Title :
Social Media, Disaster Studies, and Human Communication
Author :
Resnyansky, Lucy
Author_Institution :
Nat. Security & ISR Div. (NSID), Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Edinburgh, SA, Australia
Abstract :
Most sociologists of knowledge and science tend to agree that significant advances in an area come less from the accumulation of empirical studies, but more from reconceptualizations of basic ideas and definitions [1, p. 38].
Keywords :
Internet; emergency management; social aspects of automation; social networking (online); disaster studies; human communication; social media; sociologists; Behavioral science; Communications techology; Communities; Context awarebess; Information technology; Media; Sociology; Statistics;
Journal_Title :
Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MTS.2014.2301857
