Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience

South Asia is one of the regions of the world most vulnerable to natural disasters. Although news media analyses of disasters have been conducted frequently in various settings globally, there is little research on populous South Asia. This paper begins to fill this gap by evaluating local and forei...

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Published inDisasters Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 294 - 313
Main Author Dhakal, Subas P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2018
Subjects
Communities
Community
community capitals
Construction costs
Content analysis
disaster resilience
Disasters
Earthquakes
Foreign news
Frame analysis
Frameworks
framing theory
Media coverage
Natural disasters
News media
Political finance
Resilience
Seismic activity
Social capital
Statistical analysis
thematic content analysis
Nepal
South Asia
community capitals
framing theory
thematic content analysis
news media
disaster resilience
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Summary:South Asia is one of the regions of the world most vulnerable to natural disasters. Although news media analyses of disasters have been conducted frequently in various settings globally, there is little research on populous South Asia. This paper begins to fill this gap by evaluating local and foreign news media coverage of the earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015. It broadens the examination of news media coverage of disaster response beyond traditional framing theory, utilising community capitals (built, cultural, financial, human, natural, political, and social) lens to perform a thematic content analysis of 405 news items. Overall, financial and natural capital received the most and the least emphasis respectively. Statistically significant differences between local and foreign news media were detected vis‐à‐vis built, financial, and political capital. The paper concludes with a discussion of the social utility of news media analysis using the community capitals framework to inform disaster resilience.
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ISSN:0361-3666
1467-7717
DOI:10.1111/disa.12244