Risk communication and risks of communication:

Ethics and strategic approaches to communicative complexity

Authors

  • Alessandro Lovari University of Cagliari

Keywords:

Risk communication, Crisis communication, Communication ethics, Strategic communication

Abstract

This editorial by the guest editor Alessandro Lovari introduces the special issue “Risk (of) Communication: Ethics, Futures, and Strategic Complexity” through a dual lens: risk communication as a response to crises and disasters, and the risk of communication when organizational practices are strategically weak or ethically fraught. It outlines thirteen contributions showing how communication can anticipate, amplify, or mitigate crises—from environmental and geopolitical disruptions to AI-driven infrastructures—while foregrounding questions of power, justice, duties, and responsibility.

 

Author Biography

Alessandro Lovari, University of Cagliari

Alessandro Lovari is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Cagliari (Italy) where he teaches Public Communication, and Institutional Communication, Digital Technologies and Media Relations (graduate program). He is the coordinator of the PhD program in Research and Social Innovation and PI of several national research projects on risk and emergency communication in environmental disasters (INSULANDER) as well as on AI impact on communication and citizens (IATI). Lovari’s research focuses on public sector communication, public relations, and health communication, investigating digital technologies’ impact on organizations’ practices and citizens’ behaviors in ordinary and crisis situations. He was a visiting scholar at Purdue University, University of Cincinnati, University of South Carolina, Virginia Commonwealth University (USA), and Jyväskylä University (Finland). He is author of more than hundred publications in monographs, book chapters and journal articles.

Additional Files

Published

2025-12-31

How to Cite

Lovari, A. (2025). Risk communication and risks of communication:: Ethics and strategic approaches to communicative complexity. Mediascapes Journal, 26(2), I-VII. Retrieved from https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/19349

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2025): Risk (of) Communication: Ethics, Futures, and Strategic Complexity

Section

Editorial

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