Tsunami 2004

The Tsunami in 2004 gives examples of presenting information indifferent ways by the fact that people were sending off E-mails, texts, making calls using websites etc just to present information. Information was also shared quickly through types of communication, people would be calling home to share their information which then will be passed around. Things like greater interaction between organisations became shown, the BBC was setting up a charity hot line etc to collect donations for the victims and the buildings of the tsunami which the money was passed on directly. Virtual communities were made on the tsunami which brought communities together via the Internet, people would be discussing the events of the tsunami and trying to help the victims of the event. Modern communication services were used rather than the older ones because the phone lines would be blocked up with all the outgoing and incoming calls so text messages would be able to get through every time there was less than 100% of calls a few more texts would be sent out. Each service was useful because information was being passed around to relatives through websites, texts, emails and phone calls so the services was very useful so information could be passed around.


Web sites I used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4136289.stm