Mass Media Coverage of Technological and Environmental Risks: A Survey of Research in the United States and Germany  

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Dunwoody, Sharon ; Peters, Hans Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 1 no. 2 (Apr. 1992), page 199-230.
Fulltext: 199PUS12.pdf (1.81MB)

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Research on media communication of risks has bewme a reasonably well funded and popular domain for scholars around the world. Although one can find a great deal of collaboration among thee scholars within countries, cross-cultural collaborations are far more rare. In this article, an American and a Gmnan scholar attempt to bring results from sludies in both their countries to bear on some of the more popular questions being asked by risk communication researchers and practitioners. Wilh a few exceptions, studies from the two countries demonstrate highly wnsonant mults, suggesting great similarities bet- (I) the g ” l soeial and technological cult- of thcse two developed countries, (2) the ways in which their scientific and journalistic cultures deal with the concept of risk, and (3) the ways in which risk communication researchers in these two countries conceptualize and opcrationalize this domain of inquiry. The renew wncentrates on studia that examine the wnstruction of risk stories by journalists but oRm a framework within which to examine story dfects as well.

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