Evaluating Emergency Risk Communications: A Dialogue With the Experts

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5S-12S ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig W. Thomas ◽  
Marsha L. Vanderford ◽  
Sandra Crouse Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
Standards Of Evidence ◽  
Risk Communications ◽  
Usual Evaluation

Evaluating emergency risk communications is fraught with challenges since communication can be approached from both a systemic and programmatic level. Therefore, one must consider stakeholders' perspectives, effectiveness issues, standards of evidence and utility, and channels of influence (e.g., mass media and law enforcement). Evaluation issues related to timing, evaluation questions, methods, measures, and accountability are raised in this dialogue with emergency risk communication specialists. Besides the usual evaluation competencies, evaluators in this area need to understand and work collaboratively with stakeholders and be attuned to the dynamic contextual nature of emergency risk communications. Sample resources and measures are provided here to aid in this emerging and exciting field of evaluation.

An International Perspective on Risk Communications: Adapting to Safety Demands in the Emerging Global Economy

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (20) ◽  
pp. 1403-1405
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kalsher ◽  
Freija van Duijne
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Discussion Session ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Risk Communications ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
General Topic ◽  
New Research

The purpose of this session is to explore alternative ways of thinking about risk communication in an effort to spark new research that will be responsive to the increasingly complex safety demands of the new millennium in a rapidly shrinking world. To accomplish these objectives, we have assembled a group of international scholars and practitioners who have published and/or worked extensively in the general topic area. One feature of this panel discussion session that is unique is that each participant will present data relevant to a particular set of risk communication issues in their respective countries. A synopsis of this work is outlined in the summary that follows.

Risky Jews

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Roy Schwartzman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
Nazi Era ◽  
Interpretive Frames

Focusing on many previously untranslated articles in popular national magazines and newspapers, as well as works by prominent racial theorists, this chapter traces how outrage was systematically fomented against Jews in Nazi-era Germany, creating perceived imperatives for drastic discriminatory measures. Rather than locate the core of Nazi antisemitism in historical or psychological factors, this study approaches antisemitism using the theoretical framework of risk communication. The heuristics of risk perception reveal an array of rhetorical tactics that fomented visceral aversion impervious to logical refutation. Portraying Jews as embodying maximal and uncontrollable risk, political, academic, and mass media discourse converged on the theme of Jews as posing unacceptable dangers that required progressively more drastic measures to control. The principles of risk communication, especially the means of inflaming outrage, could furnish useful interpretive frames for analyzing current antisemitism and other types of repressive discourse.

Satanic Ritual Abuse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Ritual Abuse ◽  
Systematic Survey ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Satanic Panic ◽  
New Religion

The notion of an international Satanist conspiracy became prominent during the so-called Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) scare. This scare—also referred to as the ‘Satanic Panic’—peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these years, significant segments of the law enforcement community and numerous therapists believed in the existence of a vast, underground network of evil Satanic cults sacrificing and abusing children. Less responsible members of the mass media avidly promoted the idea as an easy way of selling copy and increasing ratings. Although the Satanism scare did not involve an empirically-existing new religion, it shared many themes with the cult controversy. Anti-cultists, for example, jumped on the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) bandwagon as a way of promoting their own agenda, and NRM scholars spear-headed the academic analysis of the scare. In “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” James R. Lewis presents a systematic survey of this phenomenon.

scholarly journals On the Administrative Liability for the Violation of the Procedure for Operations of Foreign Mass Media Acting as a Foreign Agent

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Natalya G. Kanunnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
Foreign Agent ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Legal Provision ◽  
The Law

The article studies the problems of the administrative liability for the violation of the procedure for operations of foreign mass media and a Russian legal entity incorporated by such mass media, both acting as a foreign agent. The author analyzes legal requirements for the organization and carrying out of such activities, the law enforcement practice, brings forward proposals for the amendment of the administrative legal provision in terms of toughening of the liability for a repeated and severe violation of the procedure for functioning of foreign mass media and a Russian legal entity incorporated by such mass media, both acting as a foreign agent.

scholarly journals COVID-19 lockdown controls and human rights abuses: the socioeconomic and social marketing implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Ben Odigbo ◽  
Felix Eze ◽  
Rose Odigbo ◽  
Joshua Kajang
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Reproducible Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Human Rights Abuses

Background: This work is a situation analysis of reported human rights abuses that have characterized the COVID-19 controls and lockdown in some countries of the world. This is as documented by reliable mass media sources, relevant international organizations and human rights non-governmental organizations between January 2020 to April 2020. Methods: A combined content analysis, critical analysis, and doctrinal method is applied in this study in line with the reproducible research process. It is a secondary-data-based situation analysis study, conducted through a qualitative research approach. Findings: The findings revealed among other things that: COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews’ enforcement by law enforcement officers contravened some peoples’ fundamental human rights within the first month. Security forces employed overt and immoderate forces to implement the orders. The lockdown and curfew enforcements were not significantly respectful of human life and human dignity. The COVID-19 emergency declarations in some countries were discriminatory against minorities and vulnerable groups in some countries. Research limitations/implications: This report is based on data from investigative journalism and opinions of the United Nations and international human rights organizations, and not on police investigations or reports. The implication of the study is that if social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes were given to the law enforcement officers implementing the COVID-19 lockdowns and or curfews, the human rights and humanitarian rights breaches witnessed would have been avoided or drastically minimized. Originality: The originality of this review is that it is the first to undertake a situation analysis of the COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews human rights abuses in some countries. The study portrayed the poor level of social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes amongst law enforcement officers, culminating in the frosty police-public relationships.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK YANG MENJADI KORBAN TINDAK PIDANA DI WILAYAH HUKUM PENGADILAN NEGERI BANYUMAS

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haryanto Dwiatmodjo
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
District Court ◽  
Real Form ◽  
Law Enforcement Agency ◽  
Implementation Costs ◽  
Victims Of Crime

Forms of legal protection of children as victims of crime in the jurisdiction of the District Court of Banyumas on the level of investigation in the Police with given rehabilitation. At the level Prosecutor's just no real form of protection for victim.  Who's in Court level there are two forms of protection, the first form of protection of identity in the mass media coverage to avoid labeling, and second with the provision of safety guarantees. Realization of the protection of children who are victims of crime has not been up to since the rights of victims, get rehabilitation, compensation, and restitution difficult to manage their funds because there is confusion of the law enforcement agency where the source of funds to be allocated. Barriers to the very fundamentals of the implementation of child protection as a victim was the absence of implementation costs to maximize protection. Keywords: Legal protection, children, victims  

scholarly journals KEKERASAN DALAM MEDIA MASSA SEBAGAI CONTOH BENTUK PENDIDIKAN DISKRIMINATIF TERHADAP PEREMPUAN

EGALITA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hj. Elfi Mu’awanah, M.Pd
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Real Solution

Violence on mass media is one short of discrimination towards women. It shows the fact that violence which are mostly women experiencing needs real solution such as gender issues and regulation on domestic violence socialization. Government plays important part in reducing the rate of domestic violence  that are presented in mass media lately in terms of law enforcement. It is also  crucial that all people are aware of this issue  if they become the victims report to institution or person who is in charge with domestic violence case.

The Law of the Russian Federation “On Mass Media”: innovation, trends, perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Mikhail Fedotov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Media Law ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Communications Law ◽  
The Law

The article is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Russian Mass Media Law, adopted on December 27, 1991. This Law is proposed to be considered as innovative, which laid the foundation for a number of innovations in national legal science and legislative practice. Among these innovations are: the author’s nature of drafting, consolidation of the thesaurus of the Law in a separate article of the Law, the establishment of a cumulative liability mechanism, etc. Over the next three decades, the Law has undergone numerous changes that have predetermined law enforcement practice. The article analyzes the trends of the ongoing transformation: the expansion of the concept of abuse of freedom of the media, expansion of diversity of types of mass media, etc. As part of considering the future prospects of the Law, the need is revealed to bring it into terminological compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Civil and other codes, to eliminate legal and logical defects formed in the process of its creation and subsequent adjustment. The necessity of the Law transformation into the Mass Communications Law is substantiated.

Can risk communication in mass media improve compliance behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Tien Thanh ◽  
Le Thanh Tung
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Risk

PurposeDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, mass media play a vital role in containing the outbreak of the virus by quickly and effectively delivering risk communication messages to the public. This research examines the effects of risk communication exposure on public understanding and risk perception of COVID-19 and public compliance with health preventive measures.Design/methodology/approachData from Vietnam during COVID-19 social distancing and path analysis model are used for empirical analysis.FindingsThis analysis finds that exposure to risk communication in mass media encourages public compliance directly and indirectly through the mediating roles of public understanding and risk perception. Further investigations also find that exposure to risk communication in both online media and traditional media facilitates public compliance. In addition, exposure to risk communication in online media only raises public risk perception, whereas exposure to risk communication in traditional media only raises public understanding.Research limitations/implicationsThis research implies that traditional and online media should be combined to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of government risk communication work.Originality/valueThis research is among the first attempts that examine the role of mass media (both traditional and online) in enhancing public compliance with preventive measures directly and indirectly through the mediating roles of public risk perception and understanding.

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