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<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Getting ready for the unexpected – <br>
IS for Crisis Management in a complex and uncertain world</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Conference Dates: May 24-27
2015</span></b></p>
<p class="" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <b style="text-indent:35.95pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">TRACK: SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES</span></b></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-left:0.05pt"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Introduction to the track</span></b></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Our overall aim in this track is to showcase current
research on how the use of Social Media can help in crisis management and
response. Of particular interest, given
the theme of this conference, is how Social Media- related tools and modes of
use are and can be used for “unpredictable” types of disasters. </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0.25in 0in 6pt 0.3in"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Track topics </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">(non-exhaustive
list)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Papers are invited that provide rich description and/or evaluation of the
design and/ or actual use of Social Media for collaboration and/or widespread
participation in any phase of crisis management, from initial planning and preparedness,
through detection, response, and recovery phases. This might include, among others:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Studies of the use of social media in crises,
either for information sharing that can provide useful information for
managers and citizens, as a pull technology, or for dissemination of
information to the public as a push technology. This includes
identification of barriers to effective use of social media by emergency
response agencies.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Innovations in design or use of social media
that solve potential problems such as issues of information overload,
assessment of information trustworthiness, or ethical issues such as
privacy. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Studies of virtual teams or virtual communities
employing “social software” in the design or use of emergency management
information systems, with data collection methods ranging from laboratory
or field experiments to qualitative case studies.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Issues and techniques for mining and analyzing
Social Media data.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Practitioner case studies concerning issues and
benefits of Social Media use by agencies or NGOs are of great interest to
this track.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Studies of crowdsourcing and other new
practices such as the use of “digital volunteers” that engage the public
and connect communities.</span></li>
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<p class=""> <b>Track Co-Chairs</b></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Roxanne Hiltz (corresponding chair)</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Roxanne.hiltz@gmail.com">Roxanne.hiltz@gmail.com</a></span></p><p class=""></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">NJIT (Distinguished Professor Emerita)</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Amanda Hughes</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:amanda.hughes@usu.edu">amanda.hughes@usu.edu</a></span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Utah</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> State University</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Imran Muhammad</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:mimran@qf.org.qa">mimran@qf.org.qa</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Qatar</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> Computing Research Institute</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Linda Plotnick</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:lplotnick@jsu.edu">lplotnick@jsu.edu</a></span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Jacksonville</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> State University</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Christian Reuter</span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="file:///C:/Local%20Settings/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/ULPWXSTI/christian.reuter@uni-siegen.de">christian.reuter@uni-siegen.de</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Institute for Information Systems</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University of Siegen</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">, Germany</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Kate Starbird</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:kstarbi@uw.edu">kstarbi@uw.edu</a></span></p>
<p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE)</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></p><p class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">University</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> of Washington</span></p><br>Linda Plotnick, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor <br>Computer Information Systems<br>Jacksonville State University<br>
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