Friday, October 20, 2006

Topic for Oct. 23 meeting

Lindsay Hoffman will be discussing the beginning stages of an experiment assessing audience responses to value-laden messages on smoking bans in newspaper editorials. Kellie Carlyle will also be discussing an upcoming experiment (for her dissertation) that measures the effect of emotion on attribution of blame in response to news articles on relationship violence and abuse. Feel free to bring a snack or lunch. See you there!

Monday, October 16, 2006

Health Communication Web Resources

The link below leads to a list of health communication web sites alphabetically by topic (e.g., "bioterrorism," "HIV/AIDS," or "Risk Comm"). It was compiled by Marcia Zorn, Member of the National Communication Association, Health Communication Division. A link has also been posted under "Links" on the right-hand side of this blog.
Health Comm Web Resources (PDF)

note j health comm links; forwarded from Marcia Zorn, NLM

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Wednesday, OCTOBER 18 2006 Forum to Examine the Implications of Reality Television as Source of Health Information Kaiser/Alliance to Host Capitol Hill Briefing. “ In recent years, the popularity of reality TV has continued to soar…”. Kaiser will host a lunch-time forum, "The ‘Reality’ of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health," in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 18, from noon to 2 p.m. to examine the implications of reality TV serving as a health information source. Vicky Rideout, Kaiser Family Foundation vice president and director of Kaiser’s Program for the Study of Entertainment Media and Health, will host the event and screen clips from several health-based reality TV shows. Kaiser Vice President Jackie Judd will moderate a panel discussion including the executive vice president and general manager of Discovery Health Channel, the host of reality TV’s Honey We’re Killing the Kids, and leading researchers. The forum will take place in the Foundation's Barbara Jordan Conference Center at 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. To RSVP, contact Sarah Williams Kingsley at sarahw@kff.org or (650) 854-9400.
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Helping Patients And Caregivers Communicate: Language Access in U.S. Hospitals (National Health Law Program) <Webcast> from Kaisernetwork.org held 10/11/2006:

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Moving Toward Real Solutions: Advances to Address Low Health LiteracyFifth Annual National Health Communication Conference. November 29, 2006(Co-sponsored by the Institute of Medicine) National Academy of Sciences2100 C Street N.W. Washington, DC Tel: (877) 208-4189
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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Where to start

I've got a general question about where I can find some good literature on fear appeals and risk communication. I'm interested in reading up on fear appeals, risk perception, crisis communication...those types of topics. I'm new to the health comm field and I'm interested in taking some of those health comm ideas and applying them to the political comm field. Are there any good starting points for me...books or journal articles that are worth note? I can't be at the HCRG meeting on Monday, so I thought I'd ask on the blog, maybe it can help other students too. Thanks in advance!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

NCA Pre-Conference

For those of you thinking about going to NCA this year, this is a great pre-conference to attend. It generally happens every two years. I went last time and found it very helpful, even as someone early in the Ph.D. program. Also, it's a great way to meet health comm scholars in an environment where you can have one-on-one conversations. Here's the link for more information about this and other pre-conferences (including one on risk and crisis communication): http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?bid=6417.

PCO5: Doctoral and Early Career Health Communication Conference: Creating Connection and Action

Hilton Palacio del Rio

Salon Del Ray South

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Health communication scholars and practitioners have long recognized the tremendous opportunities and challenges of working within and across this discipline. This pre-conference is designed to enhance the work and network of (a) doctoral students in the final stages of completing Ph.D. work (i.e., finishing classes, working on the prospectus, conducting and writing up the dissertation project) or (b) recent Ph.D.s working to establish their research agenda. (Of course, scholars at any stage in the development of their research agenda are welcome to attend.)

The opening sessions will focus trends in content, funding, methods and outcomes, publishing in the field, as well as the intersection of health communication with other disciplines. The afternoon sessions will be in small groups with attention to the mechanics of completing research and translating work into publications. (50 maximum capacity)

Presenters:

Vicki Freimuth, University of Georgia

Teri Thompson, University of Dayton

Jon Nussbaum, University of Pennsylvania

Dan O’Hair, University of Oklahoma

Stephen Haas, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati,

Rajiv Rimal, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University,

Athena duPre’, Ph.D., University of West Florida,

Lisa Murray-Johnson, Ph.D., Ohio State University

Rick Street, Texas A&M University

Mike Stephenson, Texas A& M University

Jim Query, University of Houston

Lisa Sparks, George Mason University

Eileen Berlin Ray, Cleveland State University

Marifran Mattson, Purdue University

Barb Sharf, Texas A&M University

Becky Cline, Karamos Cancer Center, Wayne State University

Carma Bylund, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Jen Kopfman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dale Brashers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Christina Beck, Ohio University

Nancy Grant Harrington, University of Kentucky