Dr Joanne Warner, Senior Lecturer in Social Work and a member of the Risk and Uncertainty Research Cluster in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, is organising the next British Sociological Association (BSA) Risk and Society Study Group event, to be held in London on Friday 8 September 2017.
Has there not so much been a change in the nature of reporting but simply a shift in focus from one type of issue to another? Is the issue now less one of media itself than how institutions themselves continue to promote particular dangers? Has the shift towards different types of media – from newspapers to digital and social media platforms – itself stimulated change in what and how risks are communicated?
These are some of the questions that will be explored during the one-day workshop hosted by the BSA and University of Kent risk research groups.
For more information and to submit an abstract by the deadline of 30 June, see the call for papers on the Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty web page.