Editors:
- Discusses the role of different media in the creation and dissemination of fear
- Examines the mechanisms of persuasion that trigger willingness to accept extreme measures or actions during crises
- Argues that fear is recurrently used by political and social actors to increase their own power in different societies
Part of the book series: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series (GTMCR)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Disseminating and Mitigating Fear During Pandemics and Disasters
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Spreading Fear Across Borders: Journalism and Alternative Media
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State-Sponsored Fear and Intimidation
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About this book
This book offers a diachronical and inter-/transmedia approach to the relationship of media and fear in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. This allows for an in-depth understanding of the media’s role in pandemics, wars and other crises, as well as in political intimidation. The book assembles chapters from a variety of authors, focusing on the relation between media and fear in the West, the Middle East, the Arab World and China. Besides its geographical and cultural diversity, the volume also takes a long-term perspective, bringing together cases from transforming media environments which span over a century. The book establishes a strong and historically persistent nexus between media and fear, which finds ever-new forms with new media but always follows similar logics.
Reviews
James Curran, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
This outstanding volume traces the impact of fear, uncertainty – and sometimes related – hope, historically, from World War I to the present and the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, media reporting is deconstructed in much systematic detail which allows understanding continuities and discontinuities of its complex role, locally, glocally, and globally. A must read for scholars and laypeople alike!
Ruth Wodak, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Lancaster University
Tracing the relationship between threat, fear and the media across wide-ranging time spans, geographies and contexts, Media and the Dissemination of Fear explores its workings across natural disasters, wars, conflicts and health crises over the past 100 years. Although circumstances may have changed, the exploitation of fear as a means of social control and intimidation has not, and this book speaks to the myriad ways in which its damaging currents destabilize individuals and communities, force widespread compliance and entrench enmity and otherness, particularly in association with populist regimes. A thoughtful, important volume that wrestles mightily with the centrality of fear in contemporary life writ large.
Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
The collection edited by Ribeiro and Schwarzenegger clearly shows how a historical perspective on media and communications fears is timely and relevant. With the diachronic, intermedia and transcultural perspectives collected in this volume, editors and authors show the persistence and continuity of how media were and are used to disseminate, counter or simply feast on fear. For everyone interested in the longer history of what is nowadays discussed as affective publics, hate speech, populism and fake news this is a must read
Gabriele Balbi, Associate Professor in Media Studies, Università della Svizzera italianaEditors and Affiliations
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School of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
Nelson Ribeiro
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Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Christian Schwarzenegger
About the editors
Nelson Ribeiro is Associate Professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal, where he is the Dean of the School of Human Sciences and Coordinator of the PhD in Communication Studies. Chair of the History Section at IAMCR, his main research interests are media and communication history, transnational broadcasting and political economy of the media.
Christian Schwarzenegger is Akademischer Rat in the Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and visiting Professor at Salzburg University, Austria. His research interests include media and communication history and alternative media. Schwarzenegger is Chair of the DGPuK Communication History Division and Vice-Chair of the ECREA Communication History Section.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media and the Dissemination of Fear
Book Subtitle: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation
Editors: Nelson Ribeiro, Christian Schwarzenegger
Series Title: Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84989-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84988-7Published: 04 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84991-7Published: 05 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84989-4Published: 03 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5978
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5986
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Journalism, Political Communication