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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... Promoting Health Risk : Constructing the Earthquake Threat Frank J. Weed , Certainty of Justice : Reform in the Crime Victim Movement Michael Welch , Flag Burning : Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest Carolyn L. Wiener , The ...
... promoting entertainment and fear . Journalists , social scientists , and others have made numerous observations that Americans seem to fear the " wrong things " ( e.g . , Furedi 1997 ; Glassner 1999 ; Margolis 1996 ) , including crime ...
... promote individuation , experts , objective conditions , risks , and so forth make us more vulnerable . His comments and citations about the connections between anxiety about everyday life and the efforts to control children resonate ...
... promotes new fears and an expanding array of " victims . " An army of social scientists and other in- tellectuals or " issue fans " -serve as claims makers , marketing their target issues and agendas in various forms and forums , such ...
... promote issues of concern to a particular segment of the population through the arenas offered by that segment's media ... [ and ] fragmented media aimed at homogeneous audiences attract a less critical re- ception for prospective ...
Inhalt
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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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