UCCS, UC Irvine researchers win grant to study disaster-communication
UCCS, UC Irvine researchers win grant to study disaster-communication
- February 10, 2011
- Carter Butts, sociology professor, is featured in the Colorado Springs Business Journal February 1, 2011
From the Colorado Springs Business Journal:
Faculty researchers at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and the University
of California Irvine have received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
to study the effects of using online informal communication during disasters. The
universities will create Project Hazards, Emergency Response and Online Information
Communication, or HEROIC, to understand the role and effectiveness of informal communication.
One of the topics under study is the role of micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter.
The principal investigators - Jeannette Sutton, senior research associate, UCCS Trauma,
Health and Hazards Center, and Carter T. Butts, associate professor of sociology,
UC Irvine, are already studying the aftermath of events from the April 20 Deepwater
Horizon oil spill along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
For the full story, please visit http://csbj.com/2011/02/01/uccs-uc-irvine-researchers-win-grant-to-study....
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