The influence of perceived shared risk in crisis communication: Elaborating the situational theory of publics

被引:42
作者
Aldoory, Linda [1 ]
Kim, Jeong-Nam [2 ]
Tindall, Natalie [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Maryland, Dept Commun, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[2] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[3] Georgia State Univ, Dept Commun, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
关键词
Crisis communication; Terrorism and news; Situational theory of publics; SOCIAL TRUST; PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; MEDIA; NEWS;
D O I
10.1016/j.pubrev.2009.12.002
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
The study explored whether perceived shared experience with a media portrayal could influence various cognitions-such as concern, sense of personal involvement, and desire to learn more that are important for behavior change. This research used the situational theory of publics in order to evaluate whether perceived shared risk is an antecedent to the factors leading to communication behavior. In general, the findings from this experiment supported the idea that shared risk experience with portrayals in news coverage has the potential to influence problem recognition, involvement recognition, and a new variable that combines information seeking and processing: that of information gaining. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:134 / 140
页数:7
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