Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment

ISBN-13: 9781032178813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 376 str.

H. Dan O'Hair

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Broadcast media has a particular interest with stories that involve risk and health crisis events - contexts where risk and health communication play a vital role. Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment addresses issues of risk and health communication with chapters that reflect state-of-the art discussion by

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Table of Contents

           Part I: Advances in Health Communication Research

　

1. Prelude: Advancing Media Research in Risk and Health Communication Contexts







H. Dan O’Hair





　









2. Media Literacy and Parent–Adolescent Communication About Alcohol in Media: Effects on Adolescent Alcohol Use







Michael Hecht, Michelle Miller-Day, and YoungJu Shin





　









3. College Students and Legalized Marijuana: Knowledge Gaps and Belief Gaps Regarding the Law and Health Effects







Douglas Blanks Hindman





　









4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind?: Addressing Unconscious Brand Awareness in Healthcare Communication







Laura Crosswell, Lance Porter, and Meghan Sanders





　









5. Communicating Health-Related Risk and Crisis in China: State of the Field and Ways Forward







Zixue Tai, Zhian Zhang, and Lifeng Deng





　





Part II: Communicating and Educating the Public and Media About Risk and Science





　









6. Risk Communication in Occupational Safety and Health: Reaching Diverse Audiences in an Evolving Communication Environment







Juliann C. Scholl, Donna M. Van Bogaert, Christy L. Forrester, and Thomas R. Cunningham





　









7. Best Practices of "Innovator" TV Meteorologists Who Act as Climate Science Educators







Katherine E. Rowan, John Kotcher, Jenell Walsh-Thomas, Paula K. Baldwin, Janey Trowbridge, Jagadish T. Thaker, H. Joe Witte, Barry A. Klinger, Ligia Cohen, Candice Tresch, and Edward W. Maibach





　









8. News Coverage of Cancer Research: Does Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty Enhance Credibility?







Chelsea L. Ratcliff, Jakob D. Jensen, Katheryn Christy, Kaylee Crossley, and Melinda Krakow





　









9. Evaluating Online Health Information Systems







Gary L. Kreps and Jordan Alpert





　





Part III: Situating Theory in Risk and Health Communication Contexts





　









10. Examining Print Coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline: Using the Social Amplification of Risk Framework







Michel M. Haigh





　









11. Terrorism, Risk Communication, and Pluralistic Inquiry







Kevin J. Macy-Ayotte





　









12. Communication Ethics for Risk, Crises, and Public Health Contexts







Shannon A. Bowen and Jo-Yun Li





　









13. Inoculation as a Risk and Health Communication Strategy in an Evolving Media Environment







Bobi Ivanov, Kimberly A. Parker, and Lindsay L. Dillingham





　





Part IV: Exploring Messages and Media During Extreme Events





　









14. First Alert Weather: Local Broadcasters' Communication During Weather Emergencies







Michael D. Bruce, Chandra Clark, and Scott Hodgson





　









15. It’s Not Preventable Yet You Are Responsible: Media's Risk and Attribution Assessment of the

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H. Dan O’Hair is Dean of the College of Communication and Information and Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD in communication from the University of Oklahoma. In 2006, he served as the president of the National Communication Association, the world’s largest and oldest professional association devoted to the study of communication. He has published over 100 research articles and scholarly chapters in risk and health communication, media management, and psychology journals and volumes, and has authored and edited 18 books in the areas of communication, risk management, health, and terrorism. He has been the principal investigator or Co-PI for several grants from business, nonprofit, and government institutions totaling more than $11 million. O’Hair has served on the editorial boards of over 30 research journals and is a past editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research. In April 2013, he was honored by the Broadcast Education Association with their Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship.