Workshop: Disaster Communication Redesigned

灾害性质的迅速变化和通信技术创新的惊人步伐不可避免地影响了从业者在灾害整个生命周期中的沟通方式，以及公众如何寻求信息并决定是否遵守这些风险沟通信息。随着这些变化，灾害传播学术也必须适应和进步。这导致越来越多的跨学科传播学者需要相互交流研究成果，这些成果可能产生高度应用的结果，可以改变我们现在所知道的灾难、危机和风险传播的面貌。通过将学者和实践者聚集在一起讨论新兴理论，突破性方法和重要研究问题，我们有可能改变风险沟通学术和实践的未来。这些成果包括建立一个关于灾难和危机传播的公共在线研究库；在《自然灾害观察家》上发表特邀评论，并在同行评议的学术期刊上发表文章；确定并制定灾害通信的研究议程，以推进国家公共预警和危机通信的未来。该基金将为举办研讨会提供资金，该研讨会将汇集全国风险、危机和灾难通信领域的顶尖学者和专家，以确定理论方向、方法和创新方面的差距和交叉点，并优先考虑未来的研究需求。在两天的课程中，学者们将确定并讨论各自学科内的前沿理论问题，这些问题有助于了解对灾害预警、危机和风险沟通的社会和行为反应；采用最先进的方法收集和分析数据；关于灾害中的预警、风险和危机沟通的主要科学研究问题可能会产生实际的见解，从而减少灾害中的损失并增加人类的安全。

The rapidly changing nature of disasters and the staggering pace of communication technology innovation have an inevitable influence on how practitioners communicate across the life cycle of disasters and how the public seeks information and makes decisions on whether or not to adhere to these risk communication messages. With these changes, disaster communications scholarship must also adapt and progress. This has led to a growing need for cross-disciplinary communication-focused scholars to inform one another's research, the outcomes of which are likely to yield highly applied results that can change the face of disaster, crisis, and risk communications as we now know it. By bringing together scholars and practitioners to discuss emerging theory, breakthrough methods, and vital research questions, we have the potential to transform the future of risk communication scholarship and practice. Such outcomes include developing a public, online research repository on disaster and crisis communication; publishing an invited comment in the Natural Hazards Observer and articles in peer reviewed academic journals; and identifying and developing a research agenda on disaster communications to advance the future of public warnings and crisis communication for the nation. This grant provides funding to hold a workshop, which will bring together the nation's leading scholars and experts in risk, crisis, and disaster communications, to identify gaps and intersections in theoretical orientations, methods and innovations, and prioritize research needs for the future. Over the course of two days, scholars will identify and discuss the cutting edge theoretical questions within their disciplines that contribute to knowledge about social and behavioral responses to disaster warnings and crisis and risk communication; the cutting edge methods used to conduct data collection and analysis; and the primary scientific research questions on warnings, risk, and crisis communications in disaster that are likely to yield practical insights that will reduce losses and increase human security in disaster.