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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6. They also involve very high degrees of uncertainty. Mathews et al. References Mathews, J.D., McVernon, E.S. McBryde and J.M.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Regarding the topic of followership and technology, particularly in the realm of social media there seems to be a gap in the literature that should be resolved as it pertains to participation, technology, followership and public administration. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.