Technical Communication Quarterly Oct 2022 Open Access

Transnational Assemblages in Disaster Response: Networked Communities, Technologies, and Coalitional Actions During Global Disasters

Sweta Baniya Virginia Tech

Abstract

In this article, I argue that local disasters are a global concern and that various transnational assemblages emerge during a disaster that support the suffering communities and help in addressing the issues of social justice in post-disaster situations. The transnational assemblages that emerge on social media create innovative practices (via non-western and decolonial ways) of creating communities across the world via crisis communication and distributed work to address social injustices during the disaster.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2022-10-02
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2022.2034973
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