Towards A Social Media-Based Framework for Disaster Communication

摘要

During disasters, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are widely used by people to share information, opinions, experience, and request for urgent needs. These platforms provide tremendous opportunities to detect disaster situations and give insight into their severity. Since disaster happens suddenly, people face a significant challenge to find credible information and take suitable reactions. The focus here is to reach the affected persons with personalized recommendations to prevent them and save their lives. In this paper, we propose a framework of a social media-based platform that aims to detect emergent disaster and improve communication with citizens before, during and after a disaster by generating personalized recommendations in a timely manner.