... South Korea Mad cow disease Flu Mass media Communication In 2008, the perceived Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, so‐called mad cow disease) risk of imported US beef among the Korean public put a new administration led by the president, Lee Myung Bak, into a deep political downturn...

...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...

... involved in planning for the management of fear during emergencies that can occur in the aftermath of terror‐based events. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Risk management Mass media Individual perception Policing Administration of justice and law United States of America...

..., it is to be expected that the mass media will angle its coverage of humanitarian disasters in manners designed to boost circulation or viewing figures. In practice, this could entail the stereotyping of disaster victims in ways which evoke mawkish sympathy, but debase the communities involved. Personal bias could...

...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...

......but all too often gets squeezed out, whether as an economy measure or whatever. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Communications Conflict Disaster management Globalization Mass media Moral responsibility Politics United Nations First, let us look at the broad causes of conflict. In my...