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.
Katrina formed over the Bahamas on 23 August 2005 as a tropical depression, growing into a category one hurricane by the time it reached Florida but weakening to a tropical storm once again. On 26 August, as Katrina moved over the Gulf of Mexico, its winds increased to 120kmh and it was upgraded back to a category one.