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.
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Glyphosate is the world’s most used and controversially debated herbicide. Its approval in the European Union (EU) is expiring in 2022. At the time of its last approval procedures in the EU in 2016/2017, there was a heated public debate in Germany about the carcinogenic risk of glyphosate. In this context, the Munich Environmental Institute published a study which concluded there were chemical residues of glyphosate in the 14 most-popular German beers. In this article, I analyze the “Gift im Bier” (poison in beer) case by examining central stakeholders’ reactions using a message-centered approach for risk communication and reflect on culturally-rooted messages, including the use of humor, within risk communication. Ultimately, I will argue for a contextsensitive and message-centered approach to risk communication analysis.
{"title":"Gift im Bier: A Context-sensitive Analysis of Culturally-rooted Messages and Humor in Risk Communication on Glyphosate in Germany","authors":"Martha Kuhnhenn","doi":"10.30658//jicrcr.4.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30658//jicrcr.4.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"Glyphosate is the world’s most used and controversially debated herbicide. Its approval in the European Union (EU) is expiring in 2022. At the time of its last approval procedures in the EU in 2016/2017, there was a heated public debate in Germany about the carcinogenic risk of glyphosate. In this context, the Munich Environmental Institute published a study which concluded there were chemical residues of glyphosate in the 14 most-popular German beers. In this article, I analyze the “Gift im Bier” (poison in beer) case by examining central stakeholders’ reactions using a message-centered approach for risk communication and reflect on culturally-rooted messages, including the use of humor, within risk communication. Ultimately, I will argue for a contextsensitive and message-centered approach to risk communication analysis.","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47372893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aims to investigate how situationally motivated publics respond to misinformation in the context of the Yemeni refugee issue in South Korea. In particular, this study examined how situational motivation in problem-solving on the issue is associated with belief in misinformation and active communication behaviors in the framework of situation theory of problem-solving (STOPS). The results of this study showed that individuals with a high level of situational motivation are more likely to believe misinformation on a given issue. In addition, the result found that belief in misinformation mediates between situational motivation in problem-solving and information forwarding. The results of this study contribute to government crisis management dealing with refugee issues.
{"title":"Misinformation and Government Crisis Management in South Korea: Understanding Active Publics’ Belief in Misinformation about the Yemeni Refugee Issue and Its Effect on Active Communication Behaviors","authors":"Myoung‐Gi Chon, Katie Haejung Kim","doi":"10.30658/jicrcr.4.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.4.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate how situationally motivated publics respond to misinformation in the context of the Yemeni refugee issue in South Korea. In particular, this study examined how situational motivation in problem-solving on the issue is associated with belief in misinformation and active communication behaviors in the framework of situation theory of problem-solving (STOPS). The results of this study showed that individuals with a high level of situational motivation are more likely to believe misinformation on a given issue. In addition, the result found that belief in misinformation mediates between situational motivation in problem-solving and information forwarding. The results of this study contribute to government crisis management dealing with refugee issues.","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44837749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Youngji Seo, Silvia Ravazzani, Hyoyeun Jun, Yan Jin, Alfonsa Butera, Alessandra Mazze, B. Reber
How individuals experience unintended effects of risk messages is an understudied area. Focusing on three types of unintended effects (i.e., message fatigue, risk tolerance, and psychological reactance) associated with health risk communication, we conducted an online survey among Italian adults (N = 507) to investigate how perceived message fatigue and risk tolerance might induce psychological reactance and whether trust in public health information might mediate this relationship. Results from mediation models revealed: (a) greater message fatigue and risk tolerance increased psychological reactance; (b) greater message fatigue and risk tolerance led to distrust in government-shared health information; (c) trust in public health information mediated the effects of message fatigue and risk tolerance on psychological reactance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
{"title":"Unintended Effects of Risk Communication: Impacts of Message Fatigue, Risk Tolerance, and Trust in Public Health Information on Psychological Reactance","authors":"Youngji Seo, Silvia Ravazzani, Hyoyeun Jun, Yan Jin, Alfonsa Butera, Alessandra Mazze, B. Reber","doi":"10.30658/jicrcr.4.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.4.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"How individuals experience unintended effects of risk messages is an understudied area. Focusing on three types of unintended effects (i.e., message fatigue, risk tolerance, and psychological reactance) associated with health risk communication, we conducted an online survey among Italian adults (N = 507) to investigate how perceived message fatigue and risk tolerance might induce psychological reactance and whether trust in public health information might mediate this relationship. Results from mediation models revealed: (a) greater message fatigue and risk tolerance increased psychological reactance; (b) greater message fatigue and risk tolerance led to distrust in government-shared health information; (c) trust in public health information mediated the effects of message fatigue and risk tolerance on psychological reactance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47823319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on COVID-19","authors":"","doi":"10.30658/jicrcr.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43327437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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.
{"title":"Editor’s Essay: Moving beyond Western Corporate Perspectives: On the Need to Increase the Diversity of Risk and Crisis Communication Research","authors":"A. Diers-Lawson, F. Meissner","doi":"10.30658/JICRCR.4.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30658/JICRCR.4.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49418786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-25DOI: 10.31907/2617-121x.2020.04.01.4
G. Ahamer
In the face of globalization, the question arises if educational and didactic strategies based on selfresponsibility and self-motivation can be easily transposed to other countries, in order to prevent international crises at an early stage by means of communication of opposing standpoints. This chapter reflects experiences made at the Moscow-based Lomonosov University during a period of guest-lecturing in 2019, and analyses the response encountered from local students. Within three courses, namely on “Climate Change and Climate Models”, “European Cooperation” and a “Dissertation Seminar on Globalization”, response of students to requirements of self-directed learning, study, and analysis was predominantly poor and weak. The hypothesis is provided that student activity rates are generally couched in a society’s overall inclination to take civic responsibility versus perceiving the self as a victim of outside, hostile forces. As a background to such comparison, the developmental “Global Studies” (GS) curriculum at Graz University, Austria is taken as an example for a transdisciplinary approach and quality monitoring based on QA criteria. Such criteria are developed in the present article.
{"title":"Can Self-Responsible Education be Transposed into other Cultural Frames?","authors":"G. Ahamer","doi":"10.31907/2617-121x.2020.04.01.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31907/2617-121x.2020.04.01.4","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of globalization, the question arises if educational and didactic strategies based on selfresponsibility and self-motivation can be easily transposed to other countries, in order to prevent international crises at an early stage by means of communication of opposing standpoints. This chapter reflects experiences made at the Moscow-based Lomonosov University during a period of guest-lecturing in 2019, and analyses the response encountered from local students. Within three courses, namely on “Climate Change and Climate Models”, “European Cooperation” and a “Dissertation Seminar on Globalization”, response of students to requirements of self-directed learning, study, and analysis was predominantly poor and weak. The hypothesis is provided that student activity rates are generally couched in a society’s overall inclination to take civic responsibility versus perceiving the self as a victim of outside, hostile forces. As a background to such comparison, the developmental “Global Studies” (GS) curriculum at Graz University, Austria is taken as an example for a transdisciplinary approach and quality monitoring based on QA criteria. Such criteria are developed in the present article.","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83229612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-24DOI: 10.1515/9783110554236-002
{"title":"2. A brief history of crisis management and crisis communication: From organizational practice to academic discipline","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110554236-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110554236-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81602536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-24DOI: 10.1515/9783110554236-003
{"title":"3. Reframing the field: Public crisis management, political crisis management, and corporate crisis management","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110554236-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110554236-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79838462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-24DOI: 10.1515/9783110554236-026
{"title":"26. Intercultural and multicultural approaches to crisis communication","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110554236-026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110554236-026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88940488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}