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

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    Dhakal, Subas P.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Dhakal, S.P. 2018. Analysing news media coverage of the 2015 Nepal earthquake using a community capitals lens: implications for disaster resilience. Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management. 42 (2): pp. 294-313.
    Source Title
    Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management
    DOI
    10.1111/disa.12244
    ISSN
    1467-7717
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56830
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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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