Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery: A Case of Earthquake Reconstruction and...

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Yue Hu

Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery

A Case of Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Sichuan, China

Yue Hu

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
01 March 2019

Communication studies; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Aid & relief programmes; Pollution & threats to the environment; Natural disasters

Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery: A Case of Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Sichuan, China reviews and evaluates public relations (PR) campaigns launched by the Chinese government to facilitate long-term disaster recovery after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. The Discourse of Renewal (DR) theory is employed to guide the study and explore how the Chinese government utilized communication to help communities recover from disaster and promote community growth. Steered by the co-creational perspective, this book also examines the influence of PR campaigns on the public’s situation awareness, attitude agreement, perceived care and concern, and ultimately the public’s relationship with the Chinese government in renewal. In addition to developing and testing a DR evaluation model, this study investigates the communication obstacles that constrain the effectiveness of DR. In-depth interviews, content analysis, and surveys are conducted to analyze the themes, characteristics, effectiveness, and barriers of the campaigns. The findings of Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery include that (1) DR theory, which has heretofore been developed and applied mainly in Western culture, can inform the study of crisis communication in an Eastern culture, especially in China, (2) DR employed in government campaigns can be very powerful in achieving PR goals in crisis renewal, and (3) imbalanced deployment of campaign resources can affect the outcome of DR. This book also discusses the implications of utilizing these findings to better plan and implement long-term DR campaigns.

By: Yue Hu
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9781433153020
ISBN 10: 1433153025
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 March 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Adult education , Further / Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Tables – List of Figures – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Disaster and Crisis Communication – Theories in Crisis Renewal – Methodology to Analyse the Case – Narratives of the Case – Analysis of the Data – Discussion of the Findings – Conclusions and Implications – Index.

Hu Yue is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Xiamen University in P. R. China. She received her MA in communication from Wayne State University in 2008 and her PhD in communication from George Mason University in 2012.

Reviews for Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery: A Case of Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Sichuan, China

“There have been many crisis communication case studies written. Few, however, can match the scope or the insight of Hu Yue’s book, particularly its use of in-depth interviewing, content analysis, and survey. Hu’s work is insightful and rigorous, applying both Discourse of Renewal theory and the co-creational model to examine how three levels of the Chinese government used public relations techniques to respond to the devastating Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 and helped earthquake-hit communities recover.” —Carl Botan, Professor of Communication, George Mason University “Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery is a timely and important tribute to the 10th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake. Through a co-creational lens and painstaking analysis of interview, document, and community survey data, this book shows convincingly that the Discourse of Renewal theory can be productively used to dissect and appraise post-disaster public relations campaigns conducted by the Chinese government and other entities. This is a must-read for researchers and students interested in crisis communication in general and the role of PR in disaster relief and post-disaster community rebuilding in particular.” —Xiaoquan Zhao, Associate Professor, George Mason University