Social Media and Emergencies, in German(y)

Posted bySnurb 1 Comment on Social Media and Emergencies, in German(y)

The German online magazine Politik-Digital, which covers issues relating to politics and the Internet, has just published a lengthy interview with me about the role of Twitter and other social media platforms during recent disasters, and about what German authorities may learn from recent experiences elsewhere – from the Queensland floods to the Christchurch earthquake and through to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and the continuing nuclear crisis. The interview is in German, so I’m afraid our English-language readers may only be able to try Google Translate to get the gist of it.

For those of you who’ve found our blog through the link in the interview (and for any other newcomers), I thought it might be worth compiling a few links to our most relevant blog posts on these topics. More information on our research methodology is available especially in earlier posts on the blog, too, and we’ve usually included links to them in more recent blog posts.

Queensland floods (#qldfloods):

Christchurch Earthquake (#eqnz):

Cross-Comparison:

Published by Snurb

Professor Axel Bruns is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Bruns is the author of Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production, and a co-editor of Twitter and Society, A Companion to New Media Dynamics and Uses of Blogs (2006). His research Website is at snurb.info, and he tweets as @snurb_dot_info.

One reply on “Social Media and Emergencies, in German(y)”

  1. Pingback: Mapping Online Publics » Blog Archive » Our Social Media and Crisis Communication Research in the Media

Comments are closed.