Use of social media and e-Government in disasters: 2016 Louisiana floods case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bosch, MPA
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Service Disruption ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Survey Responses

The case study analyzes the use of social media as a component of disaster response during and after the Louisiana Floods of August 2016. The study analyzes the survey responses of thirty social media users on a series of questions regarding social networks they regularly used during the flooding events, the extent to which users contacted government agencies via those networks, other uses of social media connected with the disaster, and whether social media served as a primary means of communication during cell carrier service interruptions. The results of this study show that there was a correlation between service disruption and increased use of social media as a means of communication. Additionally, the survey showed that social media networks have been utilized for a wide range of purposes during disasters, including locating family and loved ones, requesting help, disseminating information, and psychosocial interaction. Finally, a majority of respondents did not use social media to contact government agencies, and a number of respondents rated federal government engagement through social media as either dissatisfactory or were neutral on the question.

scholarly journals Use of Social Media to Seek and Provide Help in Hurricanes Florence and Michael

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1187-1218
Author(s):  
Morgan Faye DiCarlo ◽  
Emily Zechman Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Statistical Regression ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Use Of Social Media

During hazardous events, communities can use existing social media networks to share information in real time and initiate a local disaster response. This research conducted a web-based survey to explore two behaviors around the use of social media during hurricanes: seeking help and responding to help requests. Through the survey, we sampled 434 individuals across several counties affected by 2018 hurricanes Florence and Michael, which were both designated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as billion-dollar weather disasters. The survey questions collected data about demographics, social media use habits, perceptions towards social media, hurricane damages, and actions taken during a hurricane to seek and provide help. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used to conceptualize and frame parameters that affect intentions and behaviors regarding the use of social media during hurricanes to seek and provide help. Survey responses are analyzed using statistical regression to evaluate hypotheses about the influence of factors on seeking help and responding to help requests. Regression analyses indicate that attitude and perceived behavioral control predict intention to access social media during a hurricane, partially supporting the TPB. Intention and experiencing urgent damages predict help-seeking behaviors using social media. Posting frequency to social media under normal conditions and the number of help requests seen during the event predict help-responding behaviors. Linear regression equations governing intention and behavior were parameterized using survey results. The factors underlying social media behavior during hurricanes as identified in this research provide insight for understanding how smart information technologies, such as personal devices and social media networks, support community self-sufficiency and hazard resilience.

scholarly journals EVALUASI PEMANFAATAN MEDIA SOSIAL BAGI PELAKSANAAN FUNGSI ANGGOTA DPRD JAWA TENGAH

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Wahid Abdulrahman, dkk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The People ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

In order to improve the performance of Central Java Parliament, social media has been used as a tool that is easy, inexpensive, and could reach all segments throughout the region of Central Java. This study aimed to evaluate the use of social media in the implementation of the functions of legislators to communicate with the public. This research is a qualitative research with case study method. Capturing data through in-depth interviews to Central Java Parliament members who are active in social media and the public in their networks. The results of the study consisted of three things. First, social media is used by members of the Central Java Parliament for three reasons: (1) communicate the functions of the parliament (legislative, control, and budget); (2) communicate with the public in order to listen public needs and get feedback; (3) a means of self entertainment by using social media as a tool to express their selves and share personal information. Second, related to the function of the parliament which has been communicated through social media, the control function is the most frequent performed. While the legislative function performed moderately, and the budget function as the most rarely communicated. Third, public informants in social media networks of Central Java parliament members perceives the them as representatives of the people who actually work for the people. Keywords: social media, members of the board, the function of parliamen.

scholarly journals Classification of unlabeled online media

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakthi Kumar Arul Prakash ◽  
Conrad Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractThis work investigates the ability to classify misinformation in online social media networks in a manner that avoids the need for ground truth labels. Rather than approach the classification problem as a task for humans or machine learning algorithms, this work leverages user–user and user–media (i.e.,media likes) interactions to infer the type of information (fake vs. authentic) being spread, without needing to know the actual details of the information itself. To study the inception and evolution of user–user and user–media interactions over time, we create an experimental platform that mimics the functionality of real-world social media networks. We develop a graphical model that considers the evolution of this network topology to model the uncertainty (entropy) propagation when fake and authentic media disseminates across the network. The creation of a real-world social media network enables a wide range of hypotheses to be tested pertaining to users, their interactions with other users, and with media content. The discovery that the entropy of user–user and user–media interactions approximate fake and authentic media likes, enables us to classify fake media in an unsupervised learning manner.

scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF ADOLESCENT WORLDVIEW: COMBATING NEGATIVE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Rose Emmaria Tarigan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Use of social media creates positive or negative impacts on adolescents. There are a number of factors enabling adolescents to make use of social media positively. One of the factors studied in this research is the adolescent worldview. The adolescent worldview greatly determines the way she behaves and her attitude towards social media. The result of this research shows that adolescent worldview may release and enables her to reject negative impacts of social media, particularly from modern cultural -isms as relativism, individualism, emotionalism, presentism (present-time ism), materialism, autonomy, victimism, and turn it into a positive impact on herself. Worldviews may be differentiated based on three categories namely religion, spirituality and secularity. This research is conducted by explorative-qualitative approach, using case study research method. Data collection was conducted by in-depth interview with late adolescents.

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