Social Media and Emergency Services
Information Sharing about Cases of Missing Persons in Rural Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3776005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vania Ceccato (0000-0001-5302-1698, KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Robin Petersson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 266-285 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24694452.2021.1907172 |
| OpenAlex | W3162668160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 64 |
The aim of this article is to investigate the nature of information sharing in social media about missing persons by using social media data (mostly Twitter) and conventional media coverage (media archives), adopting a platial perspective to this geographical information. By focusing on the cases of three people gone missing, we report on ways in which civil society establishes relational networks through social media to collectively support local searches and share information in rural Sweden. Geographical information systems and visualization techniques underlie the methodology of this study. Findings show that the geography of information sharing in social media about a missing person is not random, revealing a globally dispersed pattern across the country. Information sharing contains more emotional than informational content, hitting a peak of spread after a person is found deceased. This finding indicates that the value of information shared by social media as a problem-solving resource might have so far been overestimated in the process of finding missing persons. In addition, tweets show indications that voluntary organizations constitute a valuable resource in rural contexts but not without impact on the existing networks of stakeholders delivering emergency services
Geography · Information sharing · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Social media · Social network analysis · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |