Application of Social Media to Emergency Management
Prepare 750 - word essay in which you:
1) Assess the role of social media and its potential for application in emergency management. In doing so, examine and clearly indicate in a short written narrative, how you believe that social media can be supportive across the four phases of emergency management (Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery);
2) Once done so, name and briefly describe each of the ‘Five Critical Assumptions for a Successful Communications Strategy’ as indicated in your text and then detail two of the Critical Assumptions and examine how social media might be used advance them as part of a successful communications strategy.
Note that research and investigation beyond those materials indicated in the courseware may be required.
Your assignment must be properly formatted, and sources cited using the most recent edition of the APA style manual.
Your assignment must be a minimum of 750 words, not counting cover page and reference page material. Your writing can be longer, but it cannot be under the minimum indicated word-count for credit.
Do not simply list questions and respond – your work is intended to be a complete, integrative narrative that embodies an introduction, a body within which you respond to the targeted questions, and a summary and conclusion.
Applying Social Media to Emerging Management
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Applying Social Media to Emerging Management
Emergency management is a field that requires utilization of effective approaches and tools to help in guaranteeing sustainable response to issues that occur abruptly. Emergencies are common in our society, which indicates that creating an effective emergency management system and process should also be a norm. communication plays an effective role in emergency management, where social media has been a recent addition in enhancing effective communication. Evaluating the role of social media in emergency management helps in understanding how it creates an effective emergency environment. In addition, using the critical assumptions of a successful communication strategy helps in ensuring that social media is an effective communication strategy that helps in guaranteeing effective management of emergency responses.
Role of Social Media in Emergency Management
Social media’s main role in emergency management is the fact that it helps in creating an effective community relationship environment. Social media creates a platform that helps people to connect with each other. An online community is created over social media where people share ideas as well as get to know each other. The creation of community relationships over social media helps in developing a sense of familiarity to a situation, community and processes. The community relationships are crucial in emergency management since they help in ensuring that ideas as well as policies to handle an emergency are shared (Haddow & Haddow, 2014a). More so, an interesting debate is