Documenting aftermath : information infrastructures in the wake of disasters

Documenting aftermath : information infrastructures in the wake of disasters / Megan Finn.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finn, Megan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Series:Infrastructures series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Disaster relief > Social aspects
Emergency management
Information policy
Mass media
Erdbeben
Katastrophenhilfe
Informationsübertragung
Informationspolitik
Berichterstattung
Katastrophenmanagement
California
United States
Kalifornien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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