Crisis Management Communications For Popular Culture Events

Designing the Crisis management model for broad natural events (Case Study: Kermanshah Earthquake)

Purpose: Based on the importance of crisis management in broad natural events because of: wide range of impacts and its potential for severe damages, this article provided an indigenous model for disaster management in natural disasters. Method: The method used in this study is grounded theory. To design the model, 18 semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of academic ...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Is Commercial Culture Popular Culture?: A Question for Popular Communication Scholars

This essay compares commercial culture with popular culture, reviewing different conceptualizations of the terms. It posits that there are significant differences, but that commercial culture increasingly intrudes on other forms of culture. The essay argues that popular communication scholars are well positioned to develop new perspectives and techniques to understand hybrid versions of popular...

Foundations of a Multilayer Annotation Framework for Twitter Communications During Crisis Events

In times of mass emergency, vast amounts of data are generated via computer-mediated communication (CMC) that are difficult to manually collect and organize into a coherent picture. Yet valuable information is broadcast, and can provide useful insight into timeand safety-critical situations if captured and analyzed efficiently and effectively. We describe a natural language processing component...