{"id":886,"date":"2024-05-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/?p=886"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:31:08","slug":"accelerating-disaster-response-using-social-media-to-help-first-responders-and-policy-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/2024\/accelerating-disaster-response-using-social-media-to-help-first-responders-and-policy-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Disaster Response: Using Social Media to Help First Responders and Policy Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Accelerating Disaster Response: Using Social Media to Help First Responders and Policy Makers\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

May 7th, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Natural disasters are on the rise in Canada. During a disaster, multimedia content posted on social media platforms can offer a wealth of information and this data holds immense potential for aiding first responders and utility crews in their crucial tasks. However, important insights are often mixed with irrelevant information \u2013 obscuring the facts. Carleton University researcher, Dr. Marzieh Amini is pioneering an innovative solution to extract important information from the sea of social media posts during disasters in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 7th, 2024 Natural disasters are on the rise in Canada. During a disaster, multimedia content posted on social media platforms can offer a wealth of information and this data holds immense potential for aiding first responders and utility crews in their crucial tasks. However, important insights are often mixed with irrelevant information \u2013 obscuring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}