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Race, Gender, and DEI Focus at the Central States Communication Association: Interrogating the Construction of Inequality Regimes

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Conferences, DEI, gender, race

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Communication Studies

Abstract

We analyzed 10 years of programs (2014–2023) of a scholarly communication conference. Our findings indicate white scholars dominate the representation on panels, female/gender non-binary (GNB) scholars are more represented than male scholars; there is a lack of DEI-focused roundtable/discussion and paper panels across the conference; a minority of interest groups provide the most opportunities for scholars of color and female/GNB scholar representation and for discussions about DEI; that women and scholars of color are doing a disproportionate amount of DEI focused work, and that there is no relationship between a panel’s race, gender, or DEI focus and its priority time slot. We offer theoretical implications for understanding conferences as an organizational phenomenon as well as practical implications for conference programming.

Department

Department of Communication and Media

Original Publication Date

6-12-2025

DOI of published version

10.1080/10510974.2025.2505906

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