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Community Event
March 14, 2013
7:30 PM
How Social Media Might Help You Survive the Next Big Disaster
Greer Garson Theater, 1600 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe (NOTE: Change in Venue)
Historically, when a wildfire, earthquake or hurricane strikes, people seek information from authorities. Today, however, with every disaster event, we learn of new and accelerated ways in which people not only seek information beyond official sources, but also how they produce and share it with neighbors, friends and strangers. Through social computing technology like Twitter, Open Street Maps, and other platforms, members of the public—victims, observers, even “citizen-responders”—are innovating ways in which they can participate in disaster response. Leysia Palen will describe these emergent socio-technical phenomena and, through examples from events over the past few years, will discuss the implications for emergency response and society at large.
Palen is an associate professor of computer science and director of Project EPIC (Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank
SFI's Community Lectures will also be available to the Institute's worldwide community, live on our YouTube Page (http://www.youtube.com/user/santafeinst). Each Community Lecture includes a Q&A session following the prepared remarks; those watching the live webcaset can pose questions via email (sfi_live@santafe.edu) or Twitter (@sfi_live), and a selection of questions from the online audience will be read and answered by each speaker.
To Follow the live Twitter feed visit: @sfi_live or follow the Hashtag #sfi_live
Purpose: Community Event
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson
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