"Fox Tots Attack Shock": Urban Foxes, Mass Media and Boundary-Breaching
"Fox Tots Attack Shock": Urban Foxes, Mass Media and Boundary-Breaching
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DOI：
10.1080/17524032.2012.716370
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Mills, Brett
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作者：
Cassidy, Angela;Mills, Brett
2010年6月7日，英国媒体报道称，一对9个月大的双胞胎在东伦敦被怀疑狐狸袭击后被紧急送往医院：婴儿受了重伤。这个故事持续了几个月的报道，并成为关于城市狐狸行为的争论焦点，以及它们和人类应该如何共存。本文运用文本分析的方法来解读围绕这一事件的各种话语，探讨这一事件如何成为如此突出的媒体事件。除了愚蠢的季节和政治过渡时期的背景下，我们认为，这一事件打破了一系列的空间边界，许多社会之间的人和自然世界，从一个孩子的摇篮最安全的空间，对动物本身的分类。我们讨论了这种边界破坏的后果，指出了一个深刻的混乱分配的责任，和专业知识，城市狐狸的数字。
On June 7, 2010, UK media outlets reported that 9-month-old twins living in East London had been rushed to hospital following a suspected fox attack: the babies had been seriously injured. This story received sustained coverage for several months, and became the focus of debate over the behavior of urban foxes, and how they and humans should coexist. Using textual analysis to unravel the various discourses surrounding this moment, this paper discusses how the incident became such a prominent media event. Alongside the contexts of the silly season and a period of political transition, we argue that this incident breached a series of spatial boundaries that many societies draw between people and the natural world, from the safest space of a child's cot, to the categorizations made about animals themselves. We discuss the consequences of such boundary breaches, pointing to a deep confusion over the assignment of responsibility for, and expertise about, the figure of the urban fox.