Goes beyond available research which focusses on particular risks such as climate change, GM-food, or terrorismExamines long term change in the usage of the risk semantic across different social domains and risksUtilizes corpus based research strategies from computational linguistics to examine long term social change on risk

Autorentext

Jens O. Zinn is Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow at the Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK and Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Daniel McDonald is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2. Conceptual Foundations.- 3. Research Design and Methods.- 4. Risk in the New York Times.- 5. Risk, Health and Medicine in The New York Times.- 6. Summary and Conclusions.