Abstract
Catastrophe and Television in the Wake of Katrina: This article explores the ways that national mainstream news media serve as an authenticating and legitimating discursive frame that places significant limitations on how local news and community-based video can represent events. Taking the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as its case study, the article argues that discourses of "elsewhere-ism" have tended to negate the possibility for local media to enact necessary critiques of dominant ideological narratives that have the effect of re-positioning New Orleans as a resolved national disaster.
Recommended Citation
Fuqua, Joy
(2009)
"That Part of the World': Hurricane Katrina and the 'Place' of Local Media,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.337
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol2/iss1/8