Media and the Dissemination of Fear

This book offers a diachronical and inter-/transmedia approach to the relationship of media and fear in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. This allows for an in-depth understanding of the media's role in pandemics, wars and other crises, as well as in political intimidation. The book assembles chapters from a variety of authors, focusing on the relation between media and fear in the West, the Middle East, the Arab World and China. Besides its geographical and cultural diversity, the volume also takes a long-term perspective, bringing together cases from transforming media environments which span over a century. The book establishes a strong and historically persistent nexus between media and fear, which finds ever-new forms with new media but always follows similar logics.

Nelson Ribeiro is Associate Professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal, where he is the Dean of the School of Human Sciences and Coordinator of the PhD in Communication Studies. Chair of the History Section at IAMCR, his main research interests are media and communication history, transnational broadcasting and political economy of the media.

Christian Schwarzenegger is Akademischer Rat in the Department of Media, Knowledge and Communication at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and visiting Professor at Salzburg University, Austria. His research interests include media and communication history and alternative media. Schwarzenegger is Chair of the DGPuK Communication History Division and Vice-Chair of the ECREA Communication History Section.