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Informationen zum Autor Hyunyi Cho (PhD, Michigan State University) is a professor of communication at Ohio State University Her program of research examines the effects of communication on judgments and actions relevant to environmental risk and health risk and the role of messages and the media in social change and behavior change processes. Torsten Reimer (PhD, Free University of Berlin) is an associate professor of communication and psychology at Purdue University. His research focuses on the role of communication in decision making, with the overarching goal of exploring how communication principles facilitate decision making by guiding information processing and reducing information overload. Katherine A. McComas (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how the processes of risk communication influence people's attitudes and behaviors, including how the perceived fairness of scientific authorities and risk managers influences individuals' concern about and acceptance of risk-generating activities. Klappentext In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field's leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis. Offering practical insights, the contributors consider risk communication in all contexts and applications-interpersonal, organizational, and societal-offering a wider view of risk communication than other volumes. Importantly, the handbook emphasizes the communication side of risk communication, providing integrative knowledge about the models, audiences, messages, and the media and channels necessary for effective risk communication that enables informed judgments and actions regarding risk. Editors Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine McComas have significantly contributed to the field of risk communication with this important reference work-a must-have for students, scholars, and risk and crisis communication professionals. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the field of risk communication. Leading experts summarize theory, research and practice in a range of disciplines and in relation to issues in diverse applied contexts including health, the environment, science, technology and crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Explicating Communication in Risk Communication - Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine A. McComas Part I: Foundations of Risk Communication Section 1: Risk Perceptions of Individuals Chapter 1: Risk Perception - Nicolai Bodemer and Wolfgang Gaissmaier Chapter 2: The Challenge of the Description-Experience Gap to the Communication of Risks - Ralph Hertwig and Renato Frey Chapter 3: The Feeling of Risk: Implications for Risk Perception and Communication - Stephan Dickert, Daniel Vastfjall, Robert Mauro, and Paul Slovic Section 2: Risk as Social Construction Chapter 4: Social Construction of Risk - Adam Burgess Chapter 5: The Role of News Media in the Social Amplification of Risk - Andrew R. Binder, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, and Dominique Brossard Chapter 6: Rhetoric of Risk - Robin E. Jensen Part II: Components of Risk Communication Section 3: Models of Risk Communication Chapter 7: Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model - Sharon Dunwoody and Robert J. Griffin Chapter 8: The Societal Risk Reduction Motivation Model - Hyunyi Cho and Kai Kuang Section 4: Audiences of Risk Communication Chapter 9: The Role of Numeracy in Risk Communication - Priscila G. Brust-Renck, Valerie F. Reyna, Jonathan C. Corbin, Caisa E. Royer, and Rebecca B. Weldon Chapter 10: Edgework and Risk Communication - Step...
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Hyunyi Cho (PhD, Michigan State University) is a professor of communication at Ohio State University Her program of research examines the effects of communication on judgments and actions relevant to environmental risk and health risk and the role of messages and the media in social change and behavior change processes.
Torsten Reimer (PhD, Free University of Berlin) is an associate professor of communication and psychology at Purdue University. His research focuses on the role of communication in decision making, with the overarching goal of exploring how communication principles facilitate decision making by guiding information processing and reducing information overload.
Katherine A. McComas (PhD, Cornell University) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research focuses on how the processes of risk communication influence people’s attitudes and behaviors, including how the perceived fairness of scientific authorities and risk managers influences individuals’ concern about and acceptance of risk-generating activities.
