Chaos theory, informational needs, and natural disasters   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Timothy L. Sellnow  Matthew W. Seeger  Robert R. Ulmer 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2002,30(4):269-292

This study applies chaos theory to a system-wide analysis of crisis communication in a natural disaster. Specifically, we analyze crisis communication during the 1997 Red River Valley flood in Minnesota and North Dakota. This flood, among the worst in modern American history, consumed entire metropolitan areas, displacing thousands of people. The conditions and decisions leading to the disaster, and the subsequent reactions are retraced. Communication related to river crest predictions (fractals), the shock at the magnitude of the crisis (cosmology episode), novel forms of reorganizing (self-organization), and agencies that aided in establishing a renewed order (strange attractors) are evaluated. Ultimately, we argue that preexisting sensemaking structures favoring rationalized, traditional views of a complex system led officials to make inappropriately unequivocal predictions and ultimately diminished the effectiveness of the region's crisis communication and planning.  相似文献   

PUBLIC AND ELITE ATTITUDES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Worcester  Robert M. 《Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research》1993,5(4):315-334

This paper puts the environment into perspective. Politiciansand commentators see the environment as yesterday's issue, forgettingthat the core of environmental activists is still double thelevel of just five years ago. International comparisons stretchingfrom Poland to New Zealand are made, examining the public'senvironmental behavior, attitudes and values. Using Great Britainas a case study, detailed comparisons are made between the attitudesof the general public with journalists, the financial community,captains of industry, and Members of Parliament and the latterthen compared with Members of the European Parliament. The publicis demanding action by companies and by governments on environmentalissues and has little faith in either to take corrective action.  相似文献   

Reading the congressional record on CD-ROM : By the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, DC: GPO, 1992. SuDoc: GP 3.2C 76/2.     

Robert E. Dugan 《Government Information Quarterly》1993,10(4)

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“Hypnotizzy” in the Cold War: The American Fascination with Hypnotism in the 1950s     

Robert Genter 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2006,29(2):154-169

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Administrative advisory committees at the University of California at Davis     

Robert Sommer 《Minerva》1992,30(1):1-13

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Introduction     

Robert Garcia  Honorable 《Government Information Quarterly》1985,2(4):337-339

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Cycles, a crystal ball, and the telecommunications- act of 1996—Been there, done that     

Robert E. Dugan  Jennifer L. Souza  Timothy V. Cash 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》1996,22(6):457-461

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Essay review     

Greg Dening  John Forge  James Robert Brown 《Metascience》1996,5(2):21-39

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Library systems in the electronic era     

Robert BLEY 《Learned Publishing》2008,21(3):176-186

The ‘traditional’ academic library system model – i.e. a central system constructed around a common catalogue record that also dictated the end‐users' view – is breaking down. Systems that were constructed to handle the processing and lending of printed items are no longer capable, on their own, of dealing with the variety of different information resources handled by modern academic libraries. A great deal has been written about how end‐users expect more ‘Web 2.0’ features than library catalogues currently provide. New front‐end services have been designed by libraries and library system providers to cater for this need. However, not much has been written about the needs of internal library staff who struggle with processing, handling, and supporting the huge volume of electronic resources subscribed to by libraries. Electronic resource management systems have been developed to cater for these needs, and new standards for data interchange with such systems have been developed. Just as standards were important in encouraging electronic data interchange (orders, invoices, claims, etc.) between libraries, publishers, and agents in the last century, so new standards are evolving for such transactions in the electronic era.  相似文献   

Book Review     

Robert WELHAM 《Learned Publishing》2008,21(1):77-77

Peer Review: The Challenges for the Humanities and Social Sciences A British Academy Report British Academy, 2007, 61 pp. Freely available online at http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/peer‐review/index.html ; print copies available on request from Ms Vivienne Hurley, The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1P 5AH, UK; tel. +44 (0)20 7969 5268; email v.hurley@britac.ac.uk  相似文献