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Crisis communication online: How medium, crisis type and emotions affected public reactions in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
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In this article, the authors compared the effects of medium (Facebook vs. Twitter vs. online newspaper) and crisis type (intentional vs. victim) in an online experiment using the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as crisis scenario.About:
This article is published in Public Relations Review.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 424 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Crisis communication.read more
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Units related to radiation exposure and radioactivity in mass media: the Fukushima case study in Europe and Russia
Tanja Perko,Yevgeniya Tomkiv,Deborah Oughton,Marie Claire Cantone,Eduardo Gallego,Iztok Prezelj,E.M. Byrkina +6 more
TL;DR: Although experts are accustomed to communicating about radiological risks in technical language, often using quantitative units to describe the risks, mass media do not tend to use these units in their reporting, and a large variation in the measurement units used in different countries is found.
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Ready for disaster: information seeking, media influence, and disaster preparation for severe weather outbreaks
TL;DR: In light of recent severe weather outbreaks in the U.S., the authors examined how individuals learn about and prepare for potential disasters in their area and found that prior research has found that kno...
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Crises and Social Media : A Metastudy on Pertinent Research and Practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a metastudy of the disciplinary embedment, topical foci, challenges, and research gaps in the literature and application of social media in crisis communication.
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The buffering effect of industry-wide crisis history during crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, Zhao et al. extended crisis communication theory by identifying the buffering impact of an industry-wide crisis history and adding crisis history type as an influencer in the process of the publics' crisis responsibility attributions.
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Communication During Bushfires, Towards a Serious Game for a Serious Matter: Communication During Bushfires
TL;DR: The authors argue that agent-based modelling and simulation is a great approach to provide tools to improve mutual understanding: let managers test communication strategies, and let residents understand the managers' perspective during bushfires.
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The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites
TL;DR: Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
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Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
TL;DR: The position that the concept of sensemaking fills important gaps in organizational theory is taken, by pinpointing central features of sense making that have been assumed but not made explicit, some of which have changed in significance over time, and some ofWhich have been missing all along or have gone awry.
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Protecting Organization Reputations During a Crisis: The Development and Application of Situational Crisis Communication Theory
TL;DR: Situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) as discussed by the authors offers a framework for understanding the dynamic dynamics of crisis communication and how people will react to the crisis response strategies used to manage the crisis.
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Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences
TL;DR: Investigating Facebook users' awareness of privacy issues and perceived benefits and risks of utilizing Facebook suggests that this lax attitude may be based on a combination of high gratification, usage patterns, and a psychological mechanism similar to third-person effect.
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Engaging stakeholders through social networking: How nonprofit organizations are using Facebook
TL;DR: In this article, a content analysis of 275 nonprofit organization profiles on Facebook was conducted to examine how these new social networking sites are being used by the organizations to advance their organization's mission and programs.