[AISWorld] IJISCRAM Vol 5 Issue 1 ToC (Journal of Crisis Response and Management)

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I am very pleased to announce the release of Volume 5, Issue 1 of the  
International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and  
Management.  This issue features five papers and is focused on Social Media  in crisis 
response papers from the 2012 ISCRAM conference.
 
 
The  contents of the latest issue of: 
International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response  and 
Management (IJISCRAM) 
Official  Publication of the Information Resources Management  Association 
Volume 5,  Issue 1, January – March 2013  
Published: Quarterly in Print and  Electronically 
ISSN: 1937-9390 EISSN: 1937-9420 
Published  by IGI Publishing,  Hershey-New York, USA 
_www.igi-global.com/ijiscram_ (http://www.igi-global.com/ijiscram)  
Editors-in-Chief: Murray E. Jennex, San Diego State University,  USA; and 
Bartel Van de Walle, Tilburg University, The  Netherland 
PAPER  ONE 
Between  a Rock and a Cell Phone: Communication and Information Technology 
Use during the  2011 Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
Andrea Kavanaugh (Center for Human Computer  Interaction (HCI), Virginia 
Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA), Steven D. Sheetz  (Department of Accounting and 
Information Systems, Pamplin College of Business,  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 
VA, USA), Riham Hassan (College of Computing and  Information Technology, 
Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt),  Seungwon Yang 
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,  USA), Hicham G. 
Elmongui (Department of Computer and Systems Engineering,  Alexandria 
University, Alexandria, Egypt), Edward A. Fox (Department of Computer  Science, 
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA), Mohamed Magdy (Department of  Computer 
Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA) and Donald J. Shoemaker  
(Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,  USA)

Many observers heralded the use of social media during recent  political 
uprisings in the Middle East, even dubbing Iran’s post-election  protests a “
Twitter Revolution”. The authors seek to put into perspective the  use of 
social media in Egypt during the mass political demonstrations in 2011.  We 
draw on innovation diffusion theory to argue that these media could have had  
an impact beyond their low adoption rates due to other factors related to 
the  essential role played by social networks in diffusion and the 
demographics of  Internet and social media adoption in Egypt, Tunisia and (to a lesser 
extent)  Iran. To illustrate the argument the authors draw on technology 
adoption,  information use, discussion networks and demographics. They 
supplement the  social media data analysis with survey data collected in June 2011 
from an  opportunity sample of Egyptian youth. The authors conclude that in 
addition to  the contextual factors noted above, the individuals within Egypt 
who used  Twitter during the uprising have the characteristics of opinion 
leaders, that  is, a group of early adopters with influence throughout their 
social circles and  beyond. These findings contribute to knowledge regarding 
the use and impact of  social media during violent political demonstrations 
and their  aftermath.   
To obtain  a copy of the entire article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/article/between-rock-cell-phone/77319 
To read a  PDF sample of this article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77319& 

PAPER  TWO 
Leveraging  Geospatially-Oriented Social Media Communications in Disaster  
Response
Susan McClendon (Division of Information Technology,  Wyoming Geographic 
Information Science Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie,  WY, USA) and 
Anthony C. Robinson (GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, The  Pennsylvania 
State University, University Park, PA, USA)

Geospatially-oriented social media communications have emerged as a  common 
information resource to support crisis management. The research presented  
compares the capabilities of two popular systems used to collect and 
visualize  such information - Project Epic’s Tweak the Tweet (TtT) and Ushahidi. 
The  research uses geospatially-oriented social media gathered by both 
projects  during recent disasters to compare and contrast the frequency, content, 
and  location components of contributed information to both systems. The 
authors  compare how data was gathered and filtered, how spatial information was 
 extracted and mapped, and the mechanisms by which the resulting 
synthesized  information was shared with response and recovery organizations. In 
addition,  the authors categorize the degree to which each platform in each 
disaster led to  actions by first responders and emergency managers. Based on the 
results of the  comparisons the authors identify key design considerations 
for future social  media mapping tools to support crisis  management. 
To obtain  a copy of the entire article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/article/leveraging-geospatially-oriented-social-me
dia/77320 
To read a  PDF sample of this article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77320 

PAPER  THREE 
Peripheral  Response: Microblogging During the 22/7/2011 Norway  Attacks
Sung-Yueh Perng (Mobilities.Lab Research,  Lancaster University, Lancaster, 
UK), Monika Büscher (Mobilities.Lab Research,  Lancaster University, 
Lancaster, UK), Lisa Wood (Mobilities.Lab Research,  Lancaster University, 
Lancaster, UK), Ragnhild Halvorsrud (Human Computer  Interaction, SINTEF, Oslo, 
Norway), Michael Stiso (Human Computer Interaction,  SINTEF, Oslo, Norway), 
Leonardo Ramirez (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied  Information Technologies 
FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany) and Amro Al-Akkad  (User-Centered Ubiquitous 
Computing Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied  Information Technologies 
FIT, Sankt Augustin, Germany)   
This paper presents a case study of microblogging during the Norway  
attacks on 22 July, 2011, during which a single person first detonated a bomb in  
Oslo, killing eight people, and then shot 69 young people on the island of  
Utøya. It proposes a novel way of conceptualizing the public contribution to 
 mobilization of resources through microblogging, particularly tweeting, as 
a  form of ‘peripheral response’. By examining the distributed efforts of  
responding to the crisis in relation to emergent forms of agile and 
dialogic  emergency response, the paper also revisits the concept of situation 
awareness  and reflects upon the dynamic and constantly changing environment 
that social  media and crises inhabit together. 
To obtain  a copy of the entire article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/article/peripheral-response-microblogging-during-2
011/77321 
To read a  PDF sample of this article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77321 

PAPER  FOUR 
Tweeting  the Spill: Online Informal Communications, Social Networks, and 
Conversational  Microstructures during the Deepwater Horizon Oilspill 
Jeannette Sutton (Trauma Health and Hazards Center,  University of Colorado 
Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA), Emma Spiro  (Department of 
Sociology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA),  Carter Butts 
(Departments of Sociology and Statistics and the Institute for  Mathematical 
Behavioral Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA,  USA), Sean 
Fitzhugh (Department of Sociology, University of California Irvine,  
Irvine, CA, USA), Britta Johnson (Trauma Health and Hazards Center, University  of 
Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA) and Matt Greczek  
(Trauma Health and Hazards Center, University of Colorado Colorado Springs,  
Colorado Springs, CO, USA) 

Informal online communication channels are being utilized for  official 
communications in disaster contexts. Channels such as networked  microblogging 
enable public officials to broadcast messages as well as engage in  direct 
communication exchange with individuals. Here the authors investigate  online 
information exchange behaviors of a set of state and federal  organizations 
during the Deepwater Horizon 2010 oil spill disaster. Using data  from the 
popular microblogging service, Twitter, they analyze the roles  individual 
organizations play in the dissemination of information to the general  public 
online, and the conversational aspects of official posts. The authors  
discuss characteristics and features of the following networks including actor  
centrality and differential mixing, as well as how structural features may  
affect information exchange in disasters. This research provides insight 
into  the use of networked communications during an event of heightened public  
concern, describes implications of conversational features, and suggests  
directions for future research.  
To obtain  a copy of the entire article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/article/tweeting-spill-online-informal-communicati
ons/77322 
To read a  PDF sample of this article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77322
PAPER  FIVE 
Multilingual  Analysis of Twitter News in Support of Mass Emergency  Events
Ulrich Bügel (Fraunhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany) and  Andrea Zielinski 
(Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management and Text Mining,  Fraunhofer 
IOSB, Karlsruhe, Germany) 
Social media are increasingly becoming a source for event-based  early 
warning systems in the sense that they can help to detect natural  disasters and 
support crisis management during or after disasters. In this  article the 
authors study the problems of analyzing multilingual twitter feeds  for 
emergency events. Specifically, they consider tsunami and earthquakes as one  
possible originating cause of tsunami. Twitter messages provide testified  
information and help to obtain a better picture of the actual situation.  
Generally, local civil protection authorities and the population are likely to  
respond in their native language. Therefore, the present work focuses on 
English  as “lingua franca” and on under-resourced Mediterranean languages in 
endangered  zones, particularly Turkey, Greece, and Romania. The authors 
investigated ten  earthquake events and defined four language-specific 
classifiers that can be  used to detect earthquakes by filtering out irrelevant 
messages that do not  relate to the event. The final goal is to extend this work 
to more Mediterranean  languages and to classify and extract relevant 
information from tweets,  translating the main keywords into English. Preliminary 
results indicate that  such a filter has the potential to confirm forecast 
parameters of tsunami  affecting coastal areas where no tide gauges exist and 
could be integrated into  seismographic sensor networks.

To obtain  a copy of the entire article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/article/multilingual-analysis-twitter-news-support
/77323 
To read a  PDF sample of this article, click on the link  below. 
http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77323 

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CALL FOR  PAPERS 
Mission of  IJISCRAM: 
The mission of the International Journal of  Information Systems for Crisis 
Response and Management (IJISCRAM) is to  provide an outlet for innovative 
research in the area of information systems for  crisis response and 
management. Research is expected to be rigorous but can  utilize any accepted 
methodology and may be qualitative or quantitative in  nature. The journal will 
provide a comprehensive cross disciplinary forum for  advancing the 
understanding of the organizational, technical, human, and  cognitive issues 
associated with the use of information systems in responding  and managing crises of 
all kinds. 
Coverage  of IJISCRAM: 
This  journal covers all aspects of the crisis management information 
systems  discipline, from organizational issues to technology support to decision 
support  and knowledge representation. High quality submissions are 
encouraged using any  qualitative or quantitative research methodology, focusing on 
the design,  development, implementation, use, and evaluation of such 
systems. Submissions  are especially encouraged covering the following topics in 
this  discipline: 
·         Case studies, research methods, and modeling  approaches 
·         Collaborative and intelligent  systems 
·         Command and  control 
·         Communication  technologies 
·         Crisis planning, training, exercising, and  gaming 
·         Data fusion, representation, and  visualization 
·         Decision making and  judgment 
·         Disaster risk reduction, risk management, ad-hoc, and  sensor 
networks 
·         Early warning  systems 
·         Emergency response  systems 
·         Geographical information  systems 
·         Globalization and development  issues 
·         Healthcare and health information  systems 
·         Human-computer  interaction 
·         Humanitarian  operations 
·         Information systems  strategy 
·         Knowledge management and  systems 
·         Systems interoperability information systems  infrastructures 
·         Virtual teams and organizations   
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