Social media as crisis platform: The future of community maps/crisis maps
R Goolsby - ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
R Goolsby
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2010•dl.acm.orgSocial media provides the means for creating new communities and for reenergizing old
communities. Recently, a new kind of quickly formulated, powerful community has formed as
existing social media communities, news organizations, and users have converged in social
media spaces to respond to sudden tragedies. This article addresses the ad-hoc crisis
community, whith uses the social madia as a crisis platform to generate community crisis
maps.
communities. Recently, a new kind of quickly formulated, powerful community has formed as
existing social media communities, news organizations, and users have converged in social
media spaces to respond to sudden tragedies. This article addresses the ad-hoc crisis
community, whith uses the social madia as a crisis platform to generate community crisis
maps.
Social media provides the means for creating new communities and for reenergizing old communities. Recently, a new kind of quickly formulated, powerful community has formed as existing social media communities, news organizations, and users have converged in social media spaces to respond to sudden tragedies. This article addresses the ad-hoc crisis community, whith uses the social madia as a crisis platform to generate community crisis maps.
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