“Fox Tots Attack Shock”: Urban Foxes, Mass Media and Boundary-Breaching
Media Representations of the "Urban Fox"On June 7, 2010, UK media outlets reported that 9-month-old twins living in East London had been rushed to hospital following a “suspected fox attack”: the babies had been seriously injured. This story received sustained coverage for several months, and became the focus of debate over the behavior of urban foxes, and how they and humans should coexist.Using textual analysis to unravel the various discourses surrounding this moment, a paper published in Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture