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The Effects of Threat Type and Gain-Loss Framing on Publics’ Responses to Strategic Environmental Risk Communication

Sung In Choi (PhD candidate), Jingyu Zhang, and Yan Jin. (forthcoming). “The Effects of Threat Type and Gain-Loss Framing on Publics’ Responses to Strategic Environmental Risk Communication.” Corporate Communications: An […]

Pandemic influenza vaccines – Communication of benefits, risks, and uncertainties Glen Nowak

Abstract: Vaccines that would be recommended and offered in response to a novel influenza virus bring many communication challenges. This chapter identifies and describes some of the major issues that […]

Crisis Information Vetting in Social-Mediated Crisis and Risk Communication: A Conceptual Framework Yan Jin and Xuerong Lu The International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference, March 11-13, 2019, Orlando, FL.

Abstract: The proliferation of news sources and user-generated content, which is flooded by misinformation (Southwell, Thorson, & Sheble, 2018), present an urgent need for research that investigates audiences’ information consumption […]

The role of risk tolerance in the publics’ health risk perception and responses Hyoyeun Jun The International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference, March 11-13, 2019, Orlando, FL.

Abstract: To better understand how uncertainty influences publics’ risk perception and responses, this study introduced risk tolerance as a new concept to public relations literature and then investigated how publics […]

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