It's Complicated: Vaccine Opinion and the 2014-15 Disneyland Measles Outbreak

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Hiram Smith Hall, Room 135, 1545 Observatory Drive. Free and open to the public.

Science communication colloquium hosted by the Department of Life Sciences Communication at UW-Madison.

Come hear Michael Cacciatore,  Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication , speak at our weekly colloquium series.

Michael Cacciatore is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication where he teaches research methodology and introduction to public relations in the Department of Advertising & Public Relations. His research focuses on risk communication with an emphasis on media coverage of risk and opinion formation for risk topics. Dr. Cacciatore’s research has examined the communication of risk topics ranging from nanotechnology to food safety to global climate change. A significant portion of this research has tracked media depictions of risk issues, paying particular attention to the role of social media in the communication of risk topics. His other research has focused most directly on the interplay between media, values and risk in public opinion formation. Dr. Cacciatore’s work has been published in Public Understanding of Science, Energy Policy, New Media & Society, and the Journal of Nanoparticle Research among others.