Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its
unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, ie, items of …

Social media tools are integrated in most parts of our daily lives, as citizens, netizens,
researchers or emergency responders. Lessons learnt from disasters and emergencies that …

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked
politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as …

As brands solidify their place in social media environments, consumers' expectations have
amplified, thus spurring the development of technologies to assist with the engagement …

The use of social media to communicate timely information during crisis situations has
become a common practice in recent years. In particular, the one-to-many nature of Twitter …

Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

In recent years, social media emerged as a potential resource to improve the management
of crisis situations such as disasters triggered by natural hazards. Although there is a …

This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

" Human-centered machine learning"(HCML) combines human insights and domain
expertise with data-driven predictions to answer societal questions. This area's inherent …