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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
9-24-2014
Keywords
Emergency; Tornado; Tweets; Twitter; Facebook; Self promotion; Social media image; Emergency help
Introduction
I’ve lived in Central Florida for more than 15 years, and in that time I’ve seen quite a few serious weather events affect our community. Though the hurricane season starts in the summer, around here we tend to become especially aware of the storm possibilities in the early fall, when more tropical activity spins up in the ocean and when annual milestones that have been marred by big storms in previous years come up on our calendars.
Subjects
Social media; Emergency assistance in disasters; Weather; Storms; Emergency management; Communication
Creator (Linked Data)
Bowdon, Melody A., 1967-(VIAF); Bowdon, Melody A., 1967-(LC)
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Bowdon, Melody (2014). Weathering the storm surge of social media. UCF Today, 2014-09-24. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/weathering-storm-surge-social-media/
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