Networks, disrupted: Media use as an organizing mechanism for rebuilding

New Media and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 432-452

  Doerfel, Marya L ^a   Haseki, Müge ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; interorganizational networks; network disruption; old and new media; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922876331     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813505362     Document Type: Article

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