Natalie Pang, Stan Karanasios, Misita Anwar
While there is a growing body of research on information behavior during nonroutine events such as natural disasters, the research has largely neglected older persons as a specific group despite their identification as a demographic that suffers disproportionately during disasters. To address this gap, this article reports on the study of the information behavior and related activities of older persons during natural disasters. Based on a qualitative study, we draw on the theory of information worlds to study the key activities of preparing, responding, and recovering from disasters. The article contributes to the information behavior literature by developing a more informed understanding of both the interrelationship between the information worlds and activities of older persons, and how older persons seek and share information during disasters. © 2019 ASIS&T
Communications and New Media, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Australia; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Universitas Negeri Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia
