Gender and Presence of Children: Examining Media Uses, Informational Needs, and Source Preferences during the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis

In 2014, a water crisis emerged in Flint, Michigan. Using uses and gratifications theory as the guiding framework, this study examines if crisis-related media uses, informational needs, and source preferences are related to respondents’ gender and/or whether or not respondents had children. A random...

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Main Authors: Ashleigh M. Day, Sydney O'Shay-Wallace, Matthew W. Seeger, Shawn P. McElmurry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Netherlands Press 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research
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Online Access:https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol3/iss2/2