Böcker av Audra Diers-Lawson

This timely volume offers an international and cross-disciplinary examination of risk and crisis communication theory and practice in Europe.Placing the rapidly developing field of risk and crisis communication within the context of a Europe in flux - experiencing the amplification of the refugee crisis, Brexit, increasing terrorist attacks, a heightened awareness of the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic - a cross-continental team of experts explore these developments from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Drawing connections between culture, digital technology, identity, public health, politics and industry, the analysis offers a multitude of perspectives from across the continent and provides ways ahead for the field of risk and crisis communication.This exciting and innovative volume will interest scholars and students of risk and crisis communication, media studies, political communication, public relations, political studies and international relations.

This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda for those effects across the broad field of communication studies.Through contributions from experts in communication subdisciplines such as crisis, organizational, interpersonal, health, intergroup, and intercultural, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the emerging field of study "pandemic communication." Each chapter has four primary objectives to: (1) define critical issues for pandemic communication from its subdiscipline's perspective, (2) examine how communication varies during pandemic(s), (3) provide examples of how pandemic(s) havefor affected communication, and (4) propose a research agenda to build pandemic communication theory.This book is suited to undergraduate or post-graduate courses or modules in communication studies across a variety of subdisciplines as well as a reference for researchers in the subject.