{"id":242,"date":"2024-08-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/smith-center\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:52:38","slug":"phokeng-dailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/smith-center\/faculty-spotlights\/phokeng-dailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Phokeng Dailey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Phokeng Dailey<\/h1>\n\n\n

The Warren C. Fairbanks Associate Professor and the Department Chair of the Department of Journalism & Communication<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>View Faculty Bio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Context<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Research title:<\/strong> Working in partnership with Ashley Kennard \u2013 “Social & political responses to racialized health messages: Attitudinal and public policy support implications of racialized framing of illness”
Collaborator in research: <\/strong>Ashley Kennard
Stage in research: <\/strong>We have designed the study and will be doing an initial test this semester before launching the full study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

(Interview by Barbara Bird, August 7, 2024)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your research question?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We want to determine whether or not, when folks hear about a disease with images that show various racial identities, whether or not they are moved to support federal funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We predict that people would support opioids since they were framed as a white woman problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am excited about this research because historically, this topic is what I’ve looked at: I’ve looked at health, disease, and how they are framed as a racial issue. Even exercise, like Zoomba: This is framed as a white woman’s physical activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What type of research is your study?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We will expose people to public service announcemeents and then give them a survey to complete that indicates their level of support for helping people with each disease. Our study is a “deception study:” We are not explicitly telling participants that the potential public service announcements are racially framed. Instead, we are asking them to give us feedback on font, style, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you say would be 1-3 descriptors of who you are as a researcher\/scholar?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I’m an outlier. I very much appreciate the training in graduate school, but what I wanted to do has always been slightly off. One of the things I love about being at OWU is that I’m able to define who I am as a scholar in multiple ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are some ways you bring your scholarship into your classroom?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With my pedagogy collaborator, Dawn Chisebe<\/a>, one of the ways we emphaize a broader diversity is how we internationalze our curriculum and classrooms. Black and Brown are not a monolith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We put together workshops, walking folks through iterations of courses we have collaborated on and how we have shifted over the time. Our three primary pedagogical moves are these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n