The Serial Participants in Mediatized Disaster Governance:A Case Study of Rescue Document in Zhengzhou Rainstorm
DAI Jia JI Chenghao
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Dai Jia is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University. Email: jiadai@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Ji Chenghao (corresponding author) is an assistant professor at the School of Humanity and Communication, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. Email: chenghaoji@zufe.edu.cn.
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Published
2024-09-23
Issue Date
2024-12-11
Abstract
The frequent occurrence of extreme weather disasters in recent years poses new challenges for disaster governance. Through the examination of public participation in an online collaborative editing document in the 2021 rainstorm rescue in Zhengzhou, this article explores the process of self-organizing communities achieving collaborative governance in disaster relief through media. The research results indicate that serial participant in self-organizing communities is a core element contributing to the success of rescue efforts. Firstly, serial participants successfully increased the probability of converting victims in need to victims rescued by acting as network intermediaries and shortening the interaction distances between participants. Secondly, it is precisely because of the solutions of supply and demand matching, resource deployment, accelerating the flow of information, connecting multiple actors proposed by serial participants, that the interest reconciliation and joint action between multiple stakeholders, including the state, the market and the public, can be realized. Finally, as a response to China’s strategic goal of deepening the modernization of governance systems and governance capabilities, this article discusses the characteristics of mediatized governance in disasters, and how governance innovation based on digital media technology can optimize efficiency.
DAI Jia JI Chenghao.
The Serial Participants in Mediatized Disaster Governance:A Case Study of Rescue Document in Zhengzhou Rainstorm. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2024, 46(9): 111-134
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Funding
This research is supported by the Tsinghua Initiative Scientific Research Program “Enhancing the Mediatized Governance Capability in the Face of Major Risk Events” (No. 2021THZWJC03) and Tsinghua Lab Research Program on Computational Communication and Intelligent Media(No. 2024TSLCLAB001).