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Seismic risk: the biases of earthquake media coverage
Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS UMR 7154, 75005 Paris, France
Université de Paris, Institut Humanités Sciences Sociétés, Centre de Recherche Psychanalyse Médecine et Société, CNRS EA 3522, 75013 Paris, France
Marion Le Texier
Université de Rouen Normandie, UMR CNRS 6266 IDEES, 76781 Mont-Saint-Aignan CEDEX, France
Hugues Pécout
Université de Paris, Collège international des sciences territoriales, CNRS FR 2007, 75013 Paris, France
Claude Grasland
Université de Paris, Collège international des sciences territoriales, CNRS FR 2007, 75013 Paris, France
Université de Paris, Géographie-Cités, UMR 8504, 75006 Paris, France
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Exploring a corpus of 320 888 news articles published by 32 worldwide newspapers in 2015, this paper shows the following: news covers a very small proportion of the total number of earthquakes occurring in a year; the duration of coverage is very short, which does not allow for proper coverage of long-term issues; and there is a typical framing of the news about earthquakes that introduces major biases in representation, impeding proper appropriation of the seismic risk by the public.
Exploring a corpus of 320 888 news articles published by 32 worldwide newspapers in 2015, this...
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