Model Of Strategic Communication Research Articles

Развитие экологического туризма в регионе: холистический подход к управлению стратегическими коммуникациями

In recent decades, there has been a change in the system of tourism development and its gradual integration into the socio-economic space of the regions of the Russian Federation, which requires comprehensive work with goals, risks, and target audiences and involves the use of strategic communication based on a holistic approach. The purpose of the article is to present the concept of the strategy and practice of regional ecological tourism development from the point of view of holistic marketing and strategic management. The issue reflects increased competition between Russian regions for leading positions in the domestic market and the attraction of incoming tourists. The empirical basis of the study is based on holistic marketing and analysis of ecological tourism indicators in the regions over time. The authors of the article conducted a study of modern approaches to the use of strategic communication in the development of ecological tourism in the Ural Federal District of the Russian Federation, as well as the identification of possible development vectors. In the article, the researchers assessed the impact of strategic communication on the ecological tourism management system at the regional level and also determined the role of strategic communication in management decision-making, as well as the use of technologies and tools to minimize risks. Based on the analysis carried out by the authors of the article, a model of strategic communication was developed to achieve the key goal, i.e., the effective development of ecological tourism in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

A Theoretical Model of Strategic Communication for the Sustainable Development of Sport Tourism

Sustainability and sustainable development are two fundamental principles that currently influence the way sport tourism activities, like those of any other socioeconomic area, are managed. For this reason, for some time, especially in the last decade, scholars have been wondering not only about the application methods of these two concepts in sport tourism but also how to communicate good practices among operators, residents, and tourists, and how to encourage the adoption of sustainable behaviours. Pro-sustainable attitudes are widespread, but they do not always convert into sustainable behaviour. Communication can intervene to favour these socio-cultural changes at an individual and collective level. This research is inspired by several studies and the most recent systematic literature reviews to identify communication methods and strategies that determine the tourism–sports experience, influencing the assumption or reinforcement of sustainable behaviours. This study attempted to configure a theoretical model of sustainable communication that can support the sustainable development of sport tourism. The goal is to understand how to create effective communication actions to raise the awareness of institutions and businesses, residents, and tourists towards the adoption of sustainable practices, and to encourage the promotion of sustainable initiatives in territories in support of the socioeconomic development of localities from an increasingly sustainable perspective.

Designing Deliberation for Decentralized Decisions

AbstractI describe and analyze a model of strategic communication and deliberation in decentralized decision‐making settings. I show that, in a cheap‐talk environment, inclusion and exclusion of agents can affect the credibility of messaging between agents and, accordingly, the quality of policy decisions and overall social welfare. Somewhat surprisingly, the inclusion of agents can aid information aggregation and social welfare even when the added agents do not themselves communicate truthfully. Analogously, the results suggest an informational, social welfare–based rationale for excluding agents not only from observing policy‐relevant deliberation but also from observing the product of the communication precisely because the excluded agents possess decision‐making authority.

YUMUŞAK GÜÇ, KAMU DİPLOMASİSİ VE KAMU DİPLOMASİSİ TEKNİKLERİ: KAVRAMSAL BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

For many years, the traditional diplomacy model was accepted as the most important actor in building relations around the world. Traditional diplomacy involved negotiations between two or more government officials that resulted in consensus or conflict. Countries with especially high military and economic power in international relations always had an advantageous position against their counterparts. For many years, traditional diplomacy has been the dominant paradigm of international relations. However, in the 21st century, a new foreign policy method has emerged that deeply affects international relations and causes a kind of paradigm shift. The subject of this method, known as public diplomacy, is people rather than governments. Public diplomacy, which can be seen as a strategic communication model, has meanings such as influencing the people of other countries and becoming a center of attraction for them. In this study, a detailed evaluation of public diplomacy and its techniques has been made, starting from the concept of soft power integrated with public diplomacy. In the study, public diplomacy techniques were exemplified and tried to be presented to the reader in a practical way.

The role of maternal ideations on breastfeeding practices in northwestern Nigeria: a cross-section study

BackgroundEarly initiation of breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of life are beneficial for child survival and long-term health. Yet breastfeeding rates remain sub-optimal in Northwestern Nigeria, and such practices are often influenced by complex psychosocial factors at cognitive, social and emotional levels. To understand these influences, we developed a set of breastfeeding-related ideational factors and quantitatively examined their relationship with early initiation of breastfeeding and EBF practices.MethodsA cross‐sectional population‐based survey was conducted in Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states from September–October 2019. A random sample of 3039 women with a child under-2 years was obtained. Respondents were asked about the two main outcomes, early initiation of breastfeeding and EBF, as well as breastfeeding-related ideations according to the Ideation Model of Strategic Communication and Behavior Change. Average marginal effects were estimated from mixed-effects logistic regression models adjusted for ideational and socio-demographic variables.ResultsAmong 3039 women with a child under 2 years of age, 42.1% (95% CI 35.1%, 49.4%) practiced early initiation of breastfeeding, while 37.5% (95% CI 29.8%, 46.0%) out of 721 infants aged 0–5 months were exclusively breastfed. Women who knew early initiation of breastfeeding was protective of newborn health had 7.9 percentage points (pp) [95% CI 3.9, 11.9] higher likelihood of early initiation of breastfeeding practice than those who did not know. Women who believed colostrum was harmful had 8.4 pp lower likelihood of early initiation of breastfeeding (95% CI -12.4, -4.3) and EBF (95% CI -15.7%, -1.0%) than those without that belief. We found higher likelihood of early initiation of breastfeeding (5.1 pp, 95% CI 0.8%, 9.4%) and EBF (13.3 pp, 95% CI 5.0%, 22.0%) among women who knew at least one benefit of breastfeeding compared to those who did not know. Knowing the timing for introducing complementary foods andself-efficacy to practice EBF were also significantly associated with EBF practices.ConclusionIdeational metrics provide significant insights for SBC programs aiming to change and improve health behaviors, including breastfeeding practices, Various cognitive, emotional and social domains played a significant role in women’s breastfeeding decisions. Maternal knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding to the mother (cognitive), knowledge of the appropriate time to introduce complementary foods (cognitive), beliefs on colostrum (cognitive), self-efficacy to breastfeed (emotional) and perceived social norms (social) are among the most important ideations for SBC programs to target to increase early initiation of breastfeeding and EBF rates in northwestern Nigeria.

Constrained Persuasion with Private Information

Abstract I study a model of strategic communication between a privately informed sender who can persuade a receiver using Blackwell experiments. Hedlund (2017). “Bayesian Persuasion by a Privately Informed Sender.” Journal of Economic Theory 167 (January): 229–68, shows that private information in such a setting results in extremely informative equilibria. I make three points: first, the informativeness of equilibria relies crucially on two features – the mere availability of a fully revealing experiment, and a compact action space for the receiver. I show by examples that absent these features, equilibria may be uninformative. Secondly, I characterize equilibria in a simple model with constraints for the sender (only two experiments available, none are fully revealing) and the receiver (discrete action space). I argue that noisy experiments and discrete actions are the norm rather than the exception (and therefore, private information need not result in information revelation). Thirdly, I define a novel refinement that selects the most informative equilibria in most cases.

Psychosocial influences on pregnancy and childbirth behaviours in north-western Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis.

Antenatal care (ANC) and facility delivery are essential maternal health services, but uptake remains low in north-western Nigeria. This study aimed to assess the psychosocial influences on pregnancy and childbirth behaviours in Nigeria. Data were from a cross-sectional population-based survey of randomly sampled women with a child under 2 years conducted in Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states of north-western Nigeria in September 2019. Women were asked about their maternal health behaviours during their last pregnancy. Psychosocial metrics were developed using the Ideation Model of Strategic Communication and Behaviour Change. Predicted probabilities for visiting ANC four or more times (ANC4+) and giving birth in a facility were derived using mixed-effects logistic regression models adjusted for ideational and socio-demographic variables. Among the 3039 sample women, 23.6% (95% CI: 18.0-30.3%) attended ANC4+ times and 15.5% (95% CI: 11.8-20.1%) gave birth in a facility. Among women who did not attend ANC4+ times or have a facility-based delivery during their last pregnancy, the most commonly cited reasons for non-use were lack of perceived need (42% and 67%, respectively) and spousal opposition (25% and 27%, respectively). Women who knew any ANC benefit or the recommended number of ANC visits were 3.2 and 2.1 times more likely to attend ANC4+ times, respectively. Women who held positive views about health facilities for childbirth had 1.2 and 2.6 times higher likelihood of attending ANC4+ times and having a facility delivery, respectively, while women who believed ANC was only for sickness or pregnancy complications had a 17% lower likelihood of attending ANC4+ times. Self-efficacy and supportive spousal influence were also significantly associated with both outcomes. To improve pregnancy and childbirth practices in north-western Nigeria, Social and Behavioural Change programmes could address a range of psychosocial factors across cognitive, emotional and social domains which have been found in this study to be significantly associated with pregnancy and childbirth behaviours: raising knowledge and dispelling myths, building women's confidence to access services, engaging spousal support in decision-making and improving perceived (and actual) maternal health services quality.

Influential News and Policy-Making

To counter misinformation, regulators can exercise control over the costs that media outlets incur for misreporting policy-relevant news, e.g. by imposing fines. This paper analyzes the welfare implications of those types of interventions that affect misreporting costs. I study a model of strategic communication between an informed media outlet and an uninformed voter, where the outlet can misreport information at a cost. The alternatives available to the voter are endogenously championed by two competing candidates before communication takes place. I find that there is no clear nexus between the voter's welfare and informational distortions: interventions that benefit the voter might be associated with more misreporting activity and persuasion; relatively low misreporting costs yield full revelation but minimize the voter's welfare because they induce large policy distortions. Interventions that increase misreporting costs never harm the voter, but lenient measures might be wasteful. Electoral incentives distort the process of regulation itself, resulting in sub-optimal interventions that are detrimental to the voter's welfare.

Influential News and Policy-making

To counter misinformation, regulators can exercise control over the costs that media outlets incur for misreporting policy-relevant news, e.g. by imposing fines. This paper analyzes the welfare implications of those types of interventions that affect misreporting costs. I study a model of strategic communication between an informed media outlet and an uninformed voter, where the outlet can misreport information at a cost. The alternatives available to the voter are endogenously championed by two competing candidates before communication takes place. I find that there is no clear nexus between the voter's welfare and informational distortions: interventions that benefit the voter might be associated with more misreporting activity and persuasion; relatively low misreporting costs yield full revelation but minimize the voter's welfare because they induce large policy distortions. Interventions that increase misreporting costs never harm the voter, but lenient measures might be wasteful. Electoral incentives distort the process of regulation itself, resulting in sub-optimal interventions that are detrimental to the voter's welfare.

Model Komunikasi Strategis Religious Leader dalam Pengurangan Stigma dan Diskriminasi Covid-19

This research aims to find a strategic communication model for religious leaders in reducing the stigma and discrimination of Covid-19 in Pasuruan. This research uses descriptive qualitative research. The subjects of this research are opinion leaders and the object of this research is FBO (Faith Based Organization) or religious organizations in Pasuruan. The method in this research uses an interactive model of data analysis with an opinion leader theory approach from Paul Lazarfield. The results of this study indicate that religious leaders (religious leaders) have a strong role in influencing the community in terms of knowledge, attitudes and behavior. Every religious figure becomes an effective communicator in preventing the occurrence of stigma and covid-19 in the community through communication messages in their respective religious pulpits. In addition, the synergy of communication between religious leaders and the government is an effective model in preventing COVID-19 discrimination in the community

Ключевые параметры модели стратегической коммуникации

One of the approaches to the communication interaction organization, the most widely discussed, strategic one, allows one to abandon other approaches that are less effective in the context of intense competition. The paper shows that, despite the increased attention to the strategic planning of communications, there is a research literature controversy regarding the definition of its subject matter both in theory and practice. Even more relativistic is the idea of the specifics of strategic communication in a particular area. The purpose of this article is to analyze the main parameters of strategic communication as a special type of activity. The method of analysis is modeling. To achieve the goal, an activity model of strategic communication is developed, which allows clarifying its most important characteristics – motivation, purposefulness, hierarchy of tasks, structure (phases and individual actions). On this basis, in the future, it is possible to determine the specifics of the implementation of strategic communication in a specific area: the content of communication procedures, actions, steps.

A model of strategic communication for clinical premises based on perceived risk of NCDs: a study of Kolkata, India

Healthy lifestyle and low probability of an attack of non-communicable diseases NCDs are inextricably linked. Addressing the risk factors can become an effective and inexpensive option to combat the unfinished agenda of NCDs. But, subjective action to prevent or mitigate a disease depends on perceived risk. So the broad objective of this study was to assess the opinion of urban patients regarding NCDs, to justify the importance of lifestyle modification and implement it by using health promotion techniques such as awareness programs to sensitise people. Five hundred out-patients of ten private super specialty hospitals of Kolkata, India were chosen as respondents who were interviewed with the help of a structured questionnaire. This study has emanated that perceived importance of information pertaining to NCDs and healthy lifestyle need to be communicated to the victims in a customised way to avoid the emergence and to arrest the progress and intensity of NCDs besides the use of medicinal support.

Designing Protocol to Manage Influence Activities and Promote Information Transmission

Many organizational relationships are governed by communication protocols which specify how parties are to converse with each other as well as who parties are to directly communicate with. This paper presents a model of strategic communication that establishes the use of protocol as a tool for controlling influence activities and information transmission in organizations. In the model, direct communication between any two parties is subject to a two-sided inefficiency, as efforts to influence signals and responsiveness to observed signals are strategic complements. I study the welfare effects of improving modes of communication (e.g. in-person vs. E-mail communication) in organizations, as well as the effects of enforcing communication via strategic intermediaries. The results of the model are applied to study various communication practices observed in organizations, ranging from open-door policies to rigid, hierarchical communication.

Partisan and Nonpartisan Communication Channels in Organizations

Decision makers are often accessible via a variety of communication channels (e.g. direct vs. intermediated, formal vs. informal, in-person vs. electronic, etc.), and the channel selected by an informed party can signal information about the sender's preferences. This paper uses a model of strategic communication to study how and why partisan and nonpartisan communication channels arise in organizations. Polarized organizations use only partisan channels and information transmission occurs primarily via cheap talk (channel selection). On the other hand, discussion equilibria include partisan channels for moderates, while those with important information instead use nonpartisan or discussion channels. Welfare analysis provides applications to various communication practices observed within organizations, particularly the near-ubiquitous use of both informal (e.g. gossip and rumors), and formal (e.g. business meetings or seminars) channels of communication in organizations and communities.

Pneumonia-related ideations, care-seeking, and treatment behaviors among children under 2 years with pneumonia symptoms in northwestern Nigeria.

Prompt treatment of pediatric pneumonia symptoms is a cornerstone of child survival programs but remains a challenge in Nigeria. Psychosocial influences, or ideations, directly influence pathways to care but have not been previously measured or examined for pediatric pneumonia. A two-stage cluster-sample cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted in Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara States in September 2019. Across 108 enumeration areas, all households were enumerated to census pregnant women and randomly sample women with children under 2 years ("under-twos") for inclusion. Respondents were asked about pediatric pneumonia and other health-related behaviors and ideations developed using the Ideation Model of Strategic Communication and Behavior Change. Prevalence ratios for predictors of care-seeking from formal medical sources and antibiotic treatment for pneumonia symptoms among under-twos were calculated using mixed-effects Poisson regression models with robust error variance. Among 350 under-twos with pneumonia symptoms, 33.8% were taken to formal medical care and 38.0% used antibiotics. Women who positively viewed treatment efficacy and those who positively viewed health services quality had 1.35 (95% CI: 1.00-1.82; P = .050) and 2.13 (95% CI: 1.35-3.35; P = .001) times higher likelihood of attending formal medical sources, while women viewing peers as mostly attending drug shops had 29% lower likelihood. Perceived treatment efficacy and illness susceptibility were also significant predictors for antibiotic use. Program interventions focusing on increasing pneumonia knowledge alone may not be sufficient to improve care-seeking and treatment rates and should expand to address perceived and actual poor-quality health services and maternal beliefs about treatment efficacy, social norms, illness severity, and susceptibility.

Influential News and Policy-making

To counter misinformation, regulators can exercise control over the costs that media outlets incur for misreporting policy-relevant news, e.g. by imposing fines. This paper analyzes the welfare implications of those types of interventions that affect misreporting costs. I study a model of strategic communication between an informed media outlet and an uninformed voter, where the outlet can misreport information at a cost. The alternatives available to the voter are endogenously championed by two competing candidates before communication takes place. I find that there is no clear nexus between the voter's welfare and informational distortions: interventions that benefit the voter might be associated with more misreporting activity and persuasion; relatively low misreporting costs yield full revelation but minimize the voter's welfare because they induce large policy distortions. Interventions that increase misreporting costs never harm the voter, but lenient measures might be wasteful. Electoral incentives distort the process of regulation itself, resulting in sub-optimal interventions that are detrimental to the voter's welfare.

Evasion of guilt in expert advice

We develop a model of strategic communication between an uninformed receiver and a partially informed sender who is guilt-averse toward the receiver. The sender’s cost of sending a particular message is endogenous, depending on the receiver’s beliefs induced by this message rather than on its exogenous formulation. Such preferences lead to the endogenous emergence of evasive communication in that the sender types who prefer not to reveal their information to the receiver pool with uninformed types rather than with types observing different information. As a result, the receiver may prefer an equilibrium with a smaller amount of messages used on the equilibrium path. Besides, dealing with an ex ante less informed sender can be beneficial to the receiver, while the sender himself may want to commit to a smaller ex ante likelihood of being informed.

Epistemic Public Reason: A Formal Model of Strategic Communication and Deliberative Democracy

Theories of public reason hold that authoritative commands are justified if all who are subject to such commands have reason to accept them. Beyond this, public reason theories differ. Consensus public reason liberals hold that persons must have the same reason for endorsing the commands they live under. Convergence public reason liberals hold that persons may have different reasons for accepting the commands. Strikingly, there is little examination of the effects these theories of public reason have in terms of likely policy outcomes. This paper develops a game theoretic model of consensus and convergence theories of public reason. The model finds a genuine trade-off between the two theories. Convergence public reason gives too much power to the (potentially arbitrary) agenda setter, while consensus public reason has a tendency to over-implement unjust reforms. These results inform where public reason liberals should focus their attention when debating accounts of public justification.

A Strategic Communication Model for Sustainable Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions

A Strategic Communication Model for Sustainable Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions

Cheap Talk with Strategic Substitutability

In the classic Crawford-Sobel (CS) model of strategic communication between an informed Sender and uninformed Receiver, perfect information transmission is never achieved as an equilibrium outcome. I present a modified version of the CS cheap talk game with the following two innovations: (i) both players take actions, and (ii) actions are strategic substitutes. In contrast to the CS setup, the modified game can facilitate perfect information revelation. I characterize the conditions under which a full information revelation equilibrium exists. When these conditions are violated, only partial revelation equilibria exist. Under partial revelation, the Sender reveals information up to a threshold state and pools beyond this threshold, resulting in some loss of information. Welfare analysis suggests that partial revelation equilibria with a higher threshold pareto dominate those with lower thresholds. Crucially, a higher threshold equilibrium is also interim efficient – every Sender type at least weakly prefers this over a lower threshold equilibrium.