a Patient-Doctor" discussing health communication. Listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXcv... #HealthComm #commsky
🚨 New pub. with Zexin Ma, myself, and Bia Cassano in Frontiers of Communication, "'Are We Saying Every Time You Drink, You’ll Get Cancer?' Lessons Learned from a Focus Group Study of Communicating Difficult-to-Swallow Health-Risk Information." Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
Frontiers | “Are We Saying Every Time You Drink, You’ll Get Cancer?” Lessons Learned from a Focus Group Study of Communicating Difficult-to-Swallow Health-Risk Information
This essay explores lessons learned when conducting focus group interviews with participants exposed to novel health-risk messages. Focus group participants ...
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November 29, 2024 at 7:52 PM
🚨 New pub. with Zexin Ma, myself, and Bia Cassano in Frontiers of Communication, "'Are We Saying Every Time You Drink, You’ll Get Cancer?' Lessons Learned from a Focus Group Study of Communicating Difficult-to-Swallow Health-Risk Information." Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
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If you are interested in applying to edit one of the linked National Communication Association journals, reach out to me with questions!
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#NCA2024
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Calls for Journal Editors
Current and Future Calls for NCA Journal Editors
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November 20, 2024 at 3:54 PM
If you are interested in applying to edit one of the linked National Communication Association journals, reach out to me with questions!
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#NCA2024
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