Duncan Koerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 6697741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Koerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Koerber |
| SIGNATURE | KOERBER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Role of Municipalities in Communicating for Community Resilience during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: Municipal governments have played an important but underappreciated role in crisis communication for community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis: This study analyzes the Niagara Region municipal webpage communication from web archives over the first two years of the pandemic, employing computational research methods and close reading to understand the strengths and deficiencies of municipal COVID-19 communication. Conc…
The Anatomy of a National Crisis
Background A photograph of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach, sparked a major Canadian political crisis. During a federal election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander responded quickly to the incorrect implication that the government’s immigration policies caused the boy’s death. Analysis This article analyzes the appropriateness of Harper’s and Alexander’s respo…
Connecting Crisis Communication Theory and Canadian Communication Research
In the first article in this special issue, Crisis, Communication, and Canadian Hospitals: An Analysis and Evaluation of Risk Preparedness and Crisis Communication Efforts of Ontario Hospitals, Sebastian Dobosz presents the findings of interviews with 14 communication practitioners from Ontario hospitals about the state of crisis communication and management Timothy Coombs' (2004) Situational Crisis Communication Theory posits that victims of cri…
Crisis Communication Response and Political Communities
Researchers have examined the efficacy of crisis response strategies, which are intended to maintain or gain legitimacy after a serious incident. However, the video allegedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack provides an interesting case that reveals a blind spot in political crisis response theory: the factor of partisan community. This article suggests that crises should be seen not as types but as breaks in the discourses of communi…
The Sweet Sixteen
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Early Political Parties as Mediated Communities
It has been well documented that forms of media help create new communities, such as the public sphere and the nation. However, the origin of one major political institution has rarely been considered in this light: the political party. This paper brings together the theory on early party formation in North America and the theory on mediated communities to argue that the first public political organizations in Canada, which resembled modern parti…
Style over Substance
Election coverage today is criticized for its obsession with individual candidates, appearances, and images, a focus on style over substance. During elections, there seems to be little space or air time in the mass media for substantive deliberation of campaign issues. However, this kind of election coverage is not new, despite implications that the age of television brought it about. The first competitive media environment in Canada (1820-1841),…
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Style over Substance
Election coverage today is criticized for its obsession with individual candidates, appearances, and images, a focus on style over substance. During elections, there seems to be little space or air time in the mass media for substantive deliberation of campaign issues. However, this kind of election coverage is not new, despite implications that the age of television brought it about. The first competitive media environment in Canada (1820-1841),…
The Sweet Sixteen
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Early Political Parties as Mediated Communities
It has been well documented that forms of media help create new communities, such as the public sphere and the nation. However, the origin of one major political institution has rarely been considered in this light: the political party. This paper brings together the theory on early party formation in North America and the theory on mediated communities to argue that the first public political organizations in Canada, which resembled modern parti…
Crisis Communication Response and Political Communities
Researchers have examined the efficacy of crisis response strategies, which are intended to maintain or gain legitimacy after a serious incident. However, the video allegedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack provides an interesting case that reveals a blind spot in political crisis response theory: the factor of partisan community. This article suggests that crises should be seen not as types but as breaks in the discourses of communi…
The Anatomy of a National Crisis
Background A photograph of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach, sparked a major Canadian political crisis. During a federal election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander responded quickly to the incorrect implication that the government’s immigration policies caused the boy’s death. Analysis This article analyzes the appropriateness of Harper’s and Alexander’s respo…
Connecting Crisis Communication Theory and Canadian Communication Research
In the first article in this special issue, Crisis, Communication, and Canadian Hospitals: An Analysis and Evaluation of Risk Preparedness and Crisis Communication Efforts of Ontario Hospitals, Sebastian Dobosz presents the findings of interviews with 14 communication practitioners from Ontario hospitals about the state of crisis communication and management Timothy Coombs' (2004) Situational Crisis Communication Theory posits that victims of cri…
The Role of Municipalities in Communicating for Community Resilience during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: Municipal governments have played an important but underappreciated role in crisis communication for community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis: This study analyzes the Niagara Region municipal webpage communication from web archives over the first two years of the pandemic, employing computational research methods and close reading to understand the strengths and deficiencies of municipal COVID-19 communication. Conc…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Crisis communication (3 works)