Social media as crisis platform: The future of community maps/crisis maps

  • Authors:
  • Rebecca Goolsby

  • Affiliations:
  • Office of Naval Research, Arlington VA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Social media provides the means for creating new communities and for reenergizing old communities. Recently, a new kind of quickly formulated, powerful community has formed as existing social media communities, news organizations, and users have converged in social media spaces to respond to sudden tragedies. This article addresses the ad-hoc crisis community, whith uses the social madia as a crisis platform to generate community crisis maps.