Social Media Usage among First Responders to Hurricane Harvey
Description:
Social media plays an important role during multiple phases of a disaster. While it is widely known that citizens turn to social media during disasters to gain information and send help requests, there is a significant gap in our knowledge of how, or if, first responders use social media to conduct disaster response operations. To help address this gap this study employed qualitative, semi-structured interviews with a sample of first responders (N = 20) who were deployed to Hurricane Harvey in …
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Date:
May 2021
Creator:
Spinuzzi, Lacey Cook
Partner:
UNT Libraries