TY - JOUR
T1 - Media, social proximity, and risk
T2 - A comparative analysis of newspaper coverage of avian flu in Hong Kong and in the United States
AU - Fung, Timothy K.F.
AU - Namkoong, Kang
AU - Brossard, Dominique
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051964012&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10810730.2011.561913
DO - 10.1080/10810730.2011.561913
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 21590569
AN - SCOPUS:80051964012
SN - 1081-0730
VL - 16
SP - 889
EP - 907
JO - Journal of Health Communication
JF - Journal of Health Communication
IS - 8
ER -
