Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

The analysis of data from social media and social networking sites may be instrumental in
achieving a better understanding of human-environment interactions and in sha** future …

Social media platforms such as Twitter provide convenient ways to share and consume
important information during disasters and emergencies. Information from bystanders and …

The use of social media to communicate timely information during crisis situations has
become a common practice in recent years. In particular, the one-to-many nature of Twitter …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

Social media analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

Abstract People increasingly use Social Media (SM) platforms such as Twitter and Facebook
during disasters and emergencies to post situational updates including reports of injured or …

More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic
information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature …

The idea of 'citizen as sensors' has gradually become a reality over the past decade. Today,
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from citizens is highly involved in acquiring …