journal article: sars news reporting online

Two articles that put the Internet and crisis news in perspective. The first has to do with the import of the Internet in news circulation; the second takes online news at 'face value' as an object of study. However you look at it, this bears testimony to the growing importance of ICTs in crisis communications.

ASIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
VOL 15; PART 3 2005

Media, Crisis and SARS

Between Global and Local: The Glocalization of Online News Coverage on the Trans-regional Crisis of SARS
Lee, A. Y. L.
pp. 255-273

Framing the SARS Crisis: A Computer-Assisted Text Analysis of CNN and BBC Online News Reports of SARS
Tian, Y.; Stewart, C. M.
pp. 289-301