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How Disaster Information Form, Source, Type, and Prior Disaster Exposure Affect Public Outcomes: Jumping on the Social Media Bandwagon?

Brooke Fisher LiuCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Julia Daisy Fraustino
&
Yan Jin
Pages 44-65 | Published online: 01 Dec 2014

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