Matthew W Seeger

Matthew W. Seeger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication? at Wayne State University in ?Detroit, Michigan, USA. Seeger's research interests concern crisis, and risk communication, crisis response and agency coordination, health communication, the role of media in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal. He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control ?and Prevention on communication and the anthrax...See more

Matthew W. Seeger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication? at Wayne State University in ?Detroit, Michigan, USA. Seeger's research interests concern crisis, and risk communication, crisis response and agency coordination, health communication, the role of media in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal. He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control ?and Prevention on communication and the anthrax attack and on communication and pandemic influenza preparedness. He is an affiliate of the National Center ?for Food Protection and Defense where he studies issues of food safety and recalls. He is Co-PI on the National Science Foundation Grant, Multi-Agency Jurisdictional Organized Response, a project involving crisis coordination in complex social-technical systems. Seeger also works with the National Center for Border Security and Immigration. His work on crisis, risk and communication has appeared in the ?"Handbook of Crisis and Risk Communication, International Encyclopedia of ?Communication, Journal of Health Communication Research, Communication? Yearbook", the "Handbook of Public Relations, Handbook of Applied ?Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Public Relations Review, Communication Studies, the? Southern Communication Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of? Business Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, the Journal of? Applied Communication Research", and the" Journal of Organizational Change Management, "among several others. Seeger is the author or co-author of five books on crisis and risk communication. See less