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Author
Iva Seto
;
David Johnstone
;
Jennifer Campbell-Meier
Title
Experts' sensemaking during the 2003 SARS crisis
Type
Conference Article
Year
2018
Publication
Proceedings of ISCRAM Asia Pacific 2018: Innovating for Resilience – 1st International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Asia Pacific.
Abbreviated Journal
Iscram Ap 2018
Volume
Issue
Pages
44-55
Keywords
crisis informatics
;
public health crisis
;
SARS
;
social sensemaking
;
organisational learning
Abstract
This paper depicts the real-time sensemaking of experts as they worked to combat the first emerging disease of the 21st century: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Newspaper data was analysed from the 2003 SARS crisis, with a Canadian perspective, to follow the process of solving the puzzle of this emerging disease. Retrospective sensemaking is a process that is triggered by the unexpected, which leads to actors gathering information (taking action) in order to consider possible interpretations for the unexpected event. Disease outbreaks serve as sensemaking triggers, and actors engage in retrospective sensemaking to find out the factors involved in how the outbreak happened. Prospective sensemaking (future-oriented) is employed when actors work together to plan how to combat the disease. The newspaper data demonstrate that retrospective and prospective sensemaking are tethered: to make plans to combat a disease, actors first require a collectively agreed upon understanding from which they can generate possibilities for a crisis response. This paper contributes to the field by providing concepts for long-duration crisis sensemaking, as the bulk of organisational research focuses on acute crises such as wildfires, or earthquakes.
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Victoria University of Wellington; Victoria University of Wellington; Victoria University of Wellington
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Massey Univeristy
Place of Publication
Albany, Auckland, New Zealand
Editor
Kristin Stock; Deborah Bunker
Language
English
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Resilience to cope with the unexpected
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no
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1649
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