Book Reviews: The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11. By Brian A. Monahan. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+220. $24.00 (paper). ISBN: 978—8147—9555—2

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-251
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Byng
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York University

scholarly journals Associations between News Media Coverage of the 11 September Attacks and Depression in Employees of New York City Area Businesses

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Betty Pfefferbaum ◽  
Jayme M. Palka ◽  
Carol S. North
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
News Media ◽  
York City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mass Trauma ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
General Populations ◽  
Disaster Trauma

Research has examined the association between contact with media coverage of mass trauma events and various psychological outcomes, including depression. Disaster-related depression research is complicated by the relatively high prevalence of the major depressive disorder in general populations even without trauma exposure. The extant research is inconclusive regarding associations between disaster media contact and depression outcomes, in part, because most studies have not distinguished diagnostic and symptomatic outcomes, differentiated postdisaster incidence from prevalence, or considered disaster trauma exposures. This study examined these associations in a volunteer sample of 254 employees of New York City businesses after the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks. Structured interviews and questionnaires were administered 35 months after the attacks. Poisson and logistic regression analyses revealed that post-9/11 news contact significantly predicted the number of postdisaster persistent/recurrent and incident depressive symptoms in the full sample and in the indirect and unexposed groups. The findings suggest that clinical and public health approaches should be particularly alert to potential adverse postdisaster depression outcomes related to media consumption in disaster trauma-unexposed or indirectly-exposed groups.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Aaron Raphael Ponce ◽  
Jaime García-Iglesias ◽  
Elisa Padilla ◽  
Kirwan McHarry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New York University

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (eds) (2017) London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 302 pp., ISBN 978-1-78348-999-2, h/bk, $132.00; ISBN 978-1-78660-000-4, p/bk, $41.95Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, Susanna Paasonen (2018) London: Goldsmiths Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-90689-782-6, h/bk, $30.00RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas (eds) (2017) Cham: Springer Nature and Palgrave Macmillan, 309 pp., ISBN 978-3-31950-617-3, h/bk, $109.00; ISBN 978-3-31984-444-2, p/bk, $34.99Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life, Andre Cavalcante (2018) New York: New York University Press, 221 pp., ISBN 978-1-47988-130-7, h/bk, $89.00; ISBN 978-1-47984-131-8, p/bk, $27.00

Mass Media and the Social Amplification of Climate Change Risks

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Public Concerns

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Please check back later for the full article. Global warming was not on public or media agendas prior to 1998. In summer of that year, during an unusual heat wave, The New York Times and other major U.S. news organizations saliently reported warnings by NASA scientist James Hansen that the earth is warming. This alarm quickly spread to secondary media and to the news media of other nations. According to the “Quantity of Coverage Theory,” public concerns and governmental actions about a problem rise and fall with the extent of media coverage of that problem, a generalization that is applicable here. Over the next few years, global warming became part of a suite of worldwide issues (particularly the ozone hole, biodiversity, and destruction of rain forests) conceptualized as the “endangered earth,” more or less climaxing on Earth Day 1990. Media coverage and public concerns waned after 1990, thereafter following an erratic course until 2006, when they reached unprecedented heights internationally, largely but not entirely associated with former Vice President Al Gore’s promotion of human-caused climate change as “an inconvenient truth.” By this time, the issue had become highly polarized, with denial or discounting of the risk a hallmark of the political right, especially among American Republicans. International media coverage and public concern fell after 2010, but at this writing in 2015, these are again on the rise. The ups and downs of media attention and public concern are unrelated to real changes in the temperature of the atmosphere.

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