Documenting aftermath : information infrastructures in the wake of disasters / Megan Finn.
By: Finn, Megan [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Infrastructures series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2018]Description: 1 PDF (xiv, 265 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262347440.Subject(s): Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Earthquakes -- Press coverage -- California -- History -- 20th century | Information policy -- California -- History -- 20th century | Emergency management -- California -- History -- 20th century | Mass media -- California -- History -- 20th century | Disaster relief -- Social aspects | Emergency management | Information policy | Mass media | California | United StatesGenre/Form: History. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Documenting aftermath.DDC classification: 363.34/80973 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making sense of earthquakes: public information infrastructures and postdisaster event epistemologies -- The production and circulation of earthquake knowledge in 1868 California -- Accounting for people after the 1906 earthquake -- The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: "public information" for alternative earthquake publics -- Today: government disaster response meets new media platforms -- Comparing information orders: continuity and change.
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An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
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