Social media for intelligent public information and warning in disasters: An interdisciplinary review

C Zhang, C Fan, W Yao, X Hu, A Mostafavi - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

Emergent groups and spontaneous volunteers in urban disaster response

J Twigg, I Mosel - Environment and Urbanization, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Spontaneous responses by self-organizing,“emergent” voluntary groups and individuals are
a common feature of urban disasters. Their activities include search and rescue, transporting …

Fifteen years of social media in emergencies: a retrospective review and future directions for crisis informatics

C Reuter, MA Kaufhold - Journal of contingencies and crisis …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social media has been established in many larger emergencies and crises. This process
has not started just a few years ago, but already 15 years ago in 2001 after the terrorist …

Social media in crisis management: An evaluation and analysis of crisis informatics research

C Reuter, AL Hughes, MA Kaufhold - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the use of social media in emergency and crisis events
has greatly increased and many studies have concentrated on the use of ICT and social …

Rapid relevance classification of social media posts in disasters and emergencies: A system and evaluation featuring active, incremental and online learning

MA Kaufhold, M Bayer, C Reuter - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during disasters and emergencies. Social media allow emergency …

Collective sense-making in times of crisis: Connecting terror management theory with Twitter user reactions to the Berlin terrorist attack

D Fischer-Preßler, C Schwemmer… - Computers in Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent terrorist attacks have increased the need to examine the public's response to such
threats. This study focuses on the content of Twitter messages related to the 2016 terrorist …

Towards social resilience: A quantitative and qualitative survey on citizens' perception of social media in emergencies in Europe

C Reuter, T Spielhofer - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017 - Elsevier
Social media is increasingly being used during emergencies. Most available studies are
focused on how citizens and/or authorities use these technologies in concrete events …

Mitigating information overload in social media during conflicts and crises: Design and evaluation of a cross-platform alerting system

MA Kaufhold, N Rupp, C Reuter… - Behaviour & Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during conflicts and crises. Social media allow emergency services to …

Emergency services׳ attitudes towards social media: A quantitative and qualitative survey across Europe

C Reuter, T Ludwig, MA Kaufhold… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Various studies show that social media is used in emergencies–and that in spite of possible
challenges for emergency services, beneficial use cases can be identified. However …

Disaster response aided by tweet classification with a domain adaptation approach

H Li, D Caragea, C Caragea… - … of Contingencies and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social media platforms such as Twitter provide valuable information for aiding disaster
response during emergency events. Machine learning could be used to identify such …