(Source: Queensland University of Technology) 11 November 2015 As Australia braces for another season of summer natural disasters, leading social media researchers are calling for governments to better coordinate their crisis communications. Researchers from QUT's Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) have launched a blueprint to formalise social media policies and practices by emergency management organisations in all levels of government across Australia. The DMRC's Professor Axel Bruns said the ad hoc, varied way those organisations currently use social media in both natural and man-made crises was often confusing for the public. 'Social media are fact, not fad - the media mix is changing...
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