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Documenting aftermath : information infrastructures in the wake of disasters / Megan Finn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finn, Megan, author.
- Series:
- Infrastructures series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster relief--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Disaster relief.
- Earthquakes--Press coverage--California--History--20th century.
- Earthquakes.
- Information policy--California--History--20th century.
- Information policy.
- Emergency management--California--History--20th century.
- Emergency management.
- Mass media--California--History--20th century.
- Mass media.
- Disaster relief--Social aspects.
- History.
- Press coverage.
- California.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262038218
- 0262038218
- OCLC:
- 1021055329
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