The public perception of risk

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 155-157
Author(s):  
J. Lenihan
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Perception Of Risk ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
The Public

SynopsisIf technology aims to direct natural forces for the use and convenience of man, the inconvenience or worse arising from the concomitant hazards requires attention. The quantitative assessment of risk practised by the actuary and engineer differs substantially from the public perception of the same risks. In several longestablished activities there is a remarkably stable, and presumably socially tolerated, accident rate. In newer and more extensively hazardous activities political control, social toleration and public perception of risk interdepend in ways which require further exploration.

scholarly journals The public and legislative impact of hyperconcentrated topic news

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. eaat8296
Author(s):  
Karthik Sheshadri ◽  
Munindar P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Expression ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
Subjective Aspect

News has been shown to influence public perception, affect technology development, and increase public expression. We demonstrate that framing, a subjective aspect of news, appears to influence both significant public perception changes and federal legislation. We show that specific features of news, such as publishing volume, appear to influence sustained public attention, as measured by annual Google Trends data, and federal legislation. We observe that federal legislative activity is often foreshadowed by periods of high news volume and similarity between articles, which we call hyperconcentrated news periods. Last, we contribute the measures of framing density and framing polarity, which provide a quantitative assessment of news framing in a domain. We demonstrate that these measures appear to correlate substantially with the results of earlier human surveys. We note, however, that our analysis does not disprove reverse causality and does not model other confounding factors.

The Public Perception of Risk

1983 ◽  
pp. 213-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Litai ◽  
D. D. Lanning ◽  
N. C. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Perception Of Risk ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Journalistic practice in risk and crisis situations: Significant examples from Spain

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1052-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carles Pont Sorribes ◽  
Sergi Cortiñas Rovira
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Perception Of Risk ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chemical Complex ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Spanish Education

In a democratic society, the media are central to the communication of risks and uncertainties to the public. This article presents 10 proposals for improving media coverage in social risk situations. The article focuses on the production logic of the media and its consequences for society. The proposals and the conclusions of this research are supported by an analysis of three Spanish cases: the risk implied by the Tarragona chemical complex (one of the biggest in Europe); the terrorist attacks on 11 March 2004 in Madrid; and the Carmel tunnel disaster in Barcelona on January 2005. The authors are participating in a research project on public perception of risk funded by the Spanish Education Ministry on public perception of risk (2004–2007 and 2007–2010).

THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF RISK

Prometheus ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Love
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Perception Of Risk ◽  
The Public
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