Crisis Informatics¶
Study of how information is generated, shared, and used during crises and disasters. Includes real-time social media monitoring, community response analysis, and rapid-response data collection methods to understand how populations process and communicate about emergency events.
Key papers¶
- [[2016-jones-tweeting-negative-emotion|Jones et al. (2016) — Tweeting Negative Emotion]] — Demonstrates rapid-response social media analysis following mass violence; develops geolocation methods to identify affected community members; uses LIWC text analysis to capture community emotional responses across multiple independent events