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Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Journalists have increasingly used bioethicists as expert sources in stories on science, medicine, and technology with strong ethical ramifications. Yet little is known about how and why journalists select bioethicists as expert sources, which...
Conflict positioning in crisis communication : integrating contingency stance with image repair strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
defined as positioning the organization "favorably in anticipation of conflicts" (Wilcox & Cameron, 2005, p. 244). This, Cameron argued, is the culmination of sound pre-crisis preparations, like environmental scanning, issues tracking, issues management...
Tainted gift? : harmful effects of a bad profit company's corporate social responsibility activity on the associated good nonprofit organization's future
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Using structural equation modeling, this study tested the effectiveness of two communication factors (the source affiliation type and the level of Corporate Social Responsibility value) on people's source trustworthiness, ...