TY - GEN
T1 - Leveraging geospatially-oriented social media communications in disaster response
AU - McClendon, Susannah
AU - Robinson, Anthony C.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Geospatially-oriented social media communications have emerged as a common information resource to support crisis management. Our research compares the capabilities of two popular systems used to collect and visualize such information - Project Epic's Tweak the Tweet (TtT) and Ushahidi. Our research uses geospatially-oriented social media gathered by both projects during recent disasters to compare and contrast the frequency, content, and location components of contributed information to both systems. We compare how data was gathered and filtered, how spatial information was extracted and mapped, and the mechanisms by which the resulting synthesized information was shared with response and recovery organizations. In addition, we categorize the degree to which each platform in each disaster led to actions by first responders and emergency managers. Based on the results of our comparisons we identify key design considerations for future social media mapping tools to support crisis management.
AB - Geospatially-oriented social media communications have emerged as a common information resource to support crisis management. Our research compares the capabilities of two popular systems used to collect and visualize such information - Project Epic's Tweak the Tweet (TtT) and Ushahidi. Our research uses geospatially-oriented social media gathered by both projects during recent disasters to compare and contrast the frequency, content, and location components of contributed information to both systems. We compare how data was gathered and filtered, how spatial information was extracted and mapped, and the mechanisms by which the resulting synthesized information was shared with response and recovery organizations. In addition, we categorize the degree to which each platform in each disaster led to actions by first responders and emergency managers. Based on the results of our comparisons we identify key design considerations for future social media mapping tools to support crisis management.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905569511
SN - 9780864913326
T3 - ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
BT - ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Simon Fraser University
T2 - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2012
Y2 - 22 April 2012 through 25 April 2012
ER -