Digital disparities and vulnerability : mobile phone use, information behaviour, and disaster preparedness in Southeast Asia

• Main Authors: Lai, Chih-Hui, Chib, Arul, Ling, Rich
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Digital Disparities; Disaster Preparedness; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85918; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48247
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper proposes an ecological view to investigate how disparities in mobile technology use reflect vulnerabilities in communities vis‐à‐vis disaster preparedness. Data (n=1,603) were collected through a multi‐country survey conducted equally in rural and urban areas of Indonesia, Myanmar, Philip...