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 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 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 Arts-Based Interventions for Professionals in Caring Roles During and After Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Havsteen-Franklin ◽  
Megan Tjasink ◽  
Jacqueline Winter Kottler ◽  
Claire Grant ◽  
Veena Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Practice Elements ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Crisis Events ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

Crisis events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can have a devastating effect on communities and the care professionals within them. Over recent years, arts-based interventions have helped in a wide range of crisis situations, being recommended to support the workforce during and after complex crisis but there has been no systematic review of the role of arts-based crisis interventions and whether there are cogent themes regarding practice elements and outcomes. We, therefore, conducted a systematic review to (i) define the arts-based change process used during and after crisis events, and (ii) explore the perceptions of intermediate and long-term mental health benefits of arts-based interventions for professionals in caring roles. Our search yielded six studies (all qualitative). All data were thematically aggregated and meta-synthesized, revealing seven practice elements (a safe place, focusing on strengths and protective factors, developing psychosocial competencies to support peers, emotional expression and processing, identifying and naming the impact of the crisis, using an integrative creative approach, and cultural and organizational sensitivity) applied across all six studies, as well as a range of intermediate and long-term benefits shared common features (adapting, growing, and recovering; using the community as a healing resource; reducing or preventing symptoms of stress or trauma reactions, psychophysiological homeostasis). The ways in which these studies were designed independently from one another and yet used the same practice elements in their crisis interventions indicates that there is comparability about how and why the arts-based practice elements are being used and to what effect. Our findings provide a sound basis and meaningful parameters for future research incorporating quantitative and qualitative approaches to firmly establish the effectiveness of art-based interventions, and how arts can support cultural sensitivity, acceptability and indicated outcomes, particularly those relating to stress and trauma during or following a crisis.

An evaluation of the effectiveness of travel advisories with a specific focus on Hong Kong’s outbound travel alert system

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Kee Fu Tsang ◽  
Ophelia Wong ◽  
Bruce Prideaux
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behaviour ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Foreign Travel ◽  
Crisis Events ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Depth Interviews

The key objective of this study was to develop a theory-based understanding of the role that travel advisories play in how tourists make decisions to travel to specific destinations. Many countries issue travel alerts to inform their citizens about potential risks when travelling abroad. The literature has largely ignored this area of travel research despite the potential for tourists to become embroiled in a wide range of crisis events during foreign travel. This study first examined users’ perspectives of Hong Kong’s Outbound Travel Alert system using a mix of focus groups and in-depth interviews. The study found that outbound tourists had a low level of awareness and knowledge of travel advisories and many respondents preferred alternative information sources such as the Internet, social media and commercial news channels. In comparison, representatives of travel agencies and insurance companies reported that the alert system was useful in the pursuit of their business but felt there were shortcomings that needed to be addressed. Based on these findings, a model incorporating elements of the theory of planned behaviour and the protection motivation theory was developed to assist in the assessment of travel advisory compliance intention.

The International Crisis Behavior Project

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Beardsley ◽  
Patrick James ◽  
Jonathan Wilkenfeld ◽  
Michael Brecher
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Short Term ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
Crisis Behavior

Over the course of more than four decades the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project, a major and ongoing data-gathering enterprise in the social sciences, has compiled data that continues to be accessed heavily in scholarship on conflict processes. ICB holdings consist of full-length qualitative case studies, along with an expanding range of quantitative data sets. Founded in 1975, the ICB Project is among the most visible and influential within the discipline of International Relations (IR). A wide range of studies based either primarily or in part on the ICB’s concepts and data have accumulated and cover subjects that include the causes, processes, and consequences of crises. The breadth of ICB’s contribution has expanded over time to go beyond a purely state-centric approach to include crisis-related activities of transnational actors across a range of categories. ICB also offers depth through, for example, potential resolution of contemporary debates about mediation in crises on the basis of nuanced findings about long- versus short-term impact with regard to conflict resolution.

scholarly journals An Evidence-Based Framework to Optimise Social Impact in Astronomy for Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (A29A) ◽  
pp. 385-389
Author(s):  
Eli Grant
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Education Delivery

AbstractAstronomy for development projects conceive of development in very broad terms and seek to affect a wide range of social outcomes. The histories of education, development economics and science communication research indicate that positive social impacts are often difficult to achieve. Without a scientific approach, astronomy's potential as a tool for development may never be realised nor recognised. Evidence-informed project design increases the chances of a project's success and likely impact while reducing the risk of unintended negative outcomes. The IAU Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) Impact Cycle is presented here as a possible framework for integrating evaluation and evidence-based practice in global Astronomy outreach and education delivery. The suggested framework offers a way to gradually accumulate knowledge about which approaches are effective and which are not, enabling the astronomy community to gradually increase its social impact by building on its successes.

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