Reflection of the Earthquake on Social Media within The Concept of Risk and Emergency Communication: A Review of X Content about The 2019 İstanbul and 2020 İzmir Earthquake

Authors : Ali Murat Vural, Hatun Boztepe Taşkıran, Süleyman Türkoğlu, Mehmet Sarı, Betül Yüncüoğlu, Emre Koparan, Recep Kutluay Keskin

Pages : 29-43

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Publication Date : 2025-03-07

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :With the rapid and instant structure of communication technologies, the rate of use of social media, which is one of the most important products of the interactivity feature of Web 2.0 technology, is increasing day by day. With this increase, individuals and institutions can share their evaluations about their interests or agenda topics in social media, which has become a new environment for socialising, receiving news and entertainment. Twitter, which is a type of microblogging, stands out as a social media where users can send messages they want to convey to their circle, society or audiences they can determine. In this study, which aims to determine the use of Twitter in risk communication and disaster-related emergency communication, the social media contents related to the earthquake were examined in a way to cover the period before and after the earthquake in Istanbul in 2019 and İzmir in 2020. The study aims to determine and compare the subject of earthquake risk communication and disaster communication. The findings indicated that the content shared on Twitter about the earthquake before the disaster occurred was not intended for risk communication, and Twitter was actively used in terms of emergency communication after the earthquake occurred.
Keywords : Risk communication, emergency communication, earthquake, social media, Twitter