Itzhak Yanovitzky
Biographic Data
| ID | 6616341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Itzhak Yanovitzky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Itzhak |
| FAMILY NAME | Yanovitzky |
| SIGNATURE | YANOVITZKY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6366-8006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Usability and usefulness of U. S. federal and state public health data dashboards
Introduction: Dashboards that afford timely access to credible, relevant, and actionable data can significantly improve public health decision-making at all levels. As dashboards becomes more ubiquitous, it is imperative to proactively consider how they may be optimally designed to be usable and useful to users. Methods: = 210) was utilized to describe and compare common design elements and data characteristics of dashboards. A standardized valid…
Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in improving the likelihood that scientific research informs public policy and professional practice, and journalists are well-positioned to serve in this role given their contributions to the flow and exchange of knowledge in society. To better understand the functions and mechanisms by which journalists may broker scientific knowledge, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of healt…
Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes
A broad range of methodologies is routinely employed to track and analyse use of research evidence in public policymaking. However, available methods and tools are mostly equipped to track ‘evidence’ but are less equipped to capture and represent ‘use’ of evidence. In particular, existing methods overlook policymakers’ frequent use of evidence for political persuasion and bargaining. Drawing on established theories and research tools from the fie…
News Media as Knowledge Brokers in Public Policymaking Processes
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence…
Adolescent egocentrism and indoor tanning
This paper explored how imaginary audience and personal fable ideations contribute to adolescent indoor tanning intentions directly and indirectly through the way they shape pro-tanning attitude and association with peers who use tanning beds. Five hundred and ninety-five male ( n = 207) and female ( n = 387) adolescents, ranging in age from 11 to 19 ( M = 16.87; SD = 1.34) years completed a cross-sectional survey. Measures included imaginary aud…
The Impact of Information About the Female Condom on Female Condom Use Among Males and Females from a US Urban Community
Communication and Normative Influence
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the study of normative influences. The multitude of scholars who approach the topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives widely share the convention, backed by strong empirical evidence, that social norms exert a great deal of influence on human behavior and that processes of normative influence exist in a variety of contexts and situations that people encounter in their everyd…
Using Theory to Design Evaluations of Communication Campaigns
We present a general theory about how campaigns can have effects and suggest that the evaluation of communication campaigns must be driven by a theory of effects. The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign illustrates both the theory of campaign effects and implications that theory has for the evaluation design. Often models of effect assume that individual exposure affects cognitions that continue to affect behavior over a short term. Contraril…
Effects of News Coverage on Policy Attention and Actions
Studies that examine the media-policy connection often neglect to fully explore the dynamic nature of this association over time. It is suggested that a conceptual framework that separates media effects on policy makers' attention to issues from effects on their actual behavior (or policy actions) may be key for studying the dynamic relationship between information in the media and policy response to this information. Employing this approach to t…
Using Theory to Design Evaluations of Communication Campaigns
We present a general theory about how campaigns can have effects and suggest that the evaluation of communication campaigns must be driven by a theory of effects. The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign illustrates both the theory of campaign effects and implications that theory has for the evaluation design. Often models of effect assume that individual exposure affects cognitions that continue to affect behavior over a short term. Contraril…
News Media as Knowledge Brokers in Public Policymaking Processes
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence…
Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in improving the likelihood that scientific research informs public policy and professional practice, and journalists are well-positioned to serve in this role given their contributions to the flow and exchange of knowledge in society. To better understand the functions and mechanisms by which journalists may broker scientific knowledge, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of healt…
Communication and Normative Influence
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the study of normative influences. The multitude of scholars who approach the topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives widely share the convention, backed by strong empirical evidence, that social norms exert a great deal of influence on human behavior and that processes of normative influence exist in a variety of contexts and situations that people encounter in their everyd…
Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes
A broad range of methodologies is routinely employed to track and analyse use of research evidence in public policymaking. However, available methods and tools are mostly equipped to track ‘evidence’ but are less equipped to capture and represent ‘use’ of evidence. In particular, existing methods overlook policymakers’ frequent use of evidence for political persuasion and bargaining. Drawing on established theories and research tools from the fie…
Effects of News Coverage on Policy Attention and Actions
Studies that examine the media-policy connection often neglect to fully explore the dynamic nature of this association over time. It is suggested that a conceptual framework that separates media effects on policy makers' attention to issues from effects on their actual behavior (or policy actions) may be key for studying the dynamic relationship between information in the media and policy response to this information. Employing this approach to t…
Using Theory to Design Evaluations of Communication Campaigns
We present a general theory about how campaigns can have effects and suggest that the evaluation of communication campaigns must be driven by a theory of effects. The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign illustrates both the theory of campaign effects and implications that theory has for the evaluation design. Often models of effect assume that individual exposure affects cognitions that continue to affect behavior over a short term. Contraril…
Communication and Normative Influence
In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the study of normative influences. The multitude of scholars who approach the topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives widely share the convention, backed by strong empirical evidence, that social norms exert a great deal of influence on human behavior and that processes of normative influence exist in a variety of contexts and situations that people encounter in their everyd…
The Impact of Information About the Female Condom on Female Condom Use Among Males and Females from a US Urban Community
Adolescent egocentrism and indoor tanning
This paper explored how imaginary audience and personal fable ideations contribute to adolescent indoor tanning intentions directly and indirectly through the way they shape pro-tanning attitude and association with peers who use tanning beds. Five hundred and ninety-five male ( n = 207) and female ( n = 387) adolescents, ranging in age from 11 to 19 ( M = 16.87; SD = 1.34) years completed a cross-sectional survey. Measures included imaginary aud…
Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes
A broad range of methodologies is routinely employed to track and analyse use of research evidence in public policymaking. However, available methods and tools are mostly equipped to track ‘evidence’ but are less equipped to capture and represent ‘use’ of evidence. In particular, existing methods overlook policymakers’ frequent use of evidence for political persuasion and bargaining. Drawing on established theories and research tools from the fie…
News Media as Knowledge Brokers in Public Policymaking Processes
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence…
Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in improving the likelihood that scientific research informs public policy and professional practice, and journalists are well-positioned to serve in this role given their contributions to the flow and exchange of knowledge in society. To better understand the functions and mechanisms by which journalists may broker scientific knowledge, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of healt…
Usability and usefulness of U. S. federal and state public health data dashboards
Introduction: Dashboards that afford timely access to credible, relevant, and actionable data can significantly improve public health decision-making at all levels. As dashboards becomes more ubiquitous, it is imperative to proactively consider how they may be optimally designed to be usable and useful to users. Methods: = 210) was utilized to describe and compare common design elements and data characteristics of dashboards. A standardized valid…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)