The evolution of the operational earthquake forecasting community of practice: the L’Aquila communication crisis as a triggering event for organizational renewal

Toward a global understanding of the effects of the IDEA model for designing instructional risk and crisis messages: A food contamination experiment in Sweden

“…First, as predicted in our hypothesis, the instructional crisis message that addressed all elements of the IDEA model was significantly more effective in eliciting self‐reported behavioural learning intentions for taking appropriate self‐protection (e.g., not eating potentially tainted meat, throwing away potentially tainted meat). This conclusion confirms findings about the utility of the IDEA model as a theoretical framework for designing effective instructional risk and crisis messages gleaned from similar message‐testing experiments conducted on U.S. populations (Frisby et al., ; Littlefield et al., ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Iverson et al., ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Parker et al., ). This conclusion is particularly encouraging because it also suggests that, although there may be cultural differences that influence perceptions about who is primarily responsible for crisis management during extreme events, messages designed according to the IDEA model appear to also produce appropriate behavioural learning intentions among citizens in state‐oriented risk cultures like Sweden (Cornia et al., ; Oden et al., ).…”

“…Based on a series of experimental message‐testing studies using these four stages as the design framework and the three learning outcome variables as measures, the IDEA model (see Figure ) ultimately emerged as an effective experiential learning message design model for risk and crisis communication (Frisby, Veil, & Sellnow, ; Frisby et al., ; Littlefield et al., ; Sellnow, Sellnow, Lane, & Littlefield, ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Iverson et al., ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Parker et al., ). In essence, the IDEA model condenses the four stages proposed by Kolb into three message content components (internalization, explanation, and action) and a distribution component focused on the communication channels through which to send messages targeting disparate audiences (Sellnow & Sellnow, , in press).…”

“…At last, the IDEA model has been used to design messages in a variety of risk and crisis events including natural disasters, health pandemics, agricultural biotechnology, animal diseases and biosecurity, and food contaminations (Sellnow & Sellnow; ; in press). In essence, the IDEA model addresses a critical need in risk and crisis communication by extending experiential learning theory in ways that establish its utility in instruction beyond classroom contexts (Sellnow, Limperos et al., ), as well as expanding existing crisis communication and disaster warning literature to include a variety of risk and crisis situations that may have unprecedented risks (Sellnow, Sellnow, Helsel, Martin, & Parker, ; Sellnow, Iverson et al., ; Sellnow, Lane et al., ; Sellnow, Parker et al., ; Sellnow‐Richmond, George, & Sellnow, ). The following paragraphs explain each aspect of the IDEA model more fully using examples from previous research.…”

An IDEA Model Analysis of Instructional Risk Communication in the Time of Ebola

“…We selected the IDEA model because it has demonstrated its utility across risk and crisis types, among disparate cultural groups, and across international borders (e.g., Frisby et al, 2014;Littlefield et al, 2014;D. D. Sellnow, Iverson, & Sellnow, 2017;D.…”

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“…We selected the IDEA model because it has demonstrated its utility across risk and crisis types, among disparate cultural groups, and across international borders (e.g., Littlefield et al, 2014;D. D. Sellnow, Iverson, & Sellnow, 2017;D.…”