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Documenting aftermath : information infrastructures in the wake of disasters
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- Creator
- Megan Finn
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
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- xiv, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0262347458, 0262038218, 9780262038218, 9780262347457, 9780262347440, 026234744X
- OCLC
- on1021055329, on1056624833
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Earthquakes -- Press coverage -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Information policy -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Emergency management -- California -- History -- 20th century.
- Mass media -- California -- History -- 20th century.