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Disaster information seeking during disaster: a survey on how public use National Disaster Management Agency Malaysia’s (NADMA) social media

cris.virtual.department Universiti Malaysia Perlis
cris.virtual.department Universiti Malaysia Perlis
cris.virtualsource.department acc4c1a7-25d6-4db3-a53d-cda7199bba40
cris.virtualsource.department e1940f79-bacc-4230-ab88-1796838baf0b
dc.contributor.author Aida Filzah Ramli
dc.contributor.author Mohammad Rezal Hamzah
dc.contributor.author Nor'izah Ahmad
dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-17T07:05:34Z
dc.date.available 2024-04-17T07:05:34Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract Social media tools provide the best opportunities to facilitate information dissemination to the public and access them during the disaster. During a disaster, the public keep seeking valuable information on social media from trusted sources to coordinate their actions. This paper presents a study that discovers how the public uses NADMA's social media to access information during a disaster. Hence, this study focuses on National Disaster Management Agency Malaysia (NADMA) regarding disaster situations on social media. This study utilised a quantitative research approach through a simple sampling technique. Besides, an online questionnaire survey was conducted, and 501 respondents were from the public on social media who follow the NADMA's official social media. The term of public’s choice of social media and agencies technical were described. Otherwise, the frequency of the public seeking disaster information on social media was analysed. Types of information seeking by the public on social media were also explored. The results could guide the aspect of information management by disaster management teams on social media during disasters.
dc.identifier.uri https://johdec.unimap.edu.my/
dc.identifier.uri https://johdec.unimap.edu.my/images/PDF/JOHDEC%20DISEMBER%202021/8.pdf
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14170/2189
dc.language.iso en
dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Human Development and Communication (JoHDEC)
dc.relation.issn 2232-1535
dc.subject Disaster Information
dc.subject Disaster
dc.subject Social media
dc.subject Information seeking
dc.subject Public relation
dc.title Disaster information seeking during disaster: a survey on how public use National Disaster Management Agency Malaysia’s (NADMA) social media
dc.type Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
dspace.entity.type Publication
oaire.citation.endPage 77
oaire.citation.startPage 71
oaire.citation.volume 10
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Malaysia Perlis
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Malaysia Perlis
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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