Workshop: Disaster Communication Redesigned

灾害性质的快速变化和通信技术创新的惊人步伐不可避免地影响到从业者如何在灾害的整个生命周期中进行沟通，以及公众如何寻找信息并就是否坚持这些风险沟通信息做出决定。随着这些变化，灾难传播学术也必须适应和进步。这导致了对专注于跨学科传播的学者相互提供研究信息的需求日益增长，这些研究的结果可能会产生高度实用的结果，从而改变我们现在所知的灾难、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的理论、突破性的方法和重要的研究问题，我们有可能改变风险沟通理论和实践的未来。这些成果包括开发一个关于灾害和危机传播的公共在线研究储存库；在《自然灾害观察家》上发表邀请评论并在同行评议的学术期刊上发表文章；确定和制定关于灾害传播的研究议程，以推动国家公共警告和危机传播的未来。这笔赠款提供了举办研讨会的资金，研讨会将汇集美国在风险、危机和灾难传播方面的领先学者和专家，以确定理论方向、方法和创新方面的差距和交叉点，并确定未来的研究需求的优先顺序。在为期两天的课程中，学者们将确定并讨论各自学科中有助于了解灾害预警和危机与风险沟通的社会和行为反应的前沿理论问题；用于进行数据收集和分析的尖端方法；以及有关灾害中的预警、风险和危机沟通的主要科学研究问题，这些问题可能会产生实用的见解，从而减少灾害中的损失并增强人类的安全。

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.