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 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 2021 ICRCC Proceedings Table of Contents

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Practitioners

These proceedings are a representative sample of the presentations given by professional practitioners and academic scholars at the 2021 International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference (ICRCC) held virtually March 8-10, 2021. The goal of the ICRCC is to bring together prominent professional risk and crisis communication practitioners and academic scholars from around the world to spend a few days networking and engaging in conversation about issues and problems related to risk and crisis communication in a variety of contexts (e.g., natural disasters, political crises, food safety issues, biosecurity, health epidemics and pandemics).

scholarly journals When Crises Change the Game: Establishing a Typology of Sports-Related Crises

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
Natalie Brown-Devlin ◽  
Kenon Brown
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Comprehensive List

In order to properly evaluate crises that occur in sports, scholars have previously called for a sports-specific crisis communication typology (Wilson, Stavros, & Westberg, 2010). Two studies were conducted to develop the resulting typology. Study 1 utilized a questionnaire to obtain a comprehensive list of sports-related crises that were later grouped into twelve crisis types and three unique clusters through the use of qualitative content analysis. Study 2 utilized a questionnaire completed by 282 college students to determine the levels of crisis responsibility attributed to each cluster of crises. The resulting typology provides the necessary foundation for crisis communication research that uses sports as a context by evaluating the level of organizational blame that exists when a crisis occurs.

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