Role of Media in Australian Community | Annotated Bibliography

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY1
The contemporary issue chosen for this assignment is: Role of media in Australian
Community.
In order to conduct this research I have considered the Google Scholars articles by
experts and the eminent authors in this field of the research. This is one of the most recent events
that has been witnessed and covered in the media. The impact of the bush fires in Australia
cannot be avoided at all, which means that they are quite important topic for the discussion.
The key words that has been used for the purpose of this research includes “bushfires”,
Australia, Victoria and a few more.
Anderson, D., Chubb, P., & Djerf-Pierre, M. (2018). Fanning the blame: Media
accountability, climate and crisis on the Australian “fire continent”. Environmental
Communication, 12(7), 928-941.
The paper consists of the qualitative analysis of the media which revealed certain truths
regarding the forest fires in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to bring forward the
compounded crisis due to extreme weather disaster in the country of Australia. As per the paper,
the media raise the questions that the policies regarding the bushfires in the country was
completely framed which gave rise to one of the most severe conditions. The day is known as the
Black Saturday in the history Australia, I which near about 173 people died. By analysing the
local state and the media coverage longitudinally, the entire scenario was brought into light. The
headline in “The Australian”, read “Litany of failures ‘killed my family’” (The Australian, 7
November 2009), which gave rise to more controversies. ABC on the other hand provided more
coverage putting more blame on the government of the country. However, ABC fails to accept
the fact that the Climate change is one of the main reasons for the bushfires in the country.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY2
Berglez, P., & Lidskog, R. (2019). Foreign, domestic, and cultural factors in climate change
reporting: Swedish media’s coverage of wildfires in three continents. Environmental
Communication, 13(3), 381-394.
The article discusses about the role of domestic media in covering the forest fire in
Australia. How far the media can go for covering an incident is depicted in this paper. With the
help of the information gathered from the media, the impact of the bush fires on the climate has
been analysed. The article focuses upon the better side of the media which helps in conveying
effective information to the consumers with the help of the Qualitative analysis of the literary
evidences gathered. The misinterpretation of the media on the incident and its adverse effect on
the economy is not discussed in this paper.
Abedin, B., & Babar, A. (2018). Institutional vs. non-institutional use of social media
during emergency response: A case of twitter in 2014 Australian bush fire. Information
Systems Frontiers, 20(4), 729-740.
Social media can be extremely beneficial in case of disasters because of their ability to
deliver information over larger distance quickly. Disaster management has four major parts:
prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. In this research the response phase of the
disaster management is discussed. It not only examines the work of emergency response
organizations or EROs but also smaller and non-institutional troupes like, digital volunteers and
also differentiate how they use twitter in case of the natural disasters like the fire in the Victoria,
in February 2014. All though the information passed are informative for this research, they are
not exactly directive and rumours can also be spread via twitter.