Transcultural risk communication on Dauphin Island: An analysis of ironically located responses to the deepwater horizon disaster

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-66

  Frost, Erin A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Bp; Dauphin island; Deepwater horizon oil spill and communication; Digital guerrilla; Disaster rhetorics; Ecocritical and ecological economic approaches; Rhetorics of risk; Transcultural communication

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; BP; DAUPHIN ISLAND; DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILLS; DIGITAL GUERRILLA; ECOCRITICAL AND ECOLOGICAL-ECONOMIC APPROACHES;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; OIL SPILLS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84874224769     PISSN: 10572252     EISSN: 15427625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2013.726483     Document Type: Article

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