Creating Fear : News and the Construction of Crisis
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Social Problems & Social Issues
ISBN-10
0202306607
ISBN-13
9780202306605
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
AldineTransaction
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 31st, 2002
Print length
238 Pages
Weight
368 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.00 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesMedia studies
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David Altheide maps how the nature of the use of the word "fear" has changed since the 1980s; how the topics associated with fear, the topics of media discourse, have also changed over the same period; and how certain news sources prevail over others.
The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social institutions benefit from the explotation of such fear construction. One social impact is a manipulated public empathy: We now have more "victims" than at any time in our prior history. Another, more troubling resutl is the role we have ceded to law enforcement and punishment: we turn ever more readily to the state and formal control to protect us from what we fear. This book attempts through the marshalling of significant data to interrupt that vicious cycle of fear discourse.
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