7. An incident happens—for example, Hurricane Katrina causes destruction in New Orleans or the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. How does the information get shared with the world? News get shared immediately on the Internet , via news websites, Twitter, Facebook, etc. TV news channels pick up the story. Newspapers quickly write stories that are published within a day or two. Magazines publish longer stories within a week or two. Scholarly journals begin to publish longer accounts and studies of the impact of the devastation. Within a year or so, longer books are published that will detail the events and its aftermath.