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Use Of Social Media In Disaster Management
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Social Media for Disaster Awareness and Management
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Social media has redefined crisis management in the recent years. Extraction of situation awareness information from social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. is a non-trivial task once the required framework is established. Unfortunately, most public safety authorities are still suspicious of using social media in engaging and disseminating information. This chapter reports on how social media can be effectively used in the field of emergency management along with the opportunities and challenges put forth. The chapter starts with a discussion on the functions of social media and its trustworthiness. It provides a description of the framework for disaster management system and the methodology to be adopted. The methodology consists of volunteer classification, methods of data collection, challenges faced, event detection, and data characterization with currently available disaster management tools. The chapter concludes with the division between practice and research and moves toward envisioning how social media may be used as a resource in emergency management.
Social Media in Disaster Management
Provision of an accurate and timely disaster relief effort requires an insightful informational coverage of a crisis situation. Social media has a potential of providing a large amount of information generated by people about different aspects of a certain crisis situation. However, emergency-oriented social media utilization is still at an embryonic stage of its understanding. So, in this report 10 research studies were reviewed in an attempt to gain some understanding about this approach. As it appeared, crowdsourced information allows to get a versatile and insightful understanding of a crisis situation, but, as with any Big Data, there are major challenges of making use of high volumes of diverse information, in terms of extraction and representation of relevant and accurate information. Furthermore, other research studies proposed extraction/representation techniques which were primarily aimed at thematic and geographical clustering of information. As it appeared from the real cases of social media application during emergencies, there is still no standardized approach on how such information can be handled, but in those cases, emergency responders still managed to successfully apply their own methods of primarily geographical and thematic clustering of information, while still being greatly challenged by overwhelming amount of user-generated information. Thus, the success could perhaps be explained by social media being used primarily as a complement/enhancement of other already proved to be effective techniques. Further exploration would be needed in order to gain a more complete understanding of the current state emergency-oriented social media utilization, which could later be used as a theoretical framework for a new research study in this area.
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International Handbook of Disaster Research, 2022
A major concern in disaster management is how to minimize damage to the society. In this endeavor, the prime focus has always been given to saving lives. However, in recent times issues associated with loss of property have emerged as another area of concern. During disaster, the most critical challenge before the disaster managers is how to sustain communication with the affected population and also with those who are likely to be impacted by it. Such a challenge generates the understanding that communication tools do have a significant role in managing disasters. Moreover, the above thinking conventionally has been found to be channelized through the traditional Media like Print media, Radio, and Television. Due to the faster changes in communication technology, we have now social media, which has emerged as an alternative communication tool for study among the scholars working on disaster research. Taking into account the above technological shift, this chapter focuses into how the Indian government
Use of Social Media for Disaster Management
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, 2016
Social media is emerging as an important information-based communication tool for disaster management. Yet there are many relief organizations that are not able to develop strategies and allocate resources to effectively use social media for disaster management. The reason behind this inability may be a lack of understanding regarding the different functionalities of social media. In this paper, we examine the literature using content analysis to understand the current usage of social media in disaster management. We draw on the honeycomb framework and the results of our content analysis to suggest a new framework that can help in utilizing social media more effectively during the different phases of disaster management. We also discuss the implications of our study.
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A comprehensive review of online, official, and scientific literature was carried out in 2012-13 to develop a framework of disaster social media. This framework can be used to facilitate the creation of disaster social media tools, the formulation of disaster social media implementation processes, and the scientific study of disaster social media effects. Disaster social media users in the framework include communities, government, individuals, organisations, and media outlets. Fifteen distinct disaster social media uses were identified, ranging from preparing and receiving disaster preparedness information and warnings and signalling and detecting disasters prior to an event to (re)connecting community members following a disaster. The framework illustrates that a variety of entities may utilise and produce disaster social media content. Consequently, disaster social media use can be conceptualised as occurring at a number of levels, even within the same disaster. Suggestions are provided on how the proposed framework can inform future disaster social media development and research.
Social Media Technology for Disaster Management: Linking Tools to Relief Phases
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