Our Changing World James Garrow Philadelphia Department of Public Health

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Okay Jim, now you've lost me. Are things changing, or not?

can't complain about: disasters people media

disasters = people = social media

56% of Americans have a profile on a social media network 22% of Americans use social networking sites "several" times per day 53% of Americans over 65 use the internet The average Facebook user spends more than 400 minutes per month on the site Twitter users post more than 175 million tweets per day More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every 24 seconds

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media and social media

i offer no answers, only interesting anecdotes

public health

First Pandemic of the 21st Century CDC really began experimenting Masking videos Twitter accounts Facebook Pages Push for states and locals to use

The Blog Post CDC blog post on "zombie preparedness" One million page views in four days More than $3M in earned media coverage Cost? What cost? $87

emergency management

Craig Fugate Survivors not victims HUGE proponent of social media use San Bruno explosion and fire

LAFD Rotating PIOs monitor social media Posts all calls that affect the public (road closures, etc. Manage two accounts on

Shadow Lake Wildland Fire 2011 wildland fire in Oregon Federal IMT team assigned PIO utilized volunteer VOST team to monitor social media VOST team identified concerned citizen, forwarded to PIO

regular citizens

Haitian Earthquake 7.0 magnitude Massive infrastructure damage Extreme lack of immediate help Haitians utilized social media to locate and request help Large scale citizen "crisismapping" effort

JoplinTornadoInfo EF-5 tornado struck Joplin, MO Nearby citizens set up JoplinTornadoInfo Facebook page to coordinate information City of Joplin utilized private Page to distribute official messages

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