Contribution to Book
Media Impacts on Disaster Management and Policy
Environmental Security: Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies
(2019)
Abstract
This chapter focuses on 1) The changing roles of the media as it relates to disaster management immediately before, during, and in the aftermath of an event; and 2) The media’s impact on disaster management policy-making in the months following the event. It begins with a case study analysis of the media’s coverage of the problems related to disaster management in the post-landfall period of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The case study shows that in the immediate aftermath of the event, traditional media1 coverage played an important role in drawing attention to the magnitude of the disaster, despite some initial challenges with obtaining accurate information.
Keywords
- disaster management,
- disaster policy,
- media impact,
- social media,
- case study
Disciplines
Publication Date
2019
Editor
John M. Lanicci, Elisabeth Hope Murray, & James D. Ramsay
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
ISBN
13:978-1-944970-41-3
Citation Information
Fisher, J.R. & Lanicci, J.M. (2019). Media Impacts on Disaster Management and Policy. in Lanicci, J., Murray, E.H., & Ramsay, J.D., eds. Environmental Security: Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies. Boston: American Metrological Society, pp. 137-143.