Death Makes News: The Social Impact of Disease on Newspaper Coverage

Adelman, Richard C.; Verbrugge, Lois M.

doi:10.2307/2676325

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“…The sheer volume of news coverage about cancer causes and prevention (36,37) has led to broad speculation about its role in promoting fatalistic beliefs about cancer prevention (15,22,(38)(39)(40). Others suggest that cancer fatalism is a deeply ingrained product of social and cultural experience that results in a broader life philosophy of nihilism, angst, and helplessness (9,10,25).…”

Section: Implications For Cancer Communication and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fatalistic Beliefs about Cancer Prevention and Three Prevention Behaviors

Niederdeppe

Levy

2007

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

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Background: A substantial proportion of US adults hold fatalistic beliefs about cancer prevention. Although evidence suggests that fatalistic beliefs discourage people from engaging in screening behaviors that can reduce their cancer risk, far less is known about associations between cancer fatalism and other prevention behaviors. We examined sociodemographic correlates of these beliefs and their associations with regular exercise, smoking, and fruit and vegetable consumption with a national sample of American adults.

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Section: Implications For Cancer Communication and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fatalistic Beliefs about Cancer Prevention and Three Prevention Behaviors

Niederdeppe

Levy

2007

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

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335

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“…We have considered this article the public's first exposure to the piracy issue. As Year Adelman and Verbrugge (2000) contended that media reports (concerning disease)…”

Section: Data Sources and Collection Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A final direction for expanding this body of work is to study the rationales given for piracy in order to determine the degree of acceptance of such rationales. 13 Technique adapted from Adelman and Verbrugge (2000). 14 Technique from Schoenfeld, Meier, and Griffin (1979).…”

Section: Extensions and Directions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ripped from the Headlines: What can the Popular Press Teach us about Software Piracy?

Zamoon

Curley

2007

J Bus Ethics

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Technological advances have outpaced the development of laws and norms to govern their acquisition and use. Software piracy is an instance of unauthorized duplication where laws and norms are not agreed upon. Although many articles have been written around the issue of software piracy, few have taken into consideration social and psychological aspects of the process. One barometer of the social environment is media coverage. This paper presents a content analysis (including actual quotes) of the five highest circulating U.S. newspapers 1989-2004 as evidence of the prevailing social environment surrounding software piracy. We classified the rationales for and against piracy using Fiske's (1991) structures for social interaction and found that those who condone piracy mostly evoke authority ranking and market pricing models, whereas those who condemn piracy mostly evoke market pricing models. Furthermore, not all the rationales given for/ against software piracy fit neatly into Sykes and Matza (1957) neutralization framework. Shariffah Zamoon and Shawn CurleyLast Revised: January 31, 2006Page 2 of 50 IntroductionThe development of technologies has outpaced the development of laws and norms that regulate their acquisition and use. The unauthorized duplication of digital products is an instance of this problem. Digital products are information that "can be digitizedencoded as a stream of bits" (Shapiro and Varian 1999, p.3). Digital products are compact, portable, and can be used virtually anywhere. However, the unauthorized duplication of digital products has created a gray area in the ethical landscape, where some condone the practice as legitimate while others condemn the practice as outright theft. Software, as an instance of a digital product exemplifies this situation well.Software piracy is defined as any reproduction of software that is in violation of its licensing agreement. The very term expresses a moral position, that espoused by the software industry. According to this view, piracy is stealing, it is a crime, and it is unethical. This is also the position expressed by the movie industry in ads against downloading films, another digital product. For example, according to Solomon and O'Brien (1991), piracy is blessed with high acceptance among at least some students and, e.g. : "nearly half of the students had never heard a faculty member speak against illegal copying…a quarter of the sampled students had heard a faculty member condone the copying of protected software" (p. 174). The moral ambiguity of software piracy is further highlighted by the research of Strikwerda and Ross (1992), Logsdon, Reid (1994), andGlass andWood (1996) who have shown that piracy is not viewed as an ethical issue by some. Individuals may approach duplication as a preference choice, with no principles, norms, or values being brought to bear on the decision (Glass and Wood 1996).Because there are no agreed upon standards or norms to govern the acquisition and use of software, individuals are left to their own decision-m...

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“…Instead, a number of directions, using a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques, have been pursued. For example, Adelman and Verbrugge (2000) have examined the association between the actual causes of death, as epidemiologically recorded, and the causes of death portrayed in major U.S. newspapers. They found that the incidence of death from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, Alzheimer disease, and arthritis from 1977 to 1997 was directly proportionate to the rates of mortality for each disease.…”

Section: Death In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Death under Control: The Portrayal of Death in Mass Print English Language Magazines in Canada

Clarke

2006

Omega (Westport)

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The purpose of this article is to discuss the portrayal of death in modern North American society in the highest circulating English language magazines available in Canada and published either in the United States or in Canada, in 1991, 1996, and 2001. The prevailing underlying frame/discourse of which there were a number of sub-variants, was the notion of the control of death. Stories focused on people taking control of death by 1) passive and active euthanasia, 2) suicide with political and social motivations and messages, 3) suicide deaths among celebrities and the families of celebrities, 4) dramatic murders, 5) issues in the “right to die movement,” and 6) new techniques and technologies for life extension. There was a very small minority of articles on miscellaneous issues such as death rates and their variation across geographic region, social class, environmental condition, and cause. The article ends with discussion of the ways that this portrayal of death obfuscates the real lack of control most North Americans, particularly those who are poor or “racialized,” have over the timing, or circumstances of death. In addition, as a critical discourse analysis, it discusses the interests that are served by this perspective.

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Death Makes News: The Social Impact of Disease on Newspaper Coverage

Cited by 61 publications

References 39 publications

Fatalistic Beliefs about Cancer Prevention and Three Prevention Behaviors

Fatalistic Beliefs about Cancer Prevention and Three Prevention Behaviors

Ripped from the Headlines: What can the Popular Press Teach us about Software Piracy?

Death under Control: The Portrayal of Death in Mass Print English Language Magazines in Canada

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