Public Journalism (BLOG)

In Disaster Risk And Mitigation (experiences on more than 15 Years Blogging)

Rovicky Dwi Putrohari

President of Indonesian Geologist Association

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CINEMA

INTERNET

When Start Blogging ?

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First Html Web (1998)

First Blog (2001)

(2006)

Media covered vs BLOG

Dramatic an epic of disaster

• BUT Less knowledge or information

Warnings and Rumor Control

Newspaper / Media

Blog

Human Interest Stories

Timing

Simplified

Analogy

Pre-knowledge

Public Education

Public Knowledge Education Timing

How people read the article ?

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Dec 2009 Sept 2014

Annual School time

Continue grow

Topic

Disaster

What people read for last year

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Disaster related topic

Public Knowledge Education Simplified

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Public Knowledge Education Pre-knowledge

I believe you can read this

A little bit harder

Together with another blogger

Airputih.or.id

Initiated Dec 2004 by Indonesian Internet Provider. As a hub of Indonesian

Public Journalism and disaster volunteer worker.

Together with another blogger

Map

Geographic location is important

Net/Media Coverage

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Extended to Mass Media (TV)

Summary

Disasters always a public interest, most of people would like

to know and to understand what was happened.

In the internet and social media become an important role

during and also before and after the disaster breaking.

Geoscientists have important role on explaining what is

happening.

BLOG is one of the media which provide most of we need on

spreading disaster information.

BLOG will be read not only during the disaster, but become a

learning subject.

Future role of social media should be included in the disaster

mitigation. Not necessary internet but also SMS (Short

Massages)

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