Disaster Communication Study on Instagram Account @infobmkgmaluku of Ambon Earthquake 2019 Case

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200818.030How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disaster Communication, Social Media, Instagram

Abstract

Social media is a popular tool of communication to use as a sharing content platform. Many people use it as their media, but little do we know that the government nowadays use it as a tool to engage their public, especially at crisis and disaster. This article describes the analysis of how local government organizations used social media during the Earthquake disaster as a tool to communicate with the public. Indonesia’s national Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics council have been used social media to connect with the audience. In the case of Ambon Earthquake 2019, the organization uses local agency social media to communicate. The article finds that there is a high number of the Instagram user responding @infobmkgmaluku post during the disaster; also, the analysis shows there is a relation between the earthquake magnitude and user response.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Beatriz Bridget Tanasale
AU  - Sari Monik Agustin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/19
TI  - Disaster Communication Study on Instagram Account @infobmkgmaluku of Ambon Earthquake 2019 Case
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Jogjakarta Communication Conference (JCC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 130
EP  - 133
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200818.030
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200818.030
ID  - Tanasale2020
ER  -