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1 results foundAuthor: Roberts, Colin Title: 'Soft Facts' and Spontaneous Community Mobilisation: The Role of Rumour After Major Crime Events Summary: This study examines how social media increasingly shape and frame processes of community mobilisation following major crime events. In so doing, it illuminates social reactions that are frequently 'seen but unnoticed' in the aftermath of high profile crimes. Pivoting around several case studies of community mobilization in difficult and emotionally tense situations, the analysis distils some generalisable lessons about how social media are transforming the ways contemporary social life is organised. Details: Cardiff, UK: Cardiff University, 2015. 35p. Source: Internet Resource: Nesta Working Paper No. 15/08: Accessed March 30, 2016 at: https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/soft_facts_and_spontaneous_community_mobilisation.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/soft_facts_and_spontaneous_community_mobilisation.pdf Shelf Number: 138490 Keywords: Media Serious CrimesSocial Media |