Mapping and characterising changes to risk amplification within the British Press: 1985–2017

Rooke, Martin; Burgess, Adam

doi:10.1080/13669877.2021.1881993

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“…There were three phases to participant selection. The first phase involved a purposeful sampling of potential participants from a corpus of UK risk-based news developed as part of an earlier study (Rooke and Burgess, 2022). Internet searches for potential participants identified active social media accounts, current employers, or obituary.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While SARF research has primarily focused on identifying and linking the psychodynamic factors of risk amplification to news content, this has produced a body of research temporally siloed within specific news cycles. There is little empirical evidence available to explain temporal changes in linguistic or semantic profiles of risk-based news, such as the shift towards a more scientific reporting style in the 2000s or the rise of online conspiracy theorists in the late 2010s (Rooke and Burgess, 2022;Rooke 2021). Kitzinger (1999Kitzinger ( , 2000 outlines how professional conventions guide media approaches to risk reporting to write engaging stories for audiences.…”

Section: News and The Social Construction Of Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A longitudinal approach to investigating health and environmental news enables researchers to draw broader inferences of how sociopolitical concerns shape understanding of potential crises. (Rooke and Burgess, 2022;Rooke, 2021).…”

Section: Risk Sociology and Notions Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the substantive meaning of "risk" has changed between temporal contexts, shifting from connotations of 'war', 'conflict' and natural 'disaster' in the 1950s/1960s to connotations of 'disease' and environmental 'extinction' in the 1990s/2000s. Additional research (Rooke and Burgess, 2022) has highlighted how favouring the selection of scientific news sources reduced the risk amplifying expression of certainty and blame frames across the 2000s/2010s. It was found that, before the 2000s, risk reporters were inclined toward news sources from pressure groups and government ministers -who provided statements which framed health and environmental risks as political disputes over the appropriate uses of technology.…”

Section: Risk Sociology and Notions Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous research under SARF has provided an empirical foundation to support the idea of specific 'amplification factors' in news media which can shape public perception of health and environmental risks (Adekola, 2020;de Souza Porto and De Freitas, 1996). A previous study (Rooke and Burgess, 2022) investigated a corpus of Health and Environmental risk stories within British Newspapers . Evidence suggested that, after 2000, the British media more frequently featured statements from scientific researchers and were less inclined to frame health and environmental risk issues as a developing political debate.…”

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The Changing Landscape of Reporting Health and Environmental Risk Information

Rooke¹

2023

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Since the 1990s, news media has become central to informing the public understanding of healthand environmental risks. News media often ‘amplifies’ risks by drawing upon underlyingsociopolitical narratives to confer an additional sense of danger. A previous study has indicated that,since the 2000s, the British media attempted to improve the standard of science journalism withinrisk reporting. Through interviews with thirty members of the British national daily press, thepresent study investigates what changes to newswork have occurred which seem to have impactedthe quality of science reporting. Using time as a motif to guide analysis, the findings of this studysuggest that the shift to predominantly online reporting across the 2010s was associated with adecline in quality of science journalism. Interviewees reported that the technologies which liberatednews work from temporal demands in the 2000s have now become restrictive. New time pressureshave emerged which were blamed for undermining journalistic standards of information processing.Additionally, interviewees suggested that expanding public time horizons has produced newsaudiences who are seeking information on existential risks, which is being served by conspiracytheorists online. The findings of this study present a clear sociological challenge; how arecontemporary journalists to tackle misinformation within the public debate if they feel constrainedby time restraints to simply reproduce information?

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“Public goods” or “diplomatic tools”: a framing research on Chinese and American media reports regarding Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

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Social Amplification and Attenuation of Flood Risk Perception by Broadcast Media Risk Messages During the 2022 Floods in Selected Southern States in Nigeria

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Okeke

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The study examined if the flood risk messages in broadcast media in select states in Southeast and South-south Nigeria effectively amplified risk perception that influenced community response during the 2022 flood in Southern Nigeria. Consistent with the assumptions of the social amplification and attenuation of risk framework, this study looked at the frequency of the flood risk communications, gauged whether the flood risk messages were considered credible and trusted by the communities, and ascertained the extent to which the messages increased public worries and provoked a sense of threat and response to the flood hazards. The data were gathered from 380 flood victims in 4 communities in Anambra (Southeast) and Delta (South-south) States using a descriptive survey method. The study found that the broadcast media information and warnings were credible and increased public concerns but the amplification of flood risk perception in the broadcast media were not effectual as the risk communication did not start in time and the impact of the messages was moderated by institutional, social, economic and psychological variables that affected how the communities perceived, managed and responded to the flood risk messages. The study recommended that the flood risk messages should be timely, emphasise the severity of the threat of an impending flood, and sufficiently dramatize the message and the threat..

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Mapping and characterising changes to risk amplification within the British Press: 1985–2017

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

The Changing Landscape of Reporting Health and Environmental Risk Information

The Changing Landscape of Reporting Health and Environmental Risk Information

“Public goods” or “diplomatic tools”: a framing research on Chinese and American media reports regarding Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Social Amplification and Attenuation of Flood Risk Perception by Broadcast Media Risk Messages During the 2022 Floods in Selected Southern States in Nigeria

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