Building resilience in Small Island Developing States: social media during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
Building resilience in Small Island Developing States: social media during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
There are growing concerns that future Atlantic hurricane seasons will be severe and unpredictable due to underlying factors such as climate change. The 2017 season may offer a range of lessons, especially to small island developing states (SIDS), who are looking to build community resilience and heighten community engagement to cope with disaster. While many SIDS utilise a range of media and technology for these purposes, there has been a recent uptake in the use of social media, which may have further potential to support their goals. This paper scopes the use and users of social media in the case of Antigua and Barbuda during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Through a series of qualitative interviews it explains the role that social media currently has, and concludes with suggestions for its improvement in future seasons that are contextualized over the disaster lifecycle phases.
Social Media, Disaster Management, Hurricane, Resilience, Preparedness
Gray, Briony, Jennifer
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5 November 2018
Gray, Briony, Jennifer
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Gray, Briony, Jennifer
(2018)
Building resilience in Small Island Developing States: social media during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
International Conference of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Pan Asia 2018, , Wellington, New Zealand.
04 - 08 Nov 2018.
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There are growing concerns that future Atlantic hurricane seasons will be severe and unpredictable due to underlying factors such as climate change. The 2017 season may offer a range of lessons, especially to small island developing states (SIDS), who are looking to build community resilience and heighten community engagement to cope with disaster. While many SIDS utilise a range of media and technology for these purposes, there has been a recent uptake in the use of social media, which may have further potential to support their goals. This paper scopes the use and users of social media in the case of Antigua and Barbuda during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Through a series of qualitative interviews it explains the role that social media currently has, and concludes with suggestions for its improvement in future seasons that are contextualized over the disaster lifecycle phases.
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CoRe Paper - Building Resiliency Social Media during Hurricanes
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Published date: 5 November 2018
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International Conference of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Pan Asia 2018, , Wellington, New Zealand, 2018-11-04 - 2018-11-08
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Social Media, Disaster Management, Hurricane, Resilience, Preparedness
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Local EPrints ID: 425191
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425191
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Briony, Jennifer Gray
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