The day the earth stood still : media messages and local life in a predicted Arkansas earthquake.

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Krug, Gary J

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Subject: This paper is a deep reading of how people in small town Arkansas made sense of an earthquake prediction. Media messages functioned as rumors that transformed personal history into an anonymous non-history. Media representations threatened the bonds that hold local reality together. This is an exaggerated example of what happens everyday when what Deleuze calls `the modulation of reality' replaces human interaction

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Reprinted from Critical Studies in Mass Communication; 1993; Vol. 10; No. 3; p. 273-285

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This paper is a deep reading of how people in small town Arkansas made sense of an earthquake prediction. Media messages functioned as rumors that transformed personal history into an anonymous non-history. Media representations threatened the bonds that hold local reality together. This is an exaggerated example of what happens everyday when what Deleuze calls `the modulation of reality' replaces human interaction

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