Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 302837
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030337117
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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1 - Journalism, Conflict and Social Change
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection posits a new conceptualisation of what the editor’s term ‘disaster communities’, leading to a new analytical framework that reflects both global dimensions and their local contexts, integrated with local media ecology, in new understandings of disaster. It serves as a contrast to the existing research that has largely focused on the processes of mediation at a national and international level that circulate around disaster and their drivers.
As co-editor, Matthews has contributed a substantial introduction which sets out the importance of this new theoretical direction, arguing for a broader understanding of disaster and their drivers and outlining how the dynamics and composition of disaster communities are shaped by the epistemology of mediated interrelations. Each chapter in the collection illuminates a different case study, coalescing around the different points of connection that define disaster communities and addressing one or more of the research questions that have guided the research project. The theoretical contribution of the collection is underlined in an Afterword to the collection by a leading scholar in the field of media and disaster and by the reviewers of the book.
In addition, Matthew contributes an additional chapter to the collection (Chapter 4) that presents a case study of grassroots media launched after the 2011 Japan disaster that sought to meet the information needs of a dispersed community of concern and contribute to recovery processes. It illustrates how interest-based communities may emerge in response to disasters and the potential for different forms of media and journalism to consolidate or create new points of connections for these networks.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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