The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

Thousands of human lives are lost every year around the globe, apart from significant
damage on property, animal life, etc., due to natural disasters (eg, earthquake, flood …

In an age of digital communication, are we saying so much more about so much less? More
specifically, how has Twitter microblogging technology shaped the way modern humans …

In recent years, we have been faced with a series of natural disasters causing a tremendous
amount of financial, environmental and human losses. The unpredictable nature of natural …

Background: Social media platforms such as Twitter are rapidly becoming key resources for
public health surveillance applications, yet little is known about Twitter users' levels of …

The real-time discovery of local events (eg, protests, crimes, disasters) is of great importance
to various applications, such as crime monitoring, disaster alarming, and activity …

This research explores the specific use of the prominent social media website Twitter during
the 2010 Pakistan floods to examine whether users tend to tweet/retweet links from …

Detecting local events (eg, protest, disaster) at their onsets is an important task for a wide
spectrum of applications, ranging from disaster control to crime monitoring and place …

Purpose The sentiment analysis of tweets provides information about peoples' attitudes and
perceptions towards an event. The current study showcases the role of Twitter in a crisis by …

Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a
population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social …