Media, social proximity, and risk: A comparative analysis of newspaper coverage of avian flu in Hong Kong and in the United States

This study uses the psychometric paradigm (Renn & Rohrmann, 2000; Slovic, 1992) as an analytic framework to analyze the risk dimensions being conveyed in media coverage of Avian flu in Hong Kong and in the United States between 2003 and 2007. A quantitative content analysis of The New York Times...

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Main Authors: Fung, Kai Fung, Namkoong, Kang, Brossard, Dominique
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: HKBU Institutional Repository 2011
Subjects:
Department of Communication Studies
Communication
Avian flu
Online Access:https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/coms_ja/37
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Summary:This study uses the psychometric paradigm (Renn & Rohrmann, 2000; Slovic, 1992) as an analytic framework to analyze the risk dimensions being conveyed in media coverage of Avian flu in Hong Kong and in the United States between 2003 and 2007. A quantitative content analysis of The New York Times and South China Morning Post stories showed different patterns of avian flu related risk content coverage. The differences revealed that dimensions related to dreadfulness, catastrophic potential, uncertainty, and unfamiliarity were more emphasized in The New York Times than in South China Morning Post. The authors discuss the implications.

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