Social media for emergency management: Opportunities and challenges at the intersection of research and practice

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Abstract

This paper summarizes key opportunities and challenges identified during the workshop "Social Media for Disaster Risk Management: Researchers Meet Practitioners" which took place online in November 2020. It constitutes a work-in-progress towards identifying new directions for research and development of systems that can better serve the information needs of emergency managers. Practitioners widely recognize the potential of accessing timely information from social media. Nevertheless, the discussion outlined some critical challenges for improving its adoption during crises. In particular, validating such information and integrating it with authoritative information and into more traditional information systems for emergency managers requires further work, and the negative impacts of misinformation and disinformation need to be prevented.

Identifier

85121253617 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781949373615]

Publication Title

Proceedings of the International Iscram Conference

e-ISSN

24113387

First Page

772

Last Page

777

Volume

2021-May

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