- Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
- What data did you collect?
- What is your initial impression of the data?
- How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
- What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
- What are your next steps?
This week I kept putting together an outline that would be used to structure my podcast. I have found supplemental video footage and different quotes from survivors that will be good additions to my podcast. Similarly, I was able to realize that I didn’t have enough information about the media coverage at this point.
Knowing this, I was able to spend my time this week reading articles and getting rid of some that weren’t as helpful. I found two papers that proved very helpful that I will write about below.
Right now I am debating whether or not I need to introduce New Orleans before the hurricane- meaning in terms of racial make up, geographic areas that would be most affected, economic disparities within communities. I think it would be helpful to set the stage because I am leaning towards a podcast, but I am struggling to find ways that I could make this information more interesting to listen too. I will continue to give this more thought as the week progresses.
‘Came Hell and High Water’: The Intersection of Hurricane Katrina, the News Media,
Race and Poverty
COURTE C. W. VOORHEES*, JOHN VICK and DOUGLAS D. PERKIN
This article examines the relationship between media and the community. Findings suggested that the media represented minority groups in a negative light- which lead to social inequalities being reinforced within these communities. Similarly, the research found that the portrayals of minorities often showed them as ‘victim’s and rarely showed them to have power. This is a necessary step in creating enemies in terms of race and class in order to implement a neoliberal carceral security state.
Race and Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, Implications, and Future Research Questions
Samuel R. Sommers,∗ Evan P. Apfelbaum, Kristin N. Dukes, Negin Toosi, and Elsie J. Wang
This article will prove helpful in my analysis of the media coverage post hurricane Katrina. This paper delves deeper into three specific aspects of media depictions: the relationship between race and coverage of crisis, media language, and assessment of story angle to find Blacks in association with crime and violence. This paper directly serves a portion of my research aimed at analyzing how the medias response was vital in creating justification for counterinsurgency response efforts.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/411090412/katrina-the-debris
NPR does an entire podcast series about hurricane katrina and different aspects of it. I was able to listen to one of the segments and found very interesting ideas that I think could be used to support my argument as well.
Comments:
Since your podcast will be specifically focusing on Hurricane Katrina, it indeed makes sense for you to provide some background information about New Orleans. This information should be selective in the sense that it should directly be related to your topic.