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到从业人员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和决定是否遵守这些风险沟通信息。 随着这些变化，灾害传播学也必须适应和进步。 这导致了对跨学科传播学者的需求日益增长，以告知彼此的研究，其结果很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。通过将学者和从业者聚集在一起讨论新兴理论，突破性方法和重要的研究问题，我们有潜力改变风险沟通学术和实践的未来。 这些成果包括：建立一个关于灾害和危机通信的公共在线研究资料库;在《自然灾害观察家》上发表应邀评论，并在同行评审的学术期刊上发表文章;确定和制定灾害通信研究议程，以推动国家公共警报和危机通信的未来。这笔赠款提供资金举办一个研讨会，这将汇集全国领先的学者和专家在风险，危机和灾害通信，以确定理论方向，方法和创新的差距和交叉点，并优先考虑未来的研究需求。 在为期两天的课程中，学者们将确定并讨论各自学科中的前沿理论问题，这些问题有助于了解对灾害警报和危机和风险沟通的社会和行为反应;用于进行数据收集和分析的前沿方法;以及关于警告、风险、以及灾害中的危机通信，这些通信可能会产生实际的见解，从而减少灾害中的损失并提高人类安全。

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.