A Cross-Societal Comparison of Disaster News Reporting in Japan and the United States
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1989
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Disaster Research Center
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During 1984-1985, sociologists from the Disaster Research Center (DRC) at the University of Delaware and social scientists associated with the Institute of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Tokyo in Japan undertook in both countries. Using a common research design, cooperatively developed ahead of time, the Americans studied local community-level reporting of a major hurricane (Hurricane Alicia in the Houston, Texas area) and a major flood (around Tulsa, Oklahoma) while the Japanese concurrently researched the reporting of two similar disasters (around Nagasaki and Hiroshima) in their country. After the field data had been analyzed, the researchers from both societies held a meeting in the United States to compare their findings.
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mass communication, news reporting, Japan, United States