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- Title
Functional Forms of Symbolic Crises in the News: Implications for Quantitative Research.
- Authors
Denham, BryanE.
- Abstract
Seeking to contribute conceptually and methodologically to research addressing the development and dissipation of symbolic crises, this study examines aggregate distributions of news reports following 15 “trigger events.” Linked theoretically to agenda setting, as well as to research examining media-driven moral panics, the study fits a series of statistical curves to 90 days of news coverage involving topics such as child exploitation and sexual assault, promiscuity and HIV, drug use, violence in the media, religious symbolism, and obscenity. Consistent with prior research, analyses suggest that symbolic crises “take off” based on the relative novelty of initial events, the amount of outrage events trigger, and the extent to which events create, or can be linked with, iconic images.
- Subjects
SYMBOLISM -- Social aspects; AGENDA setting theory (Communication); COMMUNICATION methodology; PUBLIC opinion -- Social aspects; MORAL panics; SOCIAL problems; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Communication Research Reports, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 4, p365
- ISSN
0882-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/08824096.2014.963222