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Risk is defined by Beck as a ‘systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself’ (Beck, 1992, p. 21). Douglas (1992) and Luhmann (1993) maintain that it is essential to distinguish risk from danger, and to sustain a relationship between risk and responsibility. In this sense, risk almost always invokes external attribution (Luhmann, 1993; Sarangi, Bennert, Howell, & Clarke, 2003; Sarangi & Clarke, 2002), and is best understood as manufactured and constructed (Adam, Beck, & Van Loon, 2000) among a nexus of practices (Scollon & Scollon, 2004). Beck (1992, 1999) argues that meanings of risk are primarily constructed and shaped between government and science. This argument however has largely underplayed the importance of media as a crucial site of engagement where meanings of risk are negotiated among different stake-holders and where such negotiation is mediated by journalistic professional practices (see also Mythen, 2004).
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Huan, C. (2016). Negotiating Risk in Chinese and Australian Print Media Hard News Reporting on Food Safety: A Corpus-based Study. In: Crichton, J., Candlin, C.N., Firkins, A.S. (eds) Communicating Risk. Communicating in Professions and Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478788_15
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