How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review
- Author(s)
- Ines Katrin Spielvogel, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
- Abstract
A high percentage of current news media covers topics relevant to the public such as wars, crime, and terrorist attacks, making threat perceptions and fears in public spaces (TPF-PS) more salient. Due to the unique challenges involved with current media landscapes, research examining how news consumption (NC) is related TPF-PS is still attracting scholarly interest. Therefore, we conducted a scoping review of N = 72 empirical studies since the advent of the smartphone era. The review detects cultivation theory as the main theoretical approach as well as a prevalence of quantitative methods and cross-sectional surveys. Furthermore, most empirical studies are carried out in North America and draw on non-probability sampling methods. Moreover, the review detects (region-based) research trends by breaking down N = 307 identified operationalizations into main classifications of TPF-PS and NC. Additionally, the review indicates a predominance of no associations between NC and TPF-PS. Implications for future research are discussed.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication
- Journal
- Journal of Risk Research
- Volume
- 27
- Pages
- 458-480
- No. of pages
- 23
- ISSN
- 1366-9877
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2350717
- Publication date
- 04-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508007 Communication science
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all), Social Sciences(all), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Strategy and Management
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/how-news-consumption-in-modern-media-landscapes-relates-to-threats-perceptions-and-fears-in-public-spaces-a-scoping-review(38272700-8aef-4392-bd4b-e67eaf6e02cb).html