Add to ORKGMaster's thesis in Risk Management and Societal SafetyThis explorative study addresses the themes of immigration, social media and risk perception. It investigates how immigrant women in Norway construct collective meaning about various risks when they participate in online discussions of risk-related topics in a closed Facebook group. Two online discussions about Norwegian Child Welfare Service and about child immunization has been chosen for the analysis in this study. These discussions were interpreted as socially constructed risk discourses, where the risks were presented as complex and multidimensional social constructions. The analysis revealed that those discourses demonstrated nuanced and authentic images of the risks, positioned as...
In a country as „connected‟ as Sweden, it is hard to imagine a setting in which the Internet does no...
Researchers have studied whether opposition to immigrants is primarily due to a perceived economic t...
In recent decades, sociologist Ulrich Beck (1992) has been warning about the risk society in which w...
The goal of this study is to see how risk assessment is executed on the social media platform Facebo...
Social media are getting more and more ingrained into everybody’s lives. With people’s more substant...
Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society has been criticised because there is lack of empirical evidence...
The literature on social media use in risk and crisis communication is growing fast, and it is time ...
Risky water How the individual makes sense of unexpected parasites in the drinking water This quick...
This thesis explores how social networking sites are changing the way individuals socialize in every...
Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society has been criticised because there is lack of empirical evidence...
Previous research has convincingly proven that perceptions, experience, and exposure to risks vary a...
By using the term ‘sensemaking’ our intention isto deepen the understanding of young people and risk...
Summary This is a thesis about technology and to a lesser extent, science. To be more precise, it is...
This paper examines how the public perceived immigrant groups as potential risk, and how such risk p...
The emergence of new media, especially social media, has altered the way people access risk informat...
In a country as „connected‟ as Sweden, it is hard to imagine a setting in which the Internet does no...
Researchers have studied whether opposition to immigrants is primarily due to a perceived economic t...
In recent decades, sociologist Ulrich Beck (1992) has been warning about the risk society in which w...
The goal of this study is to see how risk assessment is executed on the social media platform Facebo...
Social media are getting more and more ingrained into everybody’s lives. With people’s more substant...
Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society has been criticised because there is lack of empirical evidence...
The literature on social media use in risk and crisis communication is growing fast, and it is time ...
Risky water How the individual makes sense of unexpected parasites in the drinking water This quick...
This thesis explores how social networking sites are changing the way individuals socialize in every...
Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society has been criticised because there is lack of empirical evidence...
Previous research has convincingly proven that perceptions, experience, and exposure to risks vary a...
By using the term ‘sensemaking’ our intention isto deepen the understanding of young people and risk...
Summary This is a thesis about technology and to a lesser extent, science. To be more precise, it is...
This paper examines how the public perceived immigrant groups as potential risk, and how such risk p...
The emergence of new media, especially social media, has altered the way people access risk informat...
In a country as „connected‟ as Sweden, it is hard to imagine a setting in which the Internet does no...
Researchers have studied whether opposition to immigrants is primarily due to a perceived economic t...
In recent decades, sociologist Ulrich Beck (1992) has been warning about the risk society in which w...