The BP Horizon Oil Disaster: Media Accounts and Community Impacts

国内和国际媒体都报道了英国石油地平线石油灾难（BPHOD）。 本项目探讨了媒体会计对社区理解事件的方式的影响，并确定了影响社区采用媒体会计的干预因素。长期以来，环境问题文献一直认为，问题识别是一个构建过程，而构建的一个关键要素是媒体账户。研究小组试图通过完成对媒体会计的内容分析，并通过设计和实施一项调查来衡量居民对事件的理解，来理解媒体报道的影响。调查包括衡量受访者的既得经济利益、利益相关者的自我认同、BPHOD对他们的直接影响以及他们对BPHOD活动具体情况的理解。受访者是随机选择的六个社区分布在沿海路易斯安那州，以“拦截”社区与不同的暴露于BPHOD。该研究测试了多个理论模型，这些模型描述了媒体会计对社区对事件的理解的影响的可能结果。该项目提供了新的知识，将有助于决策者设计有效的减灾和救灾计划。

National and international media have reported the British Petroleum Horizon Oil Disaster (BPHOD). This project explores the impact of the media accounting on the ways that communities come to understand the event, and identifies intervening factors that mitigate community adoption of the media accounting. The environmental problems literature has long posited that problem identification is a construction process and a critical element of that construction is media accounts. The research team tries to make sense of the impact of the media stories by completing a content analysis of the media accounting and by designing and implementing a survey to measure residents' understanding of the event. The survey includes measures of the respondents' vested economic interests, their stakeholder self-identification, the direct impact of the BPHOD on them, and their understanding of the specifics concerning the BPHOD event. The respondents are selected randomly within six communities spread across coastal Louisiana in order to "intercept" communities with different exposures to the BPHOD. The study tests multiple theoretical models describing the likely outcome of the effect of the media accounting on communities' understanding of the event. This project provides new knowledge that will help policy makers design effective plans for disaster mitigation and response.