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Facebook, blogs are the new face of disaster info.

07/30/08

Permalink 12:30:25 pm, by Amanda Hughes Email , 49 words   English (US)
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Facebook, blogs are the new face of disaster info.

CU profs study how social networking plugs people in after emergencies

By Laura Snider

Before administrators at Virginia Tech officially identified the 32 victims shot and killed on the campus in April 2007, the names were already known, pieced together from bits of information scattered across the Internet.

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Comment from: john smithe [Visitor] · http://www.surfingsolutions.org
I was shocked to hear of this news in the uk back in april, i wish to send my sympathies and hope that all who were affected regarding this tragedy stays strong. The Uk are thinking of all concerned in such horrors as this
11/26/08 @ 16:51

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