... framings in Korea. Ji Bum Chung can be contacted at: chung.jibum@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Social amplification of risk Risk perception BSE H1N1 South Korea Mad cow disease Flu Mass media Communication In 2008, the perceived Bovine Spongiform...

...Anna Olofsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the Swedish mass media constructed Sweden and Swedes during the first days after the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles from four...

... understanding of each of these groups' actions in order to offer insight into why each may have acted as they did. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Risk management Mass media Individual perception Policing Administration of justice and law United States of America Washington...

... disasters that disaster relief organisations supplied to the mass media. Half of the 14 charities belonging to the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (a co‐ordinating agency established to co‐ordinate joint appeals during the first 14 days following a catastrophe) participated in the second investigation...

...E.L. Quarantelli Summarizes, under 12 general propositions, the findings from a series of field studies by the Disaster Research Center about the operations of the local mass media in disasters in the USA. The topics covered range from the disaster planning undertaken by mass media organizations...

... and tragedies which unfold before us daily. We must seize them and build on them – and remain confident that a New World Order can be developed which will meet our demands. Communications Conflict Disaster management Globalization Mass media Moral responsibility Politics United Nations First...