The Impact of the Disaster News on Social Capacity Building Against Disasters

Providing that, the continuum of social life is one of the most important aims of the preparedness against disasters, carrying individual risk reduction activities against disasters is vital for achieving this goal. However, increasing the awareness of a society under disaster risk can be realized w...

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Main Author: Serhat Yılmaz
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Language:English
Published: Artvin Coruh University 2019-07-01
Series:Doğal Afetler ve Çevre Dergisi
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Online Access:http://dacd.artvin.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/690330
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description Providing that, the continuum of social life is one of the most important aims of the preparedness against disasters, carrying individual risk reduction activities against disasters is vital for achieving this goal. However, increasing the awareness of a society under disaster risk can be realized with high costs and time. Mass media tools, especially newspapers and television which are widely used in daily life for accessing the information needed, are offering an advantage in order to decrease these high costs and are much faster. Within the scope of this study, the effectiveness of these mass media tools in the context of social capacity building on disasters has been examined. For this purpose, the contents of the Bodrum Earthquake’s (occurred on July 27th, 2017) news which were published in the first three most widely read newspapers in Turkey, and were broadcasted on the first three rated news programs, were analyzed by framing theory. After these analyses, the effects on the social capacity building against disaster are being questioned. As a result of the study, it has been revealed that the disaster news are generally being addressed with sensational perspective, and the advantages being offered by the mass media tools are not effectively utilized for creating awareness on individual preparedness activities.
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spelling doaj-art-c3962795e7244bb1a1dcf720c63f63952025-02-03T03:27:17ZengArtvin Coruh UniversityDoğal Afetler ve Çevre Dergisi2528-96402528-96402019-07-015225727110.21324/dacd.463237The Impact of the Disaster News on Social Capacity Building Against DisastersSerhat Yılmaz0İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi, Afet Eğitim Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi, 34295, İstanbul.Providing that, the continuum of social life is one of the most important aims of the preparedness against disasters, carrying individual risk reduction activities against disasters is vital for achieving this goal. However, increasing the awareness of a society under disaster risk can be realized with high costs and time. Mass media tools, especially newspapers and television which are widely used in daily life for accessing the information needed, are offering an advantage in order to decrease these high costs and are much faster. Within the scope of this study, the effectiveness of these mass media tools in the context of social capacity building on disasters has been examined. For this purpose, the contents of the Bodrum Earthquake’s (occurred on July 27th, 2017) news which were published in the first three most widely read newspapers in Turkey, and were broadcasted on the first three rated news programs, were analyzed by framing theory. After these analyses, the effects on the social capacity building against disaster are being questioned. As a result of the study, it has been revealed that the disaster news are generally being addressed with sensational perspective, and the advantages being offered by the mass media tools are not effectively utilized for creating awareness on individual preparedness activities.http://dacd.artvin.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/690330capacity buildingmass communicationdisaster newsdisaster awareness
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The Impact of the Disaster News on Social Capacity Building Against Disasters
Doğal Afetler ve Çevre Dergisi
capacity building
mass communication
disaster news
disaster awareness
title The Impact of the Disaster News on Social Capacity Building Against Disasters
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title_short The Impact of the Disaster News on Social Capacity Building Against Disasters
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mass communication
disaster news
disaster awareness
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