My work recently involves the examination of how media cover risks. The area of risk is broad and can include environmental, health, technological hazards and so on. During my search for literature, I come across a website: Risk: Health, Safty, & Environment.
Signal and Noise, by Boykoff and Rajan (2007), is another piece comparing news coverage of (environmental/ global climate change) risks in the US and UK.
An interesting idea is that something considered risky in one country/ culture may not trigger the same perception in another culture. My goal is to identify why and how these cultural difference in worldviews affects media representation of the risk issues.
Mass communications and agrobiotechnology.
The brave new world of science communication
11 years ago
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