Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

9781843346470: Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies (Chandos Information Professional Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843346478 ISBN 13: 9781843346470

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2011

This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises. Natural disasters, such as the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 and human-made crises, such as the recent political disruption in North Africa and the Middle East, have demonstrated that there is a great need to understand how individuals, government, and non-government agencies create, access, organize, communicate, and disseminate information within communities during crisis situations. This edited book brings together papers written by researchers and practitioners from a variety of information perspectives in crisis preparedness, response and recovery.

Edited by the author who coined the term crisis informatics
Provides new technological insights into crisis management information
Contributors are from information science, information management, applied information technology, informatics, computer science, telecommunications, and libraries

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About the Author:

Dr. Christine Hagar is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Dominican University, River Forest, USA. Dr. Hagar holds a PhD. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research explores how communities manage, organize and disseminate information in crisis and emergency situations. She has worked in the USA and UK as an academic librarian, as a consultant with the British Council and the UK Department for International Development, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, UIUC.

Review:

These post-crisis reports describe information and communication lessons learned from disasters where there are myriad challenges to be overcome., Online Information Review

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