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.
The eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten. Early the following day, the new depression intensified into Tropical Storm Katrina.