Really Social Disaster: An Examination of Photo Sharing on Twitter During the #SCFlood

Mortensen, Tara Marie; Hull, Kevin; Boling, Kelli S.

doi:10.1080/15551393.2017.1388704

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“…However, prolonged complaints can cause chaos, so according to Muralidharan, Rasmussen, Patterson and Shin (2011) who reviewed the earthquake in Haiti, the media needs to play the proper framing to minimise chaos. Other similar studies that revealed the link between Twitter and natural disasters were conducted by Hughes and Palen (2009), Palen, Starbird, Vieweg and Hughes (2010), Earle, Bowden and Guy (2011), Murthy and Longwell (2013), Shaw, Burgess, Crawford and Bruns (2013), Tengku, Saodah, Aini Maznina and Rizalawati (2015), De Albuquerque, Herfort, Brenning and Zipf (2015, Takahashi, Tandoc Jr and Carmichael (2015), Mortensen, Hull and Boling (2017), with Neppalli, Caragea, Squicciarini, Tapia and Stehle (2017). These researchers revealed the use of Twitter for disasters such as floods, grass fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and hurricanes.…”

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How Jokowi Communicates with the Public During Covid-19 Crisis: An Analysis of Tweets on Twitter

Prayoga

2020

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The coronavirus pandemic has caused mass fear and panic in Indonesia. Irrational behaviour is carried out by people ranging from panic buying to violating the government appeals and rules. This condition certainly leads to the importance of disaster communication carried out by an opinion leader. Therefore, the objective of writing this paper is to analyse how the disaster communication was carried out by Jokowi on Twitter during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research was conducted using data from President Jokowi's tweets (@jokowi) related to Covid-19 from January 1, 2020, to April 30, 2020. The number of tweets analysed was 150 tweets related to coronavirus from a total of 290 tweets. These tweets were collected automatically with the help of the Ncapture and NVIVO 12 analysis tools. However, the researcher also re-checked the data manually. The collected data is then encoded using Microsoft Excel. Finally, the data was analysed using quantitative content analysis. The results found that Jokowi has provided a wide variety of information, ranging from socialising policies related to the handling of COVID-19 in Indonesia to the extension of condolences to the affected patients. The use of photos and videos is also carried out by Jokowi to increase public awareness. Unfortunately, disaster communications were not carried out in advance before the pandemic occurred. It was only actively carried out when the pandemic had claimed many victims. Furthermore, coordination with many parties in providing the information is also crucial. Finally, Jokowi should use a hashtag (#) more often to reach a wider range of tweets.

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How Jokowi Communicates with the Public During Covid-19 Crisis: An Analysis of Tweets on Twitter

Prayoga

2020

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“…In interviews 1 year after Brown’s death, local journalists, activists, and government officials all stressed the crucial function of including visual evidence in their tweets—“Quite simply: photos and videos were the currency of credibility in this crisis” (Hinsley et al, 2016, p. 18). The Orlando shooting was nearly 2 years later, and scattered evidence suggests journalists were increasing their use of photos and videos in tweets during that time (Molyneux & Mourão, 2019; Mortensen et al, 2017).…”

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Tweeting in the midst of disaster: A comparative case study of journalists’ practices following four crises

Hinsley

Lee

2020

Newspaper Research Journal

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This comparative case study examines how local journalists used Twitter as a crisis communication tool during four emergency situations in the United States. The public’s retweeting and liking patterns also identified messages that resonated with them. A content analysis found that although local journalists used objective reporting most frequently across all crises, there were variances in Twitter practices of journalists covering the two human-made crises. The two natural disasters showed more similarities. These findings can help develop best-practices strategies for journalists as they cover different types of crises.

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“…Numerous journalism, media and communication scholars have previously studied visual aspects of natural disaster coverage. Such studies typically focus on the types of people who are portrayed, such as a study by Borah (2009) which focused on media portrayals of the dead in two US newspapers following their coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2005 Hurricane Katrina incidents; a study by Fahmy et al (2007) who examined visual coverage of victims, non-white citizens and public officials during coverage of Hurricane Katrina; and Mortensen et al (2017) who examined, among other factors, gender, presence of people; and presence of disaster and emergency professionals in photos posted to Twitter following a 2015 flood in the eastern United States. Coverage valence (e.g.…”

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Picturing destruction at home and abroad: a comparative visual analysis of icons and news values during disaster

Thomson

2021

Media International Australia

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This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unprecedented 2019–2020 bushfire season was depicted for Australian and non-Australian audiences in order to extend transnational understanding of iconicity’s tenets and how news values vary across contexts. It does so first by examining the Sydney Morning Herald’s coverage over 3 months and then by contrasting this with international coverage that began in early 2020 once the issue spilled onto the world stage. Australia’s coverage focused intensely on human actors involved in the disaster while the vast numbers of affected animals were virtually absent. In contrast, international media visually depicted the disaster as an environmental and ecological issue with global consequences. The results suggest a need for a definition of iconicity that is inclusive to non-human actors and to inanimate forces that are personified. It also extends our cross-cultural understanding of the visual expression of news values.

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Really Social Disaster: An Examination of Photo Sharing on Twitter During the #SCFlood

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

How Jokowi Communicates with the Public During Covid-19 Crisis: An Analysis of Tweets on Twitter

How Jokowi Communicates with the Public During Covid-19 Crisis: An Analysis of Tweets on Twitter

Tweeting in the midst of disaster: A comparative case study of journalists’ practices following four crises

Picturing destruction at home and abroad: a comparative visual analysis of icons and news values during disaster

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