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| Title: | From women for women : the role of social media in online nonprofit activities during Wuhan lockdown | Authors: | Li, Y Chandra, Y Nie, L Fan, Y |
Issue Date: | Dec-2020 | Source: | Public administration and development, Dec. 2020, v. 40, no. 5, p. 267-272 | Abstract: | The article examines the role of social media in mitigating information asymmetry and coordination problems during COVID‐19 epidemic crisis. We use “Sisters‐Fight‐Epidemic” online volunteering project during the outbreak of COVID‐19 in Wuhan, China, as a case to demonstrate how social media plays a role as a mechanism in linking multiple stakeholders and shaping their actions during the epidemic response. We show that social media facilitates the self‐organizing processes of volunteers and develops the emergency information networks, therefore enabling a relatively efficient relief responses to the needs of epidemic victims particularly female medical workers. This article also identifies spontaneous online volunteering project as a new form of nonprofit organization and as a new emergent response group that can leverage the strengths of social media in disaster responses to enable effective coordination, initiate advocacy, and improve transparency of relief efforts. | Keywords: | Online volunteering Pandemic Social media China |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons | Journal: | Public administration and development | ISSN: | 0271-2075 | DOI: | 10.1002/pad.1898 | Rights: | © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Li, Y., Chandra, Y., Nie, L. and Fan, Y. (2020), From women for women: The role of social media in online nonprofit activities during Wuhan lockdown. Public Admin Dev, 40: 267-272, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1898. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
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