Creating fear
news and the construction of crisis
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Author
Publication
2002 - Aldine de Gruyter, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
55,750 words, Guess
Page Count
223 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecreatingfearnews0000alth
- ISBN-100202306593
- ISBN-100202306607
- ISBN-139780202306599
- ISBN-139780202306605
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001045913
- OCLC Control Number47863236
- Better World Books9780202306605
- Better World BooksP8-BOE-206
- Open LibraryOL3951528M
Classifications
- DDC302.23/0973
- LCCP96.P832 U62 2002
- LCCP96.P832U62 2001
and 1 more
- LCCP96.P832 U62 2001
Description
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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Series Statement
- Social problems and social issues
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