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44
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11104
World Ranking
4061
National Ranking
1935

Overview

Timothy L. Sellnow is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States and focuses primarily on the social sciences, with a distinguished record of research in communication and related subfields. Their scholarly output spans topics such as public relations and crisis communication, disaster management and resilience, and animal disease management and epidemiology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Communication
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Strategy and Management

Timothy L. Sellnow's research topics cover:

  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

The scientist has contributed to a variety of recent academic papers, including:

  • "Being First, Being Right, and Being Credible Since 2002: A Systematic Review of Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) Research" (2021), published in the Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research
  • "No heat, no electricity, no water, oh no!: an IDEA model experiment in instructional risk communication" (2021), published in the Journal of Risk Research
  • "Holy Sparks of Dialogic Civility: A Drama in Three Acts" (2024), published in The Journal of Dialogic Ethics
  • "Dynamics of interorganisational emergency communication on Twitter: the case of Hurricane Irma" (2022), published in Disasters
  • "Communities of practice as purveyors of instructional communication during crises" (2020), published in Communication Education

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Deanna D. Sellnow
  • Robert S. Littlefield
  • Rebecca Freihaut
  • Scott C. Merrill
  • Julia M. Smith

Regular publications by the scientist appear in venues such as:

  • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
  • The Journal of Dialogic Ethics
  • Disasters
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Proceedings of the International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

In addition to journal articles, Timothy L. Sellnow has authored books published by Lexington Books, including Integrated Marketing Communications in Risk and Crisis Contexts (2021).

Best Publications

  • Effective Crisis Communication: Moving From Crisis to Opportunity

    Robert R. Ulmer;Timothy L. Sellnow;Matthew W. Seeger

  • Communication and Organizational Crisis

    Matthew W. Seeger;Timothy L. Sellnow;Robert R. Ulmer

  • Communication, Organization, and Crisis

    Matthew W. Seeger;Timothy L. Sellnow;Robert R. Ulmer

  • Theorizing Crisis Communication

    Timothy L. Sellnow;Matthew W. Seeger

  • Post-crisis communication and renewal: Expanding the parameters of post-crisis discourse

    Robert R. Ulmer;Matthew W. Seeger;Timothy L. Sellnow

  • Measurement and analysis of student engagement in university classes where varying levels of PBL methods of instruction are in use

    Stephanie Ahlfeldt;Sudhir Mehta;Timothy L. Sellnow

  • Chaos theory, informational needs, and natural disasters

    Timothy L. Sellnow;Matthew W. Seeger;Robert R. Ulmer

  • Consistent Questions of Ambiguity in Organizational Crisis Communication: Jack in the Box as a Case Study

    Robert R. Ulmer;Timothy L. Sellnow

  • Effective Risk Communication: A Message-Centered Approach

    Timothy L. Sellnow;Robert R. Ulmer;Matthew W. Seeger;Robert S. Littlefield

  • Post-crisis discourse and organizational change, failure and renewal

    Matthew W. Seeger;Robert R. Ulmer;Julie M. Novak;Timothy L. Sellnow

  • CERC as a Theoretical Framework for Research and Practice

    Shari R. Veil;Barbara Reynolds;Timothy L. Sellnow;Matthew W. Seeger

  • Public relations and crisis communication: Organizing and chaos

    M. W. Seeger;Timothy L. Sellnow;R. R. Ulmer

  • Crisis management and the discourse of renewal: understanding the potential for positive outcomes of crisis

    Robert R. Ulmer;Timothy L. Sellnow

  • The compatibility of corrective action in organizational crisis communication

    Timothy L. Sellnow;Robert R. Ulmer;Michelle Snider

  • Crisis communication, learning and responding

    Xialing Lin;Patric R. Spence;Timothy L. Sellnow;Kenneth A. Lachlan

  • Hoaxes and the Paradoxical Challenges of Restoring Legitimacy: Dominos’ Response to Its YouTube Crisis

    Shari R. Veil;Timothy L. Sellnow;Elizabeth L. Petrun

  • The IDEA Model as a Best Practice for Effective Instructional Risk and Crisis Communication

    Deanna D. Sellnow;Derek R. Lane;Timothy L. Sellnow;Robert S. Littlefield

  • Gender and Age Effects on Information-Seeking after 9/11

    Patric R. Spence;David Westerman;Paul D. Skalski;Matthew Seeger

  • Ambiguous Argument as Advocacy in Organizational Crisis Communication

    Timothy L. Sellnow;Robert R. Ulmer

  • Strategic ambiguity and the ethic of significant choice in the tobacco industry's crisis communication

    Robert R. Ulmer;Timothy L. Sellnow

  • Issues Advertising as Crisis Communication: Northwest Airlines' Use of Image Restoration Strategies During the 1998 Pilot's Strike

    Kimberly Cowden;Timothy L. Sellnow

Frequent Co-Authors

Patric R. Spence
Patric R. Spence University of Central Florida
Kenneth A. Lachlan
Kenneth A. Lachlan University of Connecticut
Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic University of Oregon
Steve S Dritz
Steve S Dritz Kansas State University
Mohan J. Dutta
Mohan J. Dutta Massey University
Jane D. Brown
Jane D. Brown University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lucile M. Jones
Lucile M. Jones United States Geological Survey
Richard S. John
Richard S. John University of Southern California
Kory Floyd
Kory Floyd University of Arizona
Dominique Brossard
Dominique Brossard University of Wisconsin–Madison

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