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    "pk": 8098,
    "title": "Use of Social Media During Public Emergencies by People with Disabilities",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction: \nPeople with disabilities are generally more vulnerable during disasters and publicemergencies than the general population. Physical, sensory and cognitive impairments may result ingreater difficulty in receiving and understanding emergency alert information, and greater difficulty intaking appropriate action. The use of social media in the United States has grown considerably inrecent years. This has generated increasing interest on the part of national, state and localjurisdictions in leveraging these channels to communicate public health and safety information. Howand to what extent people with disabilities use social and other communications media during publicemergencies can help public safety organizations understand the communication needs of thecitizens in their jurisdictions, and plan their social media and other communications strategiesaccordingly.\nMethods: \nThis article presents data from a survey on the use of social media and othercommunications media during public emergencies by people with disabilities conducted fromNovember 1, 2012 through March 30, 2013.\nResults: \nThe data presented here show four key results. First, levels of use of social media ingeneral are high for people with disabilities, as well as for the general population. Second, use ofsocial media during emergencies is still low for both groups. Third, levels of use of social media arenot associated with income levels, but are significantly and strongly associated with age: youngerpeople use social media at higher rates than older people in both groups (p,0.001). Fourth,differences in the use of social media during emergencies across disability types are slight, with theexception of deaf and hard-of-hearing respondents, the former more likely to have used social mediato receive (p¼0.002), verify (p¼0.092) and share (p¼0.007) emergency information.\nConclusion: \nThese last two results suggest that effective emergency communications strategiesneed to rely on multiple media types and channels to reach the entire community. [West J EmergMed. 2014;15(5):567–574.]",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "social media disability technology emergencies disaster"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Original Research (Limit 4000 words)",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/40k94374",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "John",
            "middle_name": "T.",
            "last_name": "Morris",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Crawford Research Institute, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, Georgia",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Mueller",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Crawford Research Institute, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, Georgia",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Jones",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Crawford Research Institute, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, Georgia",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-01-17T16:55:36Z",
    "date_accepted": "2014-01-17T16:55:36Z",
    "date_published": "2014-06-02T23:57:15Z",
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