Social media and disasters: a functional framework for social media use in disaster planning, response, and research.

By J. Houston, J. Hawthorne, Mildred F. Perreault, Eun Hae Park, Marlo Goldstein Hode, Michael R. Halliwell, Sarah E. Turner McGowen, Rachel Davis, Shivani Vaid, Jonathan A. McElderry and 1 more. Disasters. The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management, 2015

772 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Sebastián Valenzuela
2. Bruno Takahashi
3. Ferda Ofli
4. Edson C. Tandoc
5. Muhammad Imran
6. Firoj Alam

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Sebastián Valenzuela
2. Bruno Takahashi
3. Edson C. Tandoc
4. Muhammad Imran

Citations in the corpus

• Comparing Disaster News on Twitter and Television: an Intermedia Agenda Setting Perspective (2017, background): “In the case of the general population, several studies have documented the ways in which users rely on Twitter for managing a disaster situation (Binder, 2012; Houston et al., 2015; Takahashi, Tandoc, & Carmichael, 2015).”
• CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters (2018, background): “At times of natural and man-made disasters, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are considered vital information sources that contain a variety of useful information such as reports of injured or dead people, infrastructure and utility damage, urgent needs of affected people, and mis”
• Student Attitudes Towards Online Education during the COVID-19 Viral Outbreak of 2020: Distance Learning in a Time of Social Distance (2020, background): “However, social media if propagated by local agencies, including universities, can aid in providing preparedness information, warnings (Houston et al., 2014), as Wingate University utilized their twitter and Facebook social media pages to communicate to students, updates on COVID-19.”
• Communicating on Twitter during a disaster: An analysis of tweets during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (2015, methodology): “In an attempt to integrate the dispersed literature, Houston et al. (2014) conducted a systematic review of social media uses in disasters and started to develop a typology of social media uses from a communication perspective.”