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Research Group at the TU Darmstadt places Special Issue on “Social Media in Conflicts and Crises”
Prof. Christian Reuter, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Prof. Stefan Stieglitz, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Dr. Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, published a special issue in Behaviour & Information Technology (BIT) – an international journal on the human aspects of computing. This journal is ranked as „A“ according to CORE Ranking.
The special issue sets out to give an overview of current research on the use of social media in conflicts and crises. In doing so, it focuses on both good and malicious aspects of social media and includes a variety of contributions of conceptual, theoretical and empirical nature. The special issue presents an overview of the field, analytical methods, technical challenges, current advancements and the accepted papers.
The editors received 17 submissions for the special issue which address some of the open issues. After two rounds of rigorous reviewing, six articles were accepted for publication.
- Editorial Social Media in conflicts and crises by Christian Reuter, Stefan Stieglitz and Imran Muhammad
- Breaking’ News: Uncovering Sense-Breaking Patterns in Social Media Crisis Communication during the 2017 Manchester Bombing by Milad Mirbabaie and Julian Marx (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Use of Twitter in the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis by Julius Tanyu Nganji and Lynn Cockburn (University of Toronto)
- Descriptive and Visual Summaries of Disaster Events using Artificial Intelligence Techniques: Case Studies of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria by Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli and Muhammad Imran (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- Mitigating Information Overload in Social Media during Conflicts and Crises: Design and Evaluation of a Cross-Platform Alerting System by Marc-André Kaufhold, Nicola Rupp, Christian Reuter and Matthias Habdank (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Universität Siegen and Universität Paderborn)
- Repertoires of Collaboration: Incorporation of Social Media Help Requests into the Common Operating Picture by Christian Ehnis and Deborah Bunker (The University of Sydney)
- A conceptual framework for developing solutions that organize social media information for the emergency response team by Danilo P. Freitas, Marcos R. S. Borges and Paulo Victor R. Carvalho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
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Further informationen on the website of PEASEC –Science and Technology for Peace and Security
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