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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 "discourse of fear"--The awareness and expectation that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social institutions benefit from the exploitation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altheide, David L.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [2002]
Series:Social problems and social issues.
Subjects:
Mass media and public opinion > United States.
Fear > United States.
Mass media > Psychological aspects.
Public opinion > United States.
Médias et opinion publique > États-Unis.
Peur > États-Unis.
Médias > Aspect psychologique.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Give the devil his due: fear in its place
  • Tracking discourse
  • Problem frame and the production of fear
  • Discourse of fear
  • Journalistic interviewing
  • Policing crime and fear in the news media
  • Children and the discourse of fear
  • Lens of fear.