Discourses of Fear in Online News Media: Implications for Perceived Risk of Travel

IF 1.2 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI:10.3390/tourhosp4010009

K. A. McClinchey, F. Dimanche

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the role of Canadian online news media in framing travel during the pandemic. The article applies Altheide’s concept of the problem frame to reflect how news media contribute to the emergence of a highly rationalized problem that, in turn, generates a discourse of fear. While the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism have been extensively examined within tourism scholarship, less attention has been devoted to the impact of news media. Because travel and the pandemic are heavily intertwined, discourse analysis can help process media narratives, furthering our understanding of their role in influencing perceived risk of travel. A critical discourse analysis of over 100 online news articles was conducted using thematic analysis to uncover themes in Canadian media sources and to explore how the media have framed travel during the pandemic. The role of online news media in promoting fear was communicated through the themes of anxiety, antitrust, avoidance, and animosity. The role of the media in producing the problem frame in the context of travel was examined as well as its implications for perceived travel risk and tourism demand. The power dynamics between media, government, and the citizens it serves are also discussed.

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网络新闻媒体中的恐惧话语:对旅行感知风险的影响

本文分析了加拿大在线新闻媒体在大流行期间旅行框架中的作用。本文运用Altheide的问题框架概念来反映新闻媒体如何促成一个高度合理化的问题的出现，而这个问题反过来又产生了恐惧的话语。虽然旅游学界对COVID-19对旅游业的影响进行了广泛研究，但对新闻媒体的影响关注较少。由于旅行和大流行密切相关，话语分析可以帮助处理媒体叙述，进一步了解它们在影响旅行感知风险方面的作用。利用专题分析对100多篇在线新闻文章进行了批判性话语分析，以揭示加拿大媒体来源的主题，并探讨媒体如何在大流行期间构建旅行框架。在线新闻媒体在促进恐惧方面的作用是通过焦虑、反垄断、回避和仇恨等主题来传达的。研究了媒体在产生旅行问题框架方面的作用及其对感知的旅行风险和旅游需求的影响。本文还讨论了媒体、政府和它所服务的公民之间的权力动态。

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Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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1.90

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23.10%

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审稿时长

15 weeks

期刊介绍： Tourism and Hospitality Management is an international, multidisciplinary, open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism and hospitality industry. It publishes double-blind reviewed papers and encourages an interchange between tourism and hospitality researchers, educators and managers. Editors of Tourism and Hospitality Management strongly promote research integrity and aim to prevent any type of scientific misconduct, such as: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, redundant publication and authorship problems. All submitted manuscripts are checked using Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate). Nurturing a scientifically based approach to research, the journal publishes original papers along with empirical research and theoretical articles that contribute to the conceptual development of tourism and hospitality management. Editors look particularly for articles about new trends, challenges and developments, as well as the application of new ideas that are likely to affect the tourism and hospitality industry. The general criteria for the acceptance of articles are: contribution to the scientific knowledge in the field of tourism and hospitality management, scientifically reliable research methodology, relevant literature review and quality of the English language.