Using social and information technologies for disaster and crisis management / Murray E. Jennex, editor.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.

"This book highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates"--Provided by publisher.

Evaluating safety messages at 99 public universities in 2010 / John W. Barbrey -- Equipment distribution for stabilization and civilian rescue / Albert Y. Chen, Feniosky Pena-Mora, Saumil J. Mehta [and others] -- WORKPAD : process management and geo-collaboration help disaster response / Tiziana Catarci, Massimiliano de Leoni, Andrea Marrella [and others] -- Experience report : using a cloud computing environment during Haiti and Exercise24 / Brianna Terese Hertzler, Eric Frost, George H. Bressler [and others] -- Multi-layers of information security in emergency response / Dan Harnesk, Heidi Hartikainen -- Cell phone use with social ties during crises : the case of the Virginia Tech tragedy / Andrea Kavanaugh, Steven Sheetz, Francis Quek [and others] -- Mining geospatial knowledge on the social web / Suradej Intagorm, Kristina Lerman -- Interaction design principles for web emergency management information systems / Teresa Onorati, Alessio Malizia, Paloma Díaz [and others] -- RimSim response hospital evacuation : improving situation awareness and insight through serious games play and analysis / Bruce Campbell, Chris Weaver -- Knowledge-based issues for aid agencies in crisis scenarios : evolving from impediments to trust / Rajeev K. Bali, Russell Mann, Vikram Baskaram [and others] -- Supporting the allocation of traumatized patients with a decision support system / Tim A. Majchrzak, Oliver Noack, Philipp Neuhaus [and others] -- Visualizing composite knowledge in emergency responses using spatial hypertext / José H. Canós, M. Carmen Penadés, Carlos Solís [and others] -- Emergency management, Twitter, and social media evangelism / Mark Latonero, Irina Shklovski -- A distributed scenario-based decison support system for robust decision-making in complex situations / Tina Comes, Niek Wijngaards, Michael Hiete [and others] -- Exercise24 : using social media for crisis response / Austin W. Howe, Murray E. Jennex, George H. Bressler [and others].