The Fukushima Disaster and the “Clash of Risk Cultures”: Japanese and German Journalists’ Perceptions of a Nuclear Crisis

The article examines how nuclear risk was perceived by German and Japanese journalists covering the Fukushima Disaster. Drawing from the theoretical framework of Beck’s World Risk Society, the journalists’ personal risk perceptions are reconstructed from narrative interviews, adding an important va...

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Main Author: Florian Meissner
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FU Berlin, University of Erfurt 2020-03-01
Series:Global Media Journal: German Edition
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Online Access:https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00046541/GMJ18_Meissner_final.pdf