Risk, health and the media

This special issue on ‘Risk and the Media’ explores relationships between risk theory in the social sciences and media studies' analyses of risk. Arguing that attempts to bring these two ‘risk and media’ fields together have been only sporadic, the editors deliberately adopt a reflexive view. They draw attention to their different approaches, as sociological and media/cultural studies researchers, to the articles chosen here. They emphasise these articles' development of their fields, and suggest further theoretical links to be made. The editors hope, then, to suggest significant signposts in an interdisciplinary endeavour still with much progress to be made.