Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

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 …

Sentiment analysis refers to the class of computational and natural language processing
based techniques used to identify, extract or characterize subjective information, such as …

This report highlights the changing landscape of risk and crisis communications and in
particular how social media can be a beneficial tool, but also create challenges for crisis …

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 …

Social media has recently become a digital lifeline used to relay information and locate
survivors in disaster situations. Currently, officials and volunteers scour social media for any …

Victims, volunteers, and relief organizations are increasingly using social media to report
and act on large-scale events, as witnessed in the extensive coverage of the 2010–2012 …

The objective of this article is to conduct a systematic literature review that provides an
overview of the current state of research concerning methods and application for …

Originating from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and many other
networking sites, the social media shared by users and the associated metadata are …

Abstract Analysis of public behavior plays an important role in crisis management, disaster
response, and evacuation planning. Unfortunately, collecting relevant data can be costly …