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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhang, Hui Chao

Titel

The function and management of media in public emergency

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In globalizing age, not only the traditional public emergencies, such as earthquake, flood, fire and mass turbulence, happen frequently, but also some new sorts of emergencies, for instance terrorism attack, spread of epidemic disease and ecological disaster, occur repeatedly. If being handled improperly, these emergencies can lead to public crises. When dealing with such public emergencies or other crises, normally the government is at one end, the public is at the other end, and the mass media can play a significant role in bridging them. By analyzing some true cases that the city newspaper owned by Fujian Province had encountered when covering public emergencies, this thesis concentrated on the following three topics: First, discussing the “invalidation” problem, which exists at present when the government and the mass media treated with public emergencies or other crises, and proposing the urgency and practical importance of the methods to resolve this problem. Second, when handling public emergencies or