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Emergency Text Messaging Systems And Higher Education Campuses: Expanding Crisis Communication Theories And Best Practices, Tanya Desselle Ickowitz
Emergency Text Messaging Systems And Higher Education Campuses: Expanding Crisis Communication Theories And Best Practices, Tanya Desselle Ickowitz
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Recent public safety threats affecting college and university campuses during episodes of natural disasters and mass violence have exposed numerous challenges and opportunities in crisis and risk communication. The evacuation of college campuses during natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and episodes of mass violence such as the shootings at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in 2010, among others, have revealed how even the most well-developed campus communication plans leave room for improvement during actual crisis events (Catullo, Walker, & Floyd, 2009). Through in-depth interviews (N=10) of crisis communication managers at U. S. colleges and universities, as well as …