Katrina discussion

Join the Journalism and Mass Communication "Qualitative Studies Group" (QSG for short) for an open discussion on "Hurricane Katrina and the media" next Wednesday, September 21, at the noon hour in room 5013 (the big round table room). All faculty and graduate students are invited -- this is a great way to get introduced to the QSG and see the diverse meanings of "qualitative" topics, theories and methods in action.

To get started, you can check out two xeroxable readings in the front office, which highlight political-economic and historical views on urban disaster:

- John M. Barry, Rising Tide: The great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it changed America, part 3, "The River" (New York, 1997)

- Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear, chapter 1, "The Dialectic of Ordinary Disaster" (New York, 1998).

And visit this web page for a whole slew of diverse articles from the past two weeks analyzing Katrina and the media from different perspectives (from radical to O'Reilly):

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~gdowney/katrina/