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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media.

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2010 Social Media 2021 Public Affairs

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. 2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. News reporting of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: the role of common misconceptions. Bird et al.

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Information Social Media 2010 2019

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

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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Social Media Sustainability 2011 2010

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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.

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