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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. 2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Haynes 2012. Merrin (eds) Trump’s Media War.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. As they lend a sense of immediacy and connection, social media have strengthened that relationship, and never more than in times of disaster. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. The intervening years have produced conflicting signals. i] Muggah, R. Haiti After the Earthquake.

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Crisis Management in Esports

Bernstein Crisis Management

Only a year before, another major esports CEO, Andy “Reginald” Dinh of Team SoloMid – valued at $540 million – landed himself in hot water after he engaged in a full-blown social media war with perennial League of Legends all-star and former Team SoloMid team member Peter “Doublelift” Yillian.

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Pure Storage Architecture 101: Built-in Performance and Availability

Pure Storage

Pure Storage® FlashArray ™, released in 2012, was designed to deliver 100% performance, uptime, and, more importantly in today’s world, access to IT resources that can be dynamically and automatically created by users themselves via multiple avenues: API calls, scripts, automation tools , and plugins.