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Item “I Signed up for Twitter. Reason? Flood News.”: An Analysis of Pre-Crisis Tweets Made by Decision-Makers, Media, and the Public(North Dakota State University, 2014) Currie-Mueller, Jenna LeeThis study examines the use of Twitter by decision-makers, the media, and the public during the pre-crisis stage of the 2013 Fargo-Moorhead flood. Three research questions guide this study in order to gain understanding of the content and assumed motives that drive users to utilize Twitter prior to a crisis. Data analysis revealed that decision-makers and the media active in tweeting were consistent with what would have been expected in a crisis situation. Additionally, the public were driven by the assumed motive of sharing and seeking information during the pre-crisis stage, consistent with previous research regarding the crisis stage.Item Responses to Privacy Turbulence: The Impact of Personality Traits on Recalibration and Privacy Boundaries on Facebook(North Dakota State University, 2016) Fechner, ValerieAs individuals use social media to create and maintain relationships and connections, they must also decide how to manage the private information that they disclose to their connections. If private information is handled improperly online, it may evoke varying responses that affect previously held privacy boundaries. Using communication privacy management theory (Petronio, 2002) as a framework, this study seeks to understand how the severity of a privacy violation impacts the Facebook users respond to online privacy turbulence. It also investigates how personality characteristics influence these responses. Results reveal that more severe privacy violations are met with more discussion of the privacy violation and thicker privacy boundaries both between the owner and the violator and between the owner and their social media network. Findings also imply that some of the Big Five personality traits impact the relationship between severity and the outcome variables.