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Exploring information seeking pathways of inhabitants about cyclones: a mixed method approach

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Title Exploring information seeking pathways of inhabitants about cyclones: a mixed method approach
 
Creator Chakraborty, Sarthak
Chaudhuri, Sabuj Kumar
 
Subject Information Seeking Behaviour
Pathways
Information needs
Information Source Selection
Barriers to information seeking
Effectiveness of information sources
Cyclone
Natural Disaster
India
 
Description 99-108
The study explores the information needs, information source selection and barriers in information seeking of the residents
regarding cyclones. Fifty semi-structured interviews and 471 questionnaires yielded data from the population sample of
Sundarbans, a coastal region of West Bengal, India. Findings show that after receiving the warnings, respondents preferred to
depend on human sources and, to some extent, media sources for alert verification and confirmation. Human sources were most
trusted in informal discussion for subsequent information seeking to pursue informed decisions against cyclones.
 
Date 2022-06-24T11:12:50Z
2022-06-24T11:12:50Z
2022-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/59906
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.69(2) [June 2022]