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The Other Side of Life at Camp Dix: Postcards, Inoculation, and Inoculation Theory

In addition to documenting travel adventures and extending holiday greetings to friends and family, postcards can also function as health communication. This investigation turns to a unique type…

Regarding Postal Sport Communication: Vintage Golf Postcards

Vintage golf postcards are an underexplored resource for an increased understanding of visual-historical sport communication. This rhetorical analysis of a collection of vintage golf postcards reveals insight into…

Inoculation postcards: Regarding W. Morgan’s “SHOTS” as 1940s health communication

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…

Inocu-relationships: Inoculation theory, resistance to influence, and interpersonal communication

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…

Inoculation theory and health: Current trends and movements

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…

Inoculation theory, media, and communication: Current theorizing of the inoculated news consumer

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…

Image repair of fake news: The Washington Elm in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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…

Understanding individual differences in the dimensions of ‘vestedness’ within Midwestern populations toward the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during early-stage pandemic onset

Mason, A. M., Compton, J., & Spencer, E. A. (2023). Understanding individual differences in the dimensions of ‘vestedness’ within Midwestern populations toward the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during early-stage…

Surveilling the web, mobile, and language accessibility of Communication’s digital presence within institutions of higher education globally

This study aims to understand the general web accessibility of digital information networks which may serve as barriers for access to the global discipline of Communication through institutional…

Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: A conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures

Research published by Richards and Banas and Richards et al. demonstrated that an inoculation treatment given to participants prior to their exposure to a series of freedom-threatening persuasive…