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Capitol (Pat)riots: A comparative study of Twitter and Parler
On 6 January 2021, a mob of right-wing conservatives stormed the USA Cap...
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A multi-modal approach towards mining social media data during natural disasters – a case study of Hurricane Irma
Streaming social media provides a real-time glimpse of extreme weather i...
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Detecting natural disasters, damage, and incidents in the wild
Responding to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and wildfi...
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Civique: Using Social Media to Detect Urban Emergencies
We present the Civique system for emergency detection in urban areas by ...
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Social media usage reveals how regions recover after natural disaster
The challenge of nowcasting and forecasting the effect of natural disast...
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Predicting the Flu from Instagram
Conventional surveillance systems for monitoring infectious diseases, su...
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Who clicks there!: Anonymizing the photographer in a camera saturated society
In recent years, social media has played an increasingly important role ...
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Cross-referencing Social Media and Public Surveillance Camera Data for Disaster Response
Physical media (like surveillance cameras) and social media (like Instagram and Twitter) may both be useful in attaining on-the-ground information during an emergency or disaster situation. However, the intersection and reliability of both surveillance cameras and social media during a natural disaster are not fully understood. To address this gap, we tested whether social media is of utility when physical surveillance cameras went off-line during Hurricane Irma in 2017. Specifically, we collected and compared geo-tagged Instagram and Twitter posts in the state of Florida during times and in areas where public surveillance cameras went off-line. We report social media content and frequency and content to determine the utility for emergency managers or first responders during a natural disaster.
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