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.
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.urricane Katrina: Storm and Flooding. By the time Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans early in the morning on Monday, August 29, it had already been raining heavily for hours. When the storm surge (as high as 9 meters in some places) arrived, it overwhelmed many of the cityâs unstable levees and drainage canals.