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The Role of Mass-Media in Triggering and Developing the Media Crisis
The Role of Mass-Media in Triggering and Developing the Media Crisis

Author(s): Ionuţ Adrian Ghibanu
Subject(s): Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: interactive methods; participant methods; political science; post-positivism; methodological shift;

Summary/Abstract: The world we live in is shaped by the mass media, which have turned into the most important institution of our society and a battlefield for the various state, organisational, personal, economic, military, religious or socio-political interests. This study aims at managing media information and communication in dealing with all moments related to the triggering and development of a media crisis. As can be seen, the contemporary communication context values the rapidity, exactness and precise direction of communication in such a way that managing a media crisis should be done with minimal loss and maximum gain. Based on the influence it has on the public, the mass-media may generate a media crisis without any real support in the organization. An accusation, a piece of news released by a credible source or by a credible media channel need not be true in order to be harmful to the organization, so much the more that it may be potentially credible. In the development of a media crisis, the press becomes the main assessor of the events.

  • Issue Year: 09/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 24-30
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English