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Volume : I, Issue : VIII, September - 2011

NEWS COVERAGE OF CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REHABILITATION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO AGENDA SETTING, FOCUSING EVENTS AND POLICY CHANGE

T. R. Gopalakrishnan

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

The concept of “focusing events”-sudden, catastrophic, vivid events that disrupts routine news such as natural disasters has gained traction in growing body of research on the agenda setting function of media in the context of disasters (Birkland, 1998).

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T. R. Gopalakrishnan, (2011). NEWS COVERAGE OF CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN TSUNAMI RELIEF AND REHABILITATION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO AGENDA SETTING, FOCUSING EVENTS AND POLICY CHANGE. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. VIII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/6455.pdf

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  1. Altheide, D. L., & Schneider, C. J. (1996). Qualitative Media Analysis. SAGE.
  2. Barnes, M. D., Hanson, C. L., Novilla, L. M., Meacham, A. T., McIntyre, E., & Erickson, B. C. (2008). Analysis of media agenda setting during and after Hurricane Katrina: Implications for emergency pre- paredness, disaster response, and disaster policy. American Journal of Public Health, 98(4), 604–610.

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