Impact of Media Information on Social Response in Disasters:A Case Study of the Freezing‑Rain and Snowstorm Disasters in Southern China in 2008  

作　　者：Jia He Wenjing Duan Yuxuan Zhou Yun Su 

机构地区：[1]College of Geographic Science and Tourism,Xinjiang Normal University,Urumqi 830054,China [2]Xinjiang Laboratory of Lake Environment and Resources in Arid Zone,Urumqi 830054,China [3]Faculty of Geographical Science,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China [4]Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster,Ministry of Education,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China

出　　处：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》2024年第1期73-87,共15页国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the Major Program of National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China (Grant No. 22&ZD223);Tianchi Doctoral Program of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Grant No. BS2021007);the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Grant No. 2022D01B109)

摘　　要：Disaster information content is an objective mapping of disaster situations,social response,and public opinions.Social response to emergency is an important mechanism for implementing and guaranteeing emergency management of major natural hazard-related disasters.Understanding how disaster information content affects social response to emergencies is helpful for managing risk communication and efficient disaster response.Based on the 2008 freezing-rain and snowstorm disasters in southern China,this study used Python to extract 7,857 case-related media reports and applied natural language processing for text analysis.It used three typical cases to identify and analyze disaster media report content and the relationship between these reports and the social response to the emergency.Eight categories of disaster response-such as prewarning and forecasting,announcements by the authorities,and social mobilization-appeared in the disaster information in the media,along with disaster impact information,that is,real-time disaster status.Disaster response information and an appropriate amount of disaster impact information played important roles in prewarning,disaster relief,public opinion guidance,and social stability maintenance and can serve important functions in communicating with all stakeholders of emergency management,assisting or influencing emergency departments or individuals in decision making,and eliminating "information islands." Empathy caused the general public to become "disaster responders" through receiving information.Rumors and an excess of negative information may have a perverse amplification effect on public opinion and increase the unpredictability of the disaster situation and the risk of social crisis.

关 键 词：Emergency management Freezing-rain and snowstorm disasters Media reports on disasters Social response to emergencies China 

分 类 号：X4[环境科学与工程—灾害防治] G212[文化科学—新闻学]