The Weather after Fukushima
Global Media Cultures
English - October 06, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 88.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTV & Film Arts media studies film television music social media higher education globalization Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this week's episode, guest Laura Beltz Imaoka discusses her chapter "Rain with a Chance of Radiation: Forecasting Local and Global Risk after Fukushima," which traces the news coverage of the fallout of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Imaoka analyzes how the distinct organizations of the Japanese and U.S. news industries contributed to vastly different public perceptions of local risk and global atmospheric interconnections. She also notes an early moment when, in the absence of reliable data from official institutions, civilians turned to social media to obtain their information, often with disastrous effects.
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