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Abstract
Opportunities for participation by members of the public are expanding the information arena of disaster. Social media supports backchannel communications, allowing for wide-scale interaction that can be collectively resourceful, self-policing, and generative of information that is otherwise hard to obtain. Results from our study of information practices by members of the public during the October 2007 Southern California Wildfires suggest that community information resources and other backchannel communications activity enabled by social media are gaining prominence in the disaster arena, despite concern by officials about the legitimacy of information shared through such means. We argue that these emergent uses of social media are pre-cursors of broader future changes to the institutional and organizational arrangements of disaster response.
Author Analytic
Sutton, Jeannette; Leysia Palen; Irina Shklovski
Author Combination
Sutton, Jeannette; Leysia Palen; Irina Shklovski
Call Number
154.S8.B3 (VF) (ELQ RC Annex)
Date of Publication
2008 May
Keywords
Information Dispersal ;
Communications ;
Fire-Case Studies ;
Social Factors ;
Location URL
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/Papers/iscram08/BackchannelsISCRAM08.pdf
Notes
From the Proceedings of the 5th International ISCRAM Conference - Washington, D.C. Last Accessed Online 2015 June 8
Title Combination
BACKCHANNELS ON THE FRONT LINES: EMERGENT USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE 2007 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
Title Analytic
BACKCHANNELS ON THE FRONT LINES: EMERGENT USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE 2007 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
Workform
Unpublished_Work
Id
5a4355f8-d294-40d8-aa43-f6f99b4a73b4
