Reinhold Ann Marie, Gore Ross J, Ezell Barry, Izurieta Clemente I, Shanahan Elizabeth A
Gianforte School of Computing, Montana State University Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, Bozeman, USA.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA.
J Homel Secur Emerg Manag. 2025 Feb 10;22(2):119-138. doi: 10.1515/jhsem-2023-0067. eCollection 2025 May.
Effective risk and crisis communication can improve health and safety and reduce harmful effects of hazards and disasters. A robust body of literature investigates mechanisms for improving risk and crisis communication. While effective risk and crisis communication strategies are equally desired across different hazard types (e.g., natural hazards, cyber security), the extent to which risk and crisis communication experts utilize the "lessons learned" from scientific domains outside their own is suspect. Therefore, we hypothesized that risk and crisis communication research is siloed according to academic disciplines at the detriment to the advancement of the field of risk communications research writ large. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating the disciplinarity of 5,078 published articles containing risk and crisis communication keywords using a combination of simple descriptive statistics, natural language processing, and hierarchical clustering. Finding that the risk communication research is siloed according to disciplinary lexicons, we present our findings as a call for convergence amongst our risk and crisis communication scholars to bridge across our silos. In so doing, we will increase our ability to affect transformative change in the efficacy of our risk and crises messages across myriad hazard types - from cyclones to cybersecurity.
有效的风险与危机沟通能够改善健康与安全状况，并减少灾害和灾难的有害影响。大量文献研究了改善风险与危机沟通的机制。虽然不同灾害类型（如自然灾害、网络安全）都同样需要有效的风险与危机沟通策略，但风险与危机沟通专家利用自身领域以外科学领域“经验教训”的程度却值得怀疑。因此，我们假设风险与危机沟通研究按学术学科划分成了一个个孤立的领域，这不利于整个风险沟通研究领域的发展。我们通过结合简单描述性统计、自然语言处理和层次聚类，评估了5078篇包含风险与危机沟通关键词的已发表文章的学科性，以此来验证这一假设。发现风险沟通研究依据学科词汇划分成了一个个孤立的领域后，我们将研究结果呈现出来，呼吁风险与危机沟通领域的学者汇聚起来，跨越这些孤立的领域。这样做，我们将增强自身能力，从而在从飓风到网络安全等无数灾害类型中，让我们的风险与危机信息在效力上实现变革性改变。
