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disaster myths: a standalone construct

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Disaster studies

widely held but empirically unsupported beliefs that disaster victims panic, loot and turn antisocial, which media frames spread and which then shape official response.

In disaster studies, disaster myths refers to widely held but empirically unsupported beliefs that disaster victims panic, loot and turn antisocial, which media frames spread and which then shape official response. This meaning comes from Tierney (2006) in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.[1]

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  1. Tierney, K., Bevc, C., & Kuligowski, E. (2006). Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and Their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 604(1), 57-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205285589

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