Antoinette Fage-Butler

Tænkepauser er bogserien, hvor topforskere fra Aarhus Universitet formidler deres viden om centrale emner som frihed, netværk og tillid. Idéen er at kanalisere forskningen ud til nye målgrupper og ind i hverdagens pauser - fra sofahjørnet til løbeturen. Hver bog er lækkert designet og udstråler den kæmpemæssige begejstring, som forskerne har for deres emne. Kombineret med lettilgængeligt sprog, en overskuelig længde og en ofte humoristisk tone gør det serien til en intet mindre end fremragende formidling af vigtig viden, som ellers ofte kun skrives af fagfolk for fagfolk.

This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change. Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Although the ability of risk communication to ‘responsibilise’ the public is central to its functioning in our societies, this aspect has so far been under-investigated in academia. To address this lacuna, Antoinette Fage-Butler develops a discursive approach to risk communication that focuses on the values that are communicated in risk messages. Examples of official risk communication about the pandemic and climate change from national and transnational contexts are analysed and compared, leading to new empirical findings and theoretical insights about the nature of risk and responsibilisation. Fage-Butler also builds on recent stirrings in the evolving field of risk communication that highlight the importance of cultural and value-related factors. Overall, this book will equip researchers with an approach to risk communication that reflects the complexity of today’s global risk challenges. Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk communication, public health and environmental studies.

This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change. Our media spheres in the 2020s have been saturated with information about what we should or should not be doing to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Although the ability of risk communication to ‘responsibilise’ the public is central to its functioning in our societies, this aspect has so far been under-investigated in academia. To address this lacuna, Antoinette Fage-Butler develops a discursive approach to risk communication that focuses on the values that are communicated in risk messages. Examples of official risk communication about the pandemic and climate change from national and transnational contexts are analysed and compared, leading to new empirical findings and theoretical insights about the nature of risk and responsibilisation. Fage-Butler also builds on recent stirrings in the evolving field of risk communication that highlight the importance of cultural and value-related factors. Overall, this book will equip researchers with an approach to risk communication that reflects the complexity of today’s global risk challenges. Risk and Responsibilisation in Public Communication will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk communication, public health and environmental studies.

ivet er en risikabel affære. Vi dør af at leve, og vi må endda erkende, at vores risikosamfund skaber den ene livsfare efter den anden på en planet truet af undergang. Denne evige usikkerhed risikerer at lamme os så meget, at vi helt mister modet til at prøve os selv af. Men ifølge Antoinette Fage-Butler, veltalende vovehals på Aarhus Universitet, kan vi lige så godt se i øjnene, at risiko udgør en uundgåelig del af tilværelsen. Til gengæld kan vi ved at udfordre skæbnen i ny og næ også finde et potentiale for forandring, som vi næppe tør risikere at leve foruden.