Perceived Risk, Protective Actions and the Parasocial Relationship With the Local Weathercaster: A Case Study of Hurricane Irma.

Hurricane Irma, which threatened nine out of ten local Florida television markets, provided a unique case study to survey Floridians to examine the relationship between media-related variables, risk perception, and protective decision-making. Hurricane-specific variables such as severity and forecas...

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Published in:	Southeastern Geographer Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 23 - 48
Main Authors:	Sherman-Morris, Kathleen, Poe, Philip S., Nunley, Christopher, Morris, John A.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of North Carolina Press Spring2020
Subjects:	Florida Television viewers Hurricane Irma, 2017 Parasocial relationships Risk perception Television broadcasting of news Case studies Hurricane damage
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost