The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication
The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication
Editor/Author
Cho, Hyunyi, Reimer, Torsten and McComas, Katherine A.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Single-User Purchase Price:
$231.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$346.50
ISBN: 978-1-4522-5868-3
Category: Social Sciences - Media & Communications
Image Count:
13
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the fields 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.
Table of Contents
- 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
- 1. Risk Perception - Nicolai Bodemer and Wolfgang Gaissmaier
- 2. The Challenge of the Description–Experience Gap to the Communication of Risks - Ralph Hertwig and Renato Frey
- 3. The Feeling of Risk: Implications for Risk Perception and Communication - Stephan Dickert, Daniel Västfjäll, Robert Mauro, and Paul Slovic
- Section 2: Risk as Social Construction
- 4. Social Construction of Risk - Adam Burgess
- 5. The Role of News Media in the Social Amplification of Risk - Andrew R. Binder, Michael A. Cacciatore, Dietram A. Scheufele, and Dominique Brossard
- 6. Rhetoric of Risk - Robin E. Jensen
- PART II: COMPONENTS OF RISK COMMUNICATION
- Section 3: Models of Risk Communication
- 7. Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model - Sharon Dunwoody and Robert J. Griffin
- 8. The Societal Risk Reduction Motivation Model - Hyunyi Cho and Kai Kuang
- Section 4: Audiences of Risk Communication
- 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
- 10. Edgework and Risk Communication - Stephen Lyng, Thomas Workman, and G. H. Morris
- Section 5: Risk Communication Messages
- 11. Numeric Communication of Risk - Torsten Reimer, Christina Jones, and Christine Skubisz
- 12. Narrative Communication of Risk: Toward Balancing Accuracy and Acceptance - Hyunyi Cho and L. Brooke Friley
- 13. Visual Messaging and Risk Communication - Andy J. King
- Section 6: Risk Communication and the Media
- 14. Media Portrayal of Risk: The Social Production of News - Susanna Priest
- 15. Framing, the Media, and Risk Communication in Policy Debates - Matthew C. Nisbet
- 16. Social Media and Risk Communication - Stephen A. Rains, Steven R. Brunner, and Kyle Oman
- PART III: CONTEXTS OF RISK COMMUNICATION
- Section 7: Interpersonal Contexts of Risk Communication
- 17. Risk Communication in Provider–Patient Interactions - Carma L. Bylund, Erin Maloney, and Emily B. Peterson
- 18. Informed Consent - Z. Janet Yang
- Section 8: Organizational Contexts of Risk Communication
- 19. Risk Communication in Groups - Tillman Russell and Torsten Reimer
- 20. Crisis Communication - Timothy L. Sellnow
- Section 9: Risk Communication in the Public Sphere
- 21. Social Movements and Risk Communication - Hilary Schaffer Boudet and Shannon Elizabeth Bell
- 22. Public Engagement in Risk-Related Decision Making - John C. Besley
- Glossary
- Subject Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors