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SOCIAL MEDIA IN EARTHQUAKE-RELATED COMMUNICATION: SHAKE NETWORKS

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SOCIAL MEDIA IN EARTHQUAKE-RELATED COMMUNICATION: SHAKE NETWORKS

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FRANCESCA COMUNELLO

LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

SIMONE MULARGIA

Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Acknowledgements

This book is part of the PRIN project ‘SHAKE networks: The role of social media in emergency communication and dissemination of seismological research’, a designated Research Project of Relevant National Interest, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR, 2012KMAEZF). The project involved Sapienza University of Rome and Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV).

More specifically, it collects the main results of the related ‘Communication’ Research Unit. We are grateful to our colleagues of the ‘Seismological’ Research Unit, Emanuele Casarotti, Licia Faenza and Federica Magnoni. We are also grateful to all the colleagues working at INGV, who shared their knowledge and their ideas with us. Alongside Piero Polidoro (who authored some parts of this book), we are grateful to the other colleagues who contributed to the Communication Research Unit, namely, Lorenza Parisi and Giuseppe Anzera.

About the Authors

Francesca Comunello, PhD (Sapienza University), is Associate Professor of Internet Studies in the Department of Humanities, Lumsa University, Rome, Italy. Her research and publications focus on the intersections between digital technology and society, including social media and disaster communication, digitally mediated social relations, gender and ICT, mobile communication, ageing and ICT. She has been the Principal Investigator of ‘SHAKE networks: The role of social media in emergency communication and dissemination of seismological research’, a designated Research Project of Relevant National Interest, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education. Her work is published in journals such as, among others, Games and Culture, Media Culture and Society, The Sociological Review and Annals of Geophysics.

Simone Mulargia, PhD (Sapienza University), is Assistant Professor of Internet Studies in the Department of Communication and Social Research (CORIS), Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. His research and publications study the relationship between culture, technology and society, focusing on the role of digital media. His work is published in journals such as, among others, Games and Culture, Media Culture and Society and The Sociological Review.