Assessing the Use of Explanatory Journalistic Texts for Crisis Communication Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/in	Chen, Sibo
Titel	Assessing the Use of Explanatory Journalistic Texts for Crisis Communication Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Communication Teacher, 36 (2022) 3, S.234-252 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chen, Sibo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-4622
DOI	10.1080/17404622.2021.1989004
Schlagwörter	Crisis Management; COVID-19; Pandemics; Communication (Thought Transfer); Communication Strategies; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Supplementary Reading Materials; Foreign Countries; Journal Articles; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Krisenmanagement; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Kommunikationsstrategie; Schülerverhalten; Reading materials; Lesekartei; Ausland; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Kanada
Abstract	The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic brings both challenges and opportunities to crisis communication education. This article reports on student perceptions of an upper-level undergraduate course on risk and crisis communication that was taught in the fall 2020 semester. The course syllabus was redesigned to assist students in better understanding pandemic-related communication challenges. For this purpose, I adopted explanatory journalistic texts published by The Conversation Canada as supplementary readings for weekly in-class discussions. I subsequently conducted a survey near the semester end to explore how the course attendees perceived the revised syllabus. According to the survey results, the course attendees overwhelmingly welcomed a crisis communication syllabus built around an ongoing crisis. They also expressed a strong preference for the adoption of explanatory journalistic texts as supplementary readings. Overall, this classroom assessment demonstrates the advantages of teaching crisis communication theories and principles through the combination of explanatory journalistic texts and real-world cases, which other communication courses may adopt in the future. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01