Show simple record

dc.contributor.authorNoske-Turner, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorTacchi, J.
dc.contributor.authorHorst, Heather
dc.contributor.authorPapoutsaki, Evangelia
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-29T06:21:33Z
dc.date.available2015-07-29T06:21:33Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn2203-1693.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/2950
dc.description.abstractThe Pacific Island region is geographically and culturally diverse, with a significant range of communication infrastructures and challenges. Access and use of mobile phones has risen exponentially over the past five years. According to ITU statistics, around 60 percent of Pacific Islanders had access to a mobile in 2012, compared to just 10 percent in 2006. In many Pacific countries mobile phones are, therefore, emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster management and communication plans. For these plans to be effective, however, we argue that access to, and affordability of, technologies represent only one dimension of what needs to be considered in effective disaster communication plans. They also need to consider appropriate technologies, local communicative ecologies, systems for the ownership and maintenance of infrastructures, and local knowledge and belief systems. With a focus on mobile and other telecommunications technologies, this paper provides an overview of disaster communication systems and infrastructures, practices and challenges in the region.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAustralian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economyen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://telsoc.org/ajtde/2014-12-v2-n4/a66en_NZ
dc.rightsCopyright © 2014 The Author(s)en_NZ
dc.subjectPasifikaen_NZ
dc.subjectPasifika Islandsen_NZ
dc.subjectdisaster communicationen_NZ
dc.subjectdisaster managementen_NZ
dc.subjectmobile communicationen_NZ
dc.subjectmobile phonesen_NZ
dc.subjectcellphonesen_NZ
dc.titleLocating disaster communication in changing communicative ecologies across Pacfiicen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2014 The Author(s)en_NZ
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.7790/ajtde.v2n4.66en_NZ
dc.subject.marsden200103 International and Development Communicationen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationNoske-Turner, Jessica, Tacchi, Jo, Horst, Heather, and Papoutsaki, Evangelia. (2014). Locating disaster communication in changing communicative ecologies across Pacfiic. Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, Vol 2, no 4,en_NZ
unitec.institutionRMIT Universityen_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.publication.spage66.1en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage66.16en_NZ
unitec.publication.volume2 (4)en_NZ
unitec.publication.titleAustralian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economyen_NZ
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms57345en_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaCommunication Studies


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in

Show simple record