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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). News reporting of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: the role of common misconceptions.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010). We reject design thinking as a singular tool kit prescribed to solve social problems.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina. Measuring State House Speakers Formal Power 1981-2010. Links attributed above to phrases or accounts: [link].

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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. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, “The Role of Government Affordable Housing Policy in Creating the Global Financial Crisis of 2008,” May 12, 2010, starting on page 20. 25] He resigned in 2004 due to accounting irregularities. [26]

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