Finn, Megan,

Documenting aftermath : information infrastructures in the wake of disasters / Megan Finn. - 1 PDF (xiv, 265 pages). - Infrastructures series . - Infrastructures series. .

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.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.




Mode of access: World Wide Web

9780262347440


Disaster relief--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Earthquakes--Press coverage--History--California--20th century.
Information policy--History--California--20th century.
Emergency management--History--California--20th century.
Mass media--History--California--20th century.
Disaster relief--Social aspects.
Emergency management.
Information policy.
Mass media.


California.
United States.


History.
Electronic books.

HV555.U6 / F56 2018eb

363.34/80973