Murthy, Dhiraj. 2011. New Media and Natural Disasters: Blogs and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Information, Communication & Society, 16(7), pp. 1176-1192. ISSN 1369-118X [Article]

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This article examines the role of blogs during the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Using a blog created by South Asian journalists as a case study, the article argues that new media has the potential to be a democratizing agent in lesser developed countries. The article argues that some tsunami-related blogs give regional, subaltern journalists a medium to transcend exploitative accounts of the tsunami's aftermath. The article is also able to use tsunami-related blogs to help highlight questions surrounding new media and disaster reporting in lesser developed countries in general, including discussions of the digital divide.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.611815
Keywords:	blogs, digital divides, journalism, media representations, natural disasters, new media
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event September 2011 ["eprint_fieldopt_dates_date_type_shown" not defined]
Item ID:	9305
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2013 22:33
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2014 10:06
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/9305

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