Media, journalism and disaster communities / Jamie Matthews, Einar Thorsen, editors.

This book illuminates the concept of disaster communities through a series of international case studies. It offers an eclectic overview of how different forms of media and journalism contribute to our understanding of the lived experiences of communities at risk from, affected by, and recovering fr...

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Other Authors: Matthews, Jamie (Editor), Thorsen, Einar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: media, journalism and disaster communities / Jamie Matthews and Einar Thorsen
  • Environmental destruction and geophysical hazards. Brazilian local and national news coverage of the Samarco disaster : a disaster for the community, the corporation, or the environment? / Paola Prado and Juliet Pinto
  • Reporting from the "inner circle" : Afno Manche and commitment to community in post-earthquake Nepal / Chindu Sreedharan and Einar Thorsen
  • Kesennuma's Building for the future and Ishinomaki's Rolling press : sharing localised news of recovery from Tōhoku's disaster-affected communities / Jamie Matthews
  • Drought is a disaster in the city : local news media's role in communicating disasters in Australia / Jacqui Ewart
  • Media and climate migration : transnational and local reporting on vulnerable island communities / Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg, and Florencia Enghel
  • Armed conflict and journalistic freedoms. Changing the story of urban violence in El Salvador : the Crónica, the community, and voices from the ganglands / Mathew Charles
  • Oscillating between alienation and frustrated engagement : the study of Donbas residents' response to conflicting narratives in the media / Dariya Orlova
  • "Bloodbath, invasion, massacre" : Idoma voice and the framing of the farmer-herder conflict in Benue State, Nigeria / Confidence Uwazuruike
  • Media and reconciliation : a study of media-led initiatives in post-IS Mosul / Aida al-Kaisy
  • Human (in)action and humanitarian crises. Is local journalism failing? Local voices in the aftermath of the Grenfell and Lakanal fire disasters / Kurt Barling
  • Attributes in community and national news coverage of the Parkland mass shootings / Kyle J. Holody
  • Informing refugee communities in Greece : what is possible within the parameters of the humanitarian structure? / Victoria Jack
  • When media fuel the crisis : fighting hate speech and communal violence in Myanmar / Lisa Brooten
  • Afterword: the shifting domain of disaster journalism / Mervi Pantti.