Title
The Paracrisis: The Challenges Created By Publicly Managing Crisis Prevention
Keywords
Crisis communication; Crisis management; Paracrisis; Social media
Abstract
Social media is emerging as critical element of scanning for many crisis risks. When these crisis risks emerge online, people often confuse them with crises and that is why we have developed the term paracrisis. Para can mean "like" something. A paracrisis is like a crisis. It can "look like" a crisis and does require action from the organization. However, a paracrisis does not warrant convening the crisis team and operating in a crisis mode. This paper details the value of paracrises, how to evaluate their threat potential, and ways to respond to them and how to evaluate those responses. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.
Publication Date
9-1-2012
Publication Title
Public Relations Review
Volume
38
Issue
3
Number of Pages
408-415
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.04.004
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84862487995 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84862487995
STARS Citation
Coombs, W. Timothy and Holladay, J. Sherry, "The Paracrisis: The Challenges Created By Publicly Managing Crisis Prevention" (2012). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 4491.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/4491