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In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field's leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis. Offering practical insights, the contributors consider risk communication in all contexts and applications-interpersonal, organizational, and societal-offering a wider view of risk communication than other volumes. Importantly, the handbook emphasizes the communication side of risk communication, providing integrative knowledge about the models, audiences, messages, and the media and channels necessary for effective risk communication that enables informed judgments and actions regarding risk. Editors Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine McComas have significantly contributed to the field of risk communication with this important reference work-a must-have for students, scholars, and risk and crisis communication professionals.
Media Portrayal of Risk: The Social Production of News
Media Portrayal of Risk: The Social Production of News
Introduction
The study of media content production is important to the study of risk communication because most audience members get much of their information about risk from media accounts. This chapter is concerned with this question: What forces tend to shape that mediated information to begin with, with respect to risk information? While audiences are certainly made up of individuals (and are very often studied at the individual unit-of-analysis level),1 the processes through which media coverage is shaped reflect complex organizational, institutional, societal, and professional factors, as well as the nature of the broader culture in which these factors play out. The knowledge, assumptions, and beliefs that ...
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