Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news

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Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/17321
Resumo: In April 2009, a new strain of influenza subtype H1N1 emerged due to the rearrangement of two RNA segments. The strain incorporated two segments of the genome of porcine origin and was officially designated as A/California/4/2009/H1N1. In June 2009, alarmed by the infection’s progress, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the “level six” of the geographical progression scale for epidemics and kept it at that level until August of the following year. The Portuguese media activated the public health alarm and integrated it into its agenda, but the volume and severity indicators of the news coverage did not correspond to the epidemiological indicators of progression. This paper describes how two narratives with different rhythms for the swine flu pandemic de facto emerged.
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spelling Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese newsRisk societyExpertiseNews makingNews-valuesHealth risksIn April 2009, a new strain of influenza subtype H1N1 emerged due to the rearrangement of two RNA segments. The strain incorporated two segments of the genome of porcine origin and was officially designated as A/California/4/2009/H1N1. In June 2009, alarmed by the infection’s progress, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the “level six” of the geographical progression scale for epidemics and kept it at that level until August of the following year. The Portuguese media activated the public health alarm and integrated it into its agenda, but the volume and severity indicators of the news coverage did not correspond to the epidemiological indicators of progression. This paper describes how two narratives with different rhythms for the swine flu pandemic de facto emerged.David PublishingVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaRosa, Gonçalo Pereira2015-04-27T13:40:42Z20142014-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/17321engROSA, Gonçalo Pereira - Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news. Journalism and Mass Communication [Em linha]. 4:3 (2014) 197-208. Disponível na Internet: http://www.davidpublishing.com/show.html?16352 . ISSN: 2160-6579.2160-6579info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-09-06T12:13:26Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/17321Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-09-06T12:13:26Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
spellingShingle Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
Risk society
Expertise
News making
News-values
Health risks
title_short Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
title_full Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
title_fullStr Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
title_full_unstemmed Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
title_sort Distorted alarms: the epidemic narrative and the media story: the 2009-10 swine flu in the portuguese news
author Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
author_facet Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Risk society
Expertise
News making
News-values
Health risks
topic Risk society
Expertise
News making
News-values
Health risks
description In April 2009, a new strain of influenza subtype H1N1 emerged due to the rearrangement of two RNA segments. The strain incorporated two segments of the genome of porcine origin and was officially designated as A/California/4/2009/H1N1. In June 2009, alarmed by the infection’s progress, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the “level six” of the geographical progression scale for epidemics and kept it at that level until August of the following year. The Portuguese media activated the public health alarm and integrated it into its agenda, but the volume and severity indicators of the news coverage did not correspond to the epidemiological indicators of progression. This paper describes how two narratives with different rhythms for the swine flu pandemic de facto emerged.
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