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This book explores the connections between risk and
responsibilisation in official communication to the public about
the global risks of the pandemic and climate change. Our media
spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about
what we should or should not be doing to meet the challenges of the
COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Although the ability of risk
communication to ‘responsibilise’ the public is central to its
functioning in our societies, this aspect has so far been
under-investigated in academia. To address this lacuna, Antoinette
Fage-Butler develops a discursive approach to risk communication
that focuses on the values that are communicated in risk messages.
Examples of official risk communication about the pandemic and
climate change from national and transnational contexts are
analysed and compared, leading to new empirical findings and
theoretical insights about the nature of risk and
responsibilisation. Fage-Butler also builds on recent stirrings in
the evolving field of risk communication that highlight the
importance of cultural and value-related factors. Overall, this
book will equip researchers with an approach to risk communication
that reflects the complexity of today’s global risk challenges.
Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication will be of
great interest to students and scholars of risk communication,
public health and environmental studies.
This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for
knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of
professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary
approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes
constructivist and cognitivist perspectives. The volume seeks to
draw connections between different disciplines’ traditionally
disparate studies of knowledge communication, defined here as the
communication of domain knowledge between experts of the same
discipline, experts of different disciplines, or non-experts with
an interest in developing expert knowledge. Featuring work from
scholars across linguistics, corporate communication, and sociology
on diverse professional environments, chapters focus on one of
three central aspects in the communication of expert knowledge: the
textual carrier of the interaction, the roles and relationships
between parties in these interactions, and the contexts in which
the texts and communication occur. Taken together, the collection
elucidates the value of an approach that supposes that expertise is
co-created in interaction under the conditions of human cognitive
systems and that knowledge asymmetries can offer both challenges
and opportunities to better understand and generate new forms of
communication and specialized knowledge. This book will be of
interest to scholars interested in language and communication,
professional communication, organizational communication, and
sociology of knowledge.
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