Connecting After Chaos : : Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster / / Stephen F. Ostertag.
A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and socialconnections in the years after a devastating natural disasterNatural disasters and other such catastrophes typically attract large-scale media attention and public concern in their immediate aftermath...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 17 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Desperation and Strength in the Wake of Disaster
- 1 Settling Times: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Destruction of a City
- 2 From Personal Disaster and Collective Trauma: The Turn to Blogs
- 3 Collective Trauma with Blogs: The Growth of a Local Blogosphere
- 4 Communicating Trauma: The Making and Sharing of Culture across Blogs
- 5 The Creation of a Collective Discourse: Forging a New Cultural Resource
- 6 Blogging and Collective Actions: Mobilizing over the Settling Period
- 7 As the City Settles: Predictability, Routine, and Fatigue
- 8 Communicating Culture: Ritual, Drama, and Blogs
- Conclusion: Rethinking Culture and Action
- Acknowledgments
- Methodological and Theoretical Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author