Publications by authors named "Jennifer Jerit"

For climate mitigation to be successful, vast numbers of people must change how they go about daily life. Social scientists have tried to promote environmentally sustainable (i.e.

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Do national and local papers report on health threats in the same way? This question is investigated in an important and increasingly common context: the outbreak of an infectious disease. Although there is a large literature on how to measure the quality of health reporting, scant attention has been devoted to the role of audience considerations. We address this gap by comparing coverage of the 2016 Zika outbreak in the , a prestigious national newspaper, and the , a well-regarded Florida newspaper.

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