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Informational Sources, Social Media Use, and Race in the Flint, Michigan, Water Crisis

Ashleigh M. Day Ashleigh M. Day is a PhD candidate, Thomas C. Rumble Fellow, and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Ashleigh’s research interestscenter around crisis, risk, organizational and health communication.Correspondence[email protected]
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Sydney O’Shay-Wallace Sydney O’Shay-Wallace is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University, as well as a fellow with the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development. She is a health and risk communication scholar whose work is centered around stigma communication in healthcare contexts. Her research focuses onhow stigma is constructed in communication between healthcare workers and patients as well as among healthcare workers.ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6880-4561View further author information
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Matthew W. Seeger Matthew W. Seeger (PhD, Indiana University) has been a faculty member and administrator at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan for over 30 years. He currently serves as dean for the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts. Dean Seeger’s researchinterests concern crisis and risk communication, health promotion and communication, crisis response and agency coordination, the role of media, including new media, in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal. He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on communication and the anthrax attack and on communication and pandemic influenza preparedness. Work with the CDC also includes assistance in developing the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) framework. He has also worked with the World Health Organization on developing risk communication guidance.ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-5585-3081View further author information
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Shawn P. McElmurry Dr. Shawn P. McElmurry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit. He received his PhD inEnvironmental Engineering from Michigan State University and is a licensed Professional Engineer. Dr. McElmurry teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focused on environmental engineering and water systems. His research aims to address fundamental gaps in understanding which inhibit sustainable development and adversely impact human health, with a special interest in water infrastructure. Recently, Dr. McElmurry’s work has focused on understanding the complex interactions between exposure to chemicals and pathogens in Flint’s municipal water system. He is co-leader of the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership (FACHEP), a multi-institutional collaboration formed to evaluate associations between changes in Flint’s water system and adverse public health impacts.ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-431XView further author information
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Pages 352-376 | Published online: 31 Jan 2019

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