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dc.contributor.authorHowarth, A-
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-19T11:44:34Z-
dc.date.available2015-01-19T11:44:34Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citationHealth, Risk and Society, 15(8): 681-698, (2013)en_US
dc.identifier.issn1369-8575-
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698575.2013.851180-
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9792-
dc.descriptionThis is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Health, Risk and Society, 15(6), 681-698, 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13698575.2013.851180.en_US
dc.description.abstractThere has been a proliferation of risk discourses in recent decades but studies of these have been polarised, drawing either on moral panic or new risk frameworks to analyse journalistic discourses. This article opens the theoretical possibility that the two may co-exist and converge in the same scare. I do this by bringing together more recent developments in moral panic thesis, with new risk theory and the concept of media logic. I then apply this theoretical approach to an empirical analysis of how and with what consequences moral panic and new risk type discourses converged in the editorials of four newspaper campaigns against GM food policy in Britain in the late 1990s. The article analyses 112 editorials published between January 1998 and December 2000, supplemented with news stories where these were needed for contextual clarity. This analysis shows that not only did this novel food generate intense media and public reactions; these developed in the absence of the type of concrete details journalists usually look for in risk stories. Media logic is important in understanding how journalists were able to engage and hence how a major scare could be constructed around convergent moral panic and new risk type discourses. The result was a media ‘superstorm’ of sustained coverage in which both types of discourse converged in highly emotive mutually reinforcing ways that resonated in a highly sensitised context. The consequence was acute anxiety, social volatility and the potential for the disruption of policy and social change.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectRisken_US
dc.subjectRisk communicationen_US
dc.subjectMoral panicen_US
dc.subjectNew risksen_US
dc.subjectFooden_US
dc.titleA "superstorm": When moral panic and new risk discourses converge in the mediaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2013.851180-
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