Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2484686
AutoresRobert A Stallings (Southern California University for Professional Studies, autor correspondente)
Ano1990
Volume37
Fascículo1
Páginas80-95
Data de publicação1990-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Problems (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/800796
OpenAlexW2152507450
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas134
Referências citadas60

A sociological approach to the study of risk assumes that risk and safety exist in and through social organization rather than as objective conditions that individuals simply perceive either more or less accurately. A research agenda based on this assumption must identify who influences the social construction of risk and how they do so. This paper focuses on media discourse in the aftermath of a dramatic event. It deals with news accounts of a bridge collapse and of the apparent deterioration of the nation's bridges contained in articles published in the national edition of the New York Times. I identify and compare causes of the problematic condition of bridges advanced by experts and other news sources with causes that were conspicuously absent from these news accounts to suggest why some conceptions of risk but not others enter into public discourse

Bridge (graph theory) · Event (particle physics) · Media coverage · Media studies · News media · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Public relations · Social constructionism · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Risk Perception and Management