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Print Material

Author

Altheide, David L.

Title Creating fear : news and the construction of crisis / David L. Altheide.

Imprint

Hawthorne, N.Y. : Aldine de Gruyter, c2002.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	302.23 Al79c 2002	---	Available

Description	xi, 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series	Social problems and social issues
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
Contents	Give the devil his due : fear in its place -- Tracking discourse -- Problem frame and the production of fear -- Discourse of fear -- Journalistic interviewing -- Policing crime and fear in the news media -- Children and the discourse of fear -- Lens of fear.
Subject	Mass media and public opinion.
	Fear.
	Mass media -- Psychological aspects.
	Public opinion.
ISBN	0202306607 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0202306593 (cloth : alk. paper)