TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness
T2 - Recent Research and Trends
AU - Ghosh, Saptarshi
AU - Ghosh, Kripabandhu
AU - Ganguly, Debasis
AU - Chakraborty, Tanmoy
AU - Jones, Gareth J.F.
AU - Moens, Marie Francine
AU - Imran, Muhammad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Online Social Media, such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp, are important sources of real-time information related to emergency events, including both natural calamities, man-made disasters, epidemics, and so on. There has been lot of recent work on designing information systems that would be useful for aiding post-disaster relief operations, as well as for pre-disaster preparedness. A special issue on “Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness” was conducted for the journal Information Systems Frontiers. The objective of this special issue was to present a platform for dissemination of the empirical results of various technologies for extracting vital and actionable information from social media content in disaster situations. The papers included in this issue are expected to be the stepping stones for future explorations and technical innovations towards technologies meant for utilizing various online and offline information sources for enhancing pre-disaster preparedness and post-disaster relief operations.
AB - Online Social Media, such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp, are important sources of real-time information related to emergency events, including both natural calamities, man-made disasters, epidemics, and so on. There has been lot of recent work on designing information systems that would be useful for aiding post-disaster relief operations, as well as for pre-disaster preparedness. A special issue on “Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness” was conducted for the journal Information Systems Frontiers. The objective of this special issue was to present a platform for dissemination of the empirical results of various technologies for extracting vital and actionable information from social media content in disaster situations. The papers included in this issue are expected to be the stepping stones for future explorations and technical innovations towards technologies meant for utilizing various online and offline information sources for enhancing pre-disaster preparedness and post-disaster relief operations.
KW - Disasters
KW - Emergency events
KW - Emergency preparedness
KW - Post-disaster relief
KW - Social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052583609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10796-018-9878-z
DO - 10.1007/s10796-018-9878-z
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85052583609
SN - 1387-3326
VL - 20
SP - 901
EP - 907
JO - Information Systems Frontiers
JF - Information Systems Frontiers
IS - 5
ER -