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A Shepherd for the Naïve: Images of Future Government in Huxley, Bradbury, and Forster
Type: Text
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Christopher L. Atkinson
Description: Intellectuals of the 20th century bore witness to society’s injustices. They viewed and commented on erosion of rights
and humankind’s callousness to itself. For example, Huxley’s Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited illustrate with contempt a society that had renounced personal individuality and rejected freedom, choosing a drugged totalitarian state set adrift from any sense of… more
Full Text: 603107 research-article2015 SGOXXX10.1177/2158244015603107SAGE OpenAtkinson Article A Shepherd for the Naïve: Images of Future Government in Huxley, Bradbury, and Forster SAGE Open July-September 2015: 1–8 © The Author(s) 2015 DOI: …
Crisis Communication in Dark Times: The 2011 Mouse River Flood in Minot, North Dakota
Type: Text
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Christopher L. Atkinson
Publisher: USC Annenberg Press [Imprint]
Description: Crisis communication is an essential aspect of disaster and crisis management for governments; this is particularly true for local governments, which are first into an event response and last out, and on the front lines of response and recovery. In this article, crisis communication is reviewed generally and then in the context of the 2011 Souris (Mouse) River flood in Minot, North Dakota. Using… more
Full Text: International Journal of Communication 8 (2014), 1394–1414 1932–8036/20140005 Crisis Communication in Dark Times: The 2011 Mouse River Flood in Minot, North Dakota CHRISTOPHER L. ATKINSON Florida Atlantic University, USA Crisis communication is an …