Seminar September 21: Social media in crisis comunication

Three presentations will be made during this seminar.

Social Media during Emergencies: Communicative Approaches to Systems
Rodney Clarke, Associate Prof. at Karlstad University and Wollongong University.
One of the most well respected emergency social media systems is known as PetaJakarta developed by the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong. PetaJakarta parses tweets for flood relevant keywords. If geolocation is activated on the originating mobile device, the tweet is formatted and displayed on a web map. If geolocation is inactive the system responds with a request for the user to activate it. The system is used by the BPBD in Jakarta as its social media aggregator to assist in the rapid production of crowdsourced flood maps.
This talk involves a deconstruction of the communicative assumptions that underpin this system the aim of which is to address two basic questions: What kind of meanings are in social media messages? What kinds of emergency social media systems could be engineered? By considering the kinds of meanings that are possible in social media messages, emergency systems can be built with unique and useful features.

Tourists and Social Media in Crisis Situations – a study of cyclone Winston in Fiji
Cecilia Möller, Assistant Professor in Human geography, is researching how tourists use social media in crisis situations. Earlier this year she was in Australia and Fiji for field work and at the seminar she will present her study based on qualitative interviews and a netnographic approach.

Facebook Usage During a Flood – A Content Analysis of Two Loal Governments' Facebook Pages
Monika Magnusson is an Assistant Prof. in Information Systems and has together with some colleagues developed a classification schema for municipality facebook posting. The results will be published in Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, vol 10 (4). However, on this seminar she will summarise a study of her own that will be presented at the Ausrtalasian Conference on Information Systems in November in Wollongong. It consists of two case studies of facebook posting during flooding in Australia and Canada.
 
Date: 2016-09-21
Time: 14:15 - 16:00
Room: 1A349
After the seminar there will be time for continued discussion with the presenters of the seminar.
 
Moore about the Information Systems research related to crisis can be found here.

Cecilia Möller, Assistant Professor in Human geography, during her seminar the 21st September. To the left in the picture Associate Professor Rodney Clarke, Wollongong, and research student in risk management Erik Persson, Karlstad.

Monika Magnusson, Assistant Prof. in Information Systems, during her seminar "Facebook Usage During a Flood". To the right Peter Bellström, Assistant Prof. in Information Systems.