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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50656#.VEh601fHRK0 Author(s)   Shawn Dias , Chaowei Yang , Anthony Stefanidis , Mathew Rice Affiliation(s) Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA . ABSTRACT Important   information pertaining to emergencies and responses to   the   emergencies is often distributed across numerous Internet sites. In the event of a disaster like an earthquake, rapid access to such information is critical. At such moments the general public usually has a hard time navigating through numerous sites to retrieve and integrate information, and this may   severely affect our capab...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50656#.VEh2hVfHRK0 Author(s) Shawn Dias , Chaowei Yang , Anthony Stefanidis , Mathew Rice Affiliation(s) Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA . ABSTRACT Important   information pertaining to emergencies and responses to   the   emergencies is often distributed across numerous Internet sites. In the event of a disaster like an earthquake, rapid access to such information is critical. At such moments the general public usually has a hard time navigating through numerous sites to retrieve and integrate information, and this may   severely affect our capability ...

Read full paper at: www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50190#.VDHqr1fHRK0 Author(s)    Kirchuffs Atengble Affiliation(s) Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI), Accra, Ghana . ABSTRACT For about five decades after independence, the media in Africa had been dominated by traditional mass communication such as radio, television and the print. But with development in internet technologies, coupled with developments in mobile communication devices, such tendencies begun to wane, and the resultant effect was the blend of the old and new media. This paper therefore discusses some of the activities that were threaded on social media platforms, and then identifies particular effects that such ac...