Old and New Media After Katrina

by Diane Negra

Book Overview

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. The contributors explore how Hurricane Katrina is positioned at the intersection of numerous early twenty-first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349287075
• ISBN13: 9781349287079
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"