Communicating Resiliency and Efficacy in a Digital Age

Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State, USA. Her research focuses on environmental communication and international news production.Stephen Mainzer is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State, USA. His research studies the role of place in coupled environmental and political sentiments to describe how where we live affects our identity, thoughts, and actions toward our environment.Lola Xie is a research assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital media, public relations, and health communication, exploring how innovative digital tools, AI, and narratives can influence awareness, engagement, and behavior in areas such as chronic illness, mental health care, and community outreach.

• Introduction: Resiliency, Efficacy and Community in a Digital Age; Lola Xie, Juliet Pinto, and Stephen Mainzer Section 1. Coping with Crisis and Disaster Chapter 1. Collective Efficacy for Public Health in an Age of Climate Change: A Review and Future Research Agenda; Cassandra L.C. Troy and Kathryn Thier Chapter 2. Fostering Community Resilience through Hybrid Communicative Practices: The Role of Digital Media in Complex Disaster Scenarios; Jiayu Sun Chapter 3. Seek potential in engagement and service integration to foster community resilience for climate anxiety: A scoping review; Xiaoxu DingSection 2. Tools for Fostering Resiliency Chapter 4. Imagined landscapes as spaces of negotiation and co-creation; Peter Stempel, Ellie Nasr-Azadani, and Annette Grilli Chapter 5. Bridging the (Eco-Literacy) Gap: Using Community Engagement to Build Collective Action; Lisa DuRussel and Nana Temple Chapter 6. Toward Just Climate Futures: Examining Community Dimensions of How Researchers and Practitioners Collaborate with Indigenous Groups; Olivia Boon and Stephen Mainzer Section 3. Risks and Opportunities in a Networked World Chapter 7. Correcting Climate Change Misinformation to Encourage Sustainable Consumption Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Perceived Scientific Consensus; Bingbing Zhang, Juliet Pinto, Paola Prado, and Rachel Patterson Chapter 8. Agency, Advertising and its Interdependence with the Roots of Climate Change; David J. Park Chapter 9. Digital ephemerality in wartime: Reflections on archiving, text encoding, and teaching digital humanities in the 2020s; Elisa Beshero-BondarConclusion: Mediated Communities; Juliet Pinto, Stephen Mainzer, and Lola Xie