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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.
- History.
- Press coverage.
- Disaster relief--Social aspects.
- California.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.
- Contents:
- 1 Making Sense of Earthquakes: Public Information Infrastructures and Postdisaster Event Epistemologies p. 1
- 2 The Production and Circulation of Earthquake Knowledge in 1868 California p. 19
- 3 Accounting for People after the 1906 Earthquake p. 47
- 4 The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake: "Public Information" for Alternative Earthquake Publics p. 85
- 5 Today: Government Disaster Response Meets New Media Platforms p. 113
- 6 Comparing Information Orders: Continuity and Change p. 139.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262347440
- 026234744X
- OCLC:
- 1056624833
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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