New Media for Crisis Communication: Opportunities for Technical Translation, Dialogue, and Stakeholder Responses

The Handbook of Crisis Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 381-395

  Stephens, Keri K ^a   Malone, Patty ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding training and intercoder reliability; Content analysis method in analyzing blogs; Credibility and blogging; Dialogic opportunities and crisis communication; Ease of use and dialogic interaction for blogging during crisis; Facilitating bi directional communication, or dialogue; New media for crisis communication; Role of new media use in crisis communication and technical translation; Technical translation in crisis communication; Variable coding schemes and principles of mutual exclusivity and inclusive categories

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053549603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314885.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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