NEW MEDIA AND NATURAL DISASTERS: Blogs and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1176-1192

  Murthy, Dhiraj ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

blogs; digital divides; journalism; media representations; natural disasters; new media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881627370     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.611815     Document Type: Article

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