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

Van Pelt Library HV555.U6 F56 2018
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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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