saving lives 2.0: how social media will change disasters and response
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Saving Lives 2.0:How Social Media will Change Disasters and
ResponseJames Garrow
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Introductions
@jgarrowhttp://about.me/jgarrow
History
AllDisasters
AreLocal
2001
2005
2010
Social Media
4/2012, Pew Internet & American Life Project
78%
More than 2/3!
More than 4/5!
2/2013, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Only demographic under 52%
Between six and eleven percent of Americans would interrupt sex to
check social media messages!
Information Seeking in a Disaster
Wow, that’s low!
Wow, that’s high!
8/2012, American Red Cross
Red Cross Survey• 12% of the American public has
used social media in a disaster• After seeing emergency info on a social media site, 77% have checked on their family and friends• Nearly 40% would use social media to let loved ones know they were safe after a disaster
“Global” Disasters
Social media has brought every disaster into our
living rooms
Social media has shown us the after-effects of
every disaster
Social media has allowed us to participate in every
disaster
How Disasters Happen, Are Responded To, and
Remembered has Changed
1. Information to the Public
2. Information from the Public
3. The Public as Responders
Information to the Public
Emily Rahimi@FDNY
Information from the Public
The Public as Responders
"One of those trucks went across the bridge!" she told me. "Wow. Even the school bus doesn't cross that bridge. It's not designed for large trucks.
When we saw them going up that road, we wanted to run out and wave our hands, yelling wrong way, wrong way!“
-hinessight.blogs.com
Wrap-up
The world has changed.
Every bit of it.
Disasters are no longerover there.
They are here. Now.In real living color.
We can use social mediato deal with thosedisasters, today.
We just need to embrace it.
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