It’S Not Preventable, Yet You Are Responsible: Media’S Risk And Attribution Assessment Of The 2012 West Nile Outbreak
Abstract
Health events such as large-scale disease outbreaks naturally attract journalistic attention because of people’s general interest in medical events (Pew Research Center, 2009). News media have closely followed these pandemics year after year and shifted their approaches of doing so throughout the decades (Blakely, 2003; Koteyko, Brown, & Crawford, 2008). The news coverage of public health events is important in that, through these reports, people can develop a concept of a disease and prepare for a potential health risk accordingly (Blakely, 2003; Roche & Muskavitch, 2003).
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Publication Title
Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment
Number of Pages
300-315
Document Type
Article; Book Chapter
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315168821
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85045104370 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85045104370
STARS Citation
Yu, Nan; Littlefield, Robert; Farrell, Laura C.; and Wang, Ruoxu, "It’S Not Preventable, Yet You Are Responsible: Media’S Risk And Attribution Assessment Of The 2012 West Nile Outbreak" (2018). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 9450.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/9450