Frontiers of Disaster and Crisis Knowledge

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Climate change has intensified the number of and damage from extreme weather events and natural hazards. Against this backdrop of increasing risks, these four scholars use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to illuminate patterns across and between crises and disasters. Davis studies how climate resilience interacts with political regimes using a quantitative dataset on disaster prevention across countries. Morrow studies cross media discourse during disasters using computational text analyses to shed light on coverage, content, and usage variation. Page-Tan uses social media data to show how platforms like Facebook provide a third space for building connections and recovery. Finally, Bolsen uses a pair of surveys of with more than 6000 respondents to show how consensus messages and climate conspiracy rhetoric affect public opinion. In an era of increased floods and heat waves, these papers provide insights into ways that we can better prepare for and respond to shocks.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Disasters and Crises

Individual Presentations

• Climate Change Resiliency: Patterns of Disaster Prevention in Political Regimes - Nicholas R. Davis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Cross Media Disaster Discourse Analysis using Computational Text Methods - Garrett Morrow, Northeastern University

• Disaster Recovery and Social Media Use - Courtney Page-Tan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University WW

• How Consensus Messages and Climate Conspiracy Rhetoric Affect Public Opinion - Toby Bolsen, Georgia State University

Chair

• Rob A. DeLeo Bentley University

Discussant

• Elizabeth Koebele University of Nevada, Reno