Crisis Communication Research In The United States

Keywords

Crisis stages; Image repair; Mindfulness; News framing; Public relations; Sociology of disaster; Warning

Abstract

Crisis communication research in the United States (US) is multidisciplinary and expansive. This chapter summarizes US crisis communication research through the identification of six primary research streams: public relations, sociology of disaster, crisis occurrence, crisis development, crisis management, and mediating crises. Within these research streams, we explore concepts such as image repair, warnings, failures in foresight, stages through which crises evolve, mindfulness, and news framing. Each model, theory, or concept helps to explain the complexity and simultaneous order of a crisis event. Although US crises vary widely, the streams of research provide a sense pattern to the communication that occurs before, during, and after their onset.

Publication Date

4-22-2016

Publication Title

The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research

Number of Pages

422-433

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118516812.ch38

Socpus ID

85026300347 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85026300347

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