Food scandals, media exposure, and citizens' safety concerns: a multilevel analysis across Chinese cities

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Liu, Peng (author) and Ma, Liang (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    China
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11474
    Journal Title:
    Food Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    63 : 102-111
    Subject Term:
    consumers, coverage, food, food safety, information needs, mass media, media, media influence, media use, perceptions, reporting, risk assessment, risk communication, rural-urban differences, risk perception, China, Hong Kong SAR (Eastern Asia), food scandals, and food risk
    Notes:
    22 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers combined recent national survey data and media reports to quantitatively examine the effects of food scandals and media exposure on food safety risk. Findings suggesed hat media reported food scandals are not significantly related to public concern about food safety risk, suggesting that food risk perceptions may be nationwide rather than region specific. Findings also suggested that more educated citizens with more media exposure were more concerned about food safety risk.

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