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 made landfall ten years ago, killing 1,800, displacing a million more, and demolishing large swaths of the Gulf Coast. A blighted house in New Orleans, LA. Scott McCrossen / Five65 Design. Our new publication, Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, is out now.