Social media and disasters: a functional framework for social media use in disaster planning, response, and research

Houston, J. Brian; Hawthorne, Joshua; Perreault, Mildred F.; Park, Eun Hae; Goldstein Hode, Marlo; Halliwell, Michael R.; Turner McGowen, Sarah E.; Davis, Rachel; Vaid, Shivani; McElderry, Jonathan A.; Griffith, Stanford A.

doi:10.1111/disa.12092

Social media and disasters: a functional framework for social media use in disaster planning, response, and research

A comprehensive review of online, official, and scientific literature was carried out in 2012–13 to develop a framework of disaster social media. This framework can be used to facilitate the creation of disaster social media tools, the formulation of disaster social media implementation processes…