Dynamics of Public Risk Perception and Media Coverage
The Cases of Climate Change, Terrorism and Demographic Change
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2021
239 pages
978-3-7489-2272-8 (ISBN)
Description
Viele gesellschaftliche Risiken sind nur noch begrenzt persönlich erfahrbar, weshalb Menschen bei der Risikoeinschätzung zunehmend auf die Informationen Dritter angewiesen sind. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Dynamik der öffentlichen Risikowahrnehmung mit besonderem Fokus auf die Rolle der Medienberichterstattung. Dabei wird ein Vergleich der öffentlichen Meinung zu verschiedenen Risiken, namentlich Klimawandel, Terrorismus und demographischer Wandel über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren (1990-2015) vorgenommen. Die Analyse betrachtet die Risikowahrnehmung in den USA und Deutschland und liefert wertvolle Erkenntnisse darüber, wie und warum die Einschätzung von Risiken durch die Öffentlichkeit in diesen Ländern voneinander abweicht.
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The Cases of Climate Change, Terrorism and Demographic Change
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Content
- Cover
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Research Interest
- 1.2 Conceptual Design
- 1.3 Structure of the Thesis
- 1.4 Main Empirical Results
- 2. Theoretical Foundations: Determinants and Context of Risk Perception
- 2.1 Definitions of Risk
- 2.2 Determinants and Contexts of Risk Perception
- 2.2.1 Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
- 2.2.2 Influence of the Sociocultural Context
- 2.2.3 The Role of the News Media
- 2.3 Summary
- 3. Research Agenda and Empirical Approach
- 3.1 Research Agenda
- 3.1.1 Terrorism
- 3.1.2 Demographic Change
- 3.1.3 Climate Change
- 3.2 Empirical Approach
- 3.3 Measurements of Risk Salience and News Media Coverage
- 4. Analysis of Newspaper Coverage Content in the USA and Germany
- 4.1 Applying Topic Modeling Analysis
- 4.2 Text Corpus and Preprocessing
- 4.3 Results of the Topic Modeling Analysis
- 4.3.1 Key News Topics on Terrorism
- 4.3.2 Key News Topics on Demographic Change
- 4.3.3 Key News Topics on Climate Change
- 4.4 Summary
- 5. Time Series Analysis of Risk Salience in the USA
- 5.1 Variable Construction
- 5.2 Descriptive Statistics
- 5.3 Model Specifications
- 5.4 Empirical Results of Time Series Analysis
- 5.4.1 Terrorism in the Public Perception
- 5.4.2 Demographic Change in the Public Perception
- 5.4.3 Climate Change in the Public Perception
- 5.5 Summary
- 6. Time Series Analysis of Risk Salience in Germany
- 6.1 Variable Construction
- 6.2 Descriptive Statistics
- 6.3 Model Specifications
- 6.4 Empirical Results of Time Series Analysis
- 6.4.1 Terrorism in the Public Perception
- 6.4.2 Demographic Change in the Public Perception
- 6.4.3 Climate Change in the Public Perception
- 6.5 Summary and Comparison to the US Results
- 7. Concluding Remarks
- 7.1 Implemented Research Agenda
- 7.2 Summary of the Empirical Results
- 7.3 Contribution and Limitations
- Appendix
- A.1 Newspaper Data Collection and Preparation
- A.2 Supplementary Material Topic Models
- A.3 Time Series Analysis: Robustness Check for German News Coverage Variable
- References
