Constructing reality
- 1 January 1993
- proceedings article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 241-257
- https://doi.org/10.1145/166025.166086
Abstract
Printrnediastoriesarisingfromthreeperreived risks to human health and safety are analyzed in the context of risk communication theory. Relationships between public, regulatory and scientific communities are examined, and the challenges to developing accurate and comprehensive risk messages are explonxi. The study confirms the idea that uncertainty in scientific assessments is oiten translated into apprehension in the public arena.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: