Jurnal InterAct
Vol 5, No 2 (2016): Jurnal InterAct

The Airline Crisis Communication: A Text Analysis of Airasia’s Press Release Related to The Plane Crash from December 28, 2014 – March 4, 2015

Ferdinand Adi (School of Communication, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)
Dorien Kartikawangi (School of Communication, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
12 Nov 2016

Abstract

In the digital era, information  can rapidly deploy or decrease  a crisis to the whole world. Therefore, the crisis management role is to be able to communicate a crisis properly and take advantage of updated information. This research explains how an airline company managed a crisis  caused  by  an  airplane  crash  from  the  communication  perspective.  There’re  many strategies to spread information about crisis to stakeholders, one of them is press releases. This research aimed to find out how the airline crisis communication  management based on text analysis of press releases about the crash. The main theory used in this research is Aristotle’s rhetoric  theory  and  supported  by  the  theory  of  framing  techniques  by  Fairhurst  and  Sarr. Through qualitative research using text analysis, the result show that press release can be a communication tool that has the power to deal with crisis when the information contains very strong key messages, delivered according to the concept of ethos, pathos, logos and framing techniques jargon and traditions.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

fiabikom

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The articles and themes presented in the journal have the goal to increase the understanding of the importance of communication and in developing new concepts to provide solutions in implementing communication science in ...