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.
On August 29, Katrina weakened rapidly into a Category 1 hurricane after moving inland over southern and central Mississippi. Six hours later, she weakened to a tropical storm just northwest of Meridian, Mississippi. The next day, Katrina turned northeastward over the Tennessee Valley and became a tropical depression.urricane Katrina is the most well known name in recent hurricane history. She was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history and one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States.