Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter (short bio)

Technical University of Darmstadt - Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC), Germany

Objective:

Learning about the research field of social media in conflicts and crises

Content and benefits:

Theoretical Parts:

• The State of the Art in Crisis Informatics
• Types of Crisis Informatics Research
• Types of Interaction: Usage Patterns in Crisis Informatics
• Attitudes by Emergency Services Staff in Europe
• Citizens’ Perception of Social Media in Emergencies in Europe
• Tailorable Situation Assessment with Social Media
• Self-Organisation of Digital Volunteers across Social Media
• Policy Recommendations

Practical Parts:

• Demonstration of Facebook Crisis Response
• Effective Data Gathering with the Twitter Search
• Demonstration of a Social Media Data Gathering and Aggregation Web Tool
• Illustration of a Crisis Dataset within an Analyzation Component and a Social Dashboard
• Showcase of a Credibility / Hate Speech Artificial Intelligence within the Tool
• Hands-on Experience of the Web Application

Benefits of the Participation:

• Overview of theoretical and practical Crisis Informatics
• Insight into the different perspectives of the digital space in times of crisis
• Methods for analysing Social Media in crisis Situations
• Hands-on experience with a Social Media gathering tool

Target Audience:

HCI researchers, practitioners, and graduate students

Additional platform or tool to be used by the tutor:

Web browser for accessing a social media aggregation tool: https://ods.dev.peasec.de/

List of materials or devices required by the participants:

Preferably laptop otherwise smartphone