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Dr. John Carr
@JohnCarrEM
Emergency Management Researcher focused on Disaster Movies, Myths, and Citizen Engagement in EM. #EMGTwitter
Dec 20, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Good news! My dissertation, Disaster Movies and the Perception of Human Behavior Myths in Disasters, has been approved and is up for viewing! I am so excited to share my findings with this community.

Here is a quick thread of what I found:

#EMGTwitter #PhDone EMD Mike Roark (played by Tommy Lee Jones), arguably the most famous emergency manager from Missouri, and Emmit Reese (played by Don Cheadle), the one that actually did the work of an EM during the Mount Wilshire eruption of 1997. Since 2020 @SamLMontano and I have been studying disaster movies and how they influence the public’s perceptions of disasters. Multiple researchers attributed the prevalence of disaster myths to disaster movies, but no empirical studies had supported or refuted that claim. TV looting a human during Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs