In March 2023, a powerful EF-4 tornado hit Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Deann Gayman, in an article for Nebraska Today, unpacks how a study by Cory Armstrong and Matthew Van Dyke analyzed social media to expose communication gaps in rural communities.
Armstrong and Van Dyke tracked social media activity on X (formerly Twitter) over a 120-day period, separating posts into three categories: preparedness, response, and recovery.
Transient communities were identified as needing more communication around finding shelter before disaster strikes, explains Armstrong, who hopes to expand her research into more communities and explore other disasters, like wildfire.
Read on to learn more.
Source: https://news.unl.edu/article/nebraska-led-study-offers-lessons-for-disaster-communication
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/30497841261450131
