Media, Disaster Response, Ebola: What Local Government Needs to Understand About Media Influence of Response Operations When the Improbable Becomes Reality

IF 0.7 4区 管理学 Q4 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Brian Don Williams, James P. Nelson
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Abstract

Abstract Research has shown that mass media can influence response operations by influencing the way that information is disseminated to the public before, during, and after disaster. After the 2014 Ebola event, the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) conducted an After Action Review that proposes the need for government to ensure that the media does not control the narrative of response. The goal of this study is to understand if and how the media did attempt to control the narrative of response. To achieve this goal, we conduct a content analysis of three major newspapers, from July 26, 2014 to November 1, 2014, that focuses on Adaptive Governance in response to Ebola’s debut in the United States shortly after September 20, 2014. The results indicate that articles are more likely to focus on federal agencies and response efforts that follow established federal guidelines. However, the mention of local government, the boots on the ground first responders, is not significant to the mention of Adaptive Governance. This suggests that print media is controlling the narrative of the response and local government needs to provide the print media more access to emergency management professionals for more effective dissemination of effective local response.
媒体,灾难应对,埃博拉:当不可能成为现实时,地方政府需要了解媒体对应对行动的影响
研究表明,大众媒体可以通过影响灾前、灾中和灾后向公众传播信息的方式来影响救灾行动。2014年埃博拉事件发生后,国际应急管理人员协会(IAEM)进行了一次行动后审查,提出政府有必要确保媒体不控制对应对工作的叙述。本研究的目的是了解媒体是否以及如何试图控制回应的叙述。为了实现这一目标,我们对2014年7月26日至11月1日期间的三家主要报纸进行了内容分析,重点关注2014年9月20日之后不久埃博拉病毒在美国首次出现时的适应性治理。结果表明,文章更有可能关注联邦机构以及遵循既定联邦指导方针的应对措施。然而,提到地方政府,即地面上的第一响应者,对适应性治理的提及并不重要。这表明,平面媒体正在控制对应急反应的叙述,地方政府需要为平面媒体提供更多接触应急管理专业人员的机会,以便更有效地传播有效的地方应对措施。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management publishes original, innovative, and timely articles describing research or practice in the fields of homeland security and emergency management. JHSEM publishes not only peer-reviewed articles, but also news and communiqués from researchers and practitioners, and book/media reviews. Content comes from a broad array of authors representing many professions, including emergency management, engineering, political science and policy, decision science, and health and medicine, as well as from emergency management and homeland security practitioners.
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