The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a Health Communication Crisis

摘要

I lived in Toronto during the SARS outbreak of 2003, and I watched with great curiosity the way this new disease was constructed by news media for audiences, particularly in North America. I recallrnwatching a CNN reporter wearing a surgical mask around his neck as he did his stand-up report on a strangely empty University Avenue. At the end of the spot, the anchor in Atlanta bade the reporter be careful, suggesting that there was an obvious peril by his mere presence in Toronto at that time.