MEDIA DISCOURSE AND PUBLIC-OPINION ON NUCLEAR-POWER - A CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH
MEDIA DISCOURSE AND PUBLIC-OPINION ON NUCLEAR-POWER - A CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH
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DOI：
10.1086/229213
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发表时间：
1989-07-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
MODIGLIANI, A
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作者：
GAMSON, WA;MODIGLIANI, A
媒介话语和公众舆论被视为两个平行的意义建构系统。本文通过分析电视新闻报道、新闻杂志报道、社论漫画和联合评论专栏这四种大众媒体中关于核能的话语来探讨它们之间的关系。该分析追溯了从1945年到现在对核能的不同解释包的职业生涯。这种媒体话语，有人认为，是理解公众舆论的核电形成的一个重要背景。更具体地说，它有助于解释这样的调查结果，如三哩岛之前，核电的支持率下降，媒体宣传消失后的反弹，核电的一般支持率与自己社区的核电厂支持率之间的差距，以及从1950年到现在，年龄与核电支持率之间的关系发生了变化。
Media discourse and public opinion are treated as two parallel systems of constructing meaning. This paper explores their relationship by analyzing the discourse on nuclear power in four general audience media: television news coverage, newsmagazine accounts, editorial cartoons, and syndicated opinion columns. The analysis traces the careers of different interpretive packages on nuclear power from 1945 to the present. This media discourse, it is argued, is an essential context for understanding the formation of public opinion on nuclear power. More specifically, it helps to account for such survey results as the decline in support for nuclear power before Three Mile Island, a rebound after a burst of media publicity has died out, the gap between general support for nuclear power and support for a plant in one's own community, and the changed relationship of age to support for nuclear power from 1950 to the present.