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Creating Fear - News and the Construction of Crisis (Hardcover): David L. Altheide

Creating Fear - News and the Construction of Crisis (Hardcover)

David L. Altheide

Series: Social Problems & Social Issues

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Social Problems & Social Issues
Release date: December 2017
First published: 2002
Authors: David L. Altheide
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-52143-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
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LSN: 1-138-52143-4
Barcode: 9781138521438

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