Risky Business
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-26601-0 (ISBN)
Three early chapters provide a critique of the concept of risk communication, the one-way transmission of information about various risks in the environment from the expert, scientific community to the lay public. Media performance is the subject of three chapters that explore research on a diversity of topics, from the reporting of medicine and health to media coverage of disasters and natural disasters in both the United States and Japan. The influence of individuals who serve as sources and the mandates of professional norms are revealed as the two major factors in science reporting. The next two chapters address the issues of secrecy and disclosure focusing on airline and airport safety and media coverage of military science and technology. Chapter nine tackles the problem of media coverage of organ donations and transplants. Then using as a base an analysis of media coverage of the greenhouse effect in 1987 and 1988, editors Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson explain when and how certain issues and events find a political symbol. Chapter eleven, Disasters and the Making of Political Careers, offers both analysis of the politics of disaster and advice for journalists and politicians about how they can and cannot expect to cope with disastrous events. In the final chapter, Wilkins and Patterson address Nelkin's original questions. These pages make important reading for journalists and other media specialists, politicians, policy makers, and members of the scientific community. This book is also an excellent choice for supplemental reading lists for courses in journalism and communications.
LEE WILKINS is a Professor and Associate Dean, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia. She authored Shared Vulnerability: Media Coverage and Public Perception of the Bhopal Disaster and Wayne Morse: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1987 and 1985, respectively). PHILIP PATTERSON is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Communications Department, Oklahoma Christian University. He specializes in mass-media ethics, media coverage of science, and political communication. He has been published widely in various communications journals.
Foreword: Why Is Science Writing So Uncritical of Science? by Dorothy Nelkin Introduction by Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson Risk Perceptions as Substance and Symbol by Robin Gregory Coming to Terms with the Impact of Communication on Scientific and Technological Risk Judgments by Sharon Dunwoody and Kurt Neuwirth Risk Management: The Public Versus the Technical Experts by Sharon M. Friedman Popularization vs. Secularization: Media Coverage of Health by Robert A. Logan The Stigma of Mental Illness: Labeling and Stereotyping in the News by Russell E. Shain and Julie Phillips Media Coverage of Technoloy Issues: Ethiopian Drought of 1984, AIDS, Challenger, and Chernobyl By Everett M. Rogers and Soon Bum Chang A Cross-Societal Comparison of Disaster News Reporting in Japan and the United States by E. L. Quarantelli and Dennis Wenger Organizational Communication and Technological Risks by Phillip K. Tompkins The Security of Secrecy by David M. Rubin A Case of Need: Media Coverage of Organ Transplants by Deni Elliott Science as Symbol: The Media Chills the Greenhouse Effect by Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson Disasters and the Making of Political Careers by Sue O'Brien Conclusions by Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson Bibliography Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.3.1991 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-313-26601-8 / 0313266018 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-313-26601-0 / 9780313266010 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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