Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis - Brossura

Altheide, David L.

 
9780202306605: 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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David L. Altheide

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9781138521438: Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis

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ISBN 10:  1138521434 ISBN 13:  9781138521438
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2017
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