Journal article
Cautionary Tales: Social Representation of Risk in US Newspaper Coverage of Cyberbullying Exemplars
Journalism studies (London, England), Vol.22(13), pp.1832-1852
10/03/2021
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1971105
Abstract
The goal of this mixed-methods study is to investigate how the stories of victims represent the risk of cyberbullying in more than a decade's worth of U. S. news stories. Exemplars were common, appearing in almost half of 622 news stories from more than 70 U. S. newspapers. Further, exemplars experiencing extreme outcomes, specifically suicide, were predominant, and exemplars who had died by suicide were also defined by their differences, a pattern recognized in the social representation of risk framework as a form of symbolic coping. In focusing on how news coverage constructs the new risk of cyberbullying through stories of exemplars, we show how the representation of a social issue coalesces around particular outcomes, risk factors, and prototypical victims.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cautionary Tales: Social Representation of Risk in US Newspaper Coverage of Cyberbullying Exemplars
- Creators
- Rachel Young - University of IowaLi Chen - West Texas A&M UniversityGe Zhu - University of IowaRoma Subramanian - University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journalism studies (London, England), Vol.22(13), pp.1832-1852
- DOI
- 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1971105
- ISSN
- 1461-670X
- eISSN
- 1469-9699
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/03/2021
- Academic Unit
- Injury Prevention Research Center; School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984307653702771
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