Covid-19 has triggered not only a pandemic that endangers our social, economic, and
health systems but also an infodemic resulting from the prolific spread of fake news, hoaxes …

This is the first book to look closely at the concept of 'risk'in elite and professional football
from a social scientific perspective. Drawing on the wider sociological, criminological and …

Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this
book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by …

News coverage of Islamic extremism is reigniting debates about the media's role in
promoting prejudice toward Muslims. Psychological theories of media-induced prejudice …

Media coverage of nuclear energy is a crucial source of information about the risk of nuclear
energy for the general public. As a result, scholars of communication science are very …

We examined initial newspaper coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak (January–May 2020) in
the United States and China, countries with contrasting media systems and pandemic …

Much research on risk perception and health behavior has examined cognitive dimensions
of risk but not affective dimensions. To address this gap, this study examines both cognitive …

Social work and risk have become increasingly linked and contemporary social work has
been significantly influenced by the risk paradigm (Bates and Lymbery, 2011; Webb, 2006) …

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine gekürzte Fassung meiner Dissertationsschrift, die ich im
Februar 2016 am Institut für Publizistik-und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Freien …

Background Health officials face particular challenges in communicating with the public
about emerging infectious diseases of unknown severity such as the 2009 H1N1 (swine'flu) …