Rhetorics of Alternative Media in an Emerging Epidemic: SARS, Censorship, and Extra-Institutional Risk Communication
- 17 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Technical Communication Quarterly
- Vol. 18 (4), 327-350
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250903149548
Abstract
This article examines how professionals and the public employed alternative media to participate in unofficial risk communication during the 2002 SARS outbreak in China. Whereas whistle-blowers used alternative media such as independent overseas Chinese Web sites and contesting Western media, anonymous professionals and the larger communities relied more on guerrilla media such as text messages and word of mouth to disseminate risk messages during official silence and denial.Keywords
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