[Commlist] New Book: Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation

/Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political 
Intimidation/

Edited by:  Nelson Ribeiro and Christian Schwarzenegger

Part of the Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - 
A Palgrave and IAMCR Series book series. Available here: 
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84989-4 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84989-4>


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    - Discusses the role of different media in the creation and
    dissemination of fear

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    - Examines the mechanisms of persuasion that trigger willingness to
    accept extreme measures or actions during crises

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    - Argues that fear is recurrently used by political and social
    actors to increase their own power in different societies


“This is an outstanding book which will be of interest to media 
historians and communications scholars around the world. It reveals how 
fear is incubated, spread and, sometimes, countered through the media in 
ways that are profoundly illuminating and relevant in the era of Covid.”

—James Curran, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

“This outstanding volume traces the impact of fear, uncertainty – and 
sometimes related – hope, historically, from World War I to the present 
and the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, media reporting is 
deconstructed in much systematic detail which allows understanding 
continuities and discontinuities of its complex role, locally, glocally, 
and globally. A must read for scholars and laypeople alike!”

  —Ruth Wodak, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Lancaster University

“Media and the Dissemination of Fear explores its workings across 
natural disasters, wars, conflicts and health crises over the past 100 
years. Although circumstances may have changed, the exploitation of fear 
as a means of social control and intimidation has not, and this book 
speaks to the myriad ways in which its damaging currents destabilize 
individuals and communities, force widespread compliance and entrench 
enmity and otherness, particularly in association with populist regimes. 
A thoughtful, important volume that wrestles mightily with the 
centrality of fear in contemporary life writ large.”

  —Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, 
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Media and Fear—Diachronic, Intermedia, and Transcultural 
Perspectives on a Toxic and Functional Relationship during Pandemics, 
Wars, and Political Crises

Nelson Ribeiro, Christian Schwarzenegger


 From Black Death to COVID-19: The Mediated Dissemination of Fear in 
Pandemic Times

Anna Wagner, Doreen Reifegerste


Hebrew Popular Press, Catastrophe Stories, and the Instigation of Fear 
in Ottoman Palestine

Ouzi Elyada


Fear-Relations: Word War I, Military Authorities, and the International 
Feminist Peace Movement

Susanne Kinnebrock


Voices for a World In-Between? Exile Media as Transnational Fulcrums 
Between Confidence and Fear

Christian Schwarzenegger, Gabriele Falböck


Terror, Fear, Disbelief, and Complacency in the Face of Evil: The 
Reactions of the Hebrew Press in Palestine to the First News on the 
Extermination of the European Jewry by the Nazis in 1942

Gideon Kouts


The News Media and the Ever-Present Fear in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Thomas Birkner, Aysha Agbarya, Oren Meyers, Rachel Somerstein


Fear of the Spanish Red Danger: Anti-Communist Agitation and 
Mobilisation in Portugal during the Spanish Civil War

Alberto Pena-Rodríguez


Nazi Broadcasts to a Neutral Country: Disseminating Fear in Portugal 
during the Second World War

Nelson Ribeiro


Fear of Communism in the Twentieth-Century United States and the Vietnam War

Paul Haridakis


“Beware of Terrorists, Spies and Chaos!”: Stabilization Techniques from 
the Arab Uprisings

Hanan Badr


Educate Online Through Online Fear: Exploring the Chinese Rumours Online 
Phenomenon

Gianluigi Negro


Media Logic, Terrorism, and the Politics of Fear

David L. Altheide

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