Hollie Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4007282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hollie Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hollie |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3514-1164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Considerations for creating equitable and inclusive communication campaigns associated with ShakeAlert, the earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the USA
Purpose The 2019 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) cites earthquakes as the most damaging natural hazard globally, causing billions of dollars of damage and killing thousands of people. Earthquakes have the potential to drastically impact physical, social and economic landscapes; to reduce this risk, earthquake early warning (EEW) systems have been developed. However, these technical EEW systems do not operate in a vacuum;…
Science Training for Political Reporters: Understanding Impact with a Mixed Methods Approach
This project analyzed the impact of a 2.5-day science training boot camp for political reporters on their use of scientific sources in published reporting. Results showed that immediately following the boot camp, most survey respondents indicated they would try to incorporate more scientific material into future stories. We used both automated text analysis and human-coded analysis to examine if actual changes in reporting behavior occurred. Auto…
Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed
This study examined how wildfire risk is framed by different entities and actors within a common region, during and after experiencing several large wildfire events. Using a social constructionist lens, we viewed wildfire risk as a fluid and variable concept that is socially constructed and framed through public discourse. Inconsistent social constructions of wildfire risk may pose challenges for effective wildfire risk governance and management,…
Moving Toward Inclusion: Participant Responses to the Inclusive SciComm Symposium
This study shares key findings from evaluation research for Inclusive SciComm: A Symposium on Advancing Inclusive Public Engagement with Science. The symposium, organized by the University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting with support from partner organizations, took place on September 28-29, 2018 at the University of Rhode Island. Pre- and post-symposium surveys showed that after attending the symposium, p…
Science Communication Demands a Critical Approach That Centers Inclusion, Equity, and Intersectionality
We live in an era of abundant scientific information, yet access to information and to opportunities for substantive public engagement with the processes and outcomes of science are still inequitably distributed. Even with increasing interest in science communication and public engagement with science, historically marginalized and minoritized individuals and communities are largely overlooked and undervalued in these efforts. To address this gap…
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States
Science & Journalism: Bridging the Gaps Through Specialty Training
As the media landscape continues to change, reporters are now being charged with the task of covering more with less. One result is that reporters without any specialty training are covering complex scientific issues as part of their normal beats. In an effort to fill the gap in science training opportunities for journalists covering various topics, organizations across the U.S. are offering diverse training experiences for practicing journalists…
Gatekeeping and Communities in Energy Transition: A Study of the Block Island Wind Farm
The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) is the first offshore wind farm in the United States. Using gatekeeping theory as a framework, this research analyzes local and regional/national newspaper coverage of the BIWF paying particular attention to the use of sources. The data suggest that the differences between newspaper source usage from 1 January 2008 to 1 July 2017 is minimal. However, business sources appeared more than any other group, including …
The social dynamics of turbine tourism and recreation: Introducing a mixed-method approach to the study of the first U.S. offshore wind farm
Media and policy in a complex adaptive system: Insights from wind energy legislation in the United States
Mass Communication Research in Sustainability Science: Moving Toward an Engaged Approach to Address Society’s Sustainability Dilemma
Mass communication scholarship provides invaluable insight into how discursive trends in media reflect, produce, and obscure society’s most pressing sustainability issues, yet too often this research falls short of creating action, interventions, or change. In this article, we argue that mass communication should be considered a cornerstone discipline for sustainability science research, particularly within transdisiciplinary sustainability scien…
Communication Strategies and New Media Platforms: Exploring the Synergistic Potential of Health and Environmental Communication
Environmental communication and health communication are often intertwined. The complex connections between health and environmental issues can be seen in groundwater pollution, natural resource extraction disasters, and myriad others. While these academic areas are often interconnected, strategies that attempt to influence attitudes and behaviors in one area are not often conveyed to the other. This commentary explores the synergistic potential …
Sustainability science graduate students as boundary spanners
Integrating Media Studies of Climate Change into Transdisciplinary Research: Which Direction Should We Be Heading
Research in the area of media coverage on climate change communication represents one of the most prolific areas of inquiry within communication and mass communication studies. This body of literature, which ranges from empirical to critical studies, continues to expand. Much research has focused on representations of climate change causes, effects, and human actions, while some has assessed the impacts of these representations. What is broadly m…
“That's Why I Call it a Task Farce”: Organizations and Participation in the Colorado Roadless Rule
Power differentials among organizations and individuals have long been noted in traditional public participation processes, with particular shortfalls being noted in structure. In response to command-and-control tactics, scholars have called for a more innovative and collaborative form of participation. In this manuscript we critically examine structure and discourse within environmental decision-making, focusing on one case that employed traditi…
Risk communication and sustainability science: Lessons from the field
The social dynamics of turbine tourism and recreation: Introducing a mixed-method approach to the study of the first U.S. offshore wind farm
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States
Sustainability science graduate students as boundary spanners
Risk communication and sustainability science: Lessons from the field
Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed
This study examined how wildfire risk is framed by different entities and actors within a common region, during and after experiencing several large wildfire events. Using a social constructionist lens, we viewed wildfire risk as a fluid and variable concept that is socially constructed and framed through public discourse. Inconsistent social constructions of wildfire risk may pose challenges for effective wildfire risk governance and management,…
Media and policy in a complex adaptive system: Insights from wind energy legislation in the United States
Communication Strategies and New Media Platforms: Exploring the Synergistic Potential of Health and Environmental Communication
Environmental communication and health communication are often intertwined. The complex connections between health and environmental issues can be seen in groundwater pollution, natural resource extraction disasters, and myriad others. While these academic areas are often interconnected, strategies that attempt to influence attitudes and behaviors in one area are not often conveyed to the other. This commentary explores the synergistic potential …
Science Training for Political Reporters: Understanding Impact with a Mixed Methods Approach
This project analyzed the impact of a 2.5-day science training boot camp for political reporters on their use of scientific sources in published reporting. Results showed that immediately following the boot camp, most survey respondents indicated they would try to incorporate more scientific material into future stories. We used both automated text analysis and human-coded analysis to examine if actual changes in reporting behavior occurred. Auto…
“That's Why I Call it a Task Farce”: Organizations and Participation in the Colorado Roadless Rule
Power differentials among organizations and individuals have long been noted in traditional public participation processes, with particular shortfalls being noted in structure. In response to command-and-control tactics, scholars have called for a more innovative and collaborative form of participation. In this manuscript we critically examine structure and discourse within environmental decision-making, focusing on one case that employed traditi…
Risk communication and sustainability science: Lessons from the field
Integrating Media Studies of Climate Change into Transdisciplinary Research: Which Direction Should We Be Heading
Research in the area of media coverage on climate change communication represents one of the most prolific areas of inquiry within communication and mass communication studies. This body of literature, which ranges from empirical to critical studies, continues to expand. Much research has focused on representations of climate change causes, effects, and human actions, while some has assessed the impacts of these representations. What is broadly m…
Sustainability science graduate students as boundary spanners
Media and policy in a complex adaptive system: Insights from wind energy legislation in the United States
Mass Communication Research in Sustainability Science: Moving Toward an Engaged Approach to Address Society’s Sustainability Dilemma
Mass communication scholarship provides invaluable insight into how discursive trends in media reflect, produce, and obscure society’s most pressing sustainability issues, yet too often this research falls short of creating action, interventions, or change. In this article, we argue that mass communication should be considered a cornerstone discipline for sustainability science research, particularly within transdisiciplinary sustainability scien…
Communication Strategies and New Media Platforms: Exploring the Synergistic Potential of Health and Environmental Communication
Environmental communication and health communication are often intertwined. The complex connections between health and environmental issues can be seen in groundwater pollution, natural resource extraction disasters, and myriad others. While these academic areas are often interconnected, strategies that attempt to influence attitudes and behaviors in one area are not often conveyed to the other. This commentary explores the synergistic potential …
The social dynamics of turbine tourism and recreation: Introducing a mixed-method approach to the study of the first U.S. offshore wind farm
Gatekeeping and Communities in Energy Transition: A Study of the Block Island Wind Farm
The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF) is the first offshore wind farm in the United States. Using gatekeeping theory as a framework, this research analyzes local and regional/national newspaper coverage of the BIWF paying particular attention to the use of sources. The data suggest that the differences between newspaper source usage from 1 January 2008 to 1 July 2017 is minimal. However, business sources appeared more than any other group, including …
Moving Toward Inclusion: Participant Responses to the Inclusive SciComm Symposium
This study shares key findings from evaluation research for Inclusive SciComm: A Symposium on Advancing Inclusive Public Engagement with Science. The symposium, organized by the University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting with support from partner organizations, took place on September 28-29, 2018 at the University of Rhode Island. Pre- and post-symposium surveys showed that after attending the symposium, p…
Science Communication Demands a Critical Approach That Centers Inclusion, Equity, and Intersectionality
We live in an era of abundant scientific information, yet access to information and to opportunities for substantive public engagement with the processes and outcomes of science are still inequitably distributed. Even with increasing interest in science communication and public engagement with science, historically marginalized and minoritized individuals and communities are largely overlooked and undervalued in these efforts. To address this gap…
Beyond the beach: Tradeoffs in tourism and recreation at the first offshore wind farm in the United States
Science & Journalism: Bridging the Gaps Through Specialty Training
As the media landscape continues to change, reporters are now being charged with the task of covering more with less. One result is that reporters without any specialty training are covering complex scientific issues as part of their normal beats. In an effort to fill the gap in science training opportunities for journalists covering various topics, organizations across the U.S. are offering diverse training experiences for practicing journalists…
Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed
This study examined how wildfire risk is framed by different entities and actors within a common region, during and after experiencing several large wildfire events. Using a social constructionist lens, we viewed wildfire risk as a fluid and variable concept that is socially constructed and framed through public discourse. Inconsistent social constructions of wildfire risk may pose challenges for effective wildfire risk governance and management,…
Considerations for creating equitable and inclusive communication campaigns associated with ShakeAlert, the earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the USA
Purpose The 2019 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) cites earthquakes as the most damaging natural hazard globally, causing billions of dollars of damage and killing thousands of people. Earthquakes have the potential to drastically impact physical, social and economic landscapes; to reduce this risk, earthquake early warning (EEW) systems have been developed. However, these technical EEW systems do not operate in a vacuum;…
Science Training for Political Reporters: Understanding Impact with a Mixed Methods Approach
This project analyzed the impact of a 2.5-day science training boot camp for political reporters on their use of scientific sources in published reporting. Results showed that immediately following the boot camp, most survey respondents indicated they would try to incorporate more scientific material into future stories. We used both automated text analysis and human-coded analysis to examine if actual changes in reporting behavior occurred. Auto…
Political science (16 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)