Overview

Social Media in Disaster Response focuses on how emerging social web tools provide researchers and practitioners with new opportunities to address disaster communication and information design for participatory cultures. Both groups, however, currently lack research toolkits for tracing participant networks across systems; there is little understanding of how to design not just for individual social web sites, but how to design across multiple systems. Given the volatile political and ecological climate we are currently living in, the practicality of understanding how people communicate during disasters is important both for those researching solutions and for those putting that research into practice. Social Media in Disaster Response addresses this situation by presenting the results of a large-scale sociotechnical usability study on crisis communication in the vernacular related to recent natural and human-made crisis; this is an analysis of the way social web applications are transformed, by participants, into a critical information infrastructure in moments of crisis. This book provides researchers with methods, tools, and examples for researching and analyzing these communication systems while providing practitioners with design methods and information about these participatory communities to assist them in influencing the design and structure of these communication systems.

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Author:   Liza Potts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415817424

ISBN 10:   0415817420
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   21 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Experience, Disaster, and the Social Web Architecting Mediated Systems The Social Web Disaster, Communication, and the Social Web Disaster Cases Overview of Chapters Who this Book is for 2: Methods for Researching and Architecting the Social Web Users and Participants Content and Exchange Networks and Agency Identifying and Mapping Conclusion 3: Locating Data in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Ecosystems and Data Locating Data and Sources in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Practical Solutions Conclusion 4: Validating Information during the London Bombings Ecosystems and Information Tracing the Translation from Data to Information in the London Bombings Practical Solutions Conclusion 5: Transferring Knowledge During the Mumbai Attacks Ecosystems and Knowledge Distributing Knowledge Across Systems Practical Solutions Conclusion 6: Architecting Systems for Participation New Disasters: Participant Innovations and Continued Struggles Frameworks for Participant-Centered Architectures Participatory Futures

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Liza Potts is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. She is a senior researcher at Writing in Digital Environments Research Center, the director of user experience at MATRIX, and a collaborator at Creativity Exploratory—a practice-based addition to the College of Arts and Letters curriculum. Her research interests include technologically mediated communication, experience architecture, and participatory culture. Potts is the chair of the Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (ACM: SIGDOC) and the co-editor of Communication Design Quarterly Review. She has worked for Microsoft, consultancies, and start-ups as a director, user experience architect, and program manager.

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