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Social Media and Crisis WorkshopDate: 27 April 2011 Time: 09.00 am - 17:30pm Venue: ZiF Bielefeld, Germany As recent events vividly document, crisis situations engender intensive information flows not only for official and non-governmental emergency response agencies and the media, but also amongst members of the public. People affected by natural and composite disasters, or slow motion disasters such as climate change or soil erosion, their colleagues, friends and relatives, and those who may have helpful knowledge increasingly use social media (Facebook, Twitter) to communicate and make sense of events. This one day workshop focuses on one particular phenomenon of social media use in crises: 'collective intelligence'. Schedule (preliminary) April 1, 2011 Background readings online April 18, 2011 Some post extended abstracts/position papers (1-3 pages) April 26, 2011 19:00 - Dinner in town for those already here (pay yourself) On the day 09:00 Coffee 09:30 Introduction - Monika and Marén 09:45 Pecha Kucha 10:15 Social media challenges from the perspective of professional responders - Jonas Landgren (IT University, Gothenburg, Sweden) 10:45 Coffee 11:15 Crisis Informatics - Video-Presentation by Leysia Palen (University of Colorado, Boulder, US) 11:45 Communication, Coordination, and Collective Action: Examining Strategies of Collaborative Problem Solving in Alternate Reality Games - Video Presentation by David Gurzick, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland 12:30 Lunch (at ZiF-cafeteria) 13:30 Connecting emergency management and public use of Twitter in crisis situations - Video-Presentation by Irina Shklovski (IT University, Copenhagen) 14:00 Group Discussions (Small Groups) 14:45 Group Discussion - Altogether 15:00 Coffee and cake 15:30 Video Discussion with Leysia Palen, Irina Shklovski, David Gurzick, Andrea Kavanaugh and Gloria Mark (if technically possible) 16:30 What next? 19:00 Dinner in town for those staying (pay yourself) Post workshop Depending on our 'What next?' discussions we may continue our online collaboration.Contact: Who can attend: Anyone
Further informationAssociated staff: Monika Büscher Associated projects: Bridge,CaTalyST,New Interaction Order,The New Interaction Order: A Study of Behaviour in Public Spaces Organising departments and research centres: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Computing and Communications, ImaginationLancaster, Mobilities.Lab, Sociology Keywords: Design, Ethnography, Experimental research, Imagination, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Participatory research, Social theory, Technology, Technoscience |
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