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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In this, I do not exaggerate, as the record of recent events in London demonstrates the connections quite clearly. With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). Disaster subcultures.

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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.