Popular Knowledge and Performances of the Self in Distributed Networks

Social Media after Black Saturday

Bibliographic Data

ID5715487
AuthorsAlison Horbury (0000-0002-5470-325X), Peter Hughes (0009-0000-5493-8975)
Year2010
Volume137
Issue1
Pages144-153
Publication date2010-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x1013700116
OpenAlexW2571531515
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

Following the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria in 2009, a convenience sample of data from a variety of social network services (SNS) was assembled to investigate how people were using social media to understand and respond to the events. Two broad trends have so far emerged: social media were used to construct vernacular, as opposed to 'expert', knowledges of the events; and SNS were sites of performance of self as caring, empathetic and ethical. Any emergency media communication strategy seeking to mobilise SNS would do well to understand the place of SNS in popular constructions of catastrophic events

Art · Media studies · Social media · Sociology · Vernacular · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics

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