Communication during large-scale crisis and disaster

Dual review of Megan Finn, “Documenting Aftermath,” and Patrick Meier, “Digital Humanitarians: How big data is changing the face of humanitarian response”

The way communities perceive technology as part of a sociotechnical system influence how societies behave in a natural disaster and large-scale crisis such as terror attacks, poaching, or a coup. The books in review examine common and contrasting ideas of technology shaping disaster and…