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Visualizing Risk: making sense of collaborative disaster mapping
Katrina Petersen
author
2015
University of Agder (UiA)
Kristiansand, Norway
English
This paper examines the relationship between collaborative disaster mapping and conceptions of risk. It looks at improvised mapmaking during the 2007 wildfires in Southern California to identify and analyze social and technological issues in creating a shared understanding through collaboration. By comparing and contrasting two different, yet intertwined, mapping practices this paper focuses on how the distribution of social and technological actors change how risk, threat, and uncertainty are approached. One, more centralized mapmaking collaboration produced risks related to managing authority and security. The other, more distributed collaboration, produced risks related to public trust and safety. This paper argues that map-making is characterized as a messy, distributed network of knowledge production in which the meaning of risk emerges through the unplanned collaborations that evolve as those involved work to make sense of the wildfires, not as an a-priori definition.
Collaboration
Communication
Crisis Mapping
Risk
Wildfire
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http://idl.iscram.org/files/katrinapetersen/2015/1197_KatrinaPetersen2015.pdf
KatrinaPetersen2015
ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
ISCRAM 2015
L. Palen
editor
M. Buscher
editor
T. Comes
editor
A. Hughes
editor
ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings ? 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2015
University of Agder (UiA)
Kristiansand, Norway
conference publication
9788271177881
2411-3387
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