@article{wilcox_damarin_mcdonald_2022, title={Is cybervetting valuable?}, volume={15}, ISSN={["1754-9434"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2022.28}, DOI={10.1017/iop.2022.28}, abstractNote={AbstractCybervetting is the widespread practice of employers culling information from social media and/or other internet sources to screen and select job candidates. Research evaluating online screening is still in its infancy; that which exists often assumes that it offers value and utility to employers as long as they can avoid discrimination claims. Given the increasing prevalence of cybervetting, it is extremely important to probe its challenges and limitations. We seek to initiate a discussion about the negative consequences of online screening and how they can be overcome. We draw on previous literature and our own data to assess the implications of cybervetting for three key stakeholders: job candidates, hiring agents, and organizations. We also discuss future actions these stakeholders can take to manage and ameliorate harmful outcomes of cybervetting. We argue that it is the responsibility of the organizations engaged in cybervetting to identify specific goals, develop formal policies and practices, and continuously evaluate outcomes so that negative societal consequences are minimized. Should they fail to do so, professional and industry associations as well as government can and should hold them accountable.}, number={3}, journal={INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY-PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE AND PRACTICE}, author={Wilcox, Annika and Damarin, Amanda K. and McDonald, Steve}, year={2022}, month={Sep}, pages={315–333} }
 @article{wilcox_mcdonald_benton_tomaskovic-devey_2022, title={Gender inequality in relational position-taking: An analysis of intra-organizational job mobility networks}, volume={101}, ISSN={["1096-0317"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102622}, abstractNote={We conceptualize within-organization job mobility as a position-taking process, arguing that the structure and outcome of claims over positions are characteristics of organizational inequality regimes. Drawing on data from 10 distribution centers from a large U.S. firm, we examine gendered job mobility as the observed network of workers moving among jobs. Results from network analysis and meta-regression reveal that in the firm examined, workers tend to move between jobs with similar gender compositions, that mobility lattices tend to be more ladder-like for male-concentrated jobs but more circuitous for female-concentrated jobs, and that there is less upward mobility overall in organizations with higher levels of wage inequality. Both organization level inequalities and the relationship between positions within organizations condition mobility. While we do not observe discursive claims on positions, we argue that these are the underlying mechanisms driving gendered job mobility.}, journal={SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH}, author={Wilcox, Annika and McDonald, Steve and Benton, Richard A. and Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald}, year={2022}, month={Jan} }
 @article{shriver_bray_wilcox_szabo_2021, title={Human Rights and Dissent in Hybrid Environments: The Impact of Shifting Rights Regimes}, volume={63}, ISSN={0038-0253 1533-8525}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2021.1909444}, DOI={10.1080/00380253.2021.1909444}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT Research indicates that social movements are shaped by increased opportunities and threats, yet this work rarely examines environments of intersecting opportunity and threat. This article extends the literature on political opportunity theory by explaining how shifting rights regimes influence the political context of movements. Specifically, we analyze how dissent in Communist Czechoslovakia responded to the expansion and contraction of rights across three political periods between 1948 and 1977. Our research delineates three key features of rights regimes and shows how variation across multiple scales creates “hybrid environments” of political opportunity and threat for social movements.}, number={3}, journal={The Sociological Quarterly}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Shriver, Thomas E. and Bray, Laura A. and Wilcox, Annika and Szabo, Adriana}, year={2021}, month={Apr}, pages={541–561} }
 @article{shriver_wilcox_bray_2020, title={Elite Cultural Work and Discursive Obstruction of Human Rights Activism}, volume={7}, ISSN={["2329-4973"]}, DOI={10.1177/2329496519870554}, abstractNote={When challenged, states frequently respond with discursive campaigns meant to undercut the legitimacy of social movements. However, we know little about how the social and cultural status of challengers affects the state’s discursive response. We address this gap by analyzing an important historical case of human rights activism in Communist Czechoslovakia. Despite its long history of violence and repression, Czechoslovakia signed several international human rights covenants during the 1970s to improve its reputation. A group of citizens that included well-known political, social, and cultural figures soon formed a domestic movement for human rights known as Charter 77. Drawing on state media articles, we analyze the state’s public response to Charter 77. Results highlight four discursive strategies through which the state sought to undermine the cultural legitimacy of the movement: vilification through character assaults, message distortion that constructed activists as enemies of socialism, symbolic amplification of socialist values, and the co-optation of culturally valued identities to speak as state proxies. By further developing the concept of discursive obstruction, we show how the state navigated the complex cultural field in its effort to suppress high-profile human rights activists.}, number={1}, journal={SOCIAL CURRENTS}, author={Shriver, Thomas E. and Wilcox, Annika and Bray, Laura A.}, year={2020}, month={Feb}, pages={11–28} }