Creating Fear: News and the Construction of CrisisTransaction Publishers - 223 Seiten Taking advantage of electronic information bases, Altheide, whose previous interpretive studies of the mass media are well known, uses a "tracking discourse" method to show how the nature and use of the word "fear" by mass media have changed over the years. His analysis examines how some of the topics associated with fear (e.g., AIDS, crime, immigrants, race, sexuality, schools, children) have shifted in emphasis, and how certain news organizations and social institutions benefit from the exploitation of fear. This book is about fear and its expanding place in our public life. The author documents the rise of a "discourse of fear" in the present era: the pervasive communication, symÂbolic awareness, and expectation that danger and risk surround us. Altheide offers explanations of how this occurred and suggests some of its serious social consequences. In doing so, he focuses on the nature and use of social power and social control. The mass media play a significant role in shaping social definitions that govern social action. Relatedly, his methodological and theoretical foundation in classical social theory, existential-phenomenology, ethnomethodology, and symbolic interactionism leads him to view social power as the capacity to define situations for self and others. Creating Fear is focused on sorting out the ways that the mass media and popular culture help define social situaÂtions. It helps understand the nature, process, and organizaÂtion of mass media operations, including news procedures, perspectives, and formats. It recognizes the need to expand our methodological frameworks to incorporate new inforÂmation technologies and databases and to ask different quesÂtions. This volume, which attempts to break the circle of fear discourse, will be of interest to sociologists, communiÂcations scholars, and criminologists. |
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... identities , and social order . Our work over two decades has stressed that it is the “ form ” of mass media and entertainment logic and formats that is the most significant for social life and not the " content , " per se . We have ...
... identities and for engaging in social life . Fear is one of the few perspectives that citizens share today ; while liber- als and conservatives may differ in their object of fear , all sides express many fears and point to " blameworthy ...
... identity in terms of how " people like us " saw the world . I learned through stories , or narratives . These days , for the majority of people , the mass media shape identities and narratives . THE MASS MEDIA AND IDENTITY Fear as a ...
... identity , " but rather , identity emerges and is ac- knowledged in situations ; we live in the identity process . Almost all writers using the term imply that identity establishes what and where the person is in social terms . It is ...
... identity and definition of the situa- tion . Waller ( 1961 ) puts it this way : Many persons living together in a common group life for many overlapping generations have mapped out clearly the limitations of behavior inherent in the ...
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Tracking Discourse | 29 |
The Problem Frame and the Production of Fear | 41 |
The Discourse of Fear | 59 |
Journalistic Interviewing | 101 |
Policing Crime and Fear in the News Media | 125 |
Children and the Discourse of Fear | 155 |
The Lens of Fear | 175 |
References | 199 |
Index | 211 |
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