Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji climate change journalism case study

Robie, David; Chand, Sarika

doi:10.24135/pjr.v23i1.257

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“…On 20 February 2016, Tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall in Fiji-a category five cyclone that was the strongest cyclone to be recorded in the Pacific (Robie & Chand, 2017). The cyclone affected both Tonga and Fiji, but it was Fiji that bore the brunt of the cyclone.…”

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Social media and disaster communication: A case study of Cyclone Winston

Finau¹,

Cox

Tarai³

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Abstract:This article presents an analysis of how social media was used during Tropical Cyclone Winston, the strongest recorded tropical storm that left a wake of destruction and devastation in Fiji during February 2016. Social media is increasingly being used in crises and disasters as an alternative form of communication. Social media use in crisis communication varies according to the context, the disaster and the maturity of social media use. Fiji's experience during TC Winston contributes to the growing literature as it shows how social media was used during each stage of a disaster in a developing country. The article finds that before the cyclone, people used social media to share information about the cyclone and to be informed about the cyclone. During the cyclone, individuals used social media to share their experiences with some citizens capturing the cyclone as it happened and even one citizen live-tweeted her ordeal during the cyclone. Finally, following the cyclone, the hashtag #StrongerThanWinston was coined as a rallying point to bolster a sense of national solidarity.

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Social media and disaster communication: A case study of Cyclone Winston

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“…As an enabler of postgraduate project journalism over the past 14 years in the Asia-Pacific region, as exemplified in the Pacific Journalism Review's Frontline section (Bacon 2011(Bacon , 2012Nash, 2014;Mason, 2014), the Pacific Media Centre developed a plan in 2016 for an annual two-week intensive climate change field trip for two postgraduate student/graduate journalists to gain firsthand experience of reporting on climate change issues in Fiji (Robie & Chand, 2017;Robie, 2018;Robie & Marbrook, 2020). This was conducted within the framework of a postgraduate International Journalism Project course.…”

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FRONTLINE: The sociology of a pandemic: Countering a COVID 'disinfodemic' with a campus media initiative

Robie¹,

Krishnamurthi

2020

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Parallel with the global spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a dangerous ‘disinfodemic’ has been infecting the flow of information worldwide. Communication and media outlets have faced a new challenge with not only being responsible for reportage and analysis of a fast-moving public health emergency—the biggest this century, but forced to sift through the mass circulation of falsehoods that have spread as rapidly as the virus. Concerned about the risks for both health and public responses to disinformation, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres identified the ‘new enemy’ as a ‘growing surge of disinformation’. The UN launched a COVID-19 Communications for Solidarity Initiative to rapidly inform people about facts and science and to ‘promote and inspire acts of humanity’ globally. New Zealand is one of the few countries in the world whose strategy of COVID elimination has been a sustained approach to ‘keep the virus out, find it and stamp it out’. Evoking a theme of ‘our team of five million’ and national kindness, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has led a remarkable campaign blending decisive action and transparency. In this context, this article critically examines a four-month ‘Coronavirus Plus’ initiative conducted by the Pacific Media Centre at a communication programme in one of the New Zealand’s universities in response to the pandemic, deploying the Asia Pacific Report website, asiapacificreport.nz.

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“…Scattered over the largest ocean in the world, the PSIDS are at the front line of climate change (Robie & Chand 2017), but their voice is absent from mainstream climate finance literature (Dreher & Voyer 2015, Wing, 2017. Existing academic climate finance studies tend to aggregate the PSIDS' unique situations with those of the larger Asian countries in the Asia-Pacific region, resulting in the drowning of PSIDS voices (Maclellan, 2011).…”

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Gazing over the horizon: Will an equitable Green Climate Fund allocation policy be significant for the Pacific post-2020?

Samuwai¹,

Hills²

2019

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The establishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has increased expectations and optimism amongst developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The GCF aims to channel a significant portion of global funds for climate change response, with a goal of reaching US$100 billion per year by 2020. Portrayed as a timely saviour to the climate finance needs of vulnerable countries, the allocation of GCF funds among countries will be key to low carbon and resilient futures. Its broad allocation policy increases the possibility that particularly vulnerable countries which have struggled to access international climate finance will continue to face such challenges. Adopting an equitable/fair principle of allocation, this article highlights a number of scenarios on the possible impact of the post-2020 climate financing environment on particularly vulnerable countries with a special focus on the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS). This study argues that PSIDS are extremely sensitive to GCF allocation mechanisms. While the study supports the notion of balanced allocation as currently advanced by the GCF, the precarious situation of PSIDS necessitates a re-think of how the GCF finance is to be allocated in the future.

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Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji climate change journalism case study

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

Social media and disaster communication: A case study of Cyclone Winston

Social media and disaster communication: A case study of Cyclone Winston

FRONTLINE: The sociology of a pandemic: Countering a COVID 'disinfodemic' with a campus media initiative

Gazing over the horizon: Will an equitable Green Climate Fund allocation policy be significant for the Pacific post-2020?

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