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Chapter: Inoculation against/as character assassination

Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management What can distinguish inoculation theory as it relates to character assassination is, foremost, its timing. Conventional inoculation is a preemptive…

Late night television comedy, mid-afternoon congressional testimony: Attacks on Stephen Colbert’s House Judiciary committee appearance

Colbert’s breaking of character—a rare inconsistency—received less attention than the consistency of his characterised testimony. Josh Compton https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623439 This analysis examines criticism of Stephen Colbert’s congressional testimony on…

Inoculation at play

And yet, there is space for play on both sides of the analogic, too. Josh Compton https://speechandtheatremo.org/journal-archive/ Inoculation is often considered to be serious business – whether in its literal…

Chapter: Inoculation theory and metaliterate learning

The goal of an inoculation campaign, then, is to create a more robust, healthier immune response to that which could harm. Josh Compton https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/metaliterate-learning-post-truth-world This chapter draws on…

Family communication patterns, inoculation theory, and adolescent substance-abuse prevention

Inoculation-conferred resistance, family com- munication patterns, and substance abuse prevention efforts align in ways that suggest important, effective interactions. Josh Compton & Elizabeth Craig https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jftr.12328 Inoculation theory offers…

Chapter: A vaccine for boredom? Considering inoculation theory as a messaging strategy to better engage, and retain, a millennial workforce

Several years later, we now have even more reason for optimism that inoculation works in contexts like this, with new findings about inoculation that stretch its boundary conditions…

When weather forecasters are wrong

It would also be of interest to explore whether weather forecasters could preempt image attacks, prior to inevitable wrong forecasts. The rhetorical approach of image prepare might be one option….

Presidents on speechwriting

Might some references to speechwriters even function as an inoculation effect, protecting the speaker against criticism? Josh Compton Presidents not only use speechwriters; they also have views on…

Chapter: Inoculating against/with political humor

I am convinced that work in inoculation and politi­cal humor would be mutually beneficial—developing theory and informing practice—as we try to better understand inoculating against and with political…

The athlete’s image, visual representation, and image repair/image prepare

What she did next, though, stretches the boundaries of image repair, engaging in something more in line with image prepare—an approach in line with inoculation theory—to anticipate and prepare…