scholarly journals Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
International Crisis

scholarly journals Special Issue Editor’s Essay: Advancing Public Health Crisis and Risk Theory and Practice via Innovative and Inclusive Research on COVID-19 Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Yan Jin ◽  
Sung In Choi ◽  
Audra Diers-Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Global Threat

For more than a year the world has tried to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue of the Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (JICRCR) provides an expert evaluation of how different countries have responded to this global threat. As the pandemic has fundamentally affected most of our lives in a multitude of ways, lessons learned and insights gained from innovative and inclusive research have also advanced theory and practice in public health crisis and risk communication.

scholarly journals Answering the Call for Scholarship: The Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Seeger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Multiple Methods ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Crisis Events ◽  
Wide Range

Crisis events have the potential to create broad impacts across a variety of contexts and require multi-disciplinary approaches to understand the causes and consequences. Communication is instrumental to both the understanding and the management of risks and crises and needs to be systematically examined within these contexts. The Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research is designed to be an outlet for multi-disciplinary inquiry of communication phenomena within a wide range of crises and risks using multiple methods and perspectives.

scholarly journals Editor's Essay: The Critical Need for Crisis and Risk Communication Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
International Crisis

Risk and crisis communication are growing areas of scholarship ripe for multidisciplinary contributions. In this essay, the Volume 2 editor reflects on the primary purpose of the Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research and the areas of scholarship the journal promotes. The editor offers advice for researchers and professionals interested in publishing in the journal. Additionally, the editor calls for the community to continue to submit their best research and to support the development of the next generation of risk and crisis communication scholars.

scholarly journals Editor’s Essay: Moving beyond Western Corporate Perspectives: On the Need to Increase the Diversity of Risk and Crisis Communication Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Audra Diers-Lawson ◽  
Florian Meißner
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Organizational Crises ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Blind Spots

The field of crisis and risk communication research has experienced significant growth and increasing institutionalization in the past decades. However, there are still geographic and perspective blind spots. Up to date, by far the most research focuses on the U.S.; non-Western perspectives remain marginal. Moreover, the focus on organizational crises still clearly dominates. We therefore call for more research better reflecting the global environment and diverse crisis and risk contexts in which our field can make contributions. This argument is supported by the current pandemic mandating cross-cultural and multi-perspective approaches.

scholarly journals Editor’s Essay: The Multi-Disciplinary and Diverse Field of Crisis and Risk Communication Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-450
Author(s):  
Audra Diers-Lawson ◽  
Florian Meissner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Common Perception

The field of crisis and risk communication research has always been multidisciplinary bringing together researchers from many fields like business, public relations, political science, sociology, psychology, journalism, tourism, and public health. However, there is often a common perception outside the fields of crisis communication that is a corporate discipline focused mostly on helping organizations manage their reputations. As the pieces in this issue demonstrate, our field serves the public interest in many ways and is a growing global field of study.

scholarly journals Risk Communication

Communication ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Ruhrmann ◽  
Lars Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
General Public ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
The Media

Many natural disasters and industrial accidents are not unforeseen; in many cases, scientists and other experts have conducted analyses and communicated the potential risks in advance. When a disaster does occur, journalists and the media react immediately. Politicians and administrators, spurred by this media coverage, then begin to work to change laws and regulations. Finally, representatives from the business sector not only change production processes and products but also invest in new research and public relations: this is done to shape media coverage in the event of another accident or disaster and to inform the public and reach acceptance of risks and uncertainty. A theory of risk communication, however, is only beginning to develop. The term risk communication appeared for the first time in the mid-1980s, as an interdisciplinary field bringing together a wide array of disciplines: economics, sociology, psychology, and communication research (Jungermann, et al. 1988; Lundgreen and McKaien 2013, cited under Communication about Risks). Analyses dealing with risk communication describe and explain (1) what persons communicate in what ways about risks, (2) how the mass media covers risks, and (3) what influences the way the general public receives, understands, and uses risk-related information. Based in the United States and beginning in the late 1960s—and supported by several major industrial accidents (e.g., the Bhopal gas leak and the Chernobyl [see Chernousenko 1991] and the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdowns)—a scientific and political controversy was ignited. Key issues were (1) how experts perceive and assess risks; (2) how journalists, the media, and the general public perceive and evaluate risks based on expert opinion; and (3) if a dialogue between experts and non-experts would result in more acceptance toward the undesirable but inevitable consequences of risks. Risk communication research explores the general public’s concerns regarding important scientific findings, technological innovations, and their social consequences, as well as the skepticism of experts, journalists, and information recipients toward uncertain consequences of technological innovations. These forces can be seen both in media coverage about science and in public-relations materials. Risk communication research emphasizes that basic research and innovations are associated with risks but that these risks are necessary to increase wealth and knowledge.

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