News Media and Technological Risks: The Case of Pesticides after Silent Spring
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 671-698
ISSN: 1533-8525
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In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 671-698
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Society and natural resources, Band 20, Heft 9, S. 767-783
ISSN: 1521-0723
In: Rural sociology, Band 63, Heft 2, S. 179-198
ISSN: 1549-0831
Abstract In this paper, we examine three unanticipated findings from a social constructionist analysis of popular media coverage of the pesticide DDT from the years 1944 to 1961. The first unanticipated finding was the early (1945) appearance of negative or cautionary claims in the media source examined, the New York Times. Second, while negative or cautionary claims about the pesticide did constitute a minority voice during this time period, it was nonetheless a persistent voice. The third unanticipated finding was the predominance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the State Agricultural Experiment Stations among those claimsmakers initially cautioning potential users about unintended and potentially deleterious impacts. The concept of "routine monitoring mechanisms" is introduced to explain this third finding. We conclude by considering the potential impact of this coverage on the subsequent development of the controversy.
A guide to spirited public controversies that inevitably occur when environments and human communities collide. It talks about the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" based on the environmental activism of Al Gore, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. It offers a case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 623-640
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Society and natural resources, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 267-276
ISSN: 1521-0723