Courting Disaster: An Analysis of Federal Government Twitter Usage during Hurricane Sandy Resulting in a Suggested Model for Future Disaster Response

abstract: ABSTRACT This dissertation examined how seven federal agencies utilized Twitter during a major natural disaster, Hurricane Sandy. Data collected included tweets between October 26-31, 2012 via TweetTracker, as well as federal social media policy doctrines and elite interviews, to discern...

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Other Authors: Smith, Ceeon (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44022