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Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina

Cynthia Joyce (Editor), Steve Allen (Contributor), Blake Bailey (Contributor)

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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.

All contributors can be found on the publishers page.

403 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2015

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Jonathan Kear

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July 1, 2016

This book tops my "pleasantly surprised" list for sure. I was wandering around in French quarter and the cover caught my eye. I wanted a book that would really help me understand the city's identity, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better book for the job. "Please Forward" is a compilation of blog posts from 2004-2007 that illustrate the chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The posts range from anecdotal to informative and cover a large breadth of experiences, yet are comprehensible by even the most casually mindful or observant tourist. If you want to understand New Orleans and it's people, don't hesitate to pick this one up.