Social Proximity and Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Media Coverage of Avian Flu in Hong Kong and in the United States

Timothy Fung; Kang Namkoong; Dominique Brossard

Social Proximity and Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Media Coverage of Avian Flu in Hong Kong and in the United States

Timothy Fung
, Kang Namkoong
, Dominique Brossard

Department of Communication Studies

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to compare media coverage of avian flu in Hong Kong and in the United States, based on an analytical framework derived from the literature on public risk perceptions. Notably, this study uses the psychometric paradigm to identify a number of dimensions that should be taken into account when analyzing news coverage of risky issues.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Aug 2008
Event	91st Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2008 - Chicago, United States Duration: 6 Aug 2008 → 9 Aug 2008

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Conference	91st Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	6/08/08 → 9/08/08

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Social Proximity and Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Media Coverage of Avian Flu in Hong Kong and in the United States. / Fung, Timothy; Namkoong, Kang; Brossard, Dominique.
2008. Paper presented at 91st Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2008, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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