Robert Soden
ABSTRACT
My research examines new ways of approaching the contentious and uncertain knowledge politics surrounding natural disasters and climate change. Using three case studies, focused on different locations and type of hazards, I show how current information systems and technologies reproduce and reinforce long-standing discourses that have been widely shown to be problematic by social science research on disaster. Adopting the approach of research through design (RtD), I explore approaches to understanding flood risk, earthquake damage, and sea-level rise that seek to undermine these discourses and provide new ways of engaging with they challenges they present.
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Index Terms
- Crisis Informatics in the Anthropocene: Disasters as Matters of Care and Concern
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