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Elizabeth Ellcessor

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Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

This message probably popped up on your phone on Oct. 4, 2023. AP Photo/Wayne Partlow

October 4, 2023

Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience – or help rebuild public trust in the system

Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia and Hamilton Bean, University of Colorado Denver

If an alert from the federal government popped up on your phone, did you notice it? Did you know who it was from? Did you trust it?

People of a certain age remember radio and television broadcasts interrupted by tests of the Emergency Broadcast System. filo/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

June 9, 2021

COVID‑19 messages make emergency alerts just another text in the crowd on your home screen

Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia

When emergency alerts are hard to distinguish from text messages and when they announce the availability of vaccines rather than an impending tornado, are they still emergency alerts?

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