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This study investigated whether freedom-threat and psychological reactance could be dampened when ever-vapers (i.e., people who have tried vaping) are inoculated with a forewarning of an impending exposure…
The aim of this study is to determine if a broad-based inoculation message strategy will undermine thepersuasive influence of conspiracy theories. In this experiment, we (1) investigate individual…
Digital environmental information presented with low web accessibility reduces participation in environmental advocacy and information seeking behaviors for many people with disabilities, creating a consequential digital divide. We…
In response to the International Communication Association’s 2022 theme, “One World, One Network,” we argue that one way to expand the notion of ‘One World’ and to signal…
Josh Compton, Professor of Speech and covert stutterer, has been thinking about voice all his life, from his childhood struggles with fluency to his recent research on public speaking…
This study analyzes “SHOTS,” a World War II-era postcard depicting a soldier receiving a vaccine while an observer watches with concern. “SHOTS” is an example of vintage postcard…
Inoculation theory explains how a position can be made more resistant to change in ways similar to how a body can be made more resistant to viruses: through…
Summary: This review surveys some of the most recent findings of inoculation theory in health contexts, with special attention to applications and findings that differ in key ways…
In this conceptual paper, the idea of the inoculated news consumer is revisited and expanded to consider inoculation theory and the inoculated mass communication consumer. It surveys pioneering…
A little over two miles from the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the site of the 115th Annual Eastern Communication Association Convention—the Washington Elm stood for decades until it…