Governmental social media use for emergency communication

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  • Roser Beneito-Montagut
  • Susan Anson
  • Duncan Shaw
  • Christopher Brewster
چکیده

The possibility of crowdsourced information, multi-geographical and multi-organisational information flows during emergencies and crises provided by web 2.0 tools are providing emergency management centres with new communication challenges and opportunities. Building on the existing emergency management and social media literature, this article explores how institutions are using and adopting social media for emergency communication. By examining the drivers and barriers of social media adoption in two European governmental agencies dealing with emergencies, the paper aims to establish a framework to examine whether and how institutional resilience could be improved.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013