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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
National Science Foundation,NSF 06-595, #0809470Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT): IntuitiveToxicology and Public Engagement
Information adapted from White Paper:
Communicating Risk in the 21st Century
David M. Berube with Brenton Faber, Dietram Scheufele and Christopher Cummings, Grant Gardner, Kelly Martin and Nicholas Temple
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
Public participates in 3 acts:
consumption, productionand sharing (Shirky, 2008)
Comparable accuracy of Wikipedia to The Encyclopedia Britannica for articles on scientific subjects (Nature, Giles, 2005).
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
In 2005:• 6 % of entire U.S. population had created a blog
•16 % regularly were reading blogs
• Nearly a quarter of Americans (23 percent) say they regularly or sometimes read blogs about politics or current events (PEW, 2008)
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
Days after 9/11 (Lanfield, 2002)• Half of internet users experienced problems accessing traditional news sites
• Accessed: alternative news sites, international news sites, government and NGO websites (Red Cross)
• Citizens posted personal accounts, photographs, and video footage of the tragedy
• Journalists participated in internet chat rooms & online bulletin boards looking for eyewitness accounts
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
Internet: information flows faster, covers more
sources and more accessible (Krimsky, 2007)
Traditional media might amplify a message, digital media provides opportunity to attenuate a message
Opportunities for risk communicators
1)False or exaggerated info, communicated to public before experts can communicate views
2)Risk communicators have same opportunity to communicate quickly and effectively to the public
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
Conclusions
• Make proactive efforts to re-frame messages through various forms of media—traditional and digital
• Need to consider using untraditional venues• entertaining docudramas, social
networking sites podcasts, blogs and internet portals.
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Communicating Risk:Amplification, Attenuation & Digital Media
Thank you!
Kelly Martin