Application of Social Media in Crisis Management – Professors Babak Akhgar and David Waddington (Eds)

Title: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management
Editors: Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, David Waddington
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 10 Apr 2017
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 978-3319524184

Series Title: Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications

One of the key outputs of the Athena project. The book explores how socio-technical developments have enabled citizen-based response during times of crisis and disaster, discusses how to facilitate the inclusion of emergent technological initiatives into organizational structures, and explores the state of art in social media deployment in crisis management.

[Athena – This project is co-funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme SEC Call 1 – FP7-SEC-2012.6.1-30 under Grant Agreement No. 313220]

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