As emergencies continue to impact communities in the USA on an unprecedented scale, it is
imperative for communities to look for effective ways to keep people safe and reduce future …

News media are the public's primary source about risks such as climate change, but
traditional journalistic approaches to climate change have failed to build support for …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has witnessed the proliferation of a plethora of (mis) information
on various media platforms and inconsistent crisis instructions from different sources. People …

This chapter is structured into four sections to summarize theoretical frameworks currently
employed to study corporate social media use and discuss new ways forward to further …

This study examined individuals' information behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic. It
applied the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) and integrated the role of two …

This study explores the National Weather Service's communication through a multi-sited
rapid ethnography that extends the fully functioning society theory. National Weather Service …

To understand how individuals navigate the complex, dynamic, and bewildering media
information environment, we propose a convergence framework theorizing individuals' …

Large-scale infrastructure projects (LIPs) make significant contributions to the urban
development. However, the public acceptance of LIPs varied in terms of public attitudes and …

Understanding audiences' information-seeking behaviors during a societal crisis it vital for
effective crisis communication. Prior research has identified how individuals combine …

Although studies have argued the relationship of anger expressions with the satisfaction of
crisis response strategies in traditional studies, fewer studies had integrated large‐scale …