Valerie Gunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 257481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Gunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunter |
| SIGNATURE | GUNTER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective
We examine the collective interpretations of disaster recovery following the Exxon Valdez oil spill as developed in the alternative Alaska Native newspaper, the Tundra Times. With limited comparisons to Alaska state newspapers, we argue that the differences between the Tundra Times and mainstream media extend to the very process by which each venue goes about constructing media packages. We document differences on four media package elements: (1)…
News Media and Technological Risks: The Case of Pesticides after Silent Spring
The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring vaulted pesticide risks to a prominent place on the media agenda. This article reports on a study of the relative weight of attention given by the New York Times to alarming or reassuring messages about pesticides in the immediate aftermath of Silent Spring. Theoretically, it uses a combination of inductive and deductive approaches to explain the empirical findings. Three models of media cover…
Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies, Discourse, and Liquid Modernity
This paper is an inquiry into how a new truth about sleepiness is being produced in a society increasingly organized around the primacy of expertise and its representation in print and visual media. Sleepiness originally described a benign, naturally occurring corporeal moment, a precursor to sleep. Increasingly, however, a new and disturbing meaning of somnolence is found in a juncture of medical and epidemiological research, social movements, a…
Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, in turn, forced to adapt to these altered conditions. Today, mysterious illnesses, from chronic fati…
Theoretical stances and environmental debates: Reconciling the physical and the symbolic
Impact of petroleum development on lethal violence
Rapid social change is hypothesized to be associated with social disorder. This study investipates the relationship between petroleum extraction activity in the Gulf of Mexico and lethal violence in Louisiana across allphases of development, controlling for degree and type of community involvement in the industry. The results show that rapid increases in petroleum activity are associated with increases in lethal violence. Rapid decreases in activ…
Toxic Contamination and Communities: Using an Ecological-Symbolic Perspective to Theorize Response Contingencies
The ecological-symbolic perspective posits that community response to toxic contamination is shaped by both the nature of the environmental disruption and the interpretive frames through which those disruptions are apprehended. Full utilization of this perspective has been hampered by the deterministic underpinnings of the current chronic technological disaster model, which presents local conflict as a virtually inevitable outcome of these events…
Risk Assessment and Citizen Participation
Noisy Winter: The DDT Controversy in the Years before Silent Spring
In this paper, we examine three unanticipated findings from a social constructionist analysis of popular media coverage of the pesticide DDT from the years 1944 to 1961. The first unanticipated finding was the early (1945) appearance of negative or cautionary claims in the media source examined, the New York Times. Second, while negative or cautionary claims about the pesticide did constitute a minority voice during this time period, it was nonet…
Oil on the Edge: Offshore Development, Conflict, Gridlock
A pound of cure: Facilitating participatory processes in technological hazard disputes
We examine seven case studies of locally based technological hazard disputes to clarify factors that contribute to more effective public involvement strategies. These factors include: (1) the agency/community relationship, reflecting agencies’ willingness to negotiate collaboratively with laypersons; (2) community characteristics, including background experience in problem solving and negotiation, and the representativeness of local organizations…
Defining Disaster: Local Constructions for Recovery in the Aftermath of Chemical Contamination
This study analyzes a toxic crisis in which local problems were linked to statewide chemical contamination of the human food chain. In contrast to widely reported community disempowerment following technological disasters, accounts of local activity in Gratiot County, Michigan's weekly newspaper reflect a resilient response in which area interests worked to resolve contamination problems without destroying the social fabric cf local life. County …
Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies, Discourse, and Liquid Modernity
This paper is an inquiry into how a new truth about sleepiness is being produced in a society increasingly organized around the primacy of expertise and its representation in print and visual media. Sleepiness originally described a benign, naturally occurring corporeal moment, a precursor to sleep. Increasingly, however, a new and disturbing meaning of somnolence is found in a juncture of medical and epidemiological research, social movements, a…
Defining Disaster: Local Constructions for Recovery in the Aftermath of Chemical Contamination
This study analyzes a toxic crisis in which local problems were linked to statewide chemical contamination of the human food chain. In contrast to widely reported community disempowerment following technological disasters, accounts of local activity in Gratiot County, Michigan's weekly newspaper reflect a resilient response in which area interests worked to resolve contamination problems without destroying the social fabric cf local life. County …
Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective
We examine the collective interpretations of disaster recovery following the Exxon Valdez oil spill as developed in the alternative Alaska Native newspaper, the Tundra Times. With limited comparisons to Alaska state newspapers, we argue that the differences between the Tundra Times and mainstream media extend to the very process by which each venue goes about constructing media packages. We document differences on four media package elements: (1)…
Toxic Contamination and Communities: Using an Ecological-Symbolic Perspective to Theorize Response Contingencies
The ecological-symbolic perspective posits that community response to toxic contamination is shaped by both the nature of the environmental disruption and the interpretive frames through which those disruptions are apprehended. Full utilization of this perspective has been hampered by the deterministic underpinnings of the current chronic technological disaster model, which presents local conflict as a virtually inevitable outcome of these events…
Noisy Winter: The DDT Controversy in the Years before Silent Spring
In this paper, we examine three unanticipated findings from a social constructionist analysis of popular media coverage of the pesticide DDT from the years 1944 to 1961. The first unanticipated finding was the early (1945) appearance of negative or cautionary claims in the media source examined, the New York Times. Second, while negative or cautionary claims about the pesticide did constitute a minority voice during this time period, it was nonet…
News Media and Technological Risks: The Case of Pesticides after Silent Spring
The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring vaulted pesticide risks to a prominent place on the media agenda. This article reports on a study of the relative weight of attention given by the New York Times to alarming or reassuring messages about pesticides in the immediate aftermath of Silent Spring. Theoretically, it uses a combination of inductive and deductive approaches to explain the empirical findings. Three models of media cover…
A pound of cure: Facilitating participatory processes in technological hazard disputes
We examine seven case studies of locally based technological hazard disputes to clarify factors that contribute to more effective public involvement strategies. These factors include: (1) the agency/community relationship, reflecting agencies’ willingness to negotiate collaboratively with laypersons; (2) community characteristics, including background experience in problem solving and negotiation, and the representativeness of local organizations…
Theoretical stances and environmental debates: Reconciling the physical and the symbolic
Defining Disaster: Local Constructions for Recovery in the Aftermath of Chemical Contamination
This study analyzes a toxic crisis in which local problems were linked to statewide chemical contamination of the human food chain. In contrast to widely reported community disempowerment following technological disasters, accounts of local activity in Gratiot County, Michigan's weekly newspaper reflect a resilient response in which area interests worked to resolve contamination problems without destroying the social fabric cf local life. County …
A pound of cure: Facilitating participatory processes in technological hazard disputes
We examine seven case studies of locally based technological hazard disputes to clarify factors that contribute to more effective public involvement strategies. These factors include: (1) the agency/community relationship, reflecting agencies’ willingness to negotiate collaboratively with laypersons; (2) community characteristics, including background experience in problem solving and negotiation, and the representativeness of local organizations…
Oil on the Edge: Offshore Development, Conflict, Gridlock
Risk Assessment and Citizen Participation
Noisy Winter: The DDT Controversy in the Years before Silent Spring
In this paper, we examine three unanticipated findings from a social constructionist analysis of popular media coverage of the pesticide DDT from the years 1944 to 1961. The first unanticipated finding was the early (1945) appearance of negative or cautionary claims in the media source examined, the New York Times. Second, while negative or cautionary claims about the pesticide did constitute a minority voice during this time period, it was nonet…
Impact of petroleum development on lethal violence
Rapid social change is hypothesized to be associated with social disorder. This study investipates the relationship between petroleum extraction activity in the Gulf of Mexico and lethal violence in Louisiana across allphases of development, controlling for degree and type of community involvement in the industry. The results show that rapid increases in petroleum activity are associated with increases in lethal violence. Rapid decreases in activ…
Toxic Contamination and Communities: Using an Ecological-Symbolic Perspective to Theorize Response Contingencies
The ecological-symbolic perspective posits that community response to toxic contamination is shaped by both the nature of the environmental disruption and the interpretive frames through which those disruptions are apprehended. Full utilization of this perspective has been hampered by the deterministic underpinnings of the current chronic technological disaster model, which presents local conflict as a virtually inevitable outcome of these events…
Theoretical stances and environmental debates: Reconciling the physical and the symbolic
Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, in turn, forced to adapt to these altered conditions. Today, mysterious illnesses, from chronic fati…
News Media and Technological Risks: The Case of Pesticides after Silent Spring
The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring vaulted pesticide risks to a prominent place on the media agenda. This article reports on a study of the relative weight of attention given by the New York Times to alarming or reassuring messages about pesticides in the immediate aftermath of Silent Spring. Theoretically, it uses a combination of inductive and deductive approaches to explain the empirical findings. Three models of media cover…
Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies, Discourse, and Liquid Modernity
This paper is an inquiry into how a new truth about sleepiness is being produced in a society increasingly organized around the primacy of expertise and its representation in print and visual media. Sleepiness originally described a benign, naturally occurring corporeal moment, a precursor to sleep. Increasingly, however, a new and disturbing meaning of somnolence is found in a juncture of medical and epidemiological research, social movements, a…
Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective
We examine the collective interpretations of disaster recovery following the Exxon Valdez oil spill as developed in the alternative Alaska Native newspaper, the Tundra Times. With limited comparisons to Alaska state newspapers, we argue that the differences between the Tundra Times and mainstream media extend to the very process by which each venue goes about constructing media packages. We document differences on four media package elements: (1)…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Risk Perception and Management (6 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)