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New media in times of crisis / edited by Keri K. Stephens

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Routledge, c2019Description: 241 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781138570290
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 4784.D57 .N49 2019
Contents:
Introduction Section I: Focusing on Crisis Responders -- 1. Organizational Crisis Communication in the Age of Social Media: Weaving a Practitioner Perspective into Theoretical Understanding -- 2. This Is Getting Bad: Embodied Sense making about Hazards When Business-as-Usual Turns into an Emergency -- 3. The Cultivation of Shared Resources for Crisis Response in Multiteam Systems Section II: How individuals Seek, Share, and Get Messages -- 4. Identifying Communicative Processes Influencing Risk-Information Seeking at Work: A Research Agenda -- 5. Trouble at 30,000 Feet: Twitter Response to United Airlines' PR Crises -- 6. Mobile Crisis Communication: Temporality, Rhetoric, and the Case of Wireless Emergency Alerts -- 7. Transportation Network Issues in Evacuations Section III: Opportunities for New Forms of Organizing During Times of Crisis -- 8. Community Resilience and Social Media: A Primer on Opportunities to Foster Collective Adaptation Using New Technologies -- 9. Site-Seeing in Disaster: Revisiting Online Social Convergence a Decade Later -- 10. Dormant Disaster Organizing and the Role of Social Media -- 11. Conclusions and Future Interdisciplinary Opportunities.
Summary: New Media in Times of Crisis provides an interdisciplinary look at research focused around how people organize during crises. Contributors examine the latest practices for communicating during crises, including evacuation practices, workplace safety challenges, crisis social media usage, and strategies for making emergency alerts on U.S. mobile phones constructive and helpful. The book is grounded in the practices of first responders, crisis communicators, people experiencing tragic events, and communities who organize on- and offline to make sense of their experiences. The authors draw upon a wide range of theories and frameworks with the goal of establishing new directions for research and practice. The text is suitable for advanced students and researchers in crisis, disaster, and emergency communication.
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Includes index.

Introduction Section I: Focusing on Crisis Responders -- 1. Organizational Crisis Communication in the Age of Social Media: Weaving a Practitioner Perspective into Theoretical Understanding -- 2. This Is Getting Bad: Embodied Sense making about Hazards When Business-as-Usual Turns into an Emergency -- 3. The Cultivation of Shared Resources for Crisis Response in Multiteam Systems Section II: How individuals Seek, Share, and Get Messages -- 4. Identifying Communicative Processes Influencing Risk-Information Seeking at Work: A Research Agenda -- 5. Trouble at 30,000 Feet: Twitter Response to United Airlines' PR Crises -- 6. Mobile Crisis Communication: Temporality, Rhetoric, and the Case of Wireless Emergency Alerts -- 7. Transportation Network Issues in Evacuations Section III: Opportunities for New Forms of Organizing During Times of Crisis -- 8. Community Resilience and Social Media: A Primer on Opportunities to Foster Collective Adaptation Using New Technologies -- 9. Site-Seeing in Disaster: Revisiting Online Social Convergence a Decade Later -- 10. Dormant Disaster Organizing and the Role of Social Media -- 11. Conclusions and Future Interdisciplinary Opportunities.

New Media in Times of Crisis provides an interdisciplinary look at research focused around how people organize during crises. Contributors examine the latest practices for communicating during crises, including evacuation practices, workplace safety challenges, crisis social media usage, and strategies for making emergency alerts on U.S. mobile phones constructive and helpful. The book is grounded in the practices of first responders, crisis communicators, people experiencing tragic events, and communities who organize on- and offline to make sense of their experiences. The authors draw upon a wide range of theories and frameworks with the goal of establishing new directions for research and practice. The text is suitable for advanced students and researchers in crisis, disaster, and emergency communication.

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