SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Surgeon General Of The United States, 1918 Flu Pandemic, Dengue Fever
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Hot crises & media reassurance - media coverage is generally alarming. Mutation-contagion package: microbes are on a rampage, microbes are smarter than us, engineering microbial traffic by our own activities, instant-distant infections-think about the idea of stepping on an air plane and waiting for next plague. Aim to use fear to create sense of urgency. Sandman"s thesis - normally push fear to gain attention. Limited effect (as above) - but: get moderation in crisis situations . Dread inspiring events developing in unpredictable ways & possibly pose an imminent personal threat and could develop into grass root panics. Examples of moderation in hot crises are 3 mile island, chernobyl, aids, ebola, sars, bird flu. Metaphors or catchphrases that encompass core frame of a story. Ebola embodies worst of mutation-contagion and it a nightmare scenario - new monster virus, from. International media coverage bird flu over several years. Discourse stages: sounding the alarm, avian mutation interpretive package.
