ABSTRACT
Since the earliest foundations of professional emergency and disaster management in the 1950s, technology has played a role in preparedness, response, and recovery from disasters as well as the reduction of risk in a given community. Some of these technologies have long been replaced, while others have remained with minimal change of approach or capabilities. However, with the exponential rise in digital technologies and the institution of social media systems since the turn of the twenty-first century, technological systems and public expectations related to those systems have drastically changed.
