Architects of Communication Scholarship - K. Viswanath on Bridging Inequalities in Communication and Health Outcomes

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Architects of Communication Scholarship

ICA Productions

38 episodes

3 months ago

With this podcast, host Ellen Wartella brings you interviews of several outstanding communication researchers who have been architects of communication scholarship. She will ask them questions about what motivated them to study communication, what they see as current status of their area of research, what they see as the important research questions in their respective areas moving forward, and how communication research contributes to societal challenges and opportunities. In each episode, Ellen will introduce one of the Architects of Communication Scholarship and a handpicked scholar who will be engaging in dialogue with that architect.

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Architects of Communication Scholarship - K. Viswanath on Bridging Inequalities in Communication and Health Outcomes

Architects of Communication Scholarship

21 minutes

2 years ago

Architects of Communication Scholarship - K. Viswanath on Bridging Inequalities in Communication and Health Outcomes

In this episode, Professor Edmund Lee interviews his former mentor, Professor K. Viswanath, on his life’s work in health communication research. Viswanath reflects on how communication evolved over the years from a divided discipline between critical communication scholars and social science researchers to an interdisciplinary and mixed methods research field. He also discusses his mentors, Phil Tichenor, George Donohue, and Clarice Olien, who established the knowledge gap hypothesis. Viswanath speaks on how his thinking about the knowledge gap hypothesis expanded to larger issues of communication resources: access to information as well as the ability to act on it. This led Professor Viswanath to develop a new framework called the structural influence model (SIM) of health communication which he expands on in this conversation.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Edmund Lee

K. Viswanath

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers:

Ellen Wartella

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Host

Edmund Lee

Assistant Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Twitter: @EdmundWJLee

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-w-j-lee-4b02b915/

Guest

K. Viswanath

Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication

Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute