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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News and the Construction of Crisis David L. Altheide. Preface This book is about fear and its expanding place in our public life . I document the increase in the word fear and the rise of a “ discourse of fear " in the mid 1990s : the ...
News and the Construction of Crisis David L. Altheide. 1 Give the Devil His Due : Fear in Its Place Americans do not know fear . -Pakistani journalist Most Americans would not agree with the Pakistani journalist . Many Ameri- cans would ...
News and the Construction of Crisis David L. Altheide. As noted throughout this work , the discourse of fear refers ... with audience percep- tions . Others have noted the role of specific fears in public perceptions about crime and drugs ...
News and the Construction of Crisis David L. Altheide. not its cause . It is unlikely that an otherwise placid and ... with the aid of expanding research capacities and innovative de- signs , can be identified and queried in order to ...
... infuse everyday life , including architecture , entertain- ment , prayer , play , and work , adds a dimension to the effective environment— the physical and symbolic environment we experience and share on The Mass Media and Identity.
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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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