Social media in disaster communication

L Palen, AL Hughes - Handbook of disaster research, 2018 - Springer
This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

The effect of social media on the dynamics of (self) resilience during disasters: A literature review

M Jurgens, I Helsloot - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As is well known for decades, citizens are highly resilient during and after a disaster, they
save the day by hel** themselves and others. A relatively new phenomenon is the …

[LIVRE][B] Disasters: A sociological approach

K Tierney - 2019 - books.google.com
Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

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 …

Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness

S Vieweg, AL Hughes, K Starbird, L Palen - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We analyze microblog posts generated during two recent, concurrent emergency events in
North America via Twitter, a popular microblogging service. We focus on communications …

Social media use by government: From the routine to the critical

A Kavanaugh, EA Fox, S Sheetz, S Yang, LT Li… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Social media (ie, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) and other services with user-generated
content have made a staggering amount of information (and misinformation) available …

" Voluntweeters" self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis

K Starbird, L Palen - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
This empirical study of" digital volunteers" in the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 Haiti
earthquake describes their behaviors and mechanisms of self-organizing in the information …

Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events

AL Hughes, L Palen - International journal of emergency …, 2009 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper offers a descriptive account of Twitter (a microblogging service) across four high-
profile, mass convergence events–two emergency and two national security. We statistically …

Crisis in a networked world: Features of computer-mediated communication in the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech event

L Palen, S Vieweg, SB Liu… - Social Science …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Crises and disasters have micro and macro social arrangements that differ from routine
situations, as the field of disaster studies has described over its 100-year history. With …

[LIVRE][B] Social media, crisis communication, and emergency management: Leveraging Web 2.0 technologies

CM White - 2011 - books.google.com
Although recent global disasters have clearly demonstrated the power of social media to
communicate critical information in real-time, its true potential has yet to be unleashed …