Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective

Widener, Patricia; Gunter, Valerie J.

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“…Despite guarded responses by Exxon, the spill generated a tremendous amount of local and national media attention due in large part to the spill's volume, breadth of impact, loss of wildlife, shoreline contamination, and national‐level clean‐up efforts. In turn, the volume of news reports generated more than a decade of research on media coverage of the spill (see Daley and O’Neill 1991; Smith 1993; Widener and Gunter 2007).…”

Section: Applying Oil Tourism: Consistent and Contradictory Casesmentioning

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Oil Tourism: Disasters and Destinations in Ecuador and the Philippines*

Widener

2009

Sociological Inquiry

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This article examines the links between the petroleum and tourism industries by analyzing how an oil disaster, whether actual or perceived, may attract nature‐based tourism interests. To better understand the role of communities, local governments and/or the media in establishing links between the petroleum and tourism industries, this article explores how the construction of an oil pipeline in Ecuador and an oil spill in the Philippines created opportunities for tourism. Each case contributes to our understanding of how an oil disaster supports nature‐based tourism and how both industries supply a resource or an experience to nonlocal consumers, while converging to alter local communities, economies, and ecosystems. Indeed, tourism investments following a disaster may become a sideshow to the disaster that shifts attention from the disaster to participation in new economic opportunities. In addition, tourism may represent ecological alterations, which are more subtle, yet as damaging, as an oil disaster. The proposed model is then applied to two additional cases, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Hurricane Katrina, to test its use in understanding other postdisaster developments.

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Section: Applying Oil Tourism: Consistent and Contradictory Casesmentioning

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Oil Tourism: Disasters and Destinations in Ecuador and the Philippines*

Widener

2009

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“…Mass media work as key sites of contention among civil society actors, corporations, governments, and other stakeholders (Widener and Gunter 2007;Hansen 2010;Lester 2010). Despite the proliferation of social media, issue coverage in established mass media outlets remains important as a means of communicating environmental claims and counterclaims to a broad, general public (Castells 2009).…”

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Canadian News Media Coverage of Climate Change: Historical Trajectories, Dominant Frames, and International Comparisons

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Tindall

2015

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“…A technological disaster emphasizes human error as its root cause, and the long-term social and psychological stress that these types of disasters have on local populations. For insightful research on these issues, see Arata and colleagues 2000;Baum and Fleming 1993;Norris 2006;Picou and colleagues 2004;Tierney 2007. and shorelines (see also Gamson and Modigliani 1989;Tierney, Bevc, and Kuligowski 2006;Widener and Gunter 2007). In work on responses to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Birkland (1998) links mobilization to the ways "news media transmitted easily understood and vivid images of oiled shorelines and oiled wildlife" (pp.…”

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Farrell

2014

Social Problems

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The 2010 BP oil spill is the largest human-caused disaster in U.S. history. Using nationally representative panel data measured before, during, and after the spill I find that rather than giving time and money to actual relief efforts, Americans responded primarily through dramatic increases in time and money given for environmental causes. This expands current understandings about how and why Americans respond to large-scale catastrophe. I argue that this phenomenon can be made sense of theoretically by focusing on the cultural context of "moral shock" precipitated by historic environmental harm and corporate negligence, both of which were amplified in the wake of the spill by national media. This heightened emotional climate interacted with Americans' empathetic identities, practices and habits, politics, and culture to produce different pathways to philanthropic engagement. Consistent with this argument, the results show that all four of these factors mattered for predicting generous behavior in this case, but did so at different points in time. I close by outlining the substantive and theoretical implications of my argument.

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Oil Spill Recovery in the Media: Missing an Alaska Native Perspective

Cited by 21 publications

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Oil Tourism: Disasters and Destinations in Ecuador and the Philippines*

Oil Tourism: Disasters and Destinations in Ecuador and the Philippines*

Canadian News Media Coverage of Climate Change: Historical Trajectories, Dominant Frames, and International Comparisons

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