The better technique to describe contemporary mass media processes such as social media seems to be Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT). CIT sees the communication infrastructure as a âstorytelling systemâ set in a âcommunication action contextâ (Ball-Rokeach & Jung, 2009).
Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scaleâit brought sustained winds of 100â140 miles per hourâand stretched some 400 miles across.
Camille drove a record storm surge of 22.6 feet to Pass Christian, Mississippi. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the same region of Mississippi coast, as a Category 3 hurricane with 130 mph sustained winds. Yet Katrina's storm surge exceeded Camille's at all locations, topping out at 27.8 feet at Pass Christian (Fritz et al., 2008).