emergency management

Part 1.  
Analysis of social media use
Based on your experience and expertise with social media, read a selection of the following resources. Research and prepare a 300- to 500-word paper analyzing the use of social media in a specific incident or by a specific organization (your own or another with which you are familiar or that you would like to study). Please do not base your paper completely on the incidents included in the selected readings.
Basic:

FEMA Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Independent Study course on social media in emergency management: IS-42 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=is-42 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Twitter use basics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. – https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309# (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Using hashtags on Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/49309 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Top 7 Social Media Lessons from LA Arson Fire Event https://idisaster.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/top-7-lessons-on-sm-from-la-arson-fire-event/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Intermediate to advanced:

Graham, C., Thompson, C., Wolcott, M., Pollack, J., Tran, M. (2015). A guide to social media emergency management analytics: understanding its place through Typhoon Haiyan tweets. Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 31, 227-236. DOI 10.3233/SJI-150893. Accessed at http://content.iospress.com/download/statistical-journal-of-the-iaos/sji893?id=statistical-journal-of-the-iaos%2Fsji893 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Also available in guide format at http://humanityroad.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/HRSWB-SMEM-Guide-FINAL-20141106.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Include reference citations in APA Style.

Part 2
Select one of the emergency types/scenarios below; the emergency has just occurred/is just identified. Based on our readings and your own critical thinking, list the types of information members of the public in the area will need during and about the incident. Note where timing of receipt of information is important. Explain how the information should be conveyed. 

Major flood
Fire and explosion at a local manufacturing plant
Infectious disease outbreak in two local high schools
Explosive device detonates at county courthouse

*please cite your sources and make a reference page.