The Media's Role in Risk Society: COVID-19 Coverage through Beck's Modernity Theory

Presenter Information

Maggie Prosser, Journalism

Abstract

The pandemic heightens high consequence risks, and journalists' perception of crises shapes modernity's risk ethos.

Keywords:

Journalism, COVID-19, Risk society, Modernity, Pandemics

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Status

Undergraduate

Department

Journalism

College

Honors Tutorial College

Campus

Athens

Faculty Mentor

Suddes, Thomas

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The Media's Role in Risk Society: COVID-19 Coverage through Beck's Modernity Theory

The pandemic heightens high consequence risks, and journalists' perception of crises shapes modernity's risk ethos.