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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... Victim Movement Michael Welch , Flag Burning : Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest Carolyn L. Wiener , The Elusive Quest : Accountability in Hospitals Rhys Williams ( eds . ) , Cultural Wars in American Politics : Critical ...
... victims : Barbara Gray , Roy Janisch , Lindsey Ko- rbin , Ray Maratea , Debra Neill , Joseph Reaves , and Felicia Van Deman . Their insights were helpful in recognizing how pernicious the " victim " status has become , how it is used by ...
... 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 Give the Devil His Due : Fear in Its Place 3.
... victim , which is discussed in a later chapter . I refer to this ex- panded use of fear as a " fear thematic , " that when used in numerous stories and everyday conversation becomes a discourse of fear or the pervasive communi- cation ...
... victim - the most common " criminal " ac- counts ; on the performer — a police officer shooting someone ; or whether the crime is more contextual or double - casting — as in physician - assisted suicide ) . She found , for example ...
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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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