Doctoral Dissertation Research in Decision, Risk, & Management Sciences: Procedural Justice and Media Coverage of Public Engagement about Local Health and Environmental Risks

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• 批准号: 0551047
• 负责人: Katherine McComas
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-15 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Decision; Risk; Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Decision; Risk

This dissertation project seeks to integrate research on procedural justice into how we understand the impact of media coverage on local public life, particularly local engagement related to health and environmental risks. Procedural justice has emerged in recent decades as a theoretically-grounded means of examining the fundamental human value of "fairness" in a range of settings. The core hypothesis of procedural justice research is that if an individual perceives that the process underlying a decision is fair, they are more likely to accept that decision, feel satisfied with the decision-maker, and undertake future action on behalf of the group within which the decision was made.Past media research has not sought to test whether various types and levels of media use are associated with fairness perceptions, despite substantial research demonstrating that fairness is an important contributor to individual attitudes towards civic leaders. The main focus on the research will be the collection and analysis of survey data from Upstate New York aimed at obtaining individuals' assessments of: local authorities' procedural and distributive fairness, local risk perceptions, external efficacy, trust, media-use patterns, and standard civic outcomes variables (e.g. level of local political participation and satisfaction with government). The survey will be complemented by interviews with Upstate journalists, qualitative consideration of local news content, and several social-psychological experiments involving the exposure of student samples to simulated media content about local environmental health risks. The project is meant to broaden the applicability of ongoing research using procedural justice to understand how traditional public meetings about risk affect participants' and non-participants' perceptions of government experts and officials. Understanding whether media use and attention is associated with media users' perceptions of authorities fairness should support the shaping of communication messages and strategies used for public engagement.

该论文项目旨在将有关程序正义的研究整合到我们如何理解媒体报道对当地公共生活的影响，尤其是与健康和环境风险有关的当地参与的影响。近几十年来，程序上的正义已成为一种理论上的基本手段，可在一系列环境中研究“公平”的基本价值。程序性司法研究的核心假设是，如果一个人认为决定的过程是公平的，那么他们更有可能接受该决定，对决策者感到满意，并代表该决定做出决定的群体进行未来的行动。PAST媒体研究并未寻求与公平的研究相关的各种媒体的贡献，这表明了与公平的研究相关的领导者，这是一个重要的领导者，这是一个重要的领导者，这是一个重要的领导者，以至于有效地表现出了很重要的研究，以至于能够表现出重要的研究。对这项研究的主要重点是收集和分析纽约州北部的调查数据，旨在获得个人评估：地方当局的程序和分配公平性，地方风险感知，外部疗效，信任，信任，媒体使用模式以及标准的公民成果变量（例如，当地的政治参与和对政府的满意程度）。对北部记者的访谈，对本地新闻内容的定性考虑以及一些社会心理学实验，涉及将学生样本接触到有关当地环境健康风险的模拟媒体内容。该项目旨在扩大使用程序正义的持续研究的适用性，以了解有关风险的传统公开会议如何影响参与者和非参与者对政府专家和官员的看法。了解媒体使用和关注是否与媒体用户对当局公平的看法有关，应支持用于公众参与的沟通信息和策略的塑造。