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| Title: | Solidarity Trumps Catastrophe? An Empirical and Analytical Analysis of Post-Tsunami Media in Two Western Nations |
| Authors: | Letukas, Lynn
Olofsson, Anna
Barnshaw, John |
| Keywords: | Tsunami-Case Studies
Mass Media
Social Response
Disaster Relief
Disaster Recovery |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | Disaster Research Center |
| Series/Report no.: | Preliminary Papers;363 |
| Abstract: | This paper explores how newspaper accounts in Sweden and the United States, two geographically non-impacted nations, frame the short term response and recovery phase of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Utilizing 594 newspaper articles from four of the largest print media sources in Sweden (n= 370) and the United States (n= 224) we code for social solidarity, donor relief, geographic location as well as emergent themes salient in explaining how social solidarity is fostered and maintained. We find that social solidarity in geographically non-impacted nations was fostered through an intensively narrow and nativist focus and maintained through a collective response of assistance. Findings support Durkheim’s ([1893] 1997) theory of social solidarity but go beyond prior descriptive theoretical accounts by offering a predictive theory of social solidarity. |
| URI: | http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/4055 |
| Appears in Collections: | DRC Preliminary Papers
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