{"id":679,"date":"2011-03-25T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T01:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/25\/social-media-and-emergencies-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T03:55:37","slug":"social-media-and-emergencies-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/25\/social-media-and-emergencies-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Emergencies, in German(y)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German online magazine <em>Politik-Digital<\/em>, which covers issues relating to politics and the Internet, has just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politik-digital.de\/die-rolle-der-social-media-im-katastrophenfall\">a lengthy interview with me<\/a> about the role of <em>Twitter<\/em> and other social media platforms during recent disasters, and about what German authorities may learn from recent experiences elsewhere &#8211; 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&#8217;m afraid our English-language readers may only be able to try <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.googleusercontent.com\/translate_c?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/www.politik-digital.de\/die-rolle-der-social-media-im-katastrophenfall&amp;prev=_t&amp;rurl=translate.google.com&amp;twu=1&amp;usg=ALkJrhiXXXJoZJV9S-tPfkzRiwnrQnbl6w\">Google Translate<\/a> to get the gist of it.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who&#8217;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&#8217;ve usually included links to them in more recent blog posts.<\/p>\n<h3>Queensland floods (#qldfloods):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/01\/17\/the-queensland-floods-on-twitter-a-brief-first-look\/\">The Queensland Floods on Twitter: A Brief First Look<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/01\/22\/media-use-in-the-qldfloods\/\">Media use in the #qldfloods<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/06\/image-sharing-in-the-qldfloods\/\">Image sharing in the #qldfloods<\/a>       <br \/>&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Christchurch Earthquake (#eqnz):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/16\/twitter-in-the-christchurch-earthquake-pt-1\/\">Twitter in the Christchurch Earthquake, Pt. 1<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/16\/twitter-in-the-christchurch-earthquake-pt-2\/\">Twitter in the Christchurch Earthquake, Pt. 2<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/16\/twitter-in-the-christchurch-earthquake-pt-3\/\">Twitter in the Christchurch Earthquake, Pt. 3<\/a>       <br \/>&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cross-Comparison:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/02\/10\/twitter-events-in-perspective\/\">Twitter Events in Perspective (updated)<\/a>      <br \/>&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; from the Queensland floods to the Christchurch earthquake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/03\/25\/social-media-and-emergencies-in-germany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Media and Emergencies, in German(y)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,172,8],"tags":[92,73,96,74,95,298],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-crisis-2","category-twitter","tag-eqnz","tag-qldfloods","tag-crisis","tag-disaster","tag-emergency","tag-twitter","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}