Hot crises and media reassurance: a comparison of emerging diseases and Ebola Zaire
Hot crises and media reassurance: a comparison of emerging diseases and Ebola Zaire
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DOI：
10.2307/591262
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发表时间：
1998-03-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Ungar, S
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作者：
Ungar, S
从道德恐慌的社会学角度，本文认为，当“热点危机”预示着可能出现的基层恐慌时，媒体将从警告性报道转向安慰性报道。为了确定这种缓和效应是否来自以不可预测和潜在威胁的方式发展的令人恐惧的事件，该论文将报纸和杂志对新兴疾病的报道与对扎伊尔埃博拉病毒的报道进行了比较。研究结果表明，突变-传染一揽子理论及其对新出现疾病的可怕描述，在埃博拉疫情期间迅速被抛弃和颠覆。取而代之的是，媒体设计了一个遏制方案，使用“他者化”的策略来减轻恐惧。结论部分讨论了媒体用来框定事件的工具包的灵活性。
Drawing on the sociology of moral panic, this paper argues that the media will shift from alarming to reassuring coverage when a 'hot crisis' portends a possible grass root panic. To determine whether this moderation effect follows from dread-inspiring events that are developing in unpredictable and potentially threatening ways, the paper compares newspaper and magazine coverage of emerging diseases with their coverage of Ebola Zaire. The results reveal that the mutation-contagion package, with its frightful account of emerging diseases, was quickly abandoned and subverted during the Ebola epidemic. In its place, the media fashion a containment package that uses a strategy of 'othering' to allay the fear. The conclusion discusses the flexibility in the tool kits used by the media to frame events.