Risk, media and stigma : understanding public challenges to modern science and technology / edited by James Flynn, Paul Slovic, and Howard Kunreuther.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flynn, James.

Slovic, Paul, 1938-

Kunreuther, Howard.

Series:

Risk, society, and policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk assessment.

Public opinion.

Risk perception.

Mass media--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

xv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Understanding public challenges to modern science and technology

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2001.

Summary:

For all the benefits of modern technology, there is often great public suspicion of, and aversion to, innovations. Amplified by the huge power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can grow into what is now recognized as a new and very significant social phenomenon, the stigmatization of new developments. The economic impact and social consequences can be enormous.

Contents:

Technological stigma / R. Gregory, J. Flynn, P. Slovic

Stigma and the social amplification of risk: toward a framework of analysis / R. Kasperson, N. Jhaveri, J. Kasperson

Technological stigma: some perspectives from the study of contagion / P. Rozin

Crying over spoiled milk: contamination, consumer expectations, and environmental stigma / M. Edelstein

Risk lived, stigma experienced: reflections on the limits of adaptations / T. Satterfield

Perceived risk, stigma, and potential economic impacts of a high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada / P. Slovic ... [et al.]

Modeling stigma: an empirical analysis of nuclear waste images of Nevada modeling stigma / H. Jenkins-Smith

Fear and loathing of Las Vegas: will a nuclear waste repository contaminate the imagery of nearby places? / D. Easterling

Effects of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant on neighboring property values / W. Hunsperger

Risk, stigma, and property value

what are people afraid of? / G. Adams, R. Cantor

Environmental stigma and equity in central cities: the case of South Phoenix / D. Pijawka ... [et al.]

Impact of external parties on brand-name capital: the 1982 Tylenol poisonings and subsequent cases / M. Mitchell

Mad cow disease and the stigmatization of British beef / D. Powell

Blood, risk, and stigma / P. Chan

Technological danger without stigma: the case of automobile airbags / J. Graham

Dioxins or chemical stigmata / W. Leiss

Industry perspective on risk and stigma / R. Long

From vision to catastrophe: a risk event in search of images / C. Ferreira, Å. Boholm, R. Löfstedt

Nevada initiative: a risk communication fiasco / J. Flynn, P. Slovic, C. Mertz

Risk, media, and stigma at Rocky Flats / J. Flynn ... [et al]

Coping with stigma: challenges and opportunities / H. Kunreuther and P. Slovic

Defining and identifying "stigma" / V. Walker

Defining stigma / B. Fischhoff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1853837008

OCLC:

46666066