Social media processes in disasters: Implications of emergent technology use

Murthy, Dhiraj; Groß, Axel

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.09.015

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“…Users have described Instagram, in particular, as having a negative effect on people by causing stress and tension on individuals' bodies. According to Steven Strogatz of Cornell University, online networking can make it more difficult for people to identify meaningful communication from other diverse interactions or connections created via web-based social networks [59]. Such a reduction in the number of significant connections may intimidate individuals, making them fear the development of important interactions and communication.…”

Section: The Negative Effects Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Social Media on Learning Behavior for Sustainable Education: Evidence of Students from Selected Universities in Pakistan

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In today’s world, social media is playing an indispensable role on the learning behavior of university students to achieve sustainable education. The impact of social media on sustainable education is becoming an essential and impelling factor. The world has become a global village and technology use has made it a smaller world through social media and how it is changing instruction. This original study is amongst the few to perform a focalized investigation on revealing the relationship between positive and negative characteristics of social media and the learning attitude of university students for sustainable education. However, this study aims to examine the constructive and adverse factors that impact on students’ minds and how these helped students to share positive and negative aspects with others. It is increasingly noticeable that social networking sites and their applications present enormous benefits for as well as risks to university students and their implications on students’ psychological adjustment or learning behaviors are not well understood. This study adapted the cluster sampling method, and respondents participated from five selected regions. Researchers distributed 1013 questionnaires among the targeted sample of university students with an age range of 16 to 35 years, and they collected 831 complete/valid responses. This study applied the social gratification theory to examine students’ behavior practicing social media usage. This study specifically identified 18 adversarial and constructive factors of social media from the previous literature. The findings revealed that the usage of social media in Pakistan has a negative influence on a student’s behavior as compared to positive aspects. Results may not be generalized to the entire student community as findings are specific to the specific respondents only. This study presents a relationship between antithetical and creative characteristics of social media and exhibits avenues for future studies by facilitating a better understanding of web-based social network use.

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Section: The Negative Effects Of Social Mediamentioning

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“…Crisis points, such as terror attacks, create "information holes" that the public works collaboratively to fill in in real time (Lin, Lachlan, & Spence, 2016, p. 627). Such practices resonate more broadly with developments in which social media has come to be an important tool for disaster and crisis management among civilians as well as governments (Boulianne, Minaker, & Haney, 2018;Liu, Fraustino, & Jin, 2016;Murthy & Gross, 2017;Yates & Paquette, 2011).…”

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Continued Contexts of Terror: Analyzing Temporal Patterns of Hashtag Co-Occurrence as Discursive Articulations

Krutrök

Lindgren

2018

Social Media + Society

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This study looks at how terror attacks are rendered discursively meaningful on social media through the concurrent use and reiteration of terror hashtags, which were created following previous incidents of terror. The article focuses on 12 terror attacks in Europe in 2015-2017 and their relating hashtags on Twitter, to see how various combinations of these were reused and co-articulated in tweets posted in relation to subsequent attacks. Through social network analysis of co-occurring hashtags in about 3 million tweets, in combination with close readings of a smaller sample, this study aims to analyze both the networks of hashtags in relation to terror attacks as well as the discursive process of hashtag co-articulation. The study shows that the patterns by which attack hashtags are reused and co-articulated depend on both temporal and contextual differences.

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“…Huang and Xiao [20] made an initial attempt to classify social media messages into different themes within different disaster phases such as preparation, response, impact, and recovery. The shift in the behavior of Twitter users before and after Hurricane Sandy was studied in [31], where users responded to the disaster by employing humor, sharing photos, and checking into locations.…”

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Utilizing Geo-tagged Tweets to Understand Evacuation Dynamics during Emergencies

Kumar

Ukkusuri

2018

Companion of the the Web Conference 2018 on the Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18

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Hurricane evacuation is a complex process and a better understanding of the evacuation behavior of the coastal residents could be helpful in planning better evacuation policy. Traditionally, various aspects of the household evacuation decisions have been determined by post-evacuation questionnaire surveys, which are usually time-consuming and expensive. Increased activity of users on social media, especially during emergencies, along with the geo-tagging of the posts, provides an opportunity to gain insights into user's decision-making process, as well as to gauge public opinion and activities using the social media data as a supplement to the traditional survey data. This paper leverages the geo-tagged Tweets posted in the New York City (NYC) in wake of Hurricane Sandy to understand the evacuation behavior of the residents. Based on the geo-tagged Tweet locations, we classify the NYC Twitter users into one of the three categories: outside evacuation zone, evacuees, and non-evacuees and examine the types of Tweets posted by each group during different phases of the hurricane. We establish a strong link between the social connectivity with the decision of the users to evacuate or stay. We analyze the geo-tagged Tweets to understand evacuation and return time and evacuation location patterns of evacuees. The analysis presented in this paper could be useful for authorities to plan a better evacuation campaign to minimize the risk to the life of the residents of the emergency hit areas.

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Social media processes in disasters: Implications of emergent technology use

Cited by 78 publications

References 43 publications

The Impact of Social Media on Learning Behavior for Sustainable Education: Evidence of Students from Selected Universities in Pakistan

The Impact of Social Media on Learning Behavior for Sustainable Education: Evidence of Students from Selected Universities in Pakistan

Continued Contexts of Terror: Analyzing Temporal Patterns of Hashtag Co-Occurrence as Discursive Articulations

Utilizing Geo-tagged Tweets to Understand Evacuation Dynamics during Emergencies

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