Dialogical disguise? Crisis authorities' use of social media in the UK and norway during the 2014-15 West African Ebola outbreak.

Colin McInnes; Harald Hornmoen

Dialogical disguise? Crisis authorities' use of social media in the UK and norway during the 2014-15 West African Ebola outbreak.

Colin McInnes, Harald Hornmoen

Department of International Politics

Oslo Metropolitan University

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Abstract

This paper examines the use of social media, especially Twitter, by British and Norwegian health authorities during the Ebola crisis. It identifies that use of the micro-blogging site differed between the two countries, but that neither exploited or realised fully the dialogical nature of social media. Instead the use was largely within existing paradighms of emergency communication.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2016
Event	IAMCR 2016 - University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Duration: 27 Jul 2016 → 31 Jul 2016

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Conference	IAMCR 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
City	Leicester
Period	27 Jul 2016 → 31 Jul 2016

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Ebola
Twitter

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Dialogical disguise? Crisis authorities' use of social media in the UK and norway during the 2014-15 West African Ebola outbreak.

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