Local emergency management social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hildebrand, Sean; Waite, Brandon

doi:10.5055/jem.0587

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“…This way, the application of effective communication principles and structures, as well as the control of disinformation and Fake News are fundamental to improve patient care and the development of public messages in response to COVID-19 25,26 .…”

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The role of social media as sources of information about COVID-19 – An Integrative Review

Braga,

Olímpio,

Saad

et al. 2023

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The internet emerged in Brazil in the early 90s,in states like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, primarily with access only for Universities and for research purposes and soon after with domestic access networks and mobile networks that went viral in all sectors and became an instrument of communication and information in all age groups, whether to meet and meet people, as well as for shopping, travel, research, among others. Along with the internet came the social media Orkut, Facebook, Whatsup, Twitter, Instagram, You Tube, Linkedin, used to look for a job, to shop, to study, to research and several other functions. On any subject, the internet offers an infinity of sites of everything you want to know just press and wait for the results. However, what has been observed in recent years has been an increase in access to sites aimed at information, as well as an increase in the number of people using this tool in order to learn a little more about various subjects. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social networks played an important role in passing on information about care and ways to prevent this condition. Therefore, this study aims to describe through a descriptive exploratory study, systematic review the role of social media as sources of information about COVID-19.

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confidence: 99%

The role of social media as sources of information about COVID-19 – An Integrative Review

Braga,

Olímpio,

Saad

et al. 2023

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“…The surveys garnered 677 responses in 2020 and 730 in 2021 respectively, producing response rates of 15.9 and 15.8 percent. While this response rate is lower than pre-pandemic electronic surveys of local emergency management professionals (Hildebrand, 2015(Hildebrand, , 2017(Hildebrand, , 2019Hildebrand & Waite, 2021;Hildebrand & Malone, 2021;Weaver et al, 2014;Wernstedt et al 2019), it is understandable given the demands placed on these individuals in response to COVID-19 and their traditional daily demands. The respondents to the national surveys represent jurisdictions that range from 250 to over 5,000,000 residents.…”

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“… a Adapted from Hildebrand and Waite (2021), Pew Research Center (Parker et al, 2018), and U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (2014) Urban–Rural Classification Scheme. …”

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Examining factors associated with emergency managers' collaborative planning with health departments prior to and during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Hildebrand

Wehde

2023

Public Administration Review

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We contribute to the growing body of research on COVID‐19 and pandemic response by connecting two bodies of existing but disparate research. Specifically, we examine how professionalization in emergency management is associated with collaborative outcomes. Using three unique surveys of local emergency managers (EMs) and convergent mixed methods, we find that more appropriate types of professionalization are more strongly associated with collaborative planning outcomes. EMs who completed pandemic‐related exercises were much more likely to report a collaborative plan with public health being in place prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic. These EMs were also potentially less negative in their opinions about collaboration. Other measures of professionalization were less strongly associated with collaborative planning outcomes. These results shed light on the importance of appropriate forms of professionalization in public and emergency management in improving collaboration and potential performance.

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Representative bureaucracy and COVID‐19 among local emergency response professionals

Hildebrand,

Malone

2024

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This article considers the opinions of local emergency management professionals with regard to the response of the US federal government to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The responses to a survey from May/June 2020 demonstrate that these feelings, ranging from highly successful to extremely poor, are reflective of the culture at large in the nation. The study will examine whether the feelings expressed by local officials are reflective of prevailing political leanings of their constituency, measured as the presidential voting habits from 2000 to 2020 in the respondent's jurisdiction. This will extend Hildebrand's (2020) testing which linked the emergency management field to the theory of “representative bureaucracy.” This theory surmises that government actors will be reflective of their body politic in their behavior and attitudes toward federal initiatives. The findings suggest that those who represent “Strong Republican” jurisdictions have greater odds in rating the federal response as being effective, and that those from “Strong Democrat” locations will have greater odds in rating the federal response as not effective at all. Statistical testing also suggests that as the population of the jurisdiction increases, the less likely the respondent was to consider the federal response to COVID‐19 effective.

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Local emergency management social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The role of social media as sources of information about COVID-19 – An Integrative Review

The role of social media as sources of information about COVID-19 – An Integrative Review

Examining factors associated with emergency managers' collaborative planning with health departments prior to and during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Representative bureaucracy and COVID‐19 among local emergency response professionals

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