Technical Risk in the Mass Media

Annotated subindex to a symposium published in Risk

Allan Mazur, Technical Risk in the Mass Media --- The issue editor introduces and explains the origins of this symposium.... 5.189

Sharon Dunwoody, Community Structure and Media Risk Coverage --- Regards media organizations as community creatures, their accounts to be social constructions, and answers to "Who's right?" to be relative.... 5.193

Sharon M. Friedman, The Media, Risk Assessment and Numbers: They Don't Add Up --- Argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.... 5.203

Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Historical Notes on German Press Coverage of Technology --- Accounts for increased negativism in German media coverage of technology by pointing to changes in journalists role definitions and attitudes.... 5.213

William Lanouette, Reporting on Risk: Who Decides What's News? --- Argues that risks alone do not command national media attention; their implications must first be framed by broader national issues.... 5.223

Dorothy Nelkin, Reporting Risk: The Case of Silicone Breast Implants --- Finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult role.... 5.233

Hans Peter Peters, Mass Media as an Information Channel and Public Arena --- Proposes that several functions of mass media compete and that attempts to improve risk coverage must avoid optimizing one at the expense of others.... 5.241

Peter M. Sandman, Mass Media and Environmental Risk: Seven Principles --- Suggests that, when spokespersons for risk sources are inept in conveying their messages, they and we pay heavily for their mistakes.... 5.251

Eleanor Singer & Phyllis M. Endreny, Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters and Other Hazards --- Summarizes a large survey of hazard stories, showing that characteristics of news media affect risk presentation.... 5.261

Robert A. Stallings, Hindsight, Organizational Routines and Media Risk Coverage --- Describes how journalists explain catastrophes by coupling them with flaws in human organizations.... 5.271

Risk Articles Index

Modified 11/17/96 tgf
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