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Ethical, Legal and Social considerations surrounding the use of social media by citizens during Hurricane Irma in Cuba
Robin Batard
author
Frederick Benaben
author
Aurélie Montarnal
author
Christophe Prieur
author
Caroline Rizza
author
2018
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY (USA)
English
While Hurricane Irma struck the Cuban Southern coasts, thousands of tourists were evacuated from this area and relocated in the Varadero peninsula. In a couple of days, all means for families and friends to connect with the tourists were down, leaving them without any information about the on-site situation. This paper focuses on the volunteer citizens' initiative to take advantage of social media, to enhance their own situational awareness in Varadero area, supporting fellow citizens to identify and localize their relatives. In particular, two Facebook groups that were created at the time are analyzed and their messages' content and objectives categorized. We will show that once more, social media has constituted opportunities for citizens to engage a specific response to the crisis, but at the same time has raised specific ethical and social issues.
ELSI
Social Media
Volunteers
Citizens
Hurricane Irma
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RobinBatard_etal2018
ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings – 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Iscram 2018
Kees Boersma
editor
Brian Tomaszeski
editor
ISCRAM 2018 Conference Proceedings - 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2018
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY (USA)
conference publication
268
275
978-0-692-12760-5
2411-3387
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