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Persuasion strategies in vintage Rally Day postcards: Postal religious communication

Postcards can yield insight into persuasion strategy, religious events, and social situations. Rally Day postcards reveal how churches at the start of the 20th century characterized a pivotal…

Inoculation theory and sport communication

Inoculation theory is a classic theory of resistance to influence-an explanation for how positions can be made more resistant to future change through preexposure to weakened forms of…

The Devil and Vaccination and inoculation theory: Health communication, parody, and anti-vaccination rhetorical strategy

Here, an argument was advanced that taking a long historical view—in this case, considering satirical health messaging of the late 19th century—offered potential insight into modern health messaging,…

The analogy of/and inoculation theory to mental immunity

There’s still a lot to work out about this theory, but here’s what we’re thinking now: We gain a lot by keeping the analogy of inoculation theory in…

Inoculation theory and conspiracy, radicalization, and violent extremism

Inoculation theory and education, teaching, and learning

New directions for inoculation theory and affect research

Affect is one of the theoretical areas seeing the most development during the recent resurgence of inoculation theory development and application. JOSH COMPTON, BOBI IVANOV, & ERIN HESTER…

Inoculation theory

This entry examines the classic theory of resistance to influence – inoculation theory – in a health context. It provides a basic overview of the theory and descriptions…

Inoculation theory as rhetorical strategy in The Evidence at Large (1805)

Rhetorical analysis is a productive way to (1) establish that inoculation theory exists in practice; (2) identify specific components of inoculation theory at work in such rhetoric; and…

Identifying accessibility improvement opportunities for global environmental communication websites

By simply addressing the top six error types (i.e., low contrast, linked images missing ALT texts and form labels, empty buttons and empty links), online environmental information providers…