Social media is transforming emergency communications, study says

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - 11:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Social media channel communication (e.g. Twitter and Facebook) is sometimes the only telecommunications medium that survives, and the first to recover as seen in disasters that struck the world in recent years, according to a review study of emergency situations by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers in the International Journal of Information Management.

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