With conventional communication channels down, social media has played a central role in connecting people and getting information out of earthquake devastated Haiti. In countless instances, the first word from quake-hit areas was a text message, a Facebook post, a tweet, Flickr images or videos uploaded to Youtube. Preliminary research by Nielsen shows that [...]
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