Thomas Hove
Biographic Data
| ID | 971877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Hove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hove |
| SIGNATURE | HOVE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hanyang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4762-4078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mechanisms of anti-drug campaign effectiveness: Roles of perceived message sensation value and two dimensions of sensation seeking tendency
Mechanisms of Climate Change Media Effects: Roles of Risk Perception, Negative Emotion, and Efficacy Beliefs
In the context of climate change communication, this study explores the process through which exposure to media messages about a risk leads to recommended behavioral intentions. We propose a model of this process based on the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) and the Risk Perception Attitude (RPA) framework. Our model analyzes how risk perception, negative emotion, and efficacy beliefs mediate and moderate the effects of media messages on pe…
Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages
This study explores moderating and mediating mechanisms that determine the effectiveness of government responses to media messages about a risk. Focusing on the risk of radiation-contaminated water originating from Japan, it investigates how uncertainty, gain and loss frames, and trust affect the risk communication process. A survey experiment tested the extent to which media messages about a risk in conjunction with government responses to those…
Partnerships supporting policies: A social marketing case study of mask supply solutions in South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: South Korea was one of the first countries to experience a large outbreak of COVID-19. Early on, public health authorities recommended mask wearing as one of the main preventive measures against the virus. Compared to people in other countries, most South Koreans were willing to follow this recommendation. However, during the early stages of the pandemic, panic buying and vendor hoarding led to a nationwide mask shortage. The problem …
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice
One of the challenges for global media ethics is to define a theoretical perspective from which to adjudicate cross-cultural value conflicts. Early work in this field attempted to identify a universal norm from which the specific, applied norms of media professions and practices could be derived. However, postcolonial and pluralist critiques have revealed potential problems with this approach. To avoid such problems, neo-Aristotelian critiques ha…
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Crisis Communication Principles and the Covid-19 Response in South Korea
This case study highlights several communication insights that have emerged from the South Korean national response to COVID-19. In particular, it focuses on how innovative disease control programmes and information and communications technologies (ICT) have been used in conjunction with appropriate message strategies. The South Korean government used ICTs in a variety of ways to enhance crisis communication, coordinate large-scale public health …
Communicating Uncertainties during the Covid-19 Outbreak
With specific references to South Korea's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary discusses insights and problems related to the issue of how to communicate uncertainties about health risks to affected publics. First, we discuss examples of uncertainties relating to deficiencies of knowledge and divergent views among experts. Next, we summarize key findings on effective communication about uncertainty, and we suggest possible future di…
Media Ethics, Moral Controversies, and the Sociology of Critique
Communication scholars have begun to investigate various links between empirical research and normative theory. In that vein, this article explores how Boltanski and Thévenot’s sociology of critique can enhance our empirical and normative understanding of controversies in media ethics. The sociology of critique and its justification model provide a comprehensive descriptive framework for studying practices of moral evaluation and the social goods…
Risk Perceptions and Risk Characteristics
Risk perception refers to people’s subjective judgments about the likelihood of negative occurrences such as injury, illness, disease, and death. Risk perception is important in health and risk communication because it determines which hazards people care about and how they deal with them. Risk perception has two main dimensions: the cognitive dimension, which relates to how much people know about and understand risks, and the emotional dimension…
How newspapers represent environmental risk: The case of carcinogenic hazards in South Korea
This study pursues the following aims: to examine how news stories use frames, emotions, and uncertainty to present environmental risk information; to identify which aspects of risk issues they highlight; and to analyze how these stories’ representations of risk and uncertainty might differ according to the sources they use. Content analysis of 641 news stories in South Korea over the last decade yields three findings: (1) reassurance was the mos…
Newspaper Portrayals of Child Abuse: Frequency of Coverage and Frames of the Issue
For several years, child welfare advocates have claimed that the U.S. news media misrepresent child abuse and fail to highlight its societal dimensions. To investigate the accuracy of this diagnosis, the following study examines findings of a content analysis of child abuse coverage in major national and urban U.S. newspapers from 2000 to 2008. First, we determine how frequently newspapers covered the different types of child abuse. Second, we an…
Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice
Consumer culture researchers need to acknowledge theoretical problems that can arise when ethical assumptions inform social scientific claims. To identify the origins of these problems, the sociologist Andrew Abbott has developed a framework to illustrate how social scientific claims are continually mapped and remapped onto rival moral perspectives. These perspectives are defined by the relative emphasis that they place on freedom and determinism…
Theories into practice: A content analysis of anti‐smoking websites
Purpose This study aims to examine the extent to which anti‐smoking websites use intervention strategies that have been informed by four prominent theories of health‐related behavior change: the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action/theory of planned behavior, the transtheoretical model, and social cognitive theory. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis was applied to 67 unique and independent anti‐smoking websites to determin…
The Filter, the Alarm System, and the Sounding Board: Critical and Warning Functions of the Public Sphere
This analysis clarifies and extends several underdeveloped but significant new components of Jürgen Habermas's public sphere theory. At center stage is the distinction between public communication's critical and warning functions. Communication scholars have long recognized the public sphere's critical function of filtering public opinion. But few have acknowledged its warning function of alerting political decision-makers about widespread but pr…
Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas’s Concept of Communication Relief
Journal Article Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas’s Concept of Communication Relief Get access Thomas Hove Thomas Hove 1Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 240–254, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.00321.x Published: 18 April 2008
The Divided West – By Jürgen Habermas
Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the United States
In this article, the authors analyze the field of cultural consumption in the United States. Using the 2000 DDB Lifestyle Study, they examine a cross-section of Americans in terms of their occupational categories, media usage, consumption practices, social behaviors, and indicators of civic and political engagement. In doing so, the authors find many parallels to the determinants of taste, cultural discrimination, and choice within the field stru…
Naturalist Psychology in Billy Budd
Newspaper Portrayals of Child Abuse: Frequency of Coverage and Frames of the Issue
For several years, child welfare advocates have claimed that the U.S. news media misrepresent child abuse and fail to highlight its societal dimensions. To investigate the accuracy of this diagnosis, the following study examines findings of a content analysis of child abuse coverage in major national and urban U.S. newspapers from 2000 to 2008. First, we determine how frequently newspapers covered the different types of child abuse. Second, we an…
Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the United States
In this article, the authors analyze the field of cultural consumption in the United States. Using the 2000 DDB Lifestyle Study, they examine a cross-section of Americans in terms of their occupational categories, media usage, consumption practices, social behaviors, and indicators of civic and political engagement. In doing so, the authors find many parallels to the determinants of taste, cultural discrimination, and choice within the field stru…
Theories into practice: A content analysis of anti‐smoking websites
Purpose This study aims to examine the extent to which anti‐smoking websites use intervention strategies that have been informed by four prominent theories of health‐related behavior change: the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action/theory of planned behavior, the transtheoretical model, and social cognitive theory. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis was applied to 67 unique and independent anti‐smoking websites to determin…
How newspapers represent environmental risk: The case of carcinogenic hazards in South Korea
This study pursues the following aims: to examine how news stories use frames, emotions, and uncertainty to present environmental risk information; to identify which aspects of risk issues they highlight; and to analyze how these stories’ representations of risk and uncertainty might differ according to the sources they use. Content analysis of 641 news stories in South Korea over the last decade yields three findings: (1) reassurance was the mos…
Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice
Consumer culture researchers need to acknowledge theoretical problems that can arise when ethical assumptions inform social scientific claims. To identify the origins of these problems, the sociologist Andrew Abbott has developed a framework to illustrate how social scientific claims are continually mapped and remapped onto rival moral perspectives. These perspectives are defined by the relative emphasis that they place on freedom and determinism…
Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages
This study explores moderating and mediating mechanisms that determine the effectiveness of government responses to media messages about a risk. Focusing on the risk of radiation-contaminated water originating from Japan, it investigates how uncertainty, gain and loss frames, and trust affect the risk communication process. A survey experiment tested the extent to which media messages about a risk in conjunction with government responses to those…
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice
One of the challenges for global media ethics is to define a theoretical perspective from which to adjudicate cross-cultural value conflicts. Early work in this field attempted to identify a universal norm from which the specific, applied norms of media professions and practices could be derived. However, postcolonial and pluralist critiques have revealed potential problems with this approach. To avoid such problems, neo-Aristotelian critiques ha…
Media Ethics, Moral Controversies, and the Sociology of Critique
Communication scholars have begun to investigate various links between empirical research and normative theory. In that vein, this article explores how Boltanski and Thévenot’s sociology of critique can enhance our empirical and normative understanding of controversies in media ethics. The sociology of critique and its justification model provide a comprehensive descriptive framework for studying practices of moral evaluation and the social goods…
Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas’s Concept of Communication Relief
Journal Article Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas’s Concept of Communication Relief Get access Thomas Hove Thomas Hove 1Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 240–254, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.00321.x Published: 18 April 2008
Naturalist Psychology in Billy Budd
The Divided West – By Jürgen Habermas
Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the United States
In this article, the authors analyze the field of cultural consumption in the United States. Using the 2000 DDB Lifestyle Study, they examine a cross-section of Americans in terms of their occupational categories, media usage, consumption practices, social behaviors, and indicators of civic and political engagement. In doing so, the authors find many parallels to the determinants of taste, cultural discrimination, and choice within the field stru…
Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas’s Concept of Communication Relief
Journal Article Understanding and Efficiency: Habermas’s Concept of Communication Relief Get access Thomas Hove Thomas Hove 1Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 18, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 240–254, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.00321.x Published: 18 April 2008
The Filter, the Alarm System, and the Sounding Board: Critical and Warning Functions of the Public Sphere
This analysis clarifies and extends several underdeveloped but significant new components of Jürgen Habermas's public sphere theory. At center stage is the distinction between public communication's critical and warning functions. Communication scholars have long recognized the public sphere's critical function of filtering public opinion. But few have acknowledged its warning function of alerting political decision-makers about widespread but pr…
Theories into practice: A content analysis of anti‐smoking websites
Purpose This study aims to examine the extent to which anti‐smoking websites use intervention strategies that have been informed by four prominent theories of health‐related behavior change: the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action/theory of planned behavior, the transtheoretical model, and social cognitive theory. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis was applied to 67 unique and independent anti‐smoking websites to determin…
Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice
Consumer culture researchers need to acknowledge theoretical problems that can arise when ethical assumptions inform social scientific claims. To identify the origins of these problems, the sociologist Andrew Abbott has developed a framework to illustrate how social scientific claims are continually mapped and remapped onto rival moral perspectives. These perspectives are defined by the relative emphasis that they place on freedom and determinism…
Newspaper Portrayals of Child Abuse: Frequency of Coverage and Frames of the Issue
For several years, child welfare advocates have claimed that the U.S. news media misrepresent child abuse and fail to highlight its societal dimensions. To investigate the accuracy of this diagnosis, the following study examines findings of a content analysis of child abuse coverage in major national and urban U.S. newspapers from 2000 to 2008. First, we determine how frequently newspapers covered the different types of child abuse. Second, we an…
How newspapers represent environmental risk: The case of carcinogenic hazards in South Korea
This study pursues the following aims: to examine how news stories use frames, emotions, and uncertainty to present environmental risk information; to identify which aspects of risk issues they highlight; and to analyze how these stories’ representations of risk and uncertainty might differ according to the sources they use. Content analysis of 641 news stories in South Korea over the last decade yields three findings: (1) reassurance was the mos…
Risk Perceptions and Risk Characteristics
Risk perception refers to people’s subjective judgments about the likelihood of negative occurrences such as injury, illness, disease, and death. Risk perception is important in health and risk communication because it determines which hazards people care about and how they deal with them. Risk perception has two main dimensions: the cognitive dimension, which relates to how much people know about and understand risks, and the emotional dimension…
Communicating Uncertainties during the Covid-19 Outbreak
With specific references to South Korea's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary discusses insights and problems related to the issue of how to communicate uncertainties about health risks to affected publics. First, we discuss examples of uncertainties relating to deficiencies of knowledge and divergent views among experts. Next, we summarize key findings on effective communication about uncertainty, and we suggest possible future di…
Media Ethics, Moral Controversies, and the Sociology of Critique
Communication scholars have begun to investigate various links between empirical research and normative theory. In that vein, this article explores how Boltanski and Thévenot’s sociology of critique can enhance our empirical and normative understanding of controversies in media ethics. The sociology of critique and its justification model provide a comprehensive descriptive framework for studying practices of moral evaluation and the social goods…
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), Crisis Communication Principles and the Covid-19 Response in South Korea
This case study highlights several communication insights that have emerged from the South Korean national response to COVID-19. In particular, it focuses on how innovative disease control programmes and information and communications technologies (ICT) have been used in conjunction with appropriate message strategies. The South Korean government used ICTs in a variety of ways to enhance crisis communication, coordinate large-scale public health …
Global media ethics, the good life, and justice
One of the challenges for global media ethics is to define a theoretical perspective from which to adjudicate cross-cultural value conflicts. Early work in this field attempted to identify a universal norm from which the specific, applied norms of media professions and practices could be derived. However, postcolonial and pluralist critiques have revealed potential problems with this approach. To avoid such problems, neo-Aristotelian critiques ha…
Partnerships supporting policies: A social marketing case study of mask supply solutions in South Korea during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: South Korea was one of the first countries to experience a large outbreak of COVID-19. Early on, public health authorities recommended mask wearing as one of the main preventive measures against the virus. Compared to people in other countries, most South Koreans were willing to follow this recommendation. However, during the early stages of the pandemic, panic buying and vendor hoarding led to a nationwide mask shortage. The problem …
Mechanisms of Climate Change Media Effects: Roles of Risk Perception, Negative Emotion, and Efficacy Beliefs
In the context of climate change communication, this study explores the process through which exposure to media messages about a risk leads to recommended behavioral intentions. We propose a model of this process based on the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) and the Risk Perception Attitude (RPA) framework. Our model analyzes how risk perception, negative emotion, and efficacy beliefs mediate and moderate the effects of media messages on pe…
Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages
This study explores moderating and mediating mechanisms that determine the effectiveness of government responses to media messages about a risk. Focusing on the risk of radiation-contaminated water originating from Japan, it investigates how uncertainty, gain and loss frames, and trust affect the risk communication process. A survey experiment tested the extent to which media messages about a risk in conjunction with government responses to those…
Mechanisms of anti-drug campaign effectiveness: Roles of perceived message sensation value and two dimensions of sensation seeking tendency
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