It’s important to choose the right domain name for your personal academic website because it’s the first thing potential visitors find out about your website, as well as being the means to remember how to revisit your website. In this article I’m going to give you some guidelines for deciding on the right domain name … Read more
ConvertKit is a simple to use but powerful email marketing sytem for professional bloggers. Restrict Content Pro is a membership plugin that makes it extremely easy to deliver premium content to your subscribers. Together they provide a really straightforward foundation for a membership site. Here’s how to integrate them. As a Restrict Content Pro user I’m … Read more
The scale of the problem There is a growing recognition that First Responders themselves can become psychological victims of a disaster (Alexander & Klein, 2003; R Wraith & Gordon, 2001?). Eighty percent of disaster workers experience emotional symptoms due to their experience of the events, and their role as help providers dealing with death and … Read more
It is widely held that computer-mediated communication (CMC) filters out many of the social and affective cues associated with human interaction with consequent effects on communication outcomes and the medium’s suitability for interpersonal tasks. The relationship between paralanguage and social perception in CMC in different social contexts in investigated in two experiments. In Study 1 … Read more
Disaster and Emergency Response Psychology, Communication, Behaviour I first became interested in studying Disaster Management in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. My primary focus has been to study communication in disaster and emergency response, and in particular how the Internet, social media and the web shape the psychological and behavioural responses to disasters by the … Read more
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Much is written about the benefits of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) but many accounts report problematic interactions and less than desirable outcomes for attempts at CSCL. A theoretical approach is presented that is grounded in a social identity perspective of groups and seeks to promote and support successful collaborations. Using this approach, along with examples … Read more
The notion that ‘uninhibited behaviour’ is associated with communicating via computer has gained a great deal of attention. One manifestation, ‘flaming’ (the hostile expression of strong emotions and feelings) has been widely reported in the research literature and commented on in the national press. Indeed, flaming has come to be regarded as symptomatic of the down-side … Read more
This article discusses the immediate social response to a disaster incident by the affected community. The literature suggests that victims respond in an active rather than passive manner following a disaster incident and that altruism and volunteer behaviour is generally found, which results in increased social cohesion. See also this article on The Public as … Read more
In 1992, just after commercial restrictions were lifted on what then became the Internet, and at the dawn of the World Wide Web, I published the book Contexts of Computer-Mediated Communication, which brought together the writings of some of the key researchers in the new field of computer-mediated communication. The book combines theoretical analyses of … Read more
Adoption Relationships Online Research on how the Internet and social networking are reshaping post adoption life. The world of adoption is changing – for adopted children, adoptive parents, prospective adopters, birth families, foster carers, and adoption professionals – and the Internet has become a central tool for change. For example, through social networking all parties in the … Read more
This guide will help you to build a list of your publications in a format you need to create a page on your academic website. I’ve created this guide because I often find that the list of publications people keep in their CV does not display well on a website. This is usually because the … Read more
Communication problems are pervasive in many disaster situations. Nearly all the case studies of disasters occurring in the last 30 years describe communication problems of some sort. The general issues are: 1) external communication with the public (covered in another post); 2) internal communication among emergency response personnel and their agencies, discussed here. Technical problems … Read more
In this chapter we explore the social psychological dimensions of computer-mediated communication (CMC). We shall not be directly concerned here with the processes by which people choose CMC in preference to other communications media (see e.g., Fulk & Boyd, 1991, for a recent review), although it will become obvious that our argument has implications for … Read more
Currently Facebook strips out EXIF data that contains location information in photos posted on Facebook, providing a degree of protection for adoptive families who post photos but need to guard their location. This feature has not pleased some groups of professional photographers who argue that the feature prevents them from inserting metadata that’s important for … Read more
A quick video and instructions to help you import your publications into you academic website. Google Scholar will export your publications list in BibTeX format. This method uses an online convertor to convert the BibTeX format into one of several standard reference list formats, such as APA, which you can then paste into your Publications … Read more
1. Email, Separation and Sociability Indonesia is a vast archipelago. Many of its islands are difficult to reach and suffer from poor infrastructure. For many Indonesians, email has been something of a revelation in terms of connection to the outside world and communicating within Indonesia. In recent years, email has received scant attention in HCI … Read more
Download My Full Text Publications Please enter your email below to get immediate access [clear] You get a personal link to download all my publications as well as access to my training courses, bibliographies, and additional resources that I regularly create. You get to join my readers group of thousands of people like you, from … Read more
This article discusses the longer term impact that an incident may have on the affected community, the mechanisms by which the community recovers, and factors affecting successful recovery. The literature suggests that in contrast to the immediate social response, the long term community response to disaster may be more negative, characterised by community conflicts, stigmatisation of … Read more
