Social media together with still growing social media communities has become a powerful
and promising solution in crisis and emergency management. Previous crisis events have …

Social media is much just used for private as well as business purposes, obviously, also
during emergencies. Emergency services are often confronted with the amount of …

Abstracts: Worldwide crises have drawn significant attention to the role information
communication technologies play in crisis and search and rescue response efforts, due to …

Learning and understanding what happened before, during, and after a crisis is extremely
important for the improvement of the response process. For this purpose, social media has …

Social or new media have over the past years become an integrated part of human
communication, both as a means to establish and maintain social relationships, but also as …

Social media applications are increasingly widespread in modern societies. Internet use and
mobile access to information, social networks, entertainment and services are and will be …

Social media is increasingly being used during emergencies. Most available studies are
focused on how citizens and/or authorities use these technologies in concrete events …

This paper summarizes key opportunities and challenges identified during the workshop
“Social Media for Disaster Risk Management: Researchers Meet Practitioners” which took …

Social media has become an integrated part of human communication, both as a means to
establish and maintain social relationships, and as a means of sharing and co‐creating …

Social media is used in a variety of domains, including emergency management. However,
the question of which technologies are most appropriate for a given emergency remains …