论文信息 - Risk and Causality in Newspaper Reporting

Risk and Causality in Newspaper Reporting

The study addresses the textual representation of risk and causality in news media reporting. The analytical framework combines two theoretical perspectives: media frame analysis and the philosophy of causality. Empirical data derive from selected newspaper articles on risks in the Göta älv river valley in southwest Sweden from 1994 to 2007. News media content was coded and analyzed with respect to causal explanations of risk issues. At the level of individual articles, this study finds that the media provide simple causal explanations of risks such as water pollution, landslides, and flooding. Furthermore, these explanations are constructed, or framed, in various ways, the same risk being attributed to different causes in different articles. However, the study demonstrates that a fairly complex picture of risks in the media emerges when extensive material is analyzed systematically.

Max Boholm | Max Boholm

[1] Dietram A. Scheufele,et al. Framing as a theory of media effects , 1999 .

[2] A. Wåhlberg,et al. Risk perception and the media , 2000 .

[3] Ronald A. Howard,et al. Influence Diagram Retrospective , 2005, Decis. Anal..

[4] P Slovic,et al. The nature of technological hazard. , 1983, Science.

[5] Ortwin Renn,et al. Global Risk Governance , 2008 .

[6] P. Wolff. Direct causation in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events , 2003, Cognition.

[7] Eleanor Singer,et al. Reporting Hazards: Their Benefits and Costs , 1987 .

[8] J. Kitzinger. Researching risk and the media , 1999 .

[9] P. Mayring. Qualitative Content Analysis , 2000 .

[10] A. Mazur. Nuclear power, chemical hazards, and the quantity of reporting , 1990 .

[11] P. Wolff,et al. Models of causation and the semantics of causal verbs , 2003, Cognitive Psychology.

[12] Ortwin Renn,et al. The Social Amplification of Risk: A Conceptual Framework , 1988 .

[13] Y. Andersson-Sköld,et al. Quick clay—A case study of chemical perspective in Southwest Sweden , 2005 .

[14] Robert M. Entman,et al. Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm , 1993 .

[15] A Model for Evaluating Risk Reporting , 2008 .

[16] Klaus Wagner,et al. Mental Models of Flash Floods and Landslides , 2007, Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.

[17] C. Fillmore. FRAME SEMANTICS AND THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE * , 1976 .