Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism

This article offers an analysis of digital technologies’ implications on disaster reporting using the perspective of a journalism-documentary practitioner. The study uses Typhoon Haiyan disaster as a case study and is based on an ethnographic analysis of the author’s backpack news production in pos...

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Autor principal:	Norman Zafra
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2018
Materias:	backpack journalism disaster reporting human rights journalism multimedia Philippines storytelling Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9b6298fa01574747911c772d563a87ac2021-12-02T11:51:18ZBackpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism10.24135/pjr.v24i1.3971023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/9b6298fa01574747911c772d563a87ac2018-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/397https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 This article offers an analysis of digital technologies’ implications on disaster reporting using the perspective of a journalism-documentary practitioner. The study uses Typhoon Haiyan disaster as a case study and is based on an ethnographic analysis of the author’s backpack news production in post-disaster regions in the Philippines. It supports the notion that media convergence adds valuable new elements to storytelling and presentation of news but it only refines and not replaces traditional newsgathering methodologies. Drawing on the theories of emotional discourses in disaster reporting (Pantti, Wahl-Jorgensen & Cottle, 2012), media convergence and technological determinism, this article argues that journalists practising the backpack-style are confronted with more technical issues and even higher stress-level working in disaster zones, but being solo provides more opportunities to practise humanistic storytelling. Backpack journalists immersing in disaster zones can collect more personal narratives from survivors of a disaster who feel less intimidated by their use of informal equipment. Norman ZafraAsia Pacific Networkarticlebackpack journalismdisaster reportinghuman rights journalismmultimediaPhilippinesstorytellingCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 24, Iss 1 (2018)
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description	This article offers an analysis of digital technologies’ implications on disaster reporting using the perspective of a journalism-documentary practitioner. The study uses Typhoon Haiyan disaster as a case study and is based on an ethnographic analysis of the author’s backpack news production in post-disaster regions in the Philippines. It supports the notion that media convergence adds valuable new elements to storytelling and presentation of news but it only refines and not replaces traditional newsgathering methodologies. Drawing on the theories of emotional discourses in disaster reporting (Pantti, Wahl-Jorgensen & Cottle, 2012), media convergence and technological determinism, this article argues that journalists practising the backpack-style are confronted with more technical issues and even higher stress-level working in disaster zones, but being solo provides more opportunities to practise humanistic storytelling. Backpack journalists immersing in disaster zones can collect more personal narratives from survivors of a disaster who feel less intimidated by their use of informal equipment.
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title	Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism
title_short	Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism
title_full	Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism
title_fullStr	Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism
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Backpack reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: Implications of convergent technologies on disaster journalism

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