Crisis in a Networked World

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Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness (2010, background): “This work shows that “widescale” computer mediated communication involves self-organizing behavior that can produce accurate results, often in advance of official communications [22, 23 , 35, 37].”
Online public communications by police & fire services during the 2012 Hurricane Sandy (2014, background): “Background Literature A small but growing area of crisis informatics research [6,17] examines online media use by emergency responders, and reports on their typically slow adoption of such tools [9].”
Natural Language Processing to the Rescue? Extracting "Situational Awareness" Tweets During Mass Emergency (2011, background): “A recent surge in research on computer-mediated communication during mass emergency situations looks at content in blogs, social media sites and microblogging services (Mendoza et al., 2010; Palen et al., 2009; Qu et al., 2009; Starbird et al., 2010; Vieweg et al., 2010).”
Community Intelligence and Social Media Services: A Rumor Theoretic Analysis of Tweets During Social Crises (2013, background): “Social media services and consumer computing devices are rapidly changing the way we are creating, distributing, and sharing emergency information during social crises (Palen et al. 2010; Palen et al. 2009; Shklovski et al. 2010; Shklovski et al. 2008; Starbird and Palen 2010).”