Social media for intelligent public information and warning in disasters: An interdisciplinary review

• Published in: International journal of information management Vol. 49; pp. 190 - 207
• Main Authors: Zhang, Cheng, Fan, Chao, Yao, Wenlin, Hu, Xia, Mostafavi, Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2019; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Digital media; Disaster; Disaster management; Disasters; Domains; Emergency warning programs; Informatics; Information dissemination; Interoperability; Ontology; Public buildings; Semantics; Situational awareness; Social impact; Social media; Social networks; Social sensing; State-of-the-art reviews; Disaster; Social sensing; Social media; Information dissemination

[Display omitted] •The vision of intelligent public information and warning is identified.•Social media contributes to three functions of public information and warning.•Studies on communication phenomena and social media informatics are reviewed.•A research roadmap is proposed to address the challe...