TY - CHAP
T1 - Negotiating risk in Chinese and Australian print media hard news reporting on food safety
T2 - a corpus-based study
AU - Huan, Changpeng
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Risk is defined by Beck as a ‘systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself’ (Beck, 1992, p. 21). Douglas (1992) and Luhmann (1993) maintain that it is essential to distinguish risk from danger, and to sustain a relationship between risk and responsibility. In this sense, risk almost always invokes external attribution (Luhmann, 1993; Sarangi, Bennert, Howell, & Clarke, 2003; Sarangi & Clarke, 2002), and is best understood as manufactured and constructed (Adam, Beck, & Van Loon, 2000) among a nexus of practices (Scollon & Scollon, 2004). Beck (1992, 1999) argues that meanings of risk are primarily constructed and shaped between government and science. This argument however has largely underplayed the importance of media as a crucial site of engagement where meanings of risk are negotiated among different stake-holders and where such negotiation is mediated by journalistic professional practices (see also Mythen, 2004).
AB - Risk is defined by Beck as a ‘systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself’ (Beck, 1992, p. 21). Douglas (1992) and Luhmann (1993) maintain that it is essential to distinguish risk from danger, and to sustain a relationship between risk and responsibility. In this sense, risk almost always invokes external attribution (Luhmann, 1993; Sarangi, Bennert, Howell, & Clarke, 2003; Sarangi & Clarke, 2002), and is best understood as manufactured and constructed (Adam, Beck, & Van Loon, 2000) among a nexus of practices (Scollon & Scollon, 2004). Beck (1992, 1999) argues that meanings of risk are primarily constructed and shaped between government and science. This argument however has largely underplayed the importance of media as a crucial site of engagement where meanings of risk are negotiated among different stake-holders and where such negotiation is mediated by journalistic professional practices (see also Mythen, 2004).
U2 - 10.1057/9781137478788_15
DO - 10.1057/9781137478788_15
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781349556595
T3 - Palgrave studies in professional and organizational discourse
SP - 245
EP - 266
BT - Communicating risk
A2 - Crichton, Jonathan
A2 - Candlin, Christopher N.
A2 - Firkins, Arthur S.
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke
ER -