Media, emergency warnings, and citizen response
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Media, emergency warnings, and citizen response
Westview Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references: p. [129]-139
Includes index
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Description
This is an examination of three types of warning channels - mass communications media, public officials and social networks - in eliciting community response to a natural or technological emergency. It explores how the source of a warning affects citizen behaviour by analyzing data on citizen response in two emergency settings - one natural and one technological - and discusses factors associated with the credibility of warning sources. The book draws together conclusions concerning the roles of officials, communications media and social networks in response and preparedness phases of disaster management, and identifies potential partnership roles of disaster managers and the media.
Table of Contents
- Words of warning
- media and disaster management
- danger signs - media in the response phase and in hazard information dissemination
- who says? - warning sources and citizen behaviour in the response phase
- tuning in - effective channels for emergency communication programmes
- some lessons about sources - how media, officials and social networks function within the warning process.
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