Dhakal Subas P
Lecturer, School of Management, Curtin University, Australia.
Disasters. 2018 Apr;42(2):294-313. doi: 10.1111/disa.12244. Epub 2017 Aug 9.
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.
南亚是世界上最易遭受自然灾害的地区之一。尽管全球各地在不同情况下都经常对灾害进行新闻媒体分析，但对人口众多的南亚地区却鲜有研究。本文通过评估国内外新闻媒体对2015年4月25日尼泊尔地震的报道，开始填补这一空白。它拓宽了对灾害应对新闻媒体报道的考察范围，超越了传统的框架理论，利用社区资本（物质、文化、金融、人力、自然、政治和社会资本）视角对405篇新闻报道进行了主题内容分析。总体而言，金融资本和自然资本分别得到了最多和最少的强调。在物质、金融和政治资本方面，国内外新闻媒体存在统计学上的显著差异。本文最后讨论了利用社区资本框架进行新闻媒体分析对增强灾害恢复力的社会效用。
