∎ Download Please Forward How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina eBook Cynthia Joyce

Please Forward How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina eBook Cynthia Joyce

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Much of the story of Hurricane Katrina lived on the internet as the city reconnected during its diaspora. When Cynthia Joyce went looking for one vital account for a course she was teaching, she found the site down and the piece forgotten. This inspired her search for the works that became Please Forward How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina. Some of the writing included is famous and easily obtainable; a good percentage of the work is currently unavailable due to aging servers and broken links. Taken together, these pieces are powerful testament to the New Orleans blogging community, who proved the internet could function as a crucial platform in a time of crisis and were at the forefront of online journalism.

Please Forward How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina eBook Cynthia Joyce

I love this book. I anticipated disliking the structure (it is an edited collection of blogs written at the time of Katrina). However, the approach is brilliant. Multiple authors provide a variety of lenses on the destruction caused by Katrina that a singular voice couldn't provide. The voices are woven together to create a 'whole' narrative that reads quickly and easily. There is humor and extreme sadness. I think it should be taught in schools.

Product details File Size 6302 KB Print Length 394 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN 1608011089 Simultaneous Device Usage Unlimited Publisher UNO Press (August 2, 2015) Publication Date August 2, 2015 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B013CCJLSE

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Please Forward How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina eBook Cynthia Joyce Reviews

Powerful and engaging look at a dark period in our history. The collection of online essays, blog posts and comments paints a picture of the tragedy, the heartache and the ever present hope that was post-Katrina New Orleans. The selections by Cynthia Joyce bring the reader to places of sadness, despair, and angry, but also possibility, opportunity, love and hope. I recommend this to everyone who lives in America. I work in a middle school, and our students will be reading excerpts in their study of Modern American Society.
I had family in New Orleans during Katrina and could feel some of the pain, outrage, and eventually defeat, that the storm engendered. However, not until reading Please Forward did I get the full sense of the personal tragedies and the strength of the people that allowed the city to rebuild. Through the blogging community, Joyce has captured the pain, outrage, and even humor that the storm visited on New Orleans. This is a fascinating book, told by those who lived it – worthwhile reading for all.
We all remember Katrina, and the destruction of much of this beautiful and vibrant city 10 years ago. My nephew lived there but got out before it hit. And then we waited, and then we watched in horror, the ferocity of that storm and it's aftermath. But our memories fade with time. Please Forward reminded me. And reminded me in a way that made me understand how little I knew about this storm and it's effect on those who survived it. These voices are crucial to our understanding of the real story, not just the news story. Beautifully edited by Joyce, it's a must read for anyone who wants to know the anger, the humor, the frustration, the fear. the confusion, and the amazing resilience of the people of this great city.
I love this book. I anticipated disliking the structure (it is an edited collection of blogs written at the time of Katrina). However, the approach is brilliant. Multiple authors provide a variety of lenses on the destruction caused by Katrina that a singular voice couldn't provide. The voices are woven together to create a 'whole' narrative that reads quickly and easily. There is humor and extreme sadness. I think it should be taught in schools.