CS Table for 11/17: Social Media and Emergency Response

This week we will discuss the power of social media to assist first-respondents, law enforcement and medical staff, and individuals in responding to emergencies and natural disasters.

• Dina Fine Maron. How Social Media is Changing Disaster Response. Scientific American. 2013.
• Bruno Takahashi, Edson C. Tandoc Jr., and Christine Carmichael. Communicating on Twitter during a disaster: An analysis of tweets during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. In Computers in Human Behavior. Volume 50. Pages 392-398. September 2015.
• (Optional reading) Chris Wade. The Reddit Reckoning: One year after turning up false clues in the Boston-bombing manhunt, the site’s users have done some soul-searching. Slate. 2014.

Computer science table (CS Table) is a weekly meeting of Grinnell College community members (students, faculty, staff, etc.) interested in discussing topics related to computing and computer science. CS Table meets Tuesdays from 12:00-12:45 in JRC 224C. Contact the CS faculty for the weekly reading. Students on meal plans, faculty, and staff are expected to cover the cost of their meals. Visitors to the College and students not on meal plans can charge their meals to the department. For the up-to-date CS Table schedule, please visit http://www.cs.grinnell/cs-table.