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news and the construction of crisis

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An edition of Creating fear (2002)

Creating fear

news and the construction of crisis

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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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Aldine de Gruyter, Aldine Transaction
Language
English
Pages
223

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Subjects

Psychological aspects of Mass media, Public opinion, Mass media, Psychological aspects, Mass media and public opinion, Fear, Public opinion, united states

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United States

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Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis
2017, Routledge
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Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis
2017, Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
in English
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Cover of: Creating fear
Creating fear: news and the construction of crisis
2002, Aldine de Gruyter, Aldine Transaction
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1 Give the Devil His Due:
Fear in Its Place
2 Tracking Discourse
3 The Problem Frame and the Production of Fear
4 The Discourse of Fear
5 Journalistic Interviewing
6 Policing Crime and Fear in the News Media
7 Children and the Discourse of Fear
8 The Lens of Fear
References
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.

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New York
Series
Social problems and social issues

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.23/0973
Library of Congress
P96.P832 U62 2002, P96.P832U62 2001, P96.P832 U62 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 223 p. :
Number of pages
223

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OL3951528M
Internet Archive
creatingfearnews0000alth
ISBN 10
0202306593, 0202306607
LCCN
2001045913
OCLC/WorldCat
47863236
Library Thing
2306399
Goodreads
2180789

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