Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

With the ever-growing number of online social media platforms, the world has shrunk even
further with regards to communication and knowledge-sharing perspective. However …

Twitter provides a useful tool for studying public conversations about climate change, an
issue that crosses international boundaries and stirs political and scientific debate. This …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world's population to unprecedented health
threats and changes to social life. High uncertainty about the novel disease and its social …

With cloud computing, Internet‐of‐things, wireless sensors, social media, fast storage and
retrieval, etc., organizations and enterprises have access to unprecedented amounts and …

This study focuses on the outpouring of sympathy in response to mass shootings and the
contestation over gun policy on Twitter from 2012 to 2014 and relates these discourses to …

Social media has been increasingly utilized to spread breaking news and risk
communications during disasters of all magnitudes. Unfortunately, due to the unmoderated …

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an upsurge in the spread of diverse conspiracy
theories (CTs) with real-life impact. However, the dynamics of user engagement remain …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been repeatedly associated with poor mental health. Previous
studies have mostly focused on short time frames such as around the first lockdown periods …

Social problems are everywhere around us. Listen to a news channel, have a look at social
media or open up a newspaper, and suddenly you are confronted with a rich variety of social …