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“Our case study of a statewide homelessness initiative shows how "vertical resource dependency" can stall shared leadership, limit collective action, & trap groups in a vicious cycle,” Dr. Woo noted. The article describes how leaders can support more balanced partnerships to avoid these dynamics.

As tackling big social problems often requires multiple organizations to work together, sometimes with government funding, the authors provide practical ways leaders can communicate more effectively to support stronger, more balanced partnerships in resource-limited settings.

What happens when government funding dominates interorganizational collaboration? Read D piece “When resource dependency discourse dominates interorganizational collaboration: a case study of a statewide effort to end homelessness” by DaJung Woo & Tsu-Yi Chien at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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They explore how the 2024 Earth Connection Film Festival that screened 24 international films covering climate change through the lens of hope, connection, and responsibility. The report shares how the program was scientifically justified to achieve funding and the dev. of the festival…its outcome.

Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival Climate change is one of the major interconnected social crises related to human health and the environment we face today, and motivating public action is a pressing challenge within that. The 2024...

Interested in using film & media narratives as a vehicle for understanding and supporting social and behavioral change? See report “Mental models and enduring climate action: the Earth Connection Film Festival” by Jessica Eise, Amanda Camarillo & Sarah Lasley at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1....

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From recovery to preparedness: an examination of resources, individual disaster communication, and anticipatory resilience capacity during the 2023 U.S. tornado season Multi-phase research is needed to understand how disaster-impacted residents maintain and adapt individual disaster communication (IDC; Spialek & Houston, 2018; Spialek et al., 2021). Residents eng...

5. From recovery to preparedness: an examination of resources, individual disaster communication, and anticipatory resilience capacity during the 2023 U.S. #tornado season by Matthew L. Spialek & Scott E. Branton at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Facilitating social media engagement of missing persons posts: an application of the crisis and emergency risk communication model Guided by the crisis and emergency risk communication model (CERC), this two-part study identifies strategies law enforcement currently use to crowdsource missing person (MP) information, and exper...

4. Facilitating social media engagement of missing persons posts: an application of the crisis and emergency risk communication model by Cailin M. Kuchenbecker & Hannah Ball at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why it can be hard to warn people about dangers like floods – communication researchers explain the role of human behavior As flash floods ravage areas like the Texas Hill Country, research shows that technology alone cannot save lives during flooding emergencies.

3. Intercultural disaster communication and community #resilience: examining post-#hurricane communication in communities with limited English-speaking proficiency by Yaguang Zhu, Janet Yang, Keri Stephens & Lucinda Austin at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach Attention to public problems is increasingly being driven by data. Given that data is used as a communication tool, a lack of data may further exacerbate existing inequities when allocating public ...

2. Rectifying a #flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach by Keri K. Stephens, Samanta Varela Castro, Yifan Xu, Andrew Juan, Nicholas Diaz, Russell Blessing & Samuel D. Brody at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication When multiple types of disasters occur sequentially – a cascading disaster – certain adaptive capacities might become temporarily ineffective or invalid. Advancing an understanding of community res...

See recent research on communication in #disaster and #emergency preparedness and responses at JACR:
1. Community resilience in a cascading disaster: enacting a hybrid hyperlocal community of practices (HCoPs) through online/offline communication by… at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Communicating #Weather Warnings
Demonstrating the importance of public scholarship, scholars @kerikstephens.bsky.social and Hamilton Bean are sharing their crucial insights about communicating weather #warnings. Check out their article at The Conversation: theconversation.com/why-it-can-b...

Additionally, Dr. Riles is collaborating with Drs. Elizabeth (Lissa) Behm-Morawitz and Jesse Fox on an NCA Advancing the Discipline grant to host a series of mentoring workshops for early career scholars focused on emerging technology and equity. The workshops will be held in September.

Morrow, E., & Riles, J. M. (2025) explored how news coverage of police brutality can shape attributions based on victim race in Communication Quarterly. Read the article at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Disparate Prosocial Implications of Ongoing Entertainment Health Media Exposure: A Multi-Malady Stigma Communication Comparison Entertainment media is observed to influence perceptions toward those managing major health conditions. In this study, a U.S. representative sample Qualtrics survey (N = 599) is conducted to how ro...

Riles, J. M., Davis, W. M., & Cen, X. (2024) examined how entertainment health media exposure influences stigma perceptions across various health conditions in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Read the article at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Update from the JACR Team

Associate Editor Julius Matthew Riles continues to make impactful scholarly contributions to the field of communication research. He recently co-authored three publications exploring #Media effects and #communication in #health and #justice contexts:

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“Facilitators’ support can provide young #migrants with the opportunity of formulating recommendations about future #policies that respond to their needs, during labs with experts and #policymakers,” Dr. Baraldi indicated.

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The article focuses on promoting public participation by #migrant youths in #Italy. The authors investigated a #European project that implemented Policy Labs in six cities with the aim of supporting migrants' participation in enhancing local policy-making.

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Facilitation of young migrants’ agency in policy lab meeting interactions: a case analysis in an Italian city Policy Labs are initiatives promoted to improve citizens' participation in the elaboration of institutional policies on specific themes. Policy labs involve the collaboration of interested citizens...

Check out JACR online first article, “Facilitation of young migrants’ agency in policy lab meeting interactions: a case analysis in an Italian city” by Claudio Baraldi & Antonella Capalbi at www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1....

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“Organizational consent isn’t a checkbox—it’s a lived, negotiated process,” emphasized Dr. Zanin.

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The following are practical tips for organizations implementing consent policy:
Schedule regular discussion of the policy
Include independent reporting channels
Treat dissent—especially from marginalized members—as diagnostic, not disruptive
Revisit & revise policy collaboratively and anonymously

Using Structurating Activity Theory (SAT), they examine how members negotiated contradictions as a result of a seemingly collaborative consent policy. The key takeaway from this article is: Organizational consent policies don't resolve structural contradictions—they often surface them.

We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation This case study describes how members of a dance production negotiated organizational consent by documenting the collaborative implementation of a ‘consent contract.’ This contract functioned as po...

What happens when a consent contract is introduced in a dance production?
Read Alaina C. Zanin, Carrisa S. Hoelscher and Sarah Wilcoxon piece titled “We created the policy, so we don’t need to use it: a qualitative case study of consent policy implementation” at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please contact the Editor, Heather Zoller, at heather.zoller@uc.edu with questions.

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Development of evidence-based tools using human-centered design to promote #PrEP uptake for young men who have sex with men of color by Allysha C. Maragh-Bass, Amanda Ribas Rietti Souto, Ese Aikhuele, Elizabeth E. Tolley, Maria Esposito, Crissi Rainer, Henna Budhwani,….

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