Social media in emergency management advances, challenges and future directions

Luna, Sergio; Pennock, Michael J.

doi:10.1109/syscon.2015.7116847

Cited by 15 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Emergency management involves multiple stakeholders working together before, during and/or after an emergency with the objective to minimize the negative impacts and recover as fast as possible. Three main groups of stakeholders are (Luna and Pennock, 2015): i) Government agencies, ii) Private volunteering agencies and iii) Civilians. Communication and coordination among these groups is crucial for emergency management success.…”

Section: Creating Competent Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating emergency response by competent teams

Hasse¹,

Gauthier²,

Rolt³

et al. 2018

IJCSIS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ICTs and social networks can contribute to the emergence of creating competent teams for emergency response. For example, during disasters such as Pakistan flood of 2010, Japan tsunami of 2011 and Thailand flood of 2011, On-Line Social Networks (OSNs) have served as a main technology for numerous people seeking to share information about their personal status, to request resources, or to report the status of their community. They can be used at least for three main functions: detecting emergencies, disseminating information, and managing emergencies. On the other hand, the combination of Internet and mobile technology generated smart devices with associated sensor technologies that are becoming crucial parts in delivering supports during disaster and emergency situation. However, such use of mobile devices usually requires a reliable support system from crowdsensing technologies and back-end intelligent systems. In this way, the mobile crowdsensing must be designed with focus on mechanisms to identify and localize survivors and first responders in an incident zone, as well as mechanisms for competence characterization provided by social networks to facilitate coordination for individuals as well as crowds. These main technologies, the crowdsensing and social networks combined with semantic web and ontologies can provide a complete emergency response system that is the purpose of the CO-SEMIWA platform. This platform permits an interaction among participants to create dynamically competent teams where all participants perform tasks and solve problems in a specific emergency context and situation.

show abstract

Section: Creating Competent Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordinating emergency response by competent teams

Hasse¹,

Gauthier²,

Rolt³

et al. 2018

IJCSIS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Groups of experts in fields such as medicine and technology have also been established on LinkedIn . It is clear that usage is increasing year by year, with Twitter, in particular, providing a communication platform during emergency events …”

Section: Social Media Use In Emergenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…9 It is clear that usage is increasing year by year, with Twitter, in particular, providing a communication platform during emergency events. 10 Regarding emergency management, a paper 11 lists criteria that any 21st century emergency system should fulfil, such as low cost, power efficiency, ease of use, being mobile friendly, the ability to receive, generate, provide, and direct useful and critical information from a variety of sources, and a global positioning system function. The authors believe that Twitter matches/meets the criteria for an ideal emergency communication system that aims to provide help to the public in the case of an emergency.…”

Section: Social Media Use In Emergenciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…12 Moving now to the benefits and challenges of social media integration, using social media can benefit any system of emergency and risk management in any of 4 phases: (1) preparation-coordinating activities among stakeholders; (2) response-assigning response teams to areas in need; (3) mitigationsharing current status and locations; and (4) recovery-providing a communication platform, particularly when regular networks are limited or down. 10 Furthermore, social media could create a platform on which all the entities engage almost in real time, including the public and the risk and emergency management centres or teams. Another benefit of social media noted in the literature is its efficiency: "Social Media can help efficient communication to a large audience and well targeted groups of people, with less resources and less efforts than other communication media" (p. 115).…”

Section: Active (Systematic) Which Includes Building Live Communicatmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Using Twitter and the mobile cloud for delivering medical help in emergencies

Alshareef

Grigoraş

2017

Concurrency and Computation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Summary Emergency events require a fast response and decisions based on first‐hand information. This paper presents a mobile cloud service that makes the best use of social media applications, such as Twitter, in emergency and risk management. Here, risk and emergency teams can receive data that can inform their decisions in a matter of seconds when an emergency has affected areas under their management. The proposed service allows users to provide on‐the‐ground information regarding such an event, as well as early notification to people who are in the vicinity of an emergency situation. The service matches users' requests to a set of predefined labels that will help rescuers to understand the situation more clearly. The service was implemented and tested with Android devices and a cloud‐computing instance hosted on an Amazon platform. A cloud‐based tool is also provided for risk and emergency management teams to interact with users' requests. The experimental results show that the proposed mobile cloud service enhanced the early detection of emergencies. This paper also provides a review of research papers on the use of social media in risk and emergency management and the benefits of integrating social media with mobile cloud computing to provide a better healthcare service in emergencies.

show abstract

“…In emergencies such as natural disasters, Twitter is widely used as a communication and information media because of the rapid spread. In 2011, earthquake that caused Tsunami in Japan affected telephone networks in several area but the Internet could be accessed normally [3]. Twitter was used to share the latest information since communication services were limited [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of Rumor Detection on Twitter Using J48 Algorithm

Vianny

Setiawan

2020

RESTI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The existence of rumors on Twitter has caused a lot of unrest among Indonesians. Unrecognized validity confuses users for that information. In this study, an Indonesian rumor detection system is built by using J48 Algorithm in collaboration with Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) weighting method. Dataset contains 47.449 tweets that have been manually labeled. This study offers new features, namely the number of emoticons in display name, the number of digits in display name, and the number of digits in username. These three new features are used to maximize information about information sources. The highest accuracy is obtained by 75.76% using 90% training data and 1.000 TF-IDF features in 1-gram to 3-gram combinations.

show abstract

Social media in emergency management advances, challenges and future directions

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Coordinating emergency response by competent teams

Coordinating emergency response by competent teams

Using Twitter and the mobile cloud for delivering medical help in emergencies

Implementation of Rumor Detection on Twitter Using J48 Algorithm

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About