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AProcessing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey

by unknown authors
"... Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first responders, decision makers, and the public can use this information to gain insight into the situation as it unfolds. In particul ..."
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Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first responders, decision makers, and the public can use this information to gain insight into the situation as it unfolds

Natural Language Processing for Health and Social Media

by Mark Dredze, Michael J. Paul
"... Social media, such as Twitter, has shown great potential to analyze real world events, such as politics, product sentiment and natural disasters. In recent years, social media has emerged in the health community, particularly in public health, as a revolutionary data source for a wide range of probl ..."
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Social media, such as Twitter, has shown great potential to analyze real world events, such as politics, product sentiment and natural disasters. In recent years, social media has emerged in the health community, particularly in public health, as a revolutionary data source for a wide range

Mass Users Behaviour Prediction in Social Media: A Survey

by Kanchan U. Jadhav, Prof Nalini, A. Mhetre
"... Abstract — There is a connection between Social Networks to Personal Behaviour on the Web. This simple statement makes a start of a huge topic. This topic shows a tremendous interest of internet proficient’s like Google, facebook and many others. Particularly this research is adding many advantages ..."
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networks in social media can assist predict a little kind of human behaviour and entity fondness. This can assist know the behaviour sample existing in social media, as well as other tasks like social networking advertising and recommendation. Here we tries to sequences the work done to achieve

Using Social Media to Enhance Emergency Situation Awareness: Extended Abstract∗

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"... Social media platforms, such as Twitter, offer a rich source of real-time information about real-world events, particularly during mass emergencies. Sift-ing valuable information from social media pro-vides useful insight into time-critical situations for emergency officers to understand the impact ..."
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Social media platforms, such as Twitter, offer a rich source of real-time information about real-world events, particularly during mass emergencies. Sift-ing valuable information from social media pro-vides useful insight into time-critical situations for emergency officers to understand the impact

Uses and gratifications theory in the 21st century

by Thomas E. Ruggiero - Mass Communication & Society , 2000
"... Some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous social science theory. In this article, I argue just the opposite, and any attempt to speculate on the future direction of mass communication theory must seri-ously include the uses and gratifications app ..."
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Some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous social science theory. In this article, I argue just the opposite, and any attempt to speculate on the future direction of mass communication theory must seri-ously include the uses and gratifications

Mass Emergency Events

by Andrea Zielinski, Fraunhofer Iosb, Ulrich Bügel
"... Social media are increasingly becoming a source for event-based early warning systems in the sense that they can help to detect natural disasters and support crisis management during or after disasters. In this work-in-progress paper we study the problems of analyzing multilingual twitter feeds for ..."
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Social media are increasingly becoming a source for event-based early warning systems in the sense that they can help to detect natural disasters and support crisis management during or after disasters. In this work-in-progress paper we study the problems of analyzing multilingual twitter feeds

Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster- Related Messages in Social Media

by Muhammad Imran, Shady Elbassuoni, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, Patrick Meier
"... Microblogging sites such as Twitter can play a vital role in spreading information during “natural ” or man-made disasters. But the volume and velocity of tweets posted during crises today tend to be extremely high, making it hard for disaster-affected communities and professional emergency responde ..."
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responders to process the information in a timely manner. Furthermore, posts tend to vary highly in terms of their subjects and usefulness; from messages that are entirely off-topic or personal in nature, to messages containing critical information that augments situational awareness. Finding actionable

Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.

by Manuel Castells , Anthony Giddens , Alain Touraine , Anthony Smith , Benjamin Barber , Peter Hall , Roger-Pol Droit , Sophie Watson , Frank Webster , Krishan Kumar , David Lyon , Craig Calhoun , Jeffrey Henderson , Ramon Ramos , Jose E Rodrigues-Ibanez , Jose F Tezanos , Mary Kaldor , Stephen Jones , Christopher Freeman - The British Journal of Sociology , 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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expressions of all kinds are increasingly enclosed in or shaped by this electronic hypertext. But the new media system is not characterized by one-way, undifferentiated messages through a limited number of channels that constituted the world of mass media. And it is not a global village. Media

Co-creating Social Media and Virtual Worlds

by R. Ates Gürsimsek
"... New Media, with its developing technologies and various social interaction platforms, radically affect the way modern people observe and understand the world, find ways to express themselves and communicate their messages with others. With the introduction of global social networks (Facebook, Twitte ..."
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New Media, with its developing technologies and various social interaction platforms, radically affect the way modern people observe and understand the world, find ways to express themselves and communicate their messages with others. With the introduction of global social networks (Facebook

Mass Media in Rural Development in Peru

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"... In his famous book Understanding media, Marshall McLuhan discusses the impact he expects (networked) electronic media to have on the world. Since then the emergence of a 'global village ' has become a universally accepted idea. McLuhan is perhaps more to the point when he observes that &am ..."
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In his famous book Understanding media, Marshall McLuhan discusses the impact he expects (networked) electronic media to have on the world. Since then the emergence of a 'global village ' has become a universally accepted idea. McLuhan is perhaps more to the point when he observes
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