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Understanding information exchange during disaster response: Methodological insights from infocentric analysis
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In this article, the authors leverage economic theory, network theory, and social network analytical techniques to bring greater conceptual and methodological rigor to understand how information is exchanged during disaster, and leverage economic theories and network theories to predict future economic performance.Abstract:
We leverage economic theory, network theory, and social network analytical techniques to bring greater conceptual and methodological rigor to understand how information is exchanged during disaster...read more
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Crisis Communications in the Age of Social Media: A Network Analysis of Zika-Related Tweets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how emerging technologies such as social media have demonstrated value for crisis communications, while significant question remains regarding how these tools can be most effectively leveraged to facil...
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The Structure of Effective Governance of Disaster Response Networks: Insights From the Field:
TL;DR: In this article, the appropriate governance structure in a disaster response is discussed, and the challenges in the field of disaster response are discussed as well as the challenges that arise in dealing with complex disasters.
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Health Information Seeking Behaviors on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among American Social Networking Site Users: Survey Study.
TL;DR: A survey of 1003 US-based adults to better understand how health consumers have used social media to learn and stay informed about the COVID-19 pandemic, the extent to which they have relied on credible scientific information sources, and how they have gone about fact-checking pandemic-related information as discussed by the authors.
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Sociotechnical Resilience: A Preliminary Concept.
Sulfikar Amir,Vivek Kant +1 more
TL;DR: This article presents the concept of sociotechnical resilience by employing an interdisciplinary perspective derived from the fields of science and technology studies, human factors, safety science, organizational studies, and systems engineering.
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Communication under Fire: The Role of Embeddedness in the Emergence and Efficacy of Disaster Response Communication Networks
Branda Nowell,Toddi A. Steelman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Kapucu et al. investigated how aspects of relational and institutional embeddedness influence the emergence and efficacy of interactions among responding agencies using network data from three significant wildfire events in the wildland/urban interface.
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