Overview

Human and ecological systems face substantial risks, and the ways individuals and communities adapt, change or otherwise transform are being increasingly highlighted as routes to address long-standing system-level problems. Central to this are the ways in which mediated communication may foster and support community resilience and collective efficacy. Communicating Resiliency and Efficacy in a Digital Age: Mediated Communities takes an interdisciplinary look at the roles and processes associated with mediated communication in helping to foment community resiliency. The chapters describe the nexus of communication, media, health, and the environment and identifies leverage points to engage scholars across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, Through a culture-centric lens, this edited collection looks at how the concepts of community resilience and collective efficacy have been applied to work across academic disciplines, and how new understandings and applications may result.

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Author:   Juliet Pinto (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) ,  Stephen Mainzer (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) ,  Lola Xie (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781837978120

ISBN 10:   1837978123
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Resiliency, Efficacy and Community in a Digital Age; Lola Xie, Juliet Pinto, and Stephen Mainzer Section 1. Coping with Crisis and Disaster Chapter 1. Collective Efficacy for Public Health in an Age of Climate Change: A Review and Future Research Agenda; Cassandra L.C. Troy and Kathryn Thier Chapter 2. Fostering Community Resilience through Hybrid Communicative Practices: The Role of Digital Media in Complex Disaster Scenarios; Jiayu Sun Chapter 3. Seek potential in engagement and service integration to foster community resilience for climate anxiety: A scoping review; Xiaoxu Ding Section 2. Tools for Fostering Resiliency Chapter 4. Imagined landscapes as spaces of negotiation and co-creation; Peter Stempel, Ellie Nasr-Azadani, and Annette Grilli Chapter 5. Bridging the (Eco-Literacy) Gap: Using Community Engagement to Build Collective Action; Lisa DuRussel and Nana Temple Chapter 6. Toward Just Climate Futures: Examining Community Dimensions of How Researchers and Practitioners Collaborate with Indigenous Groups; Olivia Boon and Stephen Mainzer Section 3. Risks and Opportunities in a Networked World Chapter 7. Correcting Climate Change Misinformation to Encourage Sustainable Consumption Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Perceived Scientific Consensus; Bingbing Zhang, Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, and Rachel Patterson Chapter 8. Agency, Advertising and its Interdependence with the Roots of Climate Change; David J. Park Chapter 9. Digital ephemerality in wartime: Reflections on archiving, text encoding, and teaching digital humanities in the 2020s; Elisa Beshero-Bondar Conclusion: Mediated Communities; Juliet Pinto, Stephen Mainzer, and Lola Xie

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Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State, USA. Her research focuses on environmental communication and international news production. Stephen Mainzer is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State, USA. His research studies the role of place in coupled environmental and political sentiments to describe how where we live affects our identity, thoughts, and actions toward our environment. Lola Xie is a research assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital media, public relations, and health communication, exploring how innovative digital tools, AI, and narratives can influence awareness, engagement, and behavior in areas such as chronic illness, mental health care, and community outreach.

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