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.
Hurricane Katrina struck a number of locations. Katrina first formed near the Bahamas and then crossed southern Florida The storm then intensified over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, devastating the cities of New Orleans, Gulfport, and Biloxi.