The limits of crisis data: analytical and ethical challenges of using social and mobile data to understand disasters
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- Authors
- Crawford, K., & Finn, M.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crawford, Kate
- Venue
- GeoJournal
- Published
- 2014-11-01
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 491-502
- ISSN
- 0343-2521 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-9893
- OpenAlex
- W2001601466
- Cited by
- 191
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 36.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- GeoJournal (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Social Sciences › Communication › Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Keywords
- social media data, mobile phone data, Twitter, disaster response, Hurricane Sandy, 2010 Haiti earthquake, privacy, informed consent, critical data studies, epistemology of data, data ethics, knowledge production
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