Emergency Services 20, 30
EMSE8
Module 8: Social Media (Optional)
Outcome
Analyze the use of
social media as a
communication tool
during an emergency.
Indicators
| (a) | Identify examples of emergency communications using common social media platforms. |
| (b) | Discuss the advantages (e.g., instantaneous messaging; supporting various media such as text, video and audio; audience reach) and disadvantages (e.g., short, concise messages may be misunderstood; loss of control of a message after it is sent; limited audience reach) associated with using social media to communicate with the public during an emergency. |
| (c) | Investigate the implications (e.g., to self, others and community) of misuse of social media by bystanders in an emergency situation. |
| (d) | Research ways that social media could be used effectively to manage communications during an emergency. |
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