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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.