像野火一样:在灾难面前制造谣言内容

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2073803
Rebecca Ewert
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摘要谣言在灾难期间传播,因为社区成员寻求信息,试图理解意外的、产生焦虑的事件。虽然相当多的社会学研究考察了谣言的传播和传播,但很少关注谣言叙事内容本身的创作。根据对北加利福尼亚州一个农村县野火幸存者的采访,这项研究表明,谣言叙事的创造反映了现有的文化价值观和权力安排。在有争议的灾后环境中,谣言被用来构建新的信息,以保持与现有文化信仰的一致性,同时强化关于安全、体面和阶级的主流观念。在这种情况下,谣言是为了反映文化图式,如对政府和环境保护的信仰,以及通过空间污名符号实例化的规范性权力安排。本文提供的数据扩展了对污名、文化和灾难的研究,认为现有的主导文化价值观通过规定哪些信息被视为合理和可靠来塑造谣言的内容,为居民提供了构建信息以解释和证明不平等灾难结果的机会。在传递可靠信息特别重要的灾难情况下,当地文化能够并限制哪些叙事是产生、分享和相信的。
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Like wildfire: creating rumor content in the face of disaster
ABSTRACT Rumors spread during disasters as community members seek information and attempt to make sense of unexpected, anxiety-producing events. While considerable sociological research has examined the transmission and spread of rumors, less attention has been given to the creation of rumor narrative content itself. Drawing on interviews with wildfire survivors in one rural Northern California county, this study shows that rumor narrative creation reflects existing cultural values and power arrangements. In a contested post-disaster landscape, rumors are used to frame new information to maintain coherence with existing cultural beliefs while reinforcing prevailing ideas about safety, deservingness, and class. In this case, rumors are created to reflect cultural schemas such as beliefs about the government and environmental protection, and normative power arrangements instantiated through symbols of spatial stigma. The data presented in this article extends research on stigma, culture, and disaster by arguing existing dominant cultural values shape the content of rumors by dictating which pieces of information are seen as reasonable and reliable, providing residents with opportunities to frame information to explain and justify unequal disaster outcomes. In disaster situations where the transmission of reliable information is especially important, local culture enables and restricts which narratives are produced, shared, and believed.
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Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.
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