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Using real and virtual social networks to report disasters Amanda Gearing, QUT student, MA (Research) email gearingap@bigpond.com
The role of Facebook in conveying emergency information to and from the disaster zone How personal contacts and news contacts combined with information from social networking sites, were used to generate and follow news leads.
WeatherZone post  at 12.16pm “sadly I think most won’t know until  the water starts lapping up at their homes”
Video posted to Facebook at 12.49pm
Lockyer Creek gauge at Helidon
Photos of missing people posted on
Facebook posts: ,[object Object]
Reply six hours later: thanks everyone Ken called my parents this morning. Cheers.,[object Object]
Reply next day: John and Betty are safe. Their phone line ran across the creek and is gone and unlikely to be reconnected in the short term but they are able to get in and out.,[object Object]
Amanda GearingQUT student, MA (Research)email gearingap@bigpond.com

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Using real and virtual social networks to report disasters

  • 1. Using real and virtual social networks to report disasters Amanda Gearing, QUT student, MA (Research) email gearingap@bigpond.com
  • 2. The role of Facebook in conveying emergency information to and from the disaster zone How personal contacts and news contacts combined with information from social networking sites, were used to generate and follow news leads.
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  • 5. Video posted to Facebook at 12.49pm
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  • 25. Amanda GearingQUT student, MA (Research)email gearingap@bigpond.com