Craig W Trumbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4257919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig W Trumbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig W |
| FAMILY NAME | Trumbo |
| SIGNATURE | TRUMBO C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Effects of Past Hurricane Experiences on Evacuation Intentions through Risk Perception and Efficacy Beliefs
Individuals’ past experiences with a hazard can encompass many different aspects, which can influence how they judge and respond to a future hurricane risk. This study, which utilizes survey data from coastal residents who are at risk from hurricanes, adds to understanding of past hazard experience in two ways. First, it examines six different aspects of people’s past hurricane experiences and the relationships among them. Then, it draws on risk …
Perceptual influences on self-protective behavior for West Nile virus, A survey in Colorado, USA
The findings in this study point to several useful openings for effective public health communication and intervention for WNv based on affective response, information exposure, and ethnicity. The results also have relevance for vectored diseases generally. It is becoming clear that changes in global climate will bring increased threat from mosquito vectored diseases. Mosquito protection will be an increasingly salient topic for public health com…
The Effect of Newspaper Coverage of Influenza on the Rate of Physician Visits for Influenza 2002–2008
The effect that newspapers had on patients visiting physicians for influenza was examined for 2002 to 2008. The basis for this investigation rests on theories of media effects drawn from agenda setting, media hype, and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework. It was hypothesized that controlling for the rate of influenza, a positive relationship exists in which increases and decreases of newspaper attention to influenza precede increases and d…
Citizen views about public meetings
The current study seeks to demonstrate that a citizen views about public meeting structure and related groups matter in predicting satisfaction with public engagement and willingness to attend future meetings. Public health agencies frequently use public meetings to communicate risk information, but relatively little social science research has examined how potential meeting participants view them. Using survey data (N = 866) collected in seven U…
Public meetings about local cancer clusters
Scholars have long lobbied for a view of risk communication that supplants a conventional ‘transmission’ model of risk communication with an alternative that considers the complex social environment that accompanies any risk communication effort. Along these lines, this study examines the relative influence of official health messages versus symbolic risk messages on public meeting attendees’ post‐meeting concern about cancer clusters in six US c…
Local Newspaper Coverage of Health Authority Fairness During Cancer Cluster Investigations
This study explores local newspaper coverage of official cancer cluster investigations in seven different communities. The authors developed the underlying coding schema based on social-psychological research about how individuals assess the fairness of decision makers. The analysis therefore focuses on the degree to which news coverage describes science authorities as being procedurally just, which includes relational fairness and voice. The fin…
Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, E-mail, & Web Form
Recent developments in communication technologies have created alternative survey methods through e-mail and Web sites. Both methods use electronic text communication, require fewer resources, and provide faster responses than traditional paper and pencil methods. However, new survey methodologies also generate problems involving sampling, response consistency and participant motivation. Empirical studies need to be done to address these issues a…
Why Citizens Do and Do Not Attend Public Meetings about Local Cancer Cluster Investigations
Why do citizens choose to attend or not to attend community public meetings about possible cancer clusters? To answer this question, we examine self‐report data collected during a series of mail surveys conducted in six communities experiencing current health investigations into suspect levels of cancer or cancer clusters. We analyze the data using quantitative content analysis while also providing qualitative summaries and categorizations of sur…
Intention to Conserve Water
We model intention and behavior toward water conservation using the theory of reasoned action in a form that includes environmental values with information seeking, exposure, and attention to information about water conservation. Data were collected by phone surveys in 1998 and 2000 in Reno–Sparks, Nevada, with independent samples of 405 and 463 respondents and a panel subset of 249. Path analysis of the independent samples demonstrates a model w…
Research Methods in Mass Communication Research
This article replicates previous studies on methods used in mass communication research, A total of 2,649 articles from eight communication journals are analyzed for their use of quantitative versus qualitative methods, research focus, data-gathering procedures, and data sources. Additional attention is given to the concept of triangulation, especially the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The results show scholarship in this s…
The Function of Credibility in Information Processing for Risk Perception
This study examines how credibility affects the way people process information and how they subsequently perceive risk. Three conceptual areas are brought together in this analysis: the psychometric model of risk perception, Eagly and Chaiken's heuristic‐systematic information processing model, and Meyer's credibility index. Data come from a study of risk communication in the circumstance of state health department investigations of suspected can…
Information Processing and Risk Perception
The heuristic-systematic information-processing model (HSM) holds that individuals will use 1 or both of these modes of information processing when attempting to evaluate information in order to arrive at a judgment. Using survey data, an adaptation of this model is evaluated across a series of 3 cases in which epidemiological information is communicated to communities concerned about cancer rates. This adaptation of the HSM proves to be a potent…
Use of E-Mail and the Web by Science Writers
The authors report data from two surveys of the National Association of Science Writers conducted in 1994 and 1999 to investigate e-mail and Web use by science journalists. Results show that task and social e-mail use have expanded dramatically. Also, the Web has become a regular part of science journalism. Enthusiasm for the use of the Web is a function of a positive orientation toward the quality of Web information, trust in the sources behind …
Social research on climate change
The greenhouse effect, global warming, global climate change: the environmental phenomenon so important that it needs three names. Whatever one calls it, climate change is undoubtedly one of the most important environmental issues for the new century; it has been the focus of one of the most impressively coordinated international scientific efforts in recent memory. Moreover, the communication and sociological literatures—not to mention the conte…
Journalists, Cognition, and the Presentation of an Epidemiologic Study
Cognitive processes can inform an understanding of newswork. In this case study, the authors examine a growing literature relating cognitive theories to newsmaking and then apply some of the principles in that literature to media coverage of EPA-mandated reformulated gasoline in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In an analysis of how local Milwaukee television news presented an epidemiologic study answering health complaints associated with the gasoline addi…
Communication Channels and Risk Information
Studies of risk communication examining channels emphasize the mass versus interpersonal dichotomy. This approach has not produced entirely consistent results and has neglected to consider other potential attributes of channels. This article presents and evaluates a model featuring cost and expected utility as fundamental aspects of communication channels. Within a case involving risk communication, people are shown to relate channel cost and exp…
Constructing climate change
An empirical content analysis of a decade of coverage of climate change in five national newspapers in the US is presented. The analysis is based on the perspective, drawn from social problems theory, that the content of news discourse can be understood in terms of claims-making and framing. Climate change is also discussed in terms of Downs' issue-attention cycle, a five-stage model describing the rise and fall of social attention to important i…
Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, E-mail, & Web Form
Recent developments in communication technologies have created alternative survey methods through e-mail and Web sites. Both methods use electronic text communication, require fewer resources, and provide faster responses than traditional paper and pencil methods. However, new survey methodologies also generate problems involving sampling, response consistency and participant motivation. Empirical studies need to be done to address these issues a…
Why Citizens Do and Do Not Attend Public Meetings about Local Cancer Cluster Investigations
Why do citizens choose to attend or not to attend community public meetings about possible cancer clusters? To answer this question, we examine self‐report data collected during a series of mail surveys conducted in six communities experiencing current health investigations into suspect levels of cancer or cancer clusters. We analyze the data using quantitative content analysis while also providing qualitative summaries and categorizations of sur…
Intention to Conserve Water
We model intention and behavior toward water conservation using the theory of reasoned action in a form that includes environmental values with information seeking, exposure, and attention to information about water conservation. Data were collected by phone surveys in 1998 and 2000 in Reno–Sparks, Nevada, with independent samples of 405 and 463 respondents and a panel subset of 249. Path analysis of the independent samples demonstrates a model w…
Research Methods in Mass Communication Research
This article replicates previous studies on methods used in mass communication research, A total of 2,649 articles from eight communication journals are analyzed for their use of quantitative versus qualitative methods, research focus, data-gathering procedures, and data sources. Additional attention is given to the concept of triangulation, especially the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The results show scholarship in this s…
Local Newspaper Coverage of Health Authority Fairness During Cancer Cluster Investigations
This study explores local newspaper coverage of official cancer cluster investigations in seven different communities. The authors developed the underlying coding schema based on social-psychological research about how individuals assess the fairness of decision makers. The analysis therefore focuses on the degree to which news coverage describes science authorities as being procedurally just, which includes relational fairness and voice. The fin…
Journalists, Cognition, and the Presentation of an Epidemiologic Study
Cognitive processes can inform an understanding of newswork. In this case study, the authors examine a growing literature relating cognitive theories to newsmaking and then apply some of the principles in that literature to media coverage of EPA-mandated reformulated gasoline in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In an analysis of how local Milwaukee television news presented an epidemiologic study answering health complaints associated with the gasoline addi…
The Effect of Newspaper Coverage of Influenza on the Rate of Physician Visits for Influenza 2002–2008
The effect that newspapers had on patients visiting physicians for influenza was examined for 2002 to 2008. The basis for this investigation rests on theories of media effects drawn from agenda setting, media hype, and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework. It was hypothesized that controlling for the rate of influenza, a positive relationship exists in which increases and decreases of newspaper attention to influenza precede increases and d…
Use of E-Mail and the Web by Science Writers
The authors report data from two surveys of the National Association of Science Writers conducted in 1994 and 1999 to investigate e-mail and Web use by science journalists. Results show that task and social e-mail use have expanded dramatically. Also, the Web has become a regular part of science journalism. Enthusiasm for the use of the Web is a function of a positive orientation toward the quality of Web information, trust in the sources behind …
Citizen views about public meetings
The current study seeks to demonstrate that a citizen views about public meeting structure and related groups matter in predicting satisfaction with public engagement and willingness to attend future meetings. Public health agencies frequently use public meetings to communicate risk information, but relatively little social science research has examined how potential meeting participants view them. Using survey data (N = 866) collected in seven U…
Public meetings about local cancer clusters
Scholars have long lobbied for a view of risk communication that supplants a conventional ‘transmission’ model of risk communication with an alternative that considers the complex social environment that accompanies any risk communication effort. Along these lines, this study examines the relative influence of official health messages versus symbolic risk messages on public meeting attendees’ post‐meeting concern about cancer clusters in six US c…
Communication Channels and Risk Information
Studies of risk communication examining channels emphasize the mass versus interpersonal dichotomy. This approach has not produced entirely consistent results and has neglected to consider other potential attributes of channels. This article presents and evaluates a model featuring cost and expected utility as fundamental aspects of communication channels. Within a case involving risk communication, people are shown to relate channel cost and exp…
Constructing climate change
An empirical content analysis of a decade of coverage of climate change in five national newspapers in the US is presented. The analysis is based on the perspective, drawn from social problems theory, that the content of news discourse can be understood in terms of claims-making and framing. Climate change is also discussed in terms of Downs' issue-attention cycle, a five-stage model describing the rise and fall of social attention to important i…
Journalists, Cognition, and the Presentation of an Epidemiologic Study
Cognitive processes can inform an understanding of newswork. In this case study, the authors examine a growing literature relating cognitive theories to newsmaking and then apply some of the principles in that literature to media coverage of EPA-mandated reformulated gasoline in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In an analysis of how local Milwaukee television news presented an epidemiologic study answering health complaints associated with the gasoline addi…
Communication Channels and Risk Information
Studies of risk communication examining channels emphasize the mass versus interpersonal dichotomy. This approach has not produced entirely consistent results and has neglected to consider other potential attributes of channels. This article presents and evaluates a model featuring cost and expected utility as fundamental aspects of communication channels. Within a case involving risk communication, people are shown to relate channel cost and exp…
Social research on climate change
The greenhouse effect, global warming, global climate change: the environmental phenomenon so important that it needs three names. Whatever one calls it, climate change is undoubtedly one of the most important environmental issues for the new century; it has been the focus of one of the most impressively coordinated international scientific efforts in recent memory. Moreover, the communication and sociological literatures—not to mention the conte…
Use of E-Mail and the Web by Science Writers
The authors report data from two surveys of the National Association of Science Writers conducted in 1994 and 1999 to investigate e-mail and Web use by science journalists. Results show that task and social e-mail use have expanded dramatically. Also, the Web has become a regular part of science journalism. Enthusiasm for the use of the Web is a function of a positive orientation toward the quality of Web information, trust in the sources behind …
Information Processing and Risk Perception
The heuristic-systematic information-processing model (HSM) holds that individuals will use 1 or both of these modes of information processing when attempting to evaluate information in order to arrive at a judgment. Using survey data, an adaptation of this model is evaluated across a series of 3 cases in which epidemiological information is communicated to communities concerned about cancer rates. This adaptation of the HSM proves to be a potent…
The Function of Credibility in Information Processing for Risk Perception
This study examines how credibility affects the way people process information and how they subsequently perceive risk. Three conceptual areas are brought together in this analysis: the psychometric model of risk perception, Eagly and Chaiken's heuristic‐systematic information processing model, and Meyer's credibility index. Data come from a study of risk communication in the circumstance of state health department investigations of suspected can…
Research Methods in Mass Communication Research
This article replicates previous studies on methods used in mass communication research, A total of 2,649 articles from eight communication journals are analyzed for their use of quantitative versus qualitative methods, research focus, data-gathering procedures, and data sources. Additional attention is given to the concept of triangulation, especially the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The results show scholarship in this s…
Intention to Conserve Water
We model intention and behavior toward water conservation using the theory of reasoned action in a form that includes environmental values with information seeking, exposure, and attention to information about water conservation. Data were collected by phone surveys in 1998 and 2000 in Reno–Sparks, Nevada, with independent samples of 405 and 463 respondents and a panel subset of 249. Path analysis of the independent samples demonstrates a model w…
Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, E-mail, & Web Form
Recent developments in communication technologies have created alternative survey methods through e-mail and Web sites. Both methods use electronic text communication, require fewer resources, and provide faster responses than traditional paper and pencil methods. However, new survey methodologies also generate problems involving sampling, response consistency and participant motivation. Empirical studies need to be done to address these issues a…
Why Citizens Do and Do Not Attend Public Meetings about Local Cancer Cluster Investigations
Why do citizens choose to attend or not to attend community public meetings about possible cancer clusters? To answer this question, we examine self‐report data collected during a series of mail surveys conducted in six communities experiencing current health investigations into suspect levels of cancer or cancer clusters. We analyze the data using quantitative content analysis while also providing qualitative summaries and categorizations of sur…
Local Newspaper Coverage of Health Authority Fairness During Cancer Cluster Investigations
This study explores local newspaper coverage of official cancer cluster investigations in seven different communities. The authors developed the underlying coding schema based on social-psychological research about how individuals assess the fairness of decision makers. The analysis therefore focuses on the degree to which news coverage describes science authorities as being procedurally just, which includes relational fairness and voice. The fin…
Public meetings about local cancer clusters
Scholars have long lobbied for a view of risk communication that supplants a conventional ‘transmission’ model of risk communication with an alternative that considers the complex social environment that accompanies any risk communication effort. Along these lines, this study examines the relative influence of official health messages versus symbolic risk messages on public meeting attendees’ post‐meeting concern about cancer clusters in six US c…
Citizen views about public meetings
The current study seeks to demonstrate that a citizen views about public meeting structure and related groups matter in predicting satisfaction with public engagement and willingness to attend future meetings. Public health agencies frequently use public meetings to communicate risk information, but relatively little social science research has examined how potential meeting participants view them. Using survey data (N = 866) collected in seven U…
The Effect of Newspaper Coverage of Influenza on the Rate of Physician Visits for Influenza 2002–2008
The effect that newspapers had on patients visiting physicians for influenza was examined for 2002 to 2008. The basis for this investigation rests on theories of media effects drawn from agenda setting, media hype, and the Social Amplification of Risk Framework. It was hypothesized that controlling for the rate of influenza, a positive relationship exists in which increases and decreases of newspaper attention to influenza precede increases and d…
Perceptual influences on self-protective behavior for West Nile virus, A survey in Colorado, USA
The findings in this study point to several useful openings for effective public health communication and intervention for WNv based on affective response, information exposure, and ethnicity. The results also have relevance for vectored diseases generally. It is becoming clear that changes in global climate will bring increased threat from mosquito vectored diseases. Mosquito protection will be an increasingly salient topic for public health com…
The Effects of Past Hurricane Experiences on Evacuation Intentions through Risk Perception and Efficacy Beliefs
Individuals’ past experiences with a hazard can encompass many different aspects, which can influence how they judge and respond to a future hurricane risk. This study, which utilizes survey data from coastal residents who are at risk from hurricanes, adds to understanding of past hazard experience in two ways. First, it examines six different aspects of people’s past hurricane experiences and the relationships among them. Then, it draws on risk …
Psychology (12 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 works) · Risk Perception and Management (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Perception (6 works) · Risk perception (5 works)