This paper operationalizes the concept of risk, framing it in terms of the dangers and threats which affect security concerns in the UK. Furthermore, we focus on risks that are a product of modern science and society and analyze security through a constructivist prism mediated by social and cultural processes and realities. Epistemologically, we do not analyze security as “real” or “objective,” but as a constructed phenomenon. We study advanced technology and their consequences, such as cyber warfare.

For this project researchers used an in-depth qualitative comparative analysis of media content. Researchers carried out a comparison of three security issues in ten countries.

The aim of this study is to present the findings of an analysis of expert security blogs that was carried out between 1 January 2010 and 30 April 2013. The main research questions here are: 1. What is the overall salience of selected topics among security bloggers? 2. How do expert blogs frame the implications of security and security technologies within our three SECONOMICS topics – Stuxnet, CCTV cameras, and 3D body scanners?

Prague SECONOMICS Discussion Papers 2013/7 Contribution to the SECONOMICS project and Prague Graduate School in Comparative Qualitative Analysis 2013 London School of Economics Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, December 2013

Prague SECONOMICS Discussion Papers 2013/6 Risks and Security in Spanish Newspapers: The Cases of 3D Body Scanners, CCTV and Stuxnet Contribution to the SECONOMICS project and Prague Graduate School in Comparative Qualitative Analysis 2013 Manuel Pereira-Puga, University of A Coruña, in collaboration with Jessie Hronesova, University of Oxford Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, October 2013

Prague SECONOMICS Discussion Papers 2013/5 Contribution to the SECONOMICS project and Prague Graduate School in Comparative Qualitative Analysis 2013 Daniela Gawrecká Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Prague SECONOMICS Discussion Papers 2013/4 Contribution to the SECONOMICS project and Prague Graduate School in Comparative Qualitative Analysis 2013 Pavla Vamberová Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Prague SECONOMICS Discussion Papers 2013/3 Contribution to the SECONOMICS project and Prague Graduate School in Comparative Qualitative Analysis 2013 Department of Political Science University of Granada, Spain Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, October 2013

Prague SECONOMICS Discussion Papers 2013/2 Contribution to the SECONOMICS project and Prague Graduate School in Comparative Qualitative Analysis 2013 London School of Economics and Political Science Institute of Sociology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, October 2013

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