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In this paper I bring together inter-disciplinary concerns from emergency management, crisis informatics and media studies to offer five critical perspectives on social media in disaster response and recovery. I argue social media become part of 'disaster data assemblages' that have heterogeneous economic, political, institutional and technological properties. These assemblages emerge from time-critical...
The Internet has moved human interaction to a virtual dimension. The World Wide Web has helped create online communities that link to one another and form a complicated web of interactions. Corporations that operate in these environments have begun to listen to the `voice' of their communities and participate in their `conversations'. Blogs are quickly emerging as a useful media of participating in...
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